RolStoppable said:
gumby_trucker said:
Lostplanet22 said:
Being the first JRPG with the first big world while having an great soundtrack and created by the art of the then very very popular Akira Toriyama;..
After the first one people kept buying them, possible because of nostalgia and knowing what to expect....bit like FF...People may hate them so much and being unhappy that it goes to a handheld or console they don't like...They will buy it.
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well that just about kills my enthusiasm for this game. Based on what we know so far it just sounds like another Monster Hunter type game, and I already own that. Hopefully my assessment is wrong and there is more to it than just constant grinding.
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Monster Hunter is a real time combat grindfest while Dragon Quest is turn based repetition. Every DQ uses the same damn EXP values. The games are fun and addictive until about level 20, but then you start to hit a wall. Regular enemies give so little EXP that you need in excess of 50, if not 100, 150 or even 200 battles against enemies of your own level to gain a single level yourself. The games are quite long, but you generally reach the final boss when your party has a level of around 45. It's downright dumb design. Instead of offering a motivating curve throughout the whole game, everything becomes work after the first ten or so hours.
What's left are the metal slime types of enemies who have a laughable amount of HP (between 3 and 30), but ridiculous defense and agility. IF you hit, you do single point damage and they tend to run away quite often. On top of that they are rather rare encounters to make everything even more annoying. So DQ isn't just normal tedious grinding, it's enter battle, see if metal slime appears, if not, then run and enter next battle. Metal slimes give you 10-40 times more experience than enemies in the same area!
Since part VIII, DQ is developed by Level 5 who have absolutely no clue of how to design a good dungeon. It's more or less just some random order of rooms and corridors. The implementation of job and ability systems flat out sucks and makes the tedious grinding even worse than you can possibly imagine.
Just skip the game. The gameplay blows and you already know the story anyway, so playing the game for that isn't worth it either.
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Sorry but that alone makes the game worthy... Bad/same story all over again? ok, I almost agree with that, however DQ9 story was quite different... What I like about DQ is that every town has thier own story, the music is pearless but overall what I like is that DQ is exactly what you would expect from the game, a lot of leveling, a lots of quests, lots of castels/dungeons, item forging/seeking, weapon crafting, but executed flawlessly...
