Dragon Quest is good but is too much of the same game. FF has wonderful highs and terrible lows and was my favorite series but kinda died going into PS2 with some okay games since then.
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Dragon Quest is good in its consistency, but it's otherwise just a very standard JRPG. It's literally just an RPGMaker template game but with funding.
Final Fantasy is inconsistent, either the games are incredible or absolute dogshit with absolutely no in-between.
Final Fantasy 1 > Dragon Quest I
Final Fantasy 2 > Dragon Quest 2
Dragon Quest 3 > Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy 4 through 7 > Dragon Quest 4 though 7
Dragon Quest 8 > Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 9 > Dragon Quest 9
No one gives a frick about MMO shit
Dragon Quest XI > Final Fantasy 10 through 16 combined.
The only good DQ in that range is 5, and even that kinda gets mogged by FF4 and especially FF6.
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Dragon Quest is good in its consistency, but it's otherwise just a very standard JRPG. It's literally just an RPGMaker template game but with funding.
Final Fantasy is inconsistent, either the games are incredible or absolute dogshit with absolutely no in-between.
>It's literally just an RPGMaker template game but with funding.
I hate how right you are. Still luv me some Dragon Quest regardless. It just has that... charm, I guess, that your bog standard Kemco-ass RPGMaker games tend to lack.
5 is nice, I'll give you that. The expanded job system is cool, there are some really neat highlights with Gilgamesh, Faris and Galuf, but it ends up being pretty mid overall and nowhere near what 4 and 6 have done both on their own merits and for the genre in general.
Dragon Quest 1 is turn based proto Dark Souls, the adventure of a single man, with no directions, against monsters. DQ2 makes you feel like playing multiplayer by making the two npcs moronic, and thus evoking the memories of playing with your younger siblings. DQ3 is the model to all RPGs to come. DQ4 is the model to all gimmick rpgs to come. DQ5 inspired the most successful media franchise in the world. DQVII is the precursor to the episodic genre. DQIX beat all mobile mmorpgs to the finish line.
VI, VIII and XI are just vanilla games liked by basic b***h boys.
FFI is good mix of sci-fi and fantasy, V is nice, VII is the perfect mix of old school and new, VIII is fun to break, X has the best waifus. That's it.
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Remember when 11 had monster recruitment? Or how DQ3 had co-op multiplayer? How'd they pull that off on the NES? DQ5 has my favorite class system
I've only played DQ VIII & XI, both which I found very good though obviously my experience with the series is extremelly limited.
While I find XI better all mainline FF since XII, I still find FF IV through IX to be some of my favourite games of all times, and I don't think playing the DQ games that came around the same time would change my mind on that.
I love how FF changes it's world and art direction with each game. Recurring jobs, monsters, and summons will have their designs significantly althered from one game to the next to feel fresh while having their core characteristics recognisable (somewhat similar to Zelda), while I almost can't believe how long DQ has been reusing the same monster designs from one game to the next.
Dragon Quest.
Really don't care for FF gameplay in the all the games I've played. Combat seems to encourage just nuking one or all enemies with your strongest attacks, status and buffs are never worth using. ATB is just a time waster.
It's a shame though, they often seem to have the crazier stories and worlds.
>Really don't care for FF gameplay in the all the games I've played. Combat seems to encourage just nuking one or all enemies with your strongest attacks, status and buffs are never worth using.
It's the exact same in DQ thoughever???
Maybe you've had a different experience with the series from me. Status spells hit more than never, buffs are important, and enemy grouping makes fights more interesting than just "kill one at a time or hit everyone."
>Combat seems to encourage just nuking one or all enemies with your strongest attacks
That's because it is. You can barely call them video games, they are just about brainlessly spamming a raw DPS move
I just finished playing FF1-6, and while I would say the series got more memorable than DQ with each new game the "simple old school JRPG" pacing got worse with each game while in DQ they managed to keep it the same until 11(or was it 9? I forgot).
I really enjoyed wandering the overworld and visiting towns to find all the secret goodies you can find and talking to all NPCs for info, fully exploring a continent but then getting some movement upgrade like being able to cross rivers, then sail, then fly over forests and then flying over mountains, with some optional places here and there to explore after each movement upgrade.
Pretty sad how FF overworlds peaked with 3 while DQ kept all those cool aspects.
I mean 3, and specifically overworld exploration progression.
Certainly liked it better than the final overworld map in V, the "linear then it's completely open" in VI.
>linear then it's completely open in 6
so you just never explored the world of balance, is what I'm hearing. The entire point of 6 is to reward the exploration and learning about the characters, so they're available to you in wor.
Different strokes and all, but yikes.
the "Literally just a couple islands" world of darkness in ff3 is inarguably the worst overworld in the series. and the original world is hyper-linear, with temporary PoNR
I fully explored the world of balance, I'm aware there are some small scenes here and there for the characters.
What I'm complaining about is that every single time you move to a different area of the map it's because a cutscene moves you to point A to point B with 0 input(at best you visit the boat/figaro castle and tell them to move), and the side content is just a town or two in the same general location as the next important area.
In 1-5 there are plenty of movement upgrades(river boat, sea boat, flying chocobos, small airships, big airships, submarines, spaceships) and each upgrade requires you to directly use it to reach new areas you haven't seen or use it to backtrack to previous areas to get over obstacles to reach new locations.
For example look at 1, I remember being stuck for a bit because I didn't know how you were meant to access the bottom right corner of the map and needed to sail around for a while until I found the river mouth that you were meant to sail through, that is what I would considering actual exploration, in 6 you walk around each continent and then simply fly to the locations you want to visit.
Dragon Quest is good but is too much of the same game. FF has wonderful highs and terrible lows and was my favorite series but kinda died going into PS2 with some okay games since then.
Sick meme, but Dragon Quest has far more variety between games than Final Fantasy does. Especially on Famicom.
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Dragon Quest is good in its consistency, but it's otherwise just a very standard JRPG. It's literally just an RPGMaker template game but with funding.
Final Fantasy is inconsistent, either the games are incredible or absolute dogshit with absolutely no in-between.
Right, DQ1 and XII are totally the same games.
Dragon Quest
Both series are dogshit in their own way.
Jrpgs haven't been good for two decades now
I guess DQ3 but I never finished it
Yes. Just stick to the classics, because newer titles are trash in both categories.
Final Fantasy 1 > Dragon Quest I
Final Fantasy 2 > Dragon Quest 2
Dragon Quest 3 > Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy 4 through 7 > Dragon Quest 4 though 7
Dragon Quest 8 > Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 9 > Dragon Quest 9
No one gives a frick about MMO shit
Dragon Quest XI > Final Fantasy 10 through 16 combined.
I like them both though.
>Final Fantasy 4 through 7 > Dragon Quest 4 though 7
ahahahaha
The only good DQ in that range is 5, and even that kinda gets mogged by FF4 and especially FF6.
>It's literally just an RPGMaker template game but with funding.
I hate how right you are. Still luv me some Dragon Quest regardless. It just has that... charm, I guess, that your bog standard Kemco-ass RPGMaker games tend to lack.
>FF4
>FF6
I don't know if you know this but there is a Final Fantasy between those 2 that is better than both of them.
5 is nice, I'll give you that. The expanded job system is cool, there are some really neat highlights with Gilgamesh, Faris and Galuf, but it ends up being pretty mid overall and nowhere near what 4 and 6 have done both on their own merits and for the genre in general.
It completely slipped my mind that it goes up to 7 inclusively, FF7 > DQ7 by a fricking mile.
DQ never jumped the shark, so that
Dragon Quest 1 is turn based proto Dark Souls, the adventure of a single man, with no directions, against monsters. DQ2 makes you feel like playing multiplayer by making the two npcs moronic, and thus evoking the memories of playing with your younger siblings. DQ3 is the model to all RPGs to come. DQ4 is the model to all gimmick rpgs to come. DQ5 inspired the most successful media franchise in the world. DQVII is the precursor to the episodic genre. DQIX beat all mobile mmorpgs to the finish line.
VI, VIII and XI are just vanilla games liked by basic b***h boys.
FFI is good mix of sci-fi and fantasy, V is nice, VII is the perfect mix of old school and new, VIII is fun to break, X has the best waifus. That's it.
final fantasy the old ones = kino
Play one DQ and you've played them all.
Danm.
homosexuals who make posts like this want to sound smart but as usual have no idea what they're talking about.
Remember when 11 had monster recruitment? Or how DQ3 had co-op multiplayer? How'd they pull that off on the NES? DQ5 has my favorite class system
Mario and Luigi
I've only played DQ VIII & XI, both which I found very good though obviously my experience with the series is extremelly limited.
While I find XI better all mainline FF since XII, I still find FF IV through IX to be some of my favourite games of all times, and I don't think playing the DQ games that came around the same time would change my mind on that.
I love how FF changes it's world and art direction with each game. Recurring jobs, monsters, and summons will have their designs significantly althered from one game to the next to feel fresh while having their core characteristics recognisable (somewhat similar to Zelda), while I almost can't believe how long DQ has been reusing the same monster designs from one game to the next.
Dragon Quest.
Really don't care for FF gameplay in the all the games I've played. Combat seems to encourage just nuking one or all enemies with your strongest attacks, status and buffs are never worth using. ATB is just a time waster.
It's a shame though, they often seem to have the crazier stories and worlds.
>Really don't care for FF gameplay in the all the games I've played. Combat seems to encourage just nuking one or all enemies with your strongest attacks, status and buffs are never worth using.
It's the exact same in DQ thoughever???
Maybe you've had a different experience with the series from me. Status spells hit more than never, buffs are important, and enemy grouping makes fights more interesting than just "kill one at a time or hit everyone."
>Combat seems to encourage just nuking one or all enemies with your strongest attacks
That's because it is. You can barely call them video games, they are just about brainlessly spamming a raw DPS move
I preferred FF's worlds more, they're usually closer to steampunk and low sci-fi.
DQ is pure high fantasy.
I just finished playing FF1-6, and while I would say the series got more memorable than DQ with each new game the "simple old school JRPG" pacing got worse with each game while in DQ they managed to keep it the same until 11(or was it 9? I forgot).
I really enjoyed wandering the overworld and visiting towns to find all the secret goodies you can find and talking to all NPCs for info, fully exploring a continent but then getting some movement upgrade like being able to cross rivers, then sail, then fly over forests and then flying over mountains, with some optional places here and there to explore after each movement upgrade.
Pretty sad how FF overworlds peaked with 3 while DQ kept all those cool aspects.
I can only assume you mean 3 as in 6, because 3's overworld(s) were fricking awful. especially world of darkness.
I mean 3, and specifically overworld exploration progression.
Certainly liked it better than the final overworld map in V, the "linear then it's completely open" in VI.
>linear then it's completely open in 6
so you just never explored the world of balance, is what I'm hearing. The entire point of 6 is to reward the exploration and learning about the characters, so they're available to you in wor.
Different strokes and all, but yikes.
the "Literally just a couple islands" world of darkness in ff3 is inarguably the worst overworld in the series. and the original world is hyper-linear, with temporary PoNR
I fully explored the world of balance, I'm aware there are some small scenes here and there for the characters.
What I'm complaining about is that every single time you move to a different area of the map it's because a cutscene moves you to point A to point B with 0 input(at best you visit the boat/figaro castle and tell them to move), and the side content is just a town or two in the same general location as the next important area.
In 1-5 there are plenty of movement upgrades(river boat, sea boat, flying chocobos, small airships, big airships, submarines, spaceships) and each upgrade requires you to directly use it to reach new areas you haven't seen or use it to backtrack to previous areas to get over obstacles to reach new locations.
For example look at 1, I remember being stuck for a bit because I didn't know how you were meant to access the bottom right corner of the map and needed to sail around for a while until I found the river mouth that you were meant to sail through, that is what I would considering actual exploration, in 6 you walk around each continent and then simply fly to the locations you want to visit.
SMT
Bianca or Tifa
FF is largely melodramatic slop with shallow gameplay. Dragon Quest is dead to me until we get some fricking 12 news.