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Dragon Quest IX nearly finished.. And more Wii software!
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Himuro said:
DQ8NA's made it clunky some sometimes unintuitive (zoom menu?). The problem with DQ5's is just that the cursor never remembers its position. In DQ7, the cursor remembers its position during certain operations, so moving items around from person to person, or from person to the bag is very quick. Item management in DQ7 is probably the most efficient I've ever seen in a game.
They actually took a step back in DQ8J, because the cursor doesn't remember its position when trading items.
I think there was cursor memory for battles too in DQ7, made battles ridiculously fast.Aeana said:DQ8NA's made it clunky some sometimes unintuitive (zoom menu?). The problem with DQ5's is just that the cursor never remembers its position. In DQ7, the cursor remembers its position during certain operations, so moving items around from person to person, or from person to the bag is very quick. Item management in DQ7 is probably the most efficient I've ever seen in a game.
They actually took a step back in DQ8J, because the cursor doesn't remember its position when trading items.
lastendconductor
Put your snobby liquids into my mouth!
The VA and soundtrack of the western DQ were AWESOME! I'll wait all that's needed... but we're not getting these things on the DS anyway.zoku88 said:
zoku88 said:
The voice acting added a lot to DQ8. It was a very, very welcome addition (and I'd already played the Japanese version a few times through before I played that one). The orchestrated music, on the other hand... not so much. They were taken directly from the Symphonic Suite CD, which was recorded very poorly. So not only was the music not recorded to be used in the game, it wasn't even recorded very well to begin with.
If a future DQ game used orchestrated music, and it was the quality that's found in DQ5 PS2, then I'd love that. But odds are, for a localization job, they'd have to take the music from other source, and it wouldn't be recorded specifically for the game... so it'd sound half-assed, like it did in DQ8NA.
jeremy1456
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DKnight said:
Do you honestly care that much about these things anyway?
DQVIII has spoiled people. Honestly these things made the game feel less like a Dragon Quest game to me.
lastendconductor
Put your snobby liquids into my mouth!
Well I honestly do... I played tons of jRPGs with so bad VA that I would've preferred to play them in mute, but DQVIII was awesome, I burst in laughter a handful of times just by hearing king Trode speak :loljeremy1456 said:
And I found the orchestrated soundtrack great as well.
dq:viii had a great voice cast. it suited the aesthetic well, and was solid across the board. i can't, off the top of my head, think of another rpg where i've happily left the english language track on for the entire experience.
that said, i don't consider voiced dialog at-all necessary for an rpg. text boxen are far superior to most of the voicings we get. i quite like a japanese voice option too (which i don't understand), rather than a badly-done english one.
that said, i don't consider voiced dialog at-all necessary for an rpg. text boxen are far superior to most of the voicings we get. i quite like a japanese voice option too (which i don't understand), rather than a badly-done english one.