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?
― Lamp, Friday, 22 August 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Hero = Jim Thorpe
I'm done for now, on to FF12.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 11 September 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― abanana, Friday, 12 September 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 12 December 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah you have to finish it so you can start over again and give everybody different skills
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 December 2008 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
or did you get pretty much everything on the first play-through? (my three golems, jessica's best gear, the underpants dance, etc)
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 December 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
dude wtf
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 18 December 2008 08:49 (fifteen years ago) link
huh?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 19 December 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
started playing DQIV today, first DQ I've played
surprised by the scots accents in the first area : )
― cozwn, Friday, 19 December 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
abbott did you fire it back up and end this thing or what, is what I was dude wtf abt
― TOMBOT, Friday, 19 December 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
No, but I think about doing that every couple of hours.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 20 December 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought you were "dude wtf" about the username switching from El Tomboto to TOMBOT. I thought you had been hacked by psychotic teens.
― (Z S) (Z S), Saturday, 20 December 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― (Z S) (Z S), Saturday, 20 December 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i feel bad about signing you up for that xenogears e-bulletin now
― ice cræm and cæk (Lamp), Sunday, 21 December 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― (Z S) (Z S), Sunday, 21 December 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm still waiting for this to be ported to a DS system or to HD more or less
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
fuck this ipad shit hook yr PS2 up already and play it legit
― dude (Lamp), Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
i'm lazy man, so lazy
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
i never bought a ps2
i had a ps1 but haven't had a sony device since
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 June 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
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.
― original bgm, Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
I know the olympics are bad but pretty awesome to see all the teams march out to Dragon Quest music lol
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 July 2021 12:07 (two years ago) link
I hope someone puts up a video of this
― Nhex, Friday, 23 July 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
stopped watching but apparently they played some Sonic too!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 July 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link