What is Dragons quest, jorney of the cursed king like?

I bought this game on Play.com for £10 brand new with free UK delivery but i havent a clue if it will be any good.

Every review has said that there is over 100 hours playing time and its all OLD-Skool role-play, but what the hell is Old skool role play!I have never played on final fantasy in my lie and i never was a strong fan of role play but i realy liked the look of it and i am always complaining abouthow i can compleate most games in 1 day, example, i got tony hawks pro 8 and i finished it within 3 hours!

AWESOME game seriously ur holding a diamond there it has a big world to travel by foot sea and air, awesome gameplay if you playing for the 1st time for the hero dont use the sword stats and save up money 200 i think for a boomerang and the game will be easy then serious i like this gamewillxcool

Funny you say that, I would recommend putting it all into swords first.

It is a good game, I finished it in 80 hours without the sidequests so very lengthy. It is a traditional JRPG and as cliched as they come but that detracts nothing from its beauty. Real open world is fantastic, if you can see it you can go there, simple as that. There is some level grinding that you must do, no two ways about that but the game is ultimately very rewarding.

i thought it was horrible

i picked this game up for 15$ or so and so far i have spent 36 hrs. playing it i usta love this game...i havent played it in months because it just got boring and i cant find myself getting back into it, maybe its just be but i now find random battles and that typeleveling boring now, compared to Elder Scrolls III or ES Oblivion it looks like a dumb a$$. but check it out for yourself

simply put as i'm talking to a guy who does not know a thing about DQ OR RPG'S

i'd say it has great graphics on cel shading, it has a great longeivity, it's got a nice, simple but nice and with los of interestings things Story, AND it has (the best part in my opinion) a really vast world to explore, and go where you want freely, detailed with some beautiful graphics, based on aAkira Toriyama's (Dragon ball Z) drawings, enviromets, wich really bring life to the game, plus there is the fact that I finished it within 96 Hs. not with every secret, BUT know this! IF you are not experienced in this role playing games it may be a difficult one to start with :S.

on the other hand i loved the game so i should recommend it to anyone who reads (sorry about any errors on expression, i'm Argentinian and am still learning ^^)

saludos Roy, hope you liked this mini review i made for you whoever you are xD i was inspired, if you want you can track me and i don't know what is it you have to do when someone track you but i'll investigate and do thet somenthing that has to be done xD again saludos in spanish.

Roy

What is it like?? Boring!! Menu driven combat is soooo 20 years ago. All it does is make you have arm fuzzies for the DQ games you mayb layed in the past. _AbBaNdOn

Thats why they call this game "Old-school", I never played any of the older DQ'S (DW'S) but I know Dq8 was a good game, I finished it in just over 100 hours, But I never did all the side quests or had all the best weapons. the only bad thing about this game is that it is a tad childish, and the story progresses kinda slowly..

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The game a demands a certain level of "grinding" (roaming the same area over and over, fighting over and over just to level up). Let's see how you'll put up with that. Personally, I love grinding.2deluxe

[QUOTE="2deluxe"]The game a demands a certain level of "grinding" (roaming the same area over and over, fighting over and over just to level up). Let's see how you'll put up with that. Personally, I love grinding.AtelierFan

I had an incredible time with this game, definitly one of my all time favorites. I spent over 150 hours on the game, its nice to play with familar gameplay from the older days. The exploring has a real nice feel to it as you look at the landscape from cliffs, etc. The characters are likable and theres humorous dialogue from time to time. You either love it or hate it. I loved it. CommanderShiro

This saves mine.

Grinding isnt what makes a game boring. Its how the game carries out the combat. You dont have to use your brain very much with old-school games. You just click te x button repeatedly. I mean christ they even implemented cursor memory to mke it even easier to spam attack stuff in those types of rpg's. Of course your going to go catatonic. Action based rpg's are the best where you have to move use alot of buttons and there is movement. Strategy doesnt have alot of action or buttons but atleast you have to use your brain to choose where to place units and figure out in wha order you want to do attacks. I mean not only did DQ8 jus implement boring menu driven combat but the animations and attacks just SUCK. They didnt make it old-school for the express purpose of making it old school. They were just lazy and my guess is didnt have alot of money to produce it with. _AbBaNdOn

Dragon Quest is one of their top franchises in Japan, you can bet your hat money was not an issue. It has always been menu driven, more so than more contemporary turn-based RPGs and things were unlikely to be changed. Cursor memory has been in games for more years than I can remember so your point about them including it puzzles me.

While action games are great in their own right, we can hardly claim they are strategic, you still button mash to attack, much faster than you ever would in a turn-based RPG, who deserves the button mash moniker then? Not all SRPG are as strategic as you are led to believe, in quite a few of them all you need is to level beyond the enemy. By that I mean 2 levels above the enemy and you are untouchable. In other SRPGs it is different as they dynamically level according to you, so its much tougher in that regard.