Dragon Quest 11

Ooh nice! I know what I'm picking up this weekend.
 
Just picked it up and super pumped to get started. FInishing up Ys VIII, so I should be able to start next weekend or so. There hasn't been a good fantasy turn based JRPG in a while. Persona 5 was great, but the present day setting doesn't quite scratch the same itch. Ni No Kuni II was a great fantasy JRPG, but the action oriented combat system was too button mashey. I get that the turn based battle system is dated, but it just brings me back to the days Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior back on the NES when I was a kid.


Really? Persona 5 gave me the same feeling of playing rpgs when i was younger, i absolutely loved it.

My only complain is that i fucking hate silent protagonists
 
Really? Persona 5 gave me the same feeling of playing rpgs when i was younger, i absolutely loved it.

My only complain is that i fucking hate silent protagonists

I love the Persona games, I just have hard nostalgia feels for the fantasy setting. Another thing that works well for the Persona games specifically is how they handle the map in small hubs, but it makes the world feel small. I really love large open worlds and traveling from city to city and just exploring the map. The last few "Tales of" games really let me down in this area. They switched to large area hubs with quick travel and that really pulls me out of the world.

Also,
I really want the Persona games to get out of the high school setting. Can we please move to a college setting or post college internship or something?
 
I just hate the character designs. And this is coming from a guy that loves Akira Toryiama’s art style.

I may pick it up but I don’t think I can look at that Android 17 ripoff main character for 50 hours, if I’m being honest
 
Are emulators still legal want to go play dragon quest on game boy again.

Top fooking game.
 
About 10 hours in and this game is exactly what I wanted it to be in a turn based fantasy JRPG. Really digging the crafting system and reworking items to give them a stat boost. Was initially bummed that they minimized save scumming by putting the forge on a cool down after reloading a save, but once I hit Hotto campsite I found a guy that sold all of the material for a Feather Cap for cheap to farm Perfectionist Pearls. I would much rather have a reliable way to farm items then resort to save scumming, but those damn pearls were hard to come by!

So now I'm taking a minute to farm a bunch of pearls so I can upgrade at least all of my weapons and armor before I move on. Been trying to find a golden cactus for a quest, but those bastards are elusive.
 
About 10 hours in and this game is exactly what I wanted it to be in a turn based fantasy JRPG. Really digging the crafting system and reworking items to give them a stat boost. Was initially bummed that they minimized save scumming by putting the forge on a cool down after reloading a save, but once I hit Hotto campsite I found a guy that sold all of the material for a Feather Cap for cheap to farm Perfectionist Pearls. I would much rather have a reliable way to farm items then resort to save scumming, but those damn pearls were hard to come by!

So now I'm taking a minute to farm a bunch of pearls so I can upgrade at least all of my weapons and armor before I move on. Been trying to find a golden cactus for a quest, but those bastards are elusive.
The golden cactuses show up with the regular cactuses in the desert area outside the horse racing city. That's a good place to do some grinding if you're in the mood because metal slimes show up and give 2k exp
 
I'm about 40 hours in, got all the sidequests possible done and won all the casino items before the, ahem, big twist. I gotta say, as a lifelong Dragon Warrior fan, this game feels very underwhelming. It looks great, but there's almost nothing in the way of open world or real meaty sidequests. I feel like this was a chance for the series to really put a stamp on this era of gaming, but instead it seems like it's leaning on nostalgia (i.e. laziness) too much. I'll find the will to finish it soon, but I am pretty disappointed. It's just a boring game at its core, and my favorite of the series was DWVII.
 
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Might have to check this out. I see people referencing Persona 5 itt. I actually just bought that game over the weekend. Its the first turn based game I've played since FF 8 / 10. I'm really digging the dark story. That said whats the difference between the two games? Whats the pace of the combat?
 
Might have to check this out. I see people referencing Persona 5 itt. I actually just bought that game over the weekend. Its the first turn based game I've played since FF 8 / 10. I'm really digging the dark story. That said whats the difference between the two games? Whats the pace of the combat?

Combat is very similar between P5 and DQXI since there isn't a ton you can really change up with turn based combat. There are some minor things here in and there that add a little verity like the DQXI Pep System and P5 and its All Out Attacks.

Story is obviously going to be very different with one being present day Japan and DQXI being in a traditional fantasy setting.

One thing that P5 has going for it that DQXI doesn't even come close to achieving is the Confidants and building relationships which lead to team mate buffs and other passive skills, while having great interactions with other people. Also the day to day time management system in P5 is really great and adds a level of depth that DQXI doesn't have.

All in all P5 has more going for it and is probably the better game, but I'm only like 10 hours into DQXI. I really like what I'm seeing, but it really seems like a straight forward JRPG. I really love that genre and this game hits all of the nostalgia feels.

Also, if P5 is your first Persona game you really should check out some of the earlier entries if you can. It's the prettiest one since it's relatively new, but from a story stand point and sheer enjoyment for me it went P4 > P3 > P5. I really enjoyed P5, but it was really missing something I can't quite put my finger on that didn't quite hook me.
 
About 10 hours in and this game is exactly what I wanted it to be in a turn based fantasy JRPG. Really digging the crafting system and reworking items to give them a stat boost. Was initially bummed that they minimized save scumming by putting the forge on a cool down after reloading a save, but once I hit Hotto campsite I found a guy that sold all of the material for a Feather Cap for cheap to farm Perfectionist Pearls. I would much rather have a reliable way to farm items then resort to save scumming, but those damn pearls were hard to come by!

So now I'm taking a minute to farm a bunch of pearls so I can upgrade at least all of my weapons and armor before I move on. Been trying to find a golden cactus for a quest, but those bastards are elusive.
Once you find the Medal Academy there's a girl who will sell you pearls for 100 a pop, which I felt was kind of a cop-out, I currently have like 250.

Might have to check this out. I see people referencing Persona 5 itt. I actually just bought that game over the weekend. Its the first turn based game I've played since FF 8 / 10. I'm really digging the dark story. That said whats the difference between the two games? Whats the pace of the combat?

If you haven't tried FFXII I'd give that a try. It's probably my favorite Final Fantasy, lots to do and the best combat in the series.
 
Once you find the Medal Academy there's a girl who will sell you pearls for 100 a pop, which I felt was kind of a cop-out, I currently have like 250.



If you haven't tried FFXII I'd give that a try. It's probably my favorite Final Fantasy, lots to do and the best combat in the series.

FFXII is my second favorite Final Fantasy, right behind FFVII. I had moved into a new house that didn't have high speed internet and it effectively ended my run in Ever Quest. I was fiending hard for an MMO when FFXII came out, and it had a lot of MMO aspects that I was missing to help wean me off of my MMO addiction.

Picked up FFXII the Zodiac Age recently on PS4, and will probably pick it up again that it was announced on the Switch recently.
 
Combat is very similar between P5 and DQXI since there isn't a ton you can really change up with turn based combat. There are some minor things here in and there that add a little verity like the DQXI Pep System and P5 and its All Out Attacks.

Story is obviously going to be very different with one being present day Japan and DQXI being in a traditional fantasy setting.

One thing that P5 has going for it that DQXI doesn't even come close to achieving is the Confidants and building relationships which lead to team mate buffs and other passive skills, while having great interactions with other people. Also the day to day time management system in P5 is really great and adds a level of depth that DQXI doesn't have.

All in all P5 has more going for it and is probably the better game, but I'm only like 10 hours into DQXI. I really like what I'm seeing, but it really seems like a straight forward JRPG. I really love that genre and this game hits all of the nostalgia feels.

Also, if P5 is your first Persona game you really should check out some of the earlier entries if you can. It's the prettiest one since it's relatively new, but from a story stand point and sheer enjoyment for me it went P4 > P3 > P5. I really enjoyed P5, but it was really missing something I can't quite put my finger on that didn't quite hook me.

Are p4 and 3 on PS4?
 
Are p4 and 3 on PS4?

I thought they might have hit as PS2 classics, but I played them on my Vita so I never really pursued trying to get a PS4 version. If they are not currently on there now, I would be really surprised if there wasn't a future plan to get them on the PS4 as a remaster/port with how well P5 did sales wise.
 
I thought they might have hit as PS2 classics, but I played them on my Vita so I never really pursued trying to get a PS4 version. If they are not currently on there now, I would be really surprised if there wasn't a future plan to get them on the PS4 as a remaster/port with how well P5 did sales wise.

I gotta say that P5 is dark as fuck. I was kinda blown away with the gym teacher. The story has me hooked. I'll check the others out.
 
Persona 4's plot revolves around your team chasing down a serial killer that's leaving bodies all over town. By far my favorite in the series.
 
Persona 4's plot revolves around your team chasing down a serial killer that's leaving bodies all over town. By far my favorite in the series.

Def gonna look into that. That sounds right up my alley.
 
FFXII is my second favorite Final Fantasy, right behind FFVII. I had moved into a new house that didn't have high speed internet and it effectively ended my run in Ever Quest. I was fiending hard for an MMO when FFXII came out, and it had a lot of MMO aspects that I was missing to help wean me off of my MMO addiction.

Picked up FFXII the Zodiac Age recently on PS4, and will probably pick it up again that it was announced on the Switch recently.
Yeah, if it drops below 40 on Steam I'll pick it up, its a shame so few modern RPGs can reach that level.
 
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