ya crtroyale is doing it justice IMO
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DQ is a series that needs jank in order to be beautiful
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ironically, the Saturn (like the Model 2) actually had what was by comparison a modern GPU (it had all the basic features of pre-T&L hardware and helped launch nvidia) in the VDP1 and would’ve been competitive on that basis if not for its CPU architecture and totally inadequate compiler situation being such a mess.
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this is absolutely my favorite localized writing in the series, the whole game so far has had this americanized adultness to it, it makes me wonder how much if it is unfiltered translation and how much is hammed up
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I thought that the sprite stuff was still there at least till the PS2 era. I know I saw some intervews about dreamcast on gamasutra back in the day where people were talking about using the sprite rendering stuff in the hardware to handle particle effects but that was old times
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This is making me extremely sad about my abandoned DQ7 playthrough because my PS3’s disc drive broke. I finished the whole first disc!
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does that mean my disc is currently entombed
this happened to me once before, but it was the first disc of freaks and geeks instead
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No it popped out but it wouldnt take the 2nd one (or any other disc) in. Your game is safe
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reading some super play scans and found this from a summary of toriyama’s career so far (sept 1995) p cute
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I’ve been wanting to play a Dragon Quest game again. After playing an hour or so of Dragon Quest 6 (SNES) last night and skimming this thread, I think I might instead start with Dragon Quest 5 for PS2. The English patched version is right there on archive.org and I assume it will run on that PS2 McBoot thing that I’ve had in my closet and been meaning to set up for a while now.
(I have never seen 5 or 6 before.)
Or maybe I should just go back to Dragon Quest 7. I assume I still have my old save, transferred to my PS3. I’m inclined to think that I should just start over either way, but I remember it took me a long time to almost reach disc 2, and I’m afraid I might lose my momentum again.
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I was absolutely floored when you said you had never played V. It’s pretty great. Much shorter than VII as well
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V is lovely, enjoy it
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am playing dq4 on my fuckin telephone so i can follow next year’s playthrough with something like literacy
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the DQ4 iOS port is the only one of those I actually bought, because it’s priced reasonably and for a long time it was the only English release with party chat!
DQ4 iOS is actually very good imo, probably the best DQ4 since the NES. most of the other ones aren’t really improved on by their remakes that much (apart from maybe 3 GBC and 5 DS) but I would recommend this one very easily.
it’s got the same startlingly energetic monster animations that the dq5 remaster had, pretty chuffed
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oh and obviously the MSX version of dragon quest 2
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Did Dragon Quest music peak with the fourth game? There’s some decent stuff in 7 and 8 but nothing too memorable. I hope to find some good songs in 5 and 6.
From what I’ve heard of the music from the remakes of 4, it’s just not the same. I’ll stick with the stark NES instruments.
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every time I remember that it took them two and a half years to originally localize DQ4 and they were putting it up against like, star fox a couple of months later, it’s like, ooof, no wonder Enix gave up on the US for several years there
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i like v’s soundtrack a lot, though heads up if you’re playing the ps2 version you’ll get the full orchestra treatment (which i like, but ymmv)
the iv/v/vi mobile versions are pretty good for anyone up to playing them on mobile, and yes the monster battle animations are like startlingly generous. though that visual style was first used in a psx remake of iv that has had a fan translation in progress for a while now… i want to play it, i suspect it’s the ideal form
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