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Post by Sarge on May 26, 2020 19:40:08 GMT -5
Yeah, the personality thing was just for the remakes of DQ3. It wasn't in the original. That being said, it really isn't so bad, as most personalities actually boost you slightly compared to the default rates.
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Post by Xeogred on May 26, 2020 20:07:25 GMT -5
I see.
I was laughing a bit looking over some of this stuff and seeing that the "Item Bag" is a new thing in all the remakes? Could only work with your characters' limited inventory space originally. Though I guess the bank also let you store items as well. I think the Suikoden games worked like this too and you had to micromanage inventory per character, but it was also easy to get things stored at your castle, or with 50+ playable characters it's no biggie either way. lol
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Post by Sarge on May 26, 2020 20:21:50 GMT -5
Yuuuup. You only had your original eight slots per character, so if there was anything you wanted to keep, you needed to store it in the bank. I'm pretty sure that Dragon Quest IV also maintains this limitation.
Oh, right, yeah, because you can only load up on a limited number of items to sell when you regain Taloon for the final chapter. I always got weapons and armor to sell to boost my gold reserves once he joined.
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Post by Xeogred on May 27, 2020 17:51:50 GMT -5
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Post by Sarge on May 27, 2020 17:59:10 GMT -5
Yep, feelin' old.
Definitely a landmark title. Here's to more years of Dragon Quest.
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Post by Ex on May 27, 2020 20:37:51 GMT -5
I've got nothing but respect for Dragon Quest. Killer JRPG franchise, may it live ever longer.
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Post by Xeogred on May 27, 2020 20:42:36 GMT -5
Interestingly enough, a new anime is set to air this October. I think it's again loosely based around DQ3 or some manga and a character named Dai. I wasn't really interested in that weird CGI DQ5 movie, but maybe this could be cool:
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Post by Ex on May 27, 2020 20:44:23 GMT -5
I hope in these various DQ anime, sometimes the main characters just walk into random peoples' houses and steal stuff, then walk out like it's totally okay.
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Post by Xeogred on May 27, 2020 20:51:12 GMT -5
I hope in these various DQ anime, sometimes the main characters just walk into random peoples' houses and steal stuff, then walk out like it's totally okay. I keep assuming this will get me into trouble in one of these games at some point.
I like how you always end up stealing from castle vaults too when you have the special keys.
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Post by toei on May 27, 2020 21:01:22 GMT -5
The Dai manga actually starts with a short story arc where the kid meets a typical DQ party - a hero, a cleric, a mage and a warrior - who turn out to be violent, money-hungry frauds.
I guess it's sort-of based on DQ3, but really, it's an original story set in the DQ world, about a kid raised by monsters on a remote island. He receives training from a legendary hero who then gets killed, the return of the demon king makes his monster friends hostile again, and he leaves on a heroic journey. Oh, and early on, he can carry some of his monster friends around in tubes and release them in battle, so it's kind of like Pokemon (or Dragon Quest Monsters) years before Pokemon (1989!).
The manga was published as Fly in the '90s in France, Italy (I think) and parts of Canada. Local libraries started carrying it in Montreal after Dragon Ball took off. I actually owned a couple volumes when I was 11 or 12, long before I'd ever played a Dragon Quest game, so I have some nostalgia for it as it's the second manga I ever read. It was probably the closest thing to Dragon Ball out of the first wave of manga where I lived; Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita) had somewhat messily-drawn action scenes and it was a little above my age level, Gon was a wordless manga about a dinosaur, and Sailor Moon was too girly, so I gravitated towards it. I tried watching the anime last year, I think, but it was a bit bland. I'm pretty sure it was the most popular and longest-running Dragon Quest manga/anime spin-off (there are a ton of them that only came out in Japan, though, as you'd expect). Ran in Shounen Jump for years.
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