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IvorEvilen on 11 March 2010
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Jumpin said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Jumpin said:

The DS version of DQ5 has an extra person to marry as well.

One thing I REALLY like about DQ5 is the commentary system. Your characters comment on everything in the game if you press them to; and it is different depending on who is in your party, which makes for this game worth playing at least 3 times (Chrono Trigger is the only other game I can think of which had a system which truly encouraged players to do that). DQ8 had a similar system, but it worked no where near as well as DQ5's - it was more of a hassle than a welcomed feature in DQ8 with the way it was implemented.

Well in Dragon Quest VIII, it was used more of a 'ask for help' feature when you got lost or wanted to know about a town, etc.  It was still interesting to do as the characters were somewhat dry without doing it (especially Jessica and Angelo).

The DS games are just much better because they added the party chat feature.  Sadly, they cut this feature out of the western release of Dragon Quest IV (along with a lot of other things).  Either due to lazyness or incompetence, we shall never know.

Wow, I didn't even know that DQ4 had the party chat feature. That makes me very sad, because I REALLY enjoy the light hearted story of DQ4, and I like the characters a lot. Hopefully it will make it into some form of a future release for this title.

 

By the way, I like the accents in DQ4; but I think that's mostly because of the way I read dialogue, I like to imagine exactly how the characters would be speaking.

 

DQ7, based on what's been said, it looks like a game I would play over a 6-18 month period. Usually I put in no more than 10 hours a week on console games; and I also like a bit of variety. Rune Factory Frontier is the only console game, ever, that I have played for more than 100 hours in a single play; that took me about 4-5 months to get to 100 I think (and I played it more frequently than any other console game I have played since probably Skies of Arcadia years ago on Dreamcast). That said, I have been meaning to give DQ7 a shot for the last decade, so perhaps I will sometime soon.


Light-hearted story...?  Dragon Quest IV is definately the most depressing in the whole series... actually, it is probably among some of the most depressing games ever.  Sure, the adventure is very light-hearted and colorful, as are all Dragon Quests, but behind that happy gloss is a very deep tale of love, betrayal, and manipulation.

And yeah, it is very irritating that the party-chat isn't in the Western version considering how diverse the cast of the game is.