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3DS RPGS - Bravely Second, 7th Dragon III Code, or DQ7?

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Althane

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Going on a trip to England in a few hours. Have time to buy/download one game in addition to Etrian Odyssey Untold 2: Fafnir Knight (which honestly will probably eat up a lot of my time anyways).

I played Bravely Default, but got kinda burnt out on the whole repetitive end chapters. I've heard good things about Bravely Second as well, but am trying to decide if I want to pick that up, DQ7, or the 'new' series 7th Dragon III Code.

The major choice is really between Second or 7th Dragon, as I'm a huge fan of the class systems and all that appear to make up a large part of them, and I've never really 100%'d a Dragon Quest game.

What's GAF's overall consensus on the mobile RPGs?
 
I haven't played the other two, but I wholeheartedly recommend Bravely Second. Much better than the original in my opinion.
 
Not the same kind of repetition at all, but if you've just come off Bravely Default, the slow pace and repetitive structure of DQVII may grate on you. And it takes a while to get to the class systems. But it's a great game.

I've only played the demo of VFD, due to it not being out in Europe yet, but that seems promising and has class dynamics you seem to be after.
 
I haven't played the others, but Dragon Quest 7 is pretty awesome. It's very much like other DQ games, if you're wondering.
 
Looks like Bravely Second is winning out hardcore. I assume that the speedup mechanics are still present to breeze through battles? Was one of my favorite parts of BD, and really the overworld parts are why I didn't continue through the end.

Edit: Yeah... the DQ7 being like other DQ games is DQ'ing (ar ar ar) it for me. I've still got DQ9 and DQ4 to finish up, I guess.
 
Bravely Second is great, they do pull the repeating trick once but it's done in a better way where you get to see new content, it's not very time consuming and you get gameplay perks for it so it's actually pretty fun.

I've only played a little bit of DQVII - I dropped it when I found out DQM got an English patch - and it was okay. The first little story vignette was okay. I can't tell you much past that. Apparently it's super long if that's what you're into. Bravely Second is probably like 30-40 for the main story and 60-70 for everything, I'd have to check my save.

Althane said:
Looks like Bravely Second is winning out hardcore. I assume that the speedup mechanics are still present to breeze through battles? Was one of my favorite parts of BD, and really the overworld parts are why I didn't continue through the end.
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Oh it's even better in Second. Not only are the speed up mechanics still there, you can immediately chain battles for EXP multipliers to really blast through grinding.
 
I'm about 20 hours into Bravely Second. Would you believe me if I told you the combat system got BETTER?

DQ is a sloooow sloooow churn and burn. You get right to it in Second, it's awesome.
 
DQ7 is a classic

Bravely series is alright in a way like "there hasn't been anything good in years, this is alright; but this dialog is terrible"

You could also think about one of the Shin Megami Tensei IV games
 
jres80 said:
DQ7 is a classic

Bravely series is alright in a way like "there hasn't been anything good in years, this is alright; but this dialog is terrible"

You could also think about one of the Shin Megami Tensei IV games
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I've got SMT4, but recently did Persona 4 Golden, so not really ready to dig SMT4:A (yes, I know they're really different, but it matters to me!).

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And yeah, the dialog from BD was awful ("STOP DOING THIS THING!" "Why?" "Uh..." "Okay, we'll keep doing this thing!"), but damn them systems were so good. :3
 
DQ7 is a classic JRPG through and through. Take it or leave it, but it's a huge game. Bravely Second is a classic JRPG with more modern conveniences, and I feel it's more fun and looks better.
 
DQ7 and 7Th Dragon are both fantastic games and worth the purchase, depends on whether you want a long, story heavy RPG or a dungeon crawler. Bravely Second is supposed to be good but I haven't played it yet, can't comment.
 
Hated Bravely Second. The long-winded, terrible dialogue is just unbearable for me. Get DQVII if you want an old-school JRPG that will last you a long time. Only played the demo for 7th Dragon and didn't like it, but I'm not a fan of dungeon crawlers.
 
Of the three DQVII of course. Bravely Second is good but you can play Bravely Default first and see if you like it.
 
7th dragon isn't out here yet so I can't comment on it. DQVII is very long, while Bravely Second has a lot of modern improvements that cut down on the bloat- speeding up battles, turning off random battles, chaining battles for increased XP, and a huge class/skill system available from the start. If you're playing for the combat, Bravely Second also has one of the best turn-based systems in a modern rpg. However, if you want story, the overall tale and chapter vignettes of town/dungeon/boss are far more varied, numerous, entertaining and memorable in DQVII.

Depends what you want out of an rpg really- neither wipes the floor with the other across the board, just in certain areas.
 
Bravely Second is awesome. The first games combat was already great and it improves on it in every way. The story starts off pretty slow but it gets better as you go. Like the anti Bravely Default.

Pity about the soundtrack though.

Edit: Oh, and the repetition is kept to a minimum too. There is very little of it.
 
DQ7 production values are lot better than 7th Dragon III Code. I stopped playing 7th Dragon III Code because it looked like a 3D DS game and the add a cherry on top the UI doesn't make use of the bottom scree at ALL.
 
Mcdohl said:
The real answer is Shin Megami Tensei IV.

Did you finish it?

Then Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse.
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Yup, and I'll get around to SMT4A, probably around Christmastime, or maybe Feb next year with the P5 delay.

I ended up going with Bravely Second, sorry DQ7 fan force. :)

Now we'll just see if it finish downloading in the next 5 hours... game is huge!
 
Bravely second will be $20 at Best Buy on Black Friday (something Amazon is sure to match). If you will be back in time, you might wait for that.

Edit: never mind. I see you just bought it. Digital, it sounds like, so $40?
 
Megatron said:
Bravely second will be $20 at Best Buy on Black Friday (something Amazon is sure to match). If you will be back in time, you might wait for that.

Edit: never mind. I see you just bought it. Digital, it sounds like, so $40?
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Yup, but I'm going more and more digital as life goes on. Carts are a pain to haul around and I'm always afraid of losing them. Digital I can do backups, and I'm fairly sure Nintendo won't unfairly ban me from buying stuff and redownloading. But that's a discussion outside of the thread context. :D
 
I was going to suggest an alternative but you're already downloading EO2U.
I haven't played the other 3, I hated Default, I haven't got money for DQ7 (yet) and 7th Dragon III isn't out here yet
 
Althane said:
Yup, and I'll get around to SMT4A, probably around Christmastime, or maybe Feb next year with the P5 delay.

I ended up going with Bravely Second, sorry DQ7 fan force. :)

Now we'll just see if it finish downloading in the next 5 hours... game is huge!
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Excellent choice. I picked it up.about a month ago and have really really enjoyed it.
 
7th Dragon takes a lot of time to be interesting, but once it happens, you can't quit it. Is a bit like Persona 4.
 
7th Dragon was an amazing game in my opinion, and I couldn't put it down once I got engrossed in the combat system and the story. I'd recommend it over the other two.

7th > DQ7 >> BS.
 
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