Dragon Quest VIII

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Oh right. :(

Wikipedia, re 'Dragon Warrior': Regarding the Japanese version, in the town that the hero first buys keys, a woman offers to provide "puff-puff" to the Hero. This was changed in the American release as the woman asks if the hero would like to purchase tomatoes.

1. Tomatoes!
2. So puff-puffs have been around a while.

How many times have you played this thing through, Tombot?

Also DQ IV redo coming out for DS soon, wootles.

I feel diminished and saddened that I spent all my time playing considering the stastical ramifications of an extra point of attack power and )not joking( calculating damage modifiers instead of wondering at the larger philosophical and sociological ramifications of DQ8.

Corollary: I spent hours trying to gauge what monster team was most effective in the S-level battle only to find that, to my chagrin, my team looked exactly like the one in the GameFAQs FAQ.

this is only my second playthrough, and much improved from my first. I've been going through it like butter this time, aided in no small part by bothering to follow up on the side quests.

My FIRST go at the S Rank, one of My Three Golems stuck the liquid metal slime with a critical hit coming right out of the gate, after that it was mop-up by Mazin.

Yeah, I used the Golems to beat S as well. Best team may actually be the two metal slimes + cureslime.

two metal slimes + cureslime aren't going to put 1200+ damage up in a single round, though, are they

I dropped off playing this not too long after Tittys McGee's heelturn and started playing Rogue Galaxy instead. I wonder what Level 5's been up to, aside from the Prof Layton series.

Pretty sure Magic Burst does 1000+ damage. Not the best for the arena but they're hard to kill and Hev has 999 defence.

Wasn't someone on another thread asking about this?

Hero = Jim Thorpe

I'm done for now, on to FF12.

I figure slimes are cute to make up for their lack of strength. They are cute enough that adventurers like me don't want to kill them. It's an evolutionary advantage.

I have, I think, an hour left on this game, from like a year ago, and I've never finished it. (Last I battled was some weird vadge/flame boss?)

Should I go finish this up? Somehow I'm scared to!

yeah you have to finish it so you can start over again and give everybody different skills

or did you get pretty much everything on the first play-through? (my three golems, jessica's best gear, the underpants dance, etc)

dude wtf

huh?

started playing DQIV today, first DQ I've played

surprised by the scots accents in the first area : )

abbott did you fire it back up and end this thing or what, is what I was dude wtf abt

No, but I think about doing that every couple of hours.

I thought you were "dude wtf" about the username switching from El Tomboto to TOMBOT. I thought you had been hacked by psychotic teens.

Abbott, you have to beat it. If you don't, you'll regret it the rest of your life.

In 2005 I got to the very end of Xenogears, but I didn't finish. I forget what happened. There was some sort of bullshit problem where I had saved but I was near death with no possibility of recovery, or I was missing some item, or something. Either way, it stung. And to this day, when I hear the word Xenogears - and trust me, it's every day, every day - I cringe. Now go beat Dragon Quest VIII, NOW!

i feel bad about signing you up for that xenogears e-bulletin now

Well, I did go and beat the game last night. I had, seriously, just the one final boss battle to go (with hideous morbidly obese purple demon Rhapthorne). And I realize now why I let it languish so long – I didn't want it to end. I didn't want to say goodbye to that good friend.

I'm glad I did it, though.

Now you can finally move on with the rest of your life. Though, you don't have to say goodbye to that good friend. You could say hello to that good friend in a new way, a la Tom, by beating it in a more complete and exhaustive manner.

so this came out a week or two ago on iphone/ipad, and i'm finally going to play it (ipad style)! it's supposed to be a decent port (http://toucharcade.com/2014/05/29/dragon-quest-viii-review/).

if anyone else wants to join me on this epic quest it would be cool! please note that i am really slow and will not be beating this in 2 weeks or anything close to it.

I'm still waiting for this to be ported to a DS system or to HD more or less

from that review:

As for the iOS port, it's not quite as good as you might hope. Since this is just a translated version of the Japanese release, the orchestrated music and voice acting found only in the western PS2 release are out. The orchestrated music, I can live without, since it was recorded at low quality and bloated the game's loading times, but losing the voice acting hurts. Reading Yangus say "Cor Blimey!" just isn't the same as hearing it, and some of the jokes have a lot less punch in text, like the gags around Prince Charmles' name. Tailored for the train-faring Japanese population the game is played in portrait mode, which is going to seem like an odd choice for some people. I actually like being able to play one-handed, but there's no doubt the lack of horizontal space cuts down on the feeling of grandness in some of the game's environments. The controls themselves take a little getting used to, but after an adjustment period, I didn't have any problems with them. It's certainly a unique interface, but it ends up working out fine.

don't really care about the music because i'm usually playing ipad games on silent mode while my gf sleeps, and same with the voice acting. and actually i wouldn't care about the voice acting even if i had the sound on. i almost always hate voice acting in video games. bah humbug.

fuck this ipad shit hook yr PS2 up already and play it legit

i'm lazy man, so lazy

i never bought a ps2

i had a ps1 but haven't had a sony device since

i'm apparently about 10 hours in, although i don't trust the game clock. i don't think i've spent ten HOURS already (have i? oh god). i think i'm about to get angelo to join the party, except i'm embarrassingly having trouble finding the secret underground entrance to the sanctuary or whatever. they gave me clear instructions - head toward Simpleton but stay close to the river until you get to the ruins - but somehow, even though i see the little dot on the map where the ruins are, it's blocked off by the landscape and every 8 seconds i have to deal with a random encounter. maybe i should cast padfoot so i have some more time to explore. on the other hand i'm getting some much needed leveling up in while i wander. i fear that i spent too much time in simpleton village at the tavern and now i too am a true Simpleton.

my hero is named DIRKBURT.

the game itself is a lot of fun, and i like the characters. i feel like i probably don't exploit the tension system enough, and i probably rely on 'fight wisely' tactic way too much. part of that has to do with the menu system, and i'm not sure if it's in the original or if it's an iPad modification. but basically, any deviation from the fight wisely tactic results in several button presses. and it's especially cumbersome when switching weapons in the middle of a battle (which is often necessary to use certain abilities):

- tap DIRKBURT's options pane
- tap "items"
- tap the new weapon to select it
- tap the new weapon to equip it
- tap to close out of the options pane

it's not really a huge deal in isolation, it's that you have to do it so often. it would have been really cool to add a quick weapons switch button to streamline the process.

i especially enjoy how every village has a burly S&M guy wearing a horned mask.

Tailored for the train-faring Japanese population the game is played in portrait mode, which is going to seem like an odd choice for some people. I actually like being able to play one-handed, but there's no doubt the lack of horizontal space cuts down on the feeling of grandness in some of the game's environments.

bummer. this game is so pleasant and mainly because of the big, colorful environments.

I know the olympics are bad but pretty awesome to see all the teams march out to Dragon Quest music lol

I hope someone puts up a video of this

stopped watching but apparently they played some Sonic too!