Dragon Quest XI

[Freyj]

Yeah it’s shitty how “hidden” the draconian options are, but I definitely wouldn’t want to play this without them.

[BlueTsunami]

Finally killed a metal slime. Def a difficulty spike in Gallopolis.

[MMaRsu]

im lvl 15 stuck at the boss in gallapolis

[BlueTsunami]

im lvl 15 stuck at the boss in gallapolis

I just beat him at lv17. Hes a pain in the ass. He can be put to sleep to give you some healing time.

[Tokyosandblaster]

Not understanding the hate with the soundtrack. It's old school as fuck. I'm loving it .Game is a bit on the easy side but I'm having a good time.

[Positive Touch]

i think it's really mediocre as far as DQ soundtracks go, and the world map song is fucking trash and extremely short to boot.

[Fifstar]

Not understanding the hate with the soundtrack. It's old school as fuck. I'm loving it .Game is a bit on the easy side but I'm having a good time.

Some people just really loved the DQ VIII soundtrack, so it's disappointing for them. Especially when the recordings already exist.

[demi]

Glad its easy, RPGs dont do difficulty scaling well at all, ever

[Joe Molotov]

Boomerangs 

[archie4208]

Giant story spoiler:

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World of Ruin 2.0. 

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[Positive Touch]

so does the time run when when this game is in the background? finally got some teammates besides erik and im at almost 20 hours. im not rushing or anything but that seems excessively long.

[Human Snorenado]

so does the time run when when this game is in the background? finally got some teammates besides erik and im at almost 20 hours. im not rushing or anything but that seems excessively long.

...what level are you? I just passed 20 hours and am at level 22, and am at the point in the game where I have what I believe are all the party members.

Then again I don't tend to wander around in games, so, you know. Diff'rent strokes n all.

[Positive Touch]

im level 12, just got to the desert town. i wander a lot, but it doesn't feel like it should be THAT much. i dunno.

[Switters]

I hate Jasper. How do I beat him? I just want to get to the first casino!!

[archie4208]

Giant story spoiler:

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World of Ruin 2.0. 

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It's on the game box... and of course anticipated in a DQ game.

im lvl 15 stuck at the boss in gallapolis

Are you playing with the "hard mode" enabled? Guy was a pushover. I was afraid he would be resurrected and *gasp* he was

Gondolia looks very weak compared to the other cities

I got the PC version so there's no box for me. 

[Human Snorenado]

I hate Jasper. How do I beat him? I just want to get to the first casino!!

Debuff him with Veronica, buff MC with Sylvando, beat the shit out of him

[BlueTsunami]

If any of you are still in the early area and are trying to steal, the robber rabbits in Gondolia have robber gloves that raise your chance to steal and deftness. Comes in handy. Its a rare drop/steal but if you steal from it, then use itemised kill pep power you'll get it 100%

[bluemax]

I hate Jasper. How do I beat him? I just want to get to the first casino!!

In Gondolia? Isn't that a fight you're supposed to lose? I lost it and the story progressed.

[bluemax]

Party wiped to a non boss monster in the second half of the game. Probably went to an area a bit early.

[Human Snorenado]

Sylvando needs to be more gay. Although once you get to his ship and meet his helmsman Dave I guess that's an appropriate level of gay for his character.

[archie4208]

Sylvando best boy.

[Human Snorenado]

PC gamer reviewing a jrpg? Ain't nobody gonna take that shit seriously.

Sylvando is a weird collection of disparate shit without an overarching theme. That said, I liked him better than Erik so I subbed Erik out. Sylvando learns the offensive boosting spell and I don't think anyone else does. I kicked him out for Jade, tho, cause Jade.

[Positive Touch]

i said it before and I'll say it again: stop hiring people who hate jrpgs to review jrpgs

[Himu]

This game truly is babby's first Dragon Quest

Noooooo they desecrated holy DQ?



What mode should I play it on? My parties tend to be underleveled in DQ and I love the item resource manamgement and decision making.

I still haven’t bought it. I worked 9 days in a row.

[Positive Touch]

put on strong enemies and no xp from weak enemies. bam normal dq difficulty is restored

[Human Snorenado]

Harder enemies, no running from battles, lower level enemies don't give xp. If you hate yourself you can play with no shopping. Now that there are no random battles it's actually really easy to be underlevelled if you avoid most fights.

[Himu]

DQ hasn’t had random battles for ten years so I’m used to the no random battle thing making the game overall more challenging which is why I’m surprised at the difficulty change. I don’t see why they’d change it.

I also want to be able to run from battles. Is there a slider? This difficulty system sounds nuts. I’ve never heard of an rpg have difficulty options like this.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Rahxephon91]

Bravley Default had difficulty options.

[Positive Touch]

you can run from battles. at the name input screen there are certain challenges options you can turn on for an extra challenge. there's stuff like no shops and no fleeing included. you can disable them (but not reenable) them at a priest, and you get some kind of acknowledgement for completing the game with them.

[Joe Molotov]

i said it before and I'll say it again: stop hiring people who hate jrpgs to review jrpgs

I mean, I can see why people wouldn't like DQXI, but I also don't care. 

[BlueTsunami]

 

I hate Jasper. How do I beat him? I just want to get to the first casino!!

You prob already beat him but hes highly susceptible to Sap. That plus a Hero that uses big hitting greatsword = bitch went down like a ton of bricks

Also, Serena is a beast at the moment with her +3 Spear

[TVC15]

Sylvando needs to be more gay. Although once you get to his ship and meet his helmsman Dave I guess that's an appropriate level of gay for his character.

Dude, I just heard him say “sashay.”

[bluemax]

Sylvando needs to be more gay. Although once you get to his ship and meet his helmsman Dave I guess that's an appropriate level of gay for his character.

He definitely gets more gay.

[BlueTsunami]

If this were a triace game we'd have a scene where its inferred that Sylvando banged the Hero after a night of festivities in some new town

[archie4208]

Sylvando needs to be more gay. Although once you get to his ship and meet his helmsman Dave I guess that's an appropriate level of gay for his character.

He definitely gets more gay.

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I just met him in the World of Ruin outside Phnom Nonh and he's fabulous

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[BlueTsunami]

Stole a strength ring from some fuckmook rando enemy. Now my hero has two strength rings (+2 and +3) with a legit ass greatsword bringing motherfuckers to critical with a single swing. Plus helicopter swing which hits whole groups along with the MP curative accessory makes it only 1mp to cast.

[BlueTsunami]

Wow Puerto Valor is stunning at night. The whole place glows from the moonlight.

[TVC15]

Sometimes this game looks like PS2's Dragon Quest 8 in HD, sometimes it looks like PS3's Ni No Kuni, other times it looks like a true PS4 title. However at no point in the game it is a big graphical jump or upgrade over Ni No Kuni. It is obvious that FF15 looks like a next game (PS5) title next to it.

However - it oozes charm.

The archetype DQ 2D monsters being shown in almost pristine, non-polygonal 3D are especially worth praising:

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I think there are aesthetic limitations to this art style. Similar to 1st party Switch games.

[tiesto]

6/10 in EDGE

Fuck off, EDGE.

Weird after they gave the game a cover story. What did they say about it? Too traditional?

[BlueTsunami]

Just Jackpot'd at the first Casino at the traditional reels during a fucking silver spin 200k coins! Lmao

[Joe Molotov]

These quests that make you use a specific pep power on a specific enemy can puff-puff deez nuts.

[TVC15]

Last night a monster puff puffed me against my will. Forced interspecies puff puffing #metoo

[Rahxephon91]

Eh I don’t know if a 6 is wrong for this game...

[bluemax]

Boss difficulty is definitely increasing.

[BlueTsunami]

These quests that make you use a specific pep power on a specific enemy can puff-puff deez nuts.

Apparently you can switch out the pepped character to the benches wjile theyre pepped and wait for the other members to be pepped. They dont lose their pep when subbed out as you try to get the other members pepped up.

[tiesto]

6/10 in EDGE

Fuck off, EDGE.

Weird after they gave the game a cover story. What did they say about it? Too traditional?

Some guy skimmed the review:

They praise its vibrant world and engaging cast, but they also call it old-fashioned, with story reveals that could be guessed by five year olds and quests that lack a meaningfully developed plot and character.

The funny thing is DQIX got a 9 from Edge, meanwhile that's generally considered by fans to be one of the weakest entries in the series, and has some of the least developed characters/weakest vignettes since the Famicom era.

[TVC15]

The terrible music and annoyingly odd controller bindings (start to auto run wtf?) are enough to knock it down to at least a 7 for me. The shitty main character might chop off another pount.

[Rahxephon91]

I mean I'm not that far into the game, but I'm not seeing whats so special about it. The turn based battle system is bland and pretty boring. So many other jrpgs have far more going on with thier turn based systems. I'm liking the world design, production values, character writing, and so on. But being a big budget jrpg can only go so far when the music is an ear sore and things like dungeons feel lazily designed. It's ok, but I've never understood DQ.

[Human Snorenado]

Has anyone figured out a good casino strategy other than using the "hot property" slots?

[Freyj]

Slayer of the Sands is no fuckin joke on Super Strong Enemies. That crit was a one shot on several of my characters.

[archie4208]

This is the best game I've played since Breath of the Wild.

[Human Snorenado]

Halp all I'm doing is playing poker to win all the prizes at the casino because I'm a degenerate

[BlueTsunami]

Man the Tenticular is a fucking asshole on hard mode. Dude attacks three sometimes four times. You really have to go into that battle with a goddamn plan, mainly defense buffs, regen, and two heavy hitters whilw two others act as healers buffers. Just killed his ass at lv.29

[bluemax]

Took 3 tries to beat a boss, and I'm not playing with any hard mode settings. The difficulty picks up the further in this game you go. This was also the first boss with the equivalent of Wave of Ice from past games.

[Joe Molotov]

lmao

[MMaRsu]

Where did u get that outfit?

[Joe Molotov]

Where did u get that outfit?

From Gondolia.

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There's an NPC on the left when you enter the city that offers to sell you a Cat Suit for 10,000G. If you turn him down and walk towards the dock, there's another NPC that offers to sell one to you for 12,000G. If you turn him down, you tell him someone already offered you one for 10,000 and he tells you that's his brother trying to undercut him and he offers it to you for 9800. If you keep going back and forth, you can eventually get one of them down to 1,000. You also have to buy the Cat Suit Hat from the regular armor shop for 1,250.

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[BlueTsunami]

The Drasilian Helm and Armor set for the Hero is prettay badass

[Himu]

You guys are getting me excited

and I'm so excited to see people love and embrace DraQu.

[Human Snorenado]

Casino is easiest shit ever, bruh

1. Buy about 2-300 tokens
2. Find out which 1 token slime quest machine is a hot property
3. Do 100 auto-spins on that machine at 3 tokens a spin
4. Repeat until you're in the low thousands of tokens
5. Play poker at the 10 token table. Always double down until you are getting a decent payout relative to how many tokens you already have. Gradually increase your bets.
6. Profit