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I always go do dead ends to see if I can find stuff. it's mostly dead ends

>>15576108

>start thinking about the fucking tim rogers article where he recommends playing it for about an hour a day

I don't know what this is but I can tell you it's unnecessary… I enjoy it just fine spending a bunch of time on it. Besides, it'll last you for like 4 months this way. Just get it over with.

What exactly prompts you to restart it?

Oh he's from fucking kotaku

Jesus fucking Christ I feel bad for meaning to help you

Reported

I didn't get this with DQXI. Being thorough in your explorations, talking to everyone etc. certainly adds to your total playtime but it's honestly very manageable in this game. Fighting an enemy once is enough to fill out all it's bestiary info, rare drops and all. It's easy to find specific crafting materials and it doesn't take a ridiculous amount of time to update your gear. It KNOWS that a lot of players are going to feel forced to 100% it, and makes sure they're able to do so without wanting to kill themselves before the end. So go for it.

>>15576519

He's restarted

>>15576329

>I didn't get this with DQXI

Do you mean to imply that you have gotten it with other games?

>Being thorough in your explorations, talking to everyone etc. certainly adds to your total playtime but it's honestly very manageable in this game

Yes, I'm well aware it's me and not the game and that this much indecisiveness and agonizing over something as simple as whether or not to talk to townsfolk or check inside a building for loot is not normal.

>So go for it

No soap- I've quit and restart too many times already. I'm afraid I'll end burning myself out on it completely if I try anything more.

There's a post game where you can go around and do all the side shit, but also another final boss in another timeline.

>Restarting a linear jrpg

>That lets you respec characters

>That doesn't let you skip cutscenes

>Where the only content you could possible miss is incidental townspeople dialouge

How retarded do you have to-

>>start thinking about the fucking tim rogers article

I understand

>get to boss fight

>kill it

>load save

>fight boss fight until I beat them near flawlessly

Anyone else do this?

>>15576108

i wouldn't call it 'mild', you're clearly too retarded to be allowed on the internet unsupervised.

not trying to make a joke here, whoever your mom pays to wrangle you is ripping her off

>>15576108

I play games through with only a single weapon I pick at random.

i never use consumables that arent replenishable because i have a feeling the games going to throw a terribly difficult boss battle at me any second now and ill need those buffs.

>pirate Deus ex: invisible war

>finish the tutorial level

>get a shitload of aug canisters at the beginning

>realise I can max a single aug

>pick arm strength

>i'm now oneshotting every enemy with a baton

>I am now the facesmashing predator I hide in the shadows and knock everyone unconscious

>start dragging out bodies to lure more victims to their unconscious doom

>get vision augs that let me see through walls

>Notice me predator senpai

>only enemy that cannot be oneshotted are robots

>get an anti-robot laser that shoots through walls in the next level

>finish the game roleplaying as the predator

I dont really remember much about the actual plot, something about nanomachines and the statue of liberty

>>15593252

The vast majority of people praising it either never played another game in the series or are so god damned starved for a new entry in the series they're willing to but up with its mediocrity. It definitely gets more interesting later on but I'd never say it gets out of the 6-7/10 range.

>>15593263

The game is a disappointment by the series standards. Quit being underrage.

>>15593265

t. i've only ever played DQ8

>>15593252

Go back to suck Kojima's dick or play the Lesbians of Us 2 then

>>15593263

>>15593269

>go run through three different towns in a row with absolutely nothing happening

>good story progression

If this was a tabletop game I'd leave the GM an upper-decker for making me waste my time

>>15593311

I hope you like doing it twice again.

>>15576311

>Oh he's from fucking kotaku

>Jesus fucking Christ I feel bad for meaning to help you

While I fucking hate Kotaku, Tim's really good at deconstructing some games. He has an excellent video picking apart the Steam version of Chrono Trigger and his review for Dragon Quest XI is probably the most informative and in-depth review you'll ever see. The guy played the Japanese version twice and played about 1/3 of the American version before making his review. He probably is the best possible person to review the game. He's a scrawny fucking hipster who I don't agree with politically, but his JRPG analysis is top notch.

>>15576108

>tim rogers article where he recommends playing it for about an hour a day

Despite what I just said about Tim Rogers, don't do this. I put 36 hours in the game in two days(I have insomnia). You'll get nowhere playing an hour or two at a time.

>>15593252

>I just can't see how that's even possible with a game that's so damn dull so far.

Dragon Quest is a comfy series. DQ11 is a little on the slow side, so I can see why some people are turned off by it. The last mainline console Dragon Quest that hit the US was 8, and that's really slow moving, too.

>I have to assume they're enjoying it from moment 1

It does everything I want it to do. It has more of the same shit I've seen for hundreds of hours in a Dragon Quest game. It has the great monster designs that I love and more, it has some okay music by Dragon Quest standards, but the in-game versions are lacking, it's a whimsical adventure that only subverts expectations a handful of times, which is strange by Dragon Quest standards, and is overall a pretty comfortable game.

>>15593259

>The vast majority of people praising it either never played another game in the series or are so god damned starved for a new entry in the series they're willing to but up with its mediocrity. It definitely gets more interesting later on but I'd never say it gets out of the 6-7/10 range.

I'm the latter. I've finished DQ 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8,9, and some of the spinoff games. Dragon Quest 11 is a pretty alright game. It's a solid 7 for me, despite some minor complaints, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. With the main game and the post game, I have 95 hours in. It's a solid game that's bogged down by a cumbersome menu, poorly sampled midi, a lack of original music, some character designs that are much to be desired, and an arbitrarily restrictive and obtuse crafting system that starves you of recipes for large chunks of the game. All that aside, I still really enjoyed the game.

>>15593265

>The game is a disappointment by the series standards.

It's a solid 4th place for me. DQ 3, 5, and 8 are my favorites, and not in that particular order.

Game's fine. I don't understand the hatred for it. It's not revolutionary by any means, but then again, it's Dragon Quest. They don't stray from the formula much.

>>15594149

>I don't understand the hatred for it.

Asshurt FFXV fags probably.

>>15594149

My main issue with dragon quest 11 is some annoying voice overs and some of the dialogue takes way too long. the balance between dialogue and battle is not good.

>>15595918

That's what happens when you get britbongs to do the voices.

>>15595922

Better than Ashley burch.

>>15595961

well yeah

>>15576108

Stop being a perfectionist , 100% completion is not worth going for just enjoy the game and stop worrying so much about being perfect. You'll burn out a lot less after you do this trust me.

>>15594149

>>15595893

There is no hatred for the game. Quit projecting.

>>15579120

Kindof, I will get bosses down to one hit and die on purpose in a new souls game and try again until I download its moves completely.

>>15596616

Literally all JRPGs are grindy. It's a genre convention.

Get around 50-60% of the game completed and then completely lose interest and never play it again. Happens with almost every game I play nowadays.

>>15607051

>I just wanted to play some tactical espionage action, release me from this hell I've created

I can't do that, but I can certainly try to make it worse.

You know how the best rank is 25 injuries max and how there's a handful of mandatory ones in the game? how about you finish a playthrough with max rank on EE with each of the spare injuries being from a crossbow bolt?

>>15593238

>find an effective strategy, win the game while still having fun

how is that stupid?

>>15576108

Sounds like you have autism OP, haha.

I-I do too, I know how you feel.

>>15608380

>I can do this all day

please don't

Are we being raided by a bot again?

>schizo anon is back

Oh joy

>>15608026

I played Deus Ex: Invisible War

>>15593263

Now that you mention it, a lot of shit's being played straight for once. Nary a betrayal sight so far (I'm at not-Venice).

>>15593252

The gameplay is the shallowest it has been since DQ1, the music is awful and the characters and story are terrible and unlikeable.

Looking nice is the only thing it has.

It's not like there are other jrpg to play though. Rance Quest would be great but they are dragging there ass on what I saw as 2 months of translating I'd have left. Plus they are autistically fucking around translating Sengoku which anyone who cares about the series in the first place is from already playing it in English.

I'll do good mannered things like close doors and leave places tidy if they are lived in like an autist in single player games.

>>15594149

>best reveview played 1/3 of the game.

This is accurate. I didn't even get that far and it was a struggle to want to keep playing.

>>15595918

This is because not having random battles means people do not do battles. (and entire game devolves into extremely shitty stealth where you have no stealth mechanics)

>>15608278

This is one of my new fav caps.

>>15608415

It's his jewish nature to attract faggots that want to lynch him.

I stop playing games that I truly enjoy because I'm afraid I'll be depressed upon finishing the game. I have a library full of games I spend forever on but never finish. That is why the only games I can play are WoW and LoL, because you never really beat them.

>>15622872

strategy games tend to have a lot of replay value. so even when you beat them youre not finished. give heroes of might and magic a look.

>>15608958

DQ1 is great and if you are playing on Hard Monsters Draconian Mode their is nothing wrong with XI game-play wise. I almost think you havn't really played it.

>>15593252

> I can't bring myself to give enough of a shit to even play for more than a few hours at a time without getting put to sleep

are you mistakenly talking about Persona 3,4&5? Because that those boring unskippable dialogue dumps where is two hours of visual novel grade exposition can be sleep inducing.

>sometimes pirate next 'big' jRPG /v/ cums at ceilings about

>can never amass enough autistic faggotry to install it let alone play that shit

>eventually delete it

>back to either SupCom or Warband despite spending about 6666 hours at these

>OP is a faggot

>>15576124

one day I'm going to create a videogame with something really valuable at a dead end

since you'll never know who I am, you'll never know which game it is, so you'll have to keep going to dead ends forever to see if you can find it

>>15593259

The game is in my top 5 games I've ever played. It has been the first time in over a decade I've found a game of the quality that is Dragon Quest XI. Name one other company that has made a turn based JRPG this decade with the level of detail that was in Dragon Quest XI.

At the very most you will see people saying Sen no Kiseki or Persona 5, but the Kiseki series really lacks the depth of exploration that Dragon Quest XI provides, and Persona 5 is weeb shit.

>>15626010

FYI> This is These are what I'd consider my "top 5" games.

1. Chrono Trigger

2. Final Fantasy VII

3. Dragon Quest XI

4. Mega Man Battle Network 3

5 The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC

I consider each game to have very few to no flaws, but accept that people may for example consider a flaw of Chrono Trigger to be too easy, or Trails in the Sky SC to be Too Slow. Furthermore, each game has physically moved me in some way of my life.

And yes, I am biased, I picked 5 JRPGs, and yes I Have played Dragon Quest V, and hold the game in high regard, and yes I have played all of the Final Fantasy games besides XV (Because it's a horrible, irredeemable game) and consider that each one of them have glaring flaws that FFVII do not possess.

>>15626036

It will drop off once you have played more than 5 games. It's not even top 10 in Dragon Quest games.

>>15626250

>not baptising yourself in the blood of the martyrs of man so that you may further crush the enemy

How is bathing in blood not heretical? That's right up Khorne's alley.

>>15626036

>FF XV is irredeemable

that's not actually entirely true. In fact it would be a great game if the combat wasn't absolutely garbage. In fact if the combat was just slightly better I would even call it a good game. However being that the combat is literally holding Square to auto attack Hold Circle to auto block it spoils the whole experience. FFXV had so much potential to be great that this super casual design choice is why it sucks double dongs. And even with all that said it's still a better game than FFXIII for the map design, worldbuilding, characters and exploration alone.