Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

Powerful Klik ‘n’ Play feelings evoked by those ball physics.

Really good. Like, really, really good.

and it’s on MOBILE jesus

Oh wow.

One month!

Are these 3d Dragon Quest remakes the same games with new graphics, or are they rebalanced/rejiggered somehow?

V was rejigged a good bit

They always rebalance the game to make the pacing tighter. It takes less time to gain levels, there’s an reorganization of abilities and items. The game is generally made more convenient to play. For example, DQVII was a game where you needed to really search hard as you go in order to find items to progress (the reason being a neat effect where you grow your map from just an island to a full world of continents), the new game has a detector to just tell you where they are if you’re not enjoying yourself! That kind of sensibility.

The class system was the biggest problem in the original game, and they’ve also rebalanced that. Since abilities had no limitations, the game ended up with all the characters using the same ability every battle. The new system forces diversity and more thought put into development, which is great because DQVII has a glut of abilities to use that would be looked over before!

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yeah they are rejagged thoroughly, and the vii rejagging might be the biggest of them? besides all the numbers being rebuilt you also engage visible monsters on the map to start random battles, which is a thing from ix that i guess is being incorporated to the vii and viii remakes.

i’d be surprised if there’s not a new dungeon or something.

oh, is the town building thing in the remake? i pretty much ignored that when i played on ps1. maybe it uses streetpass??

It uses streetpass yeah

It’s a little disappointing the western release of vii has had the orchestral soundtrack cut but I’m still legit surprised we’re getting the thing in any form after all this time

In the video I heard the guy say they also made some of the side quests unnecessary for finishing the main quest. Like, you can still go do them if you want but you no longer have to.

idk… dedicating videos to showing off how your huge ambitious rpg is also a chillspace with neat ecology is a pretty good way to sell it to me

also Florence Welch can sell me anything (and she looks great in that thumbnail)

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Is Florence Welch a mythological bird thing

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yes.

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http://blog.ubi.com/grow-coming-ps4-xbox-one-pc-august-16/

Grow Up in two days. I think the price is going to be around $10-15 or so? Not confirmed yet.

I expect to get a lot more enjoyment out of that + new hitman level coming out the same day than NMS or deus ex!

oh my god, what

totally forgot deus ex 4 was a thing, feels like s-e have been unusually quiet about it?

I felt like they were weirdly silent about just cause 3 too and that turned out great

They haven’t really been shoving it in everyone’s face but they haven’t been keeping a lid on it exactly either. There was a steady stream of new trailers leading up to E3 and after that a bunch of half-hour long gameplay videos from various outfits:



They’ve shown lethal and non-lethal runs through like four or five different parts of the game I imagine they probably are keeping quiet now because they don’t want to show everything.