Guess I will have to hunt this one down then… although I am not sure how easy they will be to find around here. Most games shops only seem to sell the second hand DS games nobody else wants
if by chance you don’t mind playing these things on a phone, the mobile port of DQ5 is decent
DQ5 is the only one in the series that people NEED to play. Like I love a lot of the other DQ games, but that is THE DQ game.
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I will definitely see if I can shake down some game store clerks gumshoe-style for a copy of this elusive game.
So far in DQ7 I like how even though the opening few hours are fairly slow paced, with no hint of combat at all, and yet there hasn’t really been anything in the way of tutorial. I think I am pretty fine with this sort of slow-burn opening as opposed to the sort of thing we get in recent Zeldas and Pokemons.
Square Enix has their back catalog (including DQ5) marked down well. The catch is that shipping is $10, but if you get a couple of games you’re ahead of Amazon or eBay prices.
https://store.na.square-enix.com/black-friday-cyber-monday-sale/physical
That’s funny you say that because apparently they tweaked the beginning part of the game to move faster. Originally on PS1 you didn’t get into a battle until a few hours of the game.
The newest Pokemon just came out so naturally i’m playing a ROM hack of Emerald called “Pokemon Glazed Blazed.” There’s a Pikachu in a red scarf who called me an asshole, so I’d say it’s a success.
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Are you playing on an old DS? Have you looked into flashcarts like the R4?
I think this appears as a negative but is ultimately essential
This encourages switching teams around and ultimately removes some frustration. Using the same team for 3 hours then having one die would be everybody’s experience and be super dull and frustrating.
The restrictions force the players to constantly switching teams around and ultimately make them accept death more easily.
The game does manage to minimize high level grind by allowing the player to recruit high level characters later on.
I have so many high level characters right now but am really struggling in high level dungeons. The health and stress damage add up so quickly, I feel like stunners are absolutely required to go anywhere.
yeah, I get the point.
what’s bugging me about it, aside from the increased tedium of managing everyone, I think at some point characters started being less characters and more tools to me; had much less personal attachment than i did with a smaller roster. game encourages this by making recruitment free. I’ve found it more practical to sack and replace chars that got bad quirk rolls than it was to spend money to fix them up. only characters that are proven worthwhile get investment anymore
had a hellion go into afflicted on her first outing and i was like, welp, you’re more trouble than you’re worth, have a boot
right as i left off i felt like i had to adjust my play patterns to focus on more immediate goals and just ignore most everyone sitting around in town except for whoever’s going to get used in the near future. so far it hasn’t screwed me on mission spawns, the designer in me is saying that it never will so i’m going to roll with it
so far MVPs are a plague doctor i picked up early and the one and only vestal i have ever seen available for recruitment who has managed to get locked quirks for -6% crit or so and i literally don’t even care
Man I was really enjoying FO4’s Far Harbor DLC until it got to the terrible first-person puzzles. I felt so motion-sick after completing the first four parts that I doubt I’ll go back to it.
Other than that it’s just been Fallen London and f2p Gunbird 2 while dicking around at work.
I think they did something to discourage it now (I have been playing my campaign over quite a few updates so my knowledge of the game is a bit wonky) but recruiting a team, running a no-light dungeon for the crazy bonuses (at the time, at least, you could make more money losing 3 members and leaving the dungeon than completing one at high light), and firing all of the survivors so you don’t have to pay to fix their sanity was a pretty lucrative strategy for a bit.
Lol @ healers not being necessary. That must have changed a lot since I last had to level low level characters. That said, healers don’t start having a bit impact until you start stacking + healing% items and their critical chance gets high enough to happen regularly.
Taking the PS4 RE4 for a spin, after previously 100%ing it on Gamecube then Wii way back when:
- years of shooters that use twin sticks in that particular way have sort of ruined me for the controls
- but I’m only to the village, so things could still fall into the place
- especially if I stop trying to do fancy things like set enemies up for kicks and stick to the basics of putting bullets into heads
- Leon’s ears were never meant to be seen at this resolution
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Chiming in from The Land of Joel to say I got it immediately 
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I have an old DS, but I would likely be playing on 3DS. I’ve never really looked into how to get an R4.
There’s an anime shop near my office, so with luck they might be able to order a copy in. They recently got new stock of the pokemon black and white games, so I guess it is not impossible
Actually, DS is not region locked like the 3ds is it? In that case I can just order it off Amazon or something
The worst thing about the Pokemon games really is having to play them on a device with a limited battery life, I want to marathon this shit all night
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Finished up Bioshock Infinite. I am not convinced that ending actually made any sense.
If you are playing on a regular DS, games are region-free. If you are playing on a DSi or 3DS, any game that is DSi-enhanced will have a region locked. Pokémon Black and White 1 and 2 are both DSi-enhanced games.
So as long as Dragon Quest V is not DSi enhanced I should be fine?