Got to the point of the second area in Builders 1. There's a disease that causes people to become insatiable to the point of stuffing themselves until they couldn't eat another bite of food and still found themselves starving; how come nobody said anything? >>227001 >Over a week later >Everyone stop talking All I'm hearing is start it back up.

Kazing!

>>227588 Anyone else playing the HD re-release? Apparently they left the Vamp personality intact, but had to censor the female Gadabout/Warrior's appearances.

>>230279 >had I'm not touching it; at least for now.

>>230279 All the sex-specific personalities were removed or given less masculine/feminine names, but the equipment restrictions for the women's clothing are still there. All in all it's a rock solid remake that does a lot to revive the de facto retro rpg, it's just a shame it's marred by squenix being fake and gay. It's been fun watching the wokescolds have a collective nuclear meltdown over the censorship pushback though.

>>230382 https://gamebanana.com/mods/555706 Thank goodness for Mike9k1 and his unwavering support. Uncensor patch coming soon, with full spritework and original SFC Jap-to-Eng retranslation.

>>230279 it's fun but they removed gambling so it fucking sucks actually

>>231101 >Censorship >Woke pandering >Denuvo >Removing gambling >My inner DQfag right now For the love of god, please tell me they didn't remove Pachisi!!

>>231105 and worst of all... you don't smash the pots and barrels...

>>231160 Being DQ, I expected it to be safe from Squeenix but instead it has fallen to Squares complete inability to put out a proper remake. In other news, it looks like Squeenix took the DRM off of Monsters. That game had the best fat bait.

Played a bit through DQ III HD and for the life of me I can't understand what the hell was Squeenix thinking, if they were thinking at all. Stuff that you would assume would never be in the game is front and center, like bunny girls with sexy black stocking and the Italian phrase for "what the dick" untouched. On the other hand, the retranslation removes a lot of the character from the original game, which was already much drier than the other DQ games. Still haven't met every enemy so not sure if any other one has been removed or altered other than the Trolls. So far the only things I enjoyed over the original are the Beastmaster class having some actual utility, the choice of one out of four different looks for the various classes (so you can stack on female Warriors and they can all different) and the context sensitive menus removing the need for pixel hunting.

So...which one would be the best Dragon Quest to play for a newbie like me? One of the 2D titles, or DQ9/11?

>>234303 start with 11. Most "modern", if a DQ game can be modern. If you liked that one, go back to DQ8. PS2 has orchestrated soundtrack and looks gorgeous running in HD on an emulator but random encounters, 3DS has MIDI soundtrack but no random encounters. Go with whatever sounds best to you, but I'd recommend getting used to random encounters as 1 - 6 only have random encounters.

>>234306 You can mod the orchestra back into 3DS version on a modded 3ds or emulator

>>234303 Everyone always says DQV and DQVIII their personal favorites. You go to III or IX if you really want to create your own characters (gonna need to set up your own server to change the items in the DQVC to get the clothes tied to it, if you actually try to buy a copy), DQXI is the current babies first DQ which would make it the easiest along with DQVIII for you to get into. >>234306 You shouldn't suggest someone start with some of the most recent games before going back to the start >>234311 I wonder if he's gonna find the lowered graphics and barren forests, jarring.

>>234303 Should be common sense to start with an earlier entry, particularly 3 with how easy it is to get hold of with the remake released and because it's a very important game in the series

>>234371 Each game is self contained, so you can play them in any order you want. Suggesting them to start with the recent games is good so they can get a feel for the games without any of the old school tedium that comes with the earlier games like random encounters.

>>234390 That's what I'm talking about; they play the most recent first, most of them won't be able to get into the older games. If they don't have an open enough mind or lack an imagination, they're gonna drop it hard because the older games lack the improvements the older games have or it doesn't look as good to them.

>>234303 Every game is self-contained as far as story and characters go, you may occasionally spot a reference or two and concepts are pretty much shared across the greater DQ series (dragon transformations, the Yggdrasil, collecting orbs...) but the only major difference are the gameplay and your amount of control over your party. Modern releases are considerably easier because you can just choose what each party member does, older games rely on the CPU not screwing up (there's also an-injoke with one of the party member, Kyril, insisting on using the 1 in a 1000 insta-death attack even on enemies that are immune to it because of a developer oversight). However, don't go into any of them expecting a gripping story, other than V, VIII and maybe IV the plots are usually pretty much just an excuse for exploring a new world and beating baddies. If you just want to experience DQ lite, play DQ XI Definitive Edition on PC with the Project Rebuild mod to bring back the graphics on parity with the original DQ XI (long story short Squeenix is greedy as fuck), and if you really liked it go ahead and install more mods that expand on the post-game content. If you don't mind random encounters and a bit of extra challenge, DQ VIII on PS2, preferably with the HD graphics mod to make the world pop out more. DQ VIII on 3DS is a much more complete experience with two extra characters and actual post-game content that doesn't rely on grinding, but the censorship, gutted graphics and, ironically, the QoL features destroy the feeling of being on an actual journey across the world. Plus modding will only get you so far. Otherwise just pick whichever has the best looking characters in it, I guess. Mobile ports give you a lot more control over all party members and tend to have "better" graphics and the orchestral version of the OST, but they all have their weird quirks that you need to get adjusted to. SFC and NES versions are plain but they have their charm. >>234371 >You go to III or IX if you really want to create your own characters Isn't X also pretty heavy on character creation? >You shouldn't suggest someone start with some of the most recent games before going back to the start DQ I and II are objectively the worst place to start playing Dragon Quest, you can only appreciate them if you're a vidcon enthusiast or want to play the series from its original vision as an Ultima ripoff. Playing out of order is completely fine.

>>234519 >there's also an-injoke with one of the party member, Kyril, insisting on using the 1 in a 1000 insta-death attack even on enemies that are immune to it because of a developer oversight I always thought it was because the success rate was shit. https://youtu.be/MfQiW06qf7s >don't go into any of them expecting a gripping story, other than V, VIII and maybe IV Damn, you did VII, dirty. I'd say the only ones are the first three since they're old NES games that heavily rely on your own imagination. >Mobile ports give you a lot more control over all party members and tend to have "better" graphics and the orchestral version of the OST, but they all have their weird quirks that you need to get adjusted to All this time and they've yet to put the old games on Steam. >Isn't X also pretty heavy on character creation? You think someone new would jump through all those hoops to play DQX?! When the hell is the SEA release of offline, hitting? >Playing out of order is completely fine Very few of the people nowadays is gonna be able to play it, with how dated it is. The last bit of your comment made it look like you were suggesting going back after games like VIII and XI.

>>234598 The whole fanbase does VII dirty. "Oh no it's too long!" Who cares? Just take breaks instead of trying to cram the whole game into one weekend

>>234611 To be honest, the characters in VII don't really stand out much from a design perspective, at least to me. >>234598 I remember Kyril also trying it on bosses, which should not work. In general AI controlled characters have gotten a whole lot better over the years.

>>236497 VII's designs were trying to be too authentic to the renaissance period, and it didn't help that this was when Toriyama was making his first experiments with digital.

>>236531 Still, even playing Heroes I and II, I didn't feel much attachment to either Terry or Carver.

>>238237 >Incredibly lazy >Demands that you cook gourmet meals for her and steals your breakfast >Raised by Rodrigo Pizzapasta her whole life, unlike Nera who was sent to eat gruel in a nunnery for years Most likely DQ girl to turn into a huge fatass

>>238273 Shit, I'd get one or two commissions of her if I could afford it. She has a lot of untapped potential

>>238273 >>238275 I commissioned this from TheAmericanDream years ago, asking specifically for a Goddess Patty shape. Enjoy.

>>238774 I appreciate it. That image is one of the reasons I picked Deb when I first played DQ5.

>>234611 From what I've heard, it's that they have to wait hours before first combat or something. >>238237 Games like Heroes always feel like you have to actually go to the source to really get what people like about them and then go back to Heroes for more. >>238273 >Most likely DQ girl to turn into a huge fatass Pic related; you already lost.

>>238816 Does she have a name? What game is this image from?

>>238816 >Pic related; you already lost. Wasn't she introduced as fat first and her skinny form revealed later? Plus it was a curse, that's a different thing. Not that I don't appreciate it. >>238821 Rin (skinny) / Marin (fat) from DQX.

>>238816 >From what I've heard, it's that they have to wait hours before first combat or something. That's not an exaggeration, it takes the average player one movie's worth of time to complete the opening segment on Estard island and go back in time. That's why the 3DS remake truncated the hell out of the opening segment, and is also why VIII starts with a brief cutscene before throwing slimes at you--Akihiro Hino hated VII so much that he based VIII around his criticisms.

>>241120 Source? Saucenao failed me

>>241120 Still eagerly waiting for the source, could locate the twitter file using the filename, but there is no way to reverse look-up twitter posts.

>>241120 Where my dq fans at?

>>227588 old post but sauce on this?

>>248723 Pure heckling never seen the office phone ring so much 😂😭

From Aka-fa

Does anyone have Amber's artwork by Axel Rosered? If possible, in high resolution.

>>252799 Regular version is "banned on all boards" for some reason so I can't post it normally. https://files.catbox.moe/ww0odg.png

>>252802 Thanks I understand you, it happened to me with an art by Homura Kogetsu in Colored Thread, the ones who run this page are bastards