Any Dragon Quest (series) players here?

[Ankhakitty]

So I only have my irl friend Levi to indirectly play Dragon Quest 7 Fragments of the Forgotten Past with, but I'm curious, any people here who are fans of the Dragon Quest series like I am? I was a fan of it before 7 on 3DS, and 7 sure won't be the last Dragon Quest game I play, as I've played some of it's spinoffs and I will continue to play Dragon Quest. I asked mom for Builders on Switch for my birthday, along with 2 other expensive games for Nintendo Switch. Feel free to share your experiences in the Dragon Quest series, be it main series or it's spinoffs.

 

[Mr_Keroppi]

I am a HUGE Dragon Quest fan even though I haven’t played alot of the games!

My first Dragon Quest game was the original Builders on PS4! It was so fun and kept me entertained for a LOOOOONG time! I still play it from time to time.

Shortly after finishing B1, I got Dragon Quest Heroes as a present for getting all A’s from my mother! I loved the first Heroes game and play it all the time. Its so fun and I am almost 100% done with it! I played the story 3 different times and have gotten enough skill points, finished the quests, beat almost all the maps, fully leveled all the characters, and all I have left is the secret final boss Atlas and to buy some mini-medal weapons! Bianca, Nera, and Yangus supremacy

The original imo is SO much better than the sequel, I got the sequel in Christmas 2017 and never finished it although it was such a great game as well! Im revisiting it in the future

I ended up preordering XI and LOVED IT SO MUCH! I never ended up 100%ing it but I got so close. I played through the entire story and got all the costumes though!

Dragon Quest games are really the only non-nintendo games I like and I play them all on my parents PS5 now. We never bought PS Plus so after our old PS4 bricked we lost everything. I am devastated that all my original saves for B1, B2, DQH, DQH2, and XI got deleted but its been a wonderful journey revisiting them after so many years! I know this thread is super old but I hope its okay to post in!

 

[Newbiemayor]

I liked 8 when I was younger but I don't think I ever beat it. I'd love to go back to it if I could find it again or if I break and buy a new one. I really liked 11 on the switch though and I've beaten that one. Maybe I'll try some of the other games one of these days but old games are so expensive.

 

[Flicky]

For sure! Unfortunately, the UK really don't care about DQ so I've been a bit limited outside the main games, and growing up, I didn't even know most of them existed. I remember visiting Japan years back and being gobsmacked at the amount of love for it - I'd never even seen a single DQ toy in my life in England, not even in gaming stores, and now I'm being presented with entire shelves of stuff in a regular supermarket?!

The first Dragon Quest game I had was actually Dragon Warrior Monsters on the Game boy color. I was big on Pokemon at the time, so another monster raising game was just up my alley. Sadly I don't think I ever completed it, because I wanted to play with favourites and that became increasingly challenging in the later areas. I think my best monster was Hacksaurus (which, coincidentally, I happened to get a figure of while I was in Japan in a blind box - it made me very happy, considering there were about 8 others in the set too).

The one I love the most through is Dragon Quest Builders 2. I know some people here will have already heard me harp on and on about this game, but I really love it. I love the characters, the story, being able to have a few monsters (wish you could befriend more of them, though) and I enjoy the building aspects. I prefer having some more 3D objects to use as well, as opposed to say, Minecraft's entirely block selection.

 

[.: Meri :.]

I'm a huge fan of the series! I started with IX and I've worked my way through most of the mainline titles now (excluding X of course ;-; ), and am planning to start on some of the side-games after I finish playing IV on mobile and give VI a replay. ^^ I haven't played Builders, Heroes, Treasures, or any of the DQ Monsters games, but I'm really looking forward to doing so! Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince seems super hype too.

DQXI S is my absolute favorite of the mainline series, but I really love the Zenithian trilogy too. I'm cautiously hopeful for XII, but all the talk of it going in a new direction/having a darker tone has me a little concerned. I know the series is no stranger to darker themes sometimes, but there's always been that sense of hope throughout, and I just don't want it to lose its "comfort food" vibe. I like that I more-or-less know what I'm getting into when I buy a Dragon Quest game. ;u;

 

[Khaoticnoize187]

rocket slime is my all time favorite entry in the series