I wanna play DQ3. Do I go portable with the Gameboy Color? Perhaps stick with consoles on SNES? Abandon all logic and play the NES version?
What version of Dragon Quest 3 is the best?
I wanna play DQ3. Do I go portable with the Gameboy Color? Perhaps stick with consoles on SNES? Abandon all logic and play the NES version?
Go to hell
You go to hell.
Eat me
This isn't Ganker moron, go back.
Go to hell
yall im sorry i said abandon all logic i was struggliing to think of anything to say before like how i said "go portable with gameboy color?"
so sorry
>Abandon all logic
What are you talking about? The original looks great. Remake recycles DQ6 graphics and the GBC isn't much of an upgrade.
2DHD, SNES DQ3 is outdated
>2DHD
If it ever comes out.
>outdated
>retro games
Why are you even here
You know in the hour this thread's been up you could easily find other places that tell what's different between them? You could've even looked up a video to see the differences.
We need a recurring questions thread. Too many of these basic b***h queries are just polluting the board.
If you want quality of life and very solid game play on the snes.
If you want the original play the original.
Or gasp play the two versions.
SNES version is great, stop overthinking it.
Still waiting on anything regarding the Octopath-styled version, if only to see how much modern Square-Enix will frick it up.
I mean it's a DQ game so the team knows if they frick it up Japanese gamers will start burning effigies outside of their office. That makes me think they put more care into it.
It's a dq game so the enix half makes it
Technically, they publish it. DQ has always traditionally been a joint-project with multiple studios while Enix foots the bill, but you never can tell what happens next in the Square-Enix era.
That doesn't change what I said.
That wasn't even true back when Enix was it's own company. Enix just published it. The first five games were developed by Chunsoft. Heartbeat did VI and VII. Level-5 did VIII and XI. The various remakes and side games were also all done by different companies. The first and only Dragon Quest game that SquareEnix did in-house by themselves was Dragon Quest X. Even XI was co-developed with Orca for the console version and Toylogic for the 3DS version.
Cope you fricking nog Horii is the mastermind creating the games. Code monkey hirelings do what they're told.
Yeah this - they still haven't confirmed a western release right? It was announced more than a year ago at this point.
There hasn't been anything since the initial announcement, Japanese or otherwise.
Thanks
I'm sure there will be a western release for this, but for the DQ10 offline port... not so sure
I could probably get behind DQ10 Offline if it comes stateside. A nice long Dragon Quest makes for a good relaxation aid.
Yeah at least I think if DQ10 offline doesn't come to the west, the fact that it's a contained game opens it up to a fan translation, even though that would be insanely ambitious and would take a few years
just play the sfc game
it really isnt that difficult to figure this shit out
Snez
the 2D-HD version
Wait for the HD-2D remake next year, if you have a Switch.
If you're a good person play the NES version. But your post indicates that you aren't, so play the SNES version, since that one should also be fine. Never even consider any portable version, unless you're an idiot (which your post suggests you may be). In that case, consider it, but decide against it.
SNES version is right for you.
why does the NES makes you a better person then the SNES? Genuinely curious. Graphically both of them are perfect and the SNES has more stuff in it.
I mean I would understand if you compared DQ 4 nes to DQ 4 DS, the nes version being much better looking, same with DQ 5 being better on the snes then DS but honestly SNES and NES are both very good, it is not like they are portable mobile shit.
>why does the NES makes you a better person then the SNES?
Because he's a hipster moron
Play Snes if you care about graphics play Gbc if you care about one extra dungeon that's almost impossible to access to.
Nes looks like shit and doesn't has the thief class, sadly it's the only version with a overworld randomizer
Thief class is the perfect exemple of adding new content that makes the game better but does not take away from the original at all. I always made my Thief a sage so he add an epic spell list.
In the Nes game I liked to make various characters and change the party often. The only class I never really used was Merchant.
SNES remake is fantastic.
gbc and snes have higher exp and less battles
gbc has a new dungeon and monster medals
snes has better sprites/music
hopefully the switch remake wont suck
For a first playthrough, play the NES version. If you want a real challenge, play the Famicom version.
The SNES version is a joke. It looks nice but they made the game so easy everything is a joke. Here is a random example: the dungeon that's next to the Dharma Shrine, in the NES version I had like 15-25 encounters going through it. In the SNES version I had 6. I was going through entire floors without a single fight.
That's without mentionning all the other changes that makes the game easier, stat changes, the addition of new OP equipment, etc
The GBC version is a lot like the SNES version except they somewhat fixed the encounter rate. The extra content is hit or miss. Also in both versions the addition of the Thief class makes the game a joke as it's really easy to farm for seeds. GBC version is the one that looks and sounds the worse but the one with the most content if you can be bothered grinding for the medals.
tl;dr play the NES version, even with the exp/gold boost you'll have a more fair time than the other versions. If you're an absolute casual, stick to the SNES version
The egyptian temple is actually a good example of how screwed up the other versions are.
In the NES version it's a short but really unique and challenging dungeon. Magic doesn't work in it so you have to rely purely on strength and your very limited supplies of inventory items.
The final part with all the trapped chests is a real endurance run.
Then the SNES version comes along, on top of the lower encounter rate, you now have a bag so you can just put 99 herbs in it.
As stated the GBC version goes back to a higher encounter rate, except you still have the bag and for this dungeon they just went "frick it" and made it possible to use spells.
tl;dr the point is here --------> the GBC/SNES versions are here
>The only class I never really used was Merchant.
The Merchant class is actually really nice to use early on for someone you're going to turn into a sage with the book item at lvl 20. Because Merchants lvl up faster so you'll have your sage earlier, and because Merchants have a high hp so your Sage will start off with a more comfortable HP stat which is their real weak point.
>implying a higher encounter rate is good
Play the snes version op
SNES hands down
SFC version for sure
priest's big breasts
I'm waiting for that nice looking remake.
I've played the first three games on GBC, 9, and 11 which I've just recently finished. I want to start another but am unsure which to try next. Any recommendations for which are the best versions of each game?
I'd say thee phone port of 4 cuz it's the only version of 4 to have the party dialog.
this image is usually pretty contentious but I find it still contains a lot of good info
Thanks. I decided to get DQ7 for the 3DS. Figure I'll give it one last hurrah before the store shutdown.
if you have a 3ds just mod it, one of the easiest systems to hack
What a shitload of frick, random example but recommending the DS version of 6 and not mentionning the SNES version.... when the DS version is a downgrade in literally EVERY single way
also obviously no mention that the SNES version of 3 has baby difficulty and super low encounter rate, as usual just rating it as "bestest ever" because "it looks good"
This image belongs in the trash like often with these types of images that make series/versions summaries
Well, let's see here...
>SFC version
>incomplete translation prone to crashing if you even so much as decide to back out of a menu
>DS/Mobile version
>complete translation, doesn't break
Gee wiz I wonder which one would be recommended?
translation prone to crashing if you even so much as decide to back out of a menu
What
I played the entire game and there was nothing unfinished or any crash or anything
words
I want to play one, which one is this one?
8
dragon quest 7 on the ps1 specifically will either be one of your most or least enjoyed rpgs ever. its an extremely love or hate game thats going for some very specific things at the expense of literally everything else and the 3ds version tries to soften the impact to make it more mass appealing but really just makes it an objectively not great dq game
I'd also suggest 8 but 11 is in many ways a very direct sequel to it so you might not get as much out of it as people who got into the series with it
the SNES version is currently, but honestly at this point you might is well wait for HD-2D Remake
For my money, the SNES version is the best experience. You do get one extra post-game dungeon with the GBC port but it's not worth the graphical and audio tradeoff.
SNES > GBC > NES > mobile
GBC is just the snes version with worse visuals and a second bonus dungeon you will never, ever fricking do because you need to do an insanely tedious monster medal grind to get it. mobile version is the snes version with less content and made so easy to the point its boring. nes version is honestly not as soul sucking as I thought it would be so its worth checking out after playing one of the remakes to see how it compares if you liked the game
hopefully the new hd remake is good but I get the feeling its going to be extremely easy again, which is a problem when the game is 70% random battles and 30% figuring out where the frick you're supposed to go next
I'm hoping Draconian Quests will be the standard going forward. Just playing DQ11 with Stronger Monsters makes a world of difference.
Originals are the only answer. Anything else and you're a homosexual.
More like Coomer Quest am I right
I wish I knew how to take screenshots with the currently used aspect ratio in pcsx2 though
Never realised i could use the ice to see Jessica's butt, nice one anon.
Shame my PS2 died a couple of months ago.
Doesn't work with all of her costumes, some of them with dresses have just void down there
To all the folx saying try the SNES version, are you fricking kidding me?
This version is only in Japanese. How the hell am I supposed to play it?
fan translations
Isn't that illegal
No
SFC if you aren't autistic enough to think that "grinding more = good gameplay". Same with DQ1+2, why would anyone play any other version?
>MFW reaching the post game boss in DQ8 with 109 medals out of 110 to get the ultimate weapon
Talk about finding a needle in a haystack at this point, besides I don't even have nose for treasure and it'd take 12 skill points to do that... maybe I'll finally use those skill seeds