I decided to check what they have on PS+ and it turns out they have a bunch of Dragon Quest games: Dragon Quest XI S, Dragon Quest Builders, Builders 2 , Dragon Quest Heroes, Heroes 2.
Now, since it's free, I decided to download Dragon Quest XI S. Problem is, I've already sunk 109 hours and 17 minutes into DQ XI and it looks like the save files don't transfer. Ugh! To start over or not to start over. Like, I wouldn't mind starting over again except I seem to remember certain parts being a pain in the ass. *sigh* I guess I'll give it a start. If I get tired of it, I can always go back to the original where I'm at the post game.
Anyway...you know me. Start in on a new discussion, gotta show off my collection.
So I got the first one free with a subscription to Nintendo Power. It was my first ever JRPG. Now to be honest, it would be a good long time before I got back into Dragon Quest. For one thing, a lot of them simply weren't released in the USA until much later. But at the time, I was like, what? Just fighting one enemy and controlling one guy was complicated enough. How am I supposed to control battles with groups? Hey, I was a kid! I was easily intimidated. It took me a while before I played Street Fighter II because games with more than 2 buttons just blew my mind.
I have a save file, so I must have played this at least a little. But honestly, going back to old games like this when you don't have the nostalgia for them can be trying.
Same thing I said about II pretty much applies to this. I don't have the nostalgia for it. So it's kinda hard to give it a fair play. But I own it!
Once upon a time, I owned the DS version of this. It was what got me back into Dragon Quest. I'd played a few Final Fantasy games since my childhood and I remembered back to the days when I got that free game from Nintendo Power and wanted to see what the series had become. I played it. I loved it. I finished it. Unfortunately, I think I must have needed the money or something, because I sold it (don't remember if it was to Game Stop or Disc Replay, but I sold it). I've regretted it since then. Unfortunately, the DS version sells for more than $100 on eBay. The only other legit way I know of to play it is on iPad. I don't usually like games on iPad...but it's what I could get.
Unfortunately, there was a time where I bought a bunch of games in a short time span, meaning I never did get a deep dive on any one of them. This is one of those. Plus the whole thing of collecting all those slabs just got on my nerves really quickly.
I may have said this before in other threads. The PS2 I have is one I bought used at Game Stop. Like many used consoles, the console itself as well as the controller had that gritty, dirty used feel. You know the feeling I mean? So I didn't play too many games on PS2 for too long. The 3DS version is another game that suffered the same fate as VII, too many games at once meaning some had to go on the back burner and never return.
I finished this one. It was really fun. I'd probably go back to it if the small screens of the portable systems didn't hurt my eyes so much.
I finished this one, even did a lot of the post-game stuff. But now I have XI S, so I guess I'll be doing it all again.
I thought I had a guide for XI, but I guess not.
What can I say? I love the art.
Now, since it's free, I decided to download Dragon Quest XI S. Problem is, I've already sunk 109 hours and 17 minutes into DQ XI and it looks like the save files don't transfer. Ugh! To start over or not to start over. Like, I wouldn't mind starting over again except I seem to remember certain parts being a pain in the ass. *sigh* I guess I'll give it a start. If I get tired of it, I can always go back to the original where I'm at the post game.
Anyway...you know me. Start in on a new discussion, gotta show off my collection.
So I got the first one free with a subscription to Nintendo Power. It was my first ever JRPG. Now to be honest, it would be a good long time before I got back into Dragon Quest. For one thing, a lot of them simply weren't released in the USA until much later. But at the time, I was like, what? Just fighting one enemy and controlling one guy was complicated enough. How am I supposed to control battles with groups? Hey, I was a kid! I was easily intimidated. It took me a while before I played Street Fighter II because games with more than 2 buttons just blew my mind.
I have a save file, so I must have played this at least a little. But honestly, going back to old games like this when you don't have the nostalgia for them can be trying.
Same thing I said about II pretty much applies to this. I don't have the nostalgia for it. So it's kinda hard to give it a fair play. But I own it!
Once upon a time, I owned the DS version of this. It was what got me back into Dragon Quest. I'd played a few Final Fantasy games since my childhood and I remembered back to the days when I got that free game from Nintendo Power and wanted to see what the series had become. I played it. I loved it. I finished it. Unfortunately, I think I must have needed the money or something, because I sold it (don't remember if it was to Game Stop or Disc Replay, but I sold it). I've regretted it since then. Unfortunately, the DS version sells for more than $100 on eBay. The only other legit way I know of to play it is on iPad. I don't usually like games on iPad...but it's what I could get.
Unfortunately, there was a time where I bought a bunch of games in a short time span, meaning I never did get a deep dive on any one of them. This is one of those. Plus the whole thing of collecting all those slabs just got on my nerves really quickly.
I may have said this before in other threads. The PS2 I have is one I bought used at Game Stop. Like many used consoles, the console itself as well as the controller had that gritty, dirty used feel. You know the feeling I mean? So I didn't play too many games on PS2 for too long. The 3DS version is another game that suffered the same fate as VII, too many games at once meaning some had to go on the back burner and never return.
I finished this one. It was really fun. I'd probably go back to it if the small screens of the portable systems didn't hurt my eyes so much.
I finished this one, even did a lot of the post-game stuff. But now I have XI S, so I guess I'll be doing it all again.
I thought I had a guide for XI, but I guess not.
What can I say? I love the art.
