#dragon quest 4

[minmi-nzemi]

I designed Psaro with reference to the pixel art of NES dragon quest 4.

[kokomiin]

twitch channel point requests drawn this evening

art stream vod is available on ko-fi

[bikwin5]

early chapter 5

[lubbee]

4 days!

[gobijarna]

Alena is my daughter and Kiryl is my bbg

[shochmonster]

Got this cool Dragon Quest 4 commission. I think it turned out cool.

Feel free to message me if you'd like to commission me as well.

[yolkbyte]

Dragon Quest 4 mini heroine

[mutant-girl-mintt]

Reposting this on here because I've been playing through this game lately on DS

[I should've gotten the party chat patch but i'm like, 2/3rds of the way through oh no]

[tolkienreader1996]

Given the announcement of the Dragon Quest 1-3 remakes, do you have any strong opinions on what order they should be played in?

Not really.

1, 2, 3 seems to make the most sense.

I’m more familiar with the second trilogy onward

You can definitely play through the games chronologically, but if you’re wanting to know a good game to dive into this rabbit hole try: 5, 8, and 11.

Dragon quest as a series is one that keeps getting better and better with every game they make.

[ticosanchezz]

Chapters of the Chosen

[spitblaze]

[xbuster]

DQまとめ by Mahoshiki

[clowncoresylv]

Kiryl appreciation post bc I’ve been playing dragon quest 4 and he’s just the best lol

[tarotcard0]

So, I have now officially beaten every NES Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) game. I'm currently playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and I'm almost at the end, but I have to wait for the switch to recharge before tackling Chapter 8.

In the meantime, I want to write down some of my thoughts on Dragon Quest here.

Dragon Warrior 1 (NES) - Dear lord, just play one of the Remakes, the original is so tedious. There's a remake for Gameboy, there's a remake for Mobile, there's a remake for SNES, there's even a fan made RPG Maker Remake. Any one of those is a better choice than the original. Only play the original if your curious, or for studying purposes. Oh, on that note, the SNES version is Japan Exclusive, so you'll have to get a patch to translate it to English.

Dragon Warrior 2 (NES) - Not only is this the best game of the NES Quadrilogy, it's just the best Dragon Quest game I've played. How did they do so well on their second try!? It's so hard to describe the feeling I got playing this and realizing "Oh! This is the game all those other RPGs are referencing!" Now, I'm biased. I liked drawing my own maps and taking my time with that, so if you don't I also recommend going to the remakes. Again, they're available for Gameboy, SNES, and Mobile. Again, the SNES version is JP exclusive and has an English translation patch.

Dragon Warrior 3 (NES) - It's hard to describe why I felt a little disappointment with this one... Dragon Warrior 2 was just... So good! Like, how do you follow that? For some reason, everything in 3 felt... slower. Despite several quality of life changes, things like re-organizing my inventories felt more tedious than it did before, and when the story reached the Second Act (I'm not sure I used that phrase right) I fell into that same emotion that I had while playing persona 5 where the game just felt like it was dragging on. And because I can probably beat Dragon Warrior 3 4 times over in the time it took me to beat Persona 5 once, I have reason to believe this has to do more with the context of the plot, than the runtime of the game itself. I guess I'll go ahead and recommend playing he GBC or SNES remakes again, they certainly sped things up.

Dragon Warrior 4 - This game SUCKS! It's easily the worst of the NES quadrilogy. It's not the worst Dragon Quest game (Dear god it's not the worst), 9 takes that dishonor (At least, of the ones I've played so far), but the baffling decision to have all party members except for the Hero controlled by AI once you gain control of said Hero, makes it a very close second. I can't even recommend the remake, because I can't get very far in it. Once we enter the Remake dimension for this game, we exit Dragon Warrior and enter Dragon Quest, where the development team thought it would be a great Idea to transcribe everyone's accent to a ludicrous (and sometimes racist) degree. And, surprising no one, RPGs are just slightly impossible when you can't read.

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I can't do another "Keep Reading" break, so those 3 dashes will have to do.

Well, now that I've beaten all 4 of the OG Dragon Warrior games, I'm wondering what I should do next (After beating TTYD of course)

Should I keep on with the series and go to Dragon Quest 5, or should I start on the NES Final Fantasy games (Of which, I've only beaten FF2)?

I'll end this post with a Poll.

Of course, I'm biased in favor of Dragon Warrior 2, but I'd like to hear what reasons others have for liking the ones they do.

Oh, and just to make sure this gets a decent sample size; the remakes count. If you've played Dragon Warrior GB, but not Dragon Warrior NES, then you've played Dragon Warrior.

[mmomoslime]

twitter didn’t appreciate this one :(

[shochmonster]

Another Amano styled commission from Dragon Quest 4.