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Post by bigusschmuck on Sept 7, 2018 22:40:11 GMT
Discuss, what version are you playing? Steam or PS4? I'm using Steam and it surprisingly works great on my old 6 year AMD 8350 with a 2gb Radeon 7850 graphics card...
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Post by Galahad on Sept 8, 2018 17:20:23 GMT
If someone never played any of the Dragon Quests would you recommend this to them?
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Post by gredler on Sept 8, 2018 23:26:12 GMT
I think the only preconception that would affect your enjoyment is how you feel for very cute very "traditional" jrpgs, it's very straightforward. If you've played the old games you would have a lot of nostalgia, and if you enjoy basic turn based jrpgs I would recommend this regardless of prior experience with the series. I am enjoying it a lot and really only played 1 and 2 a lot, half way through 5 and have been meaning to finish that and play more, but the graphical style of this and the technical execution of everything is so daftly created I really appreciate the quality of development. A true current technology representation of a classic style of game, I can't wait to get home and play more tonight and all day tomorrow
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Post by bigusschmuck on Sept 9, 2018 14:19:21 GMT
If someone never played any of the Dragon Quests would you recommend this to them? I would definitely. My wife never played Dragon Quest before and was up until 2am in the morning playing it. I'm 22 hours into it and very hooked. The damn crafting actually serves a purpose and not a time waster. BTW, as long as you have a 2gb graphics card, you can play this game very easily on a older system. Just tested it on my old Phenom 2 and plays good on that too!
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Post by gredler on Sept 9, 2018 16:11:40 GMT
Does the steam version have cloud saves? I might try to sell my copy and grab it on PC before I get too deep.
I have an i7 with 16gb of ram and a gtx560m with 2gb of ram, wonder how that would compare to ps4 standard quality and performance.
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Post by bigusschmuck on Sept 9, 2018 20:56:01 GMT
Does the steam version have cloud saves? I might try to sell my copy and grab it on PC before I get too deep. I have an i7 with 16gb of ram and a gtx560m with 2gb of ram, wonder how that would compare to ps4 standard quality and performance. Yes it does have cloud saves. On my Radeon 7850 system I'm able to hit 60fps 98% of the time and most settings are set to high at 1600×900 resolution. I do recommend having at least a quadcore and 8gb of ram. A solid state drive helps too. What you have should be plenty. FYI, make sure you set the game in full screen mode in options. On my Phenom 2 system I set everything to low, but it still looks damn good.
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Post by gredler on Sept 9, 2018 21:48:23 GMT
Yeah I am going to sell mine and get this on PC so I can play at work pc and home on the laptop
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Post by bigusschmuck on Sept 22, 2018 21:10:58 GMT
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Post by toymachine78 on Sept 26, 2018 15:53:21 GMT
I was thinking about picking this up too. Haven't played the series since the first 2 on NES. I'll probably wait for the price to drop though.,
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Post by _jash on Sept 26, 2018 17:29:40 GMT
At this point I'm not playing it. With school and work/kids kicking my ass I'm sort of glad I don't currently own a PS4, but that should be remedied by this holiday season. Then I'll get knee deep in it with all you chummers.
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Post by gredler on Oct 3, 2018 19:03:57 GMT
I am still bouncing between DQXI on the TV when available, and Octopath Traveler when I can only play in handheld mode. I just got the 5th party member, and a new form of transportation, in DQXI. I am enjoying it, but not absolutely in love with it, for sure. In fact I'd say I have mixed feelings about DQXI, but I think I like OpT better as a traditional RPG, after ~30 hours in OpT and ~15 in DQXI.
The story may be a bit better in DQXI, being more simplistic and traditional, OpT's disjointed narrative with no real reasoning or incentive for the crew to party together is really odd. In OpT each of the smaller narratives are cool in that they're not so grandiose, but there's something to be said about the feeling that DQXI is able to instill through its story. This is so subjective, but I do think that a more traditional over-arching narrtive tieing the characters together would have made OtP's story better, but as it stand's I care much more about the relationship between the characters in DQXI. I really enjoy 3/5 of the characters I have so far, and think they're cool and unique in their personalities and designs.
The environment art in DQXI has me half gawking at vista's and exterior lighting, but the interior lighting and texture work has be cringing and disappointed. It can't be said enough how well the monsters are crafted; fron their deisgn to their models and materials, and especially their animation, the monsters are why I am enjoying this game so far. I can't ever wait to see the next set of unique enemies; but the generic albeit beautifully crafted style of the environments in DQXI is inferior to the unique style of OpT. OpT's unique extruded pixel art is just so interesting to me, and such a different look, and the monsters/enemies in OpT are beautiful as well but they do not animate. Both games suffer from an unfortunate amount of visual bugs, and over-sites, but I think that's the nature of the beast these days unfortunately. Hard to be nit-picky with these games visuals, considering their fidelity, but it's just simply disappointing when you see a blown out or completely dark area because emissive and exposure is off which shifts brightness of the area dramatically between areas with different screen space luminescence; just growing pains of PBR workflow transitions, which is most noticeable in lightng. The texel density in the materials in DQXI is disappointing, but is likely due to the age of the game's development and inexperience with modern art workflows. It's hard to imagine them being able to add micro detail normal information as a patch or mod, as it's a shader/material change requiring another normal map layer added with different uv/scale information. It's hard to find these flaws in the unique style of OpT, since they're doing something so new and unique it's harder to say specifically what could be done differently, while DQXI is using a visual style that has been done so many times (often better) it's easy to look at it and think "danm, this could have been better".
Then there's the music, which is my main gripe and reason why I am quick to hop back to OpT. I'm sorry, but DQXI's music kind of sucks. Not because it's midi. though that doesn't help it to be less grating on the ears. No I think it sucks because there's so little of it. The first 3 towns have the same song, a not great song, and between each of those towns is an even more repetitive song. For 15 hours I think it's been 80% two songs that loop after a couple minutes that already have repetitive elements to them.
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Post by KingDrool on Oct 3, 2018 20:13:24 GMT
Great impressions, gredler, and I agree with most of them. I prefer DQ11 to Octopath, but Octopath is still pretty great. I'm about 24 hours into DQ11 and am really loving it. I don't know how to describe where I am without spoiling anything, but I just got to an area that is very cold. The music in DQ11 is really starting to get to me because, like you said, there's just so little of it. At first, the bouncy town music was charming and fun. But after I've heard it on loop for at least a dozen hours, I fucking hate it. I played Octopath up through the end of the first chapter for every character. I'm hoping to go back to it at some point, but I'm not sure. It just didn't grab me like I hoped it would.
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Post by bigusschmuck on Oct 4, 2018 13:40:37 GMT
Are you guys playing this on the PC? Put in the orchestrated mod in the game and that helps a bit. I'm almost to end game and have to say the music does change up a bit (more remixed versions of the older games) but that traveling music does get old real quick even with the orchestrated mod. I will say this is by far the easiest DQ game I have played and honestly I wish I would've turn on some of the Draconian settings on when I first started playing this.
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Post by gredler on Oct 4, 2018 14:53:50 GMT
Are you guys playing this on the PC? Put in the orchestrated mod in the game and that helps a bit. I'm almost to end game and have to say the music does change up a bit (more remixed versions of the older games) but that traveling music does get old real quick even with the orchestrated mod. I will say this is by far the easiest DQ game I have played and honestly I wish I would've turn on some of the Draconian settings on when I first started playing this. Nah I wish I started on PC, but I am past the hour commitment point of no return, it's the variety of music not the instrumentation that gets to me. Good to hear even more music gets added. If there were a mod to make there be more than 1 "overworld" and 1 town song lol. There is such a great sense of cultural differences between each town, then the same dinky repetitive song plays in each town - laaaaaaame.
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Post by KingDrool on Oct 4, 2018 18:09:45 GMT
Playing on PS4. The game is fairly easy, yeah, but considering the small amount of time I have to play games these days I'm happy with the lack of difficulty.
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