Allright everyone!

Weither or not you heard the good news, DQM: J2 is coming to america the 19th of this month! Admittedly this is a far flung time from the Japan (I'd stay away from their wifi teams), but that means we get another beautiful game from them!

And it's my job as an Ex-Slime Knight to raise awareness!

Is anyone here interested in getting their hands on this game? If we can cause enough sales maybe we'll get the 'expansion pack'!

I've seen the first one on shelves, but I'm wary. What makes it not a DQ-skinned Pokeclone?

Ironically Pokemon is a Pokemon-skinned Dragon Quest 3 clone.

DQ has done the monster training and collecting thing since well.. way before it was popular (but it wasn't first, I believe that was a C64 game)

And gameplay is more evolved around tactics and pre-planned team building? That and unless you need a specific set of moves to combo, your monsters tend to do the best they can with no input from you. But this is the first one that lets you do direct action over Wi-fi, so it's really a new can of worms even for us oldschoolers!

It's a /real/ RPG about collecting monsters, not a thinned out kids game with 4 moves and blady blah.

I want this quote on the box.

DT Defender says, "It's not a thinned out kids game with... blady blah"

Hm, I might pick it up! I love the flavor and style of Dragon Quest, but the main games bore me to tears (I so wanted to love DQ9, but there's literally nothing new about it). I loves me some monster collecting.

Most most most excellent!

We'll have to set up a group or something, at least a match, when it comes out!

And for the record, the fact that there's nothing new about DQ is the mainstay of DQ. Hasn't even changed the ditties since DQ1, but it's the best selling RPG series of all time. IIRC

I'm sorely tempted to pick this up. I loved DQ VIII, which was my first real exposure to the series, and DQIX is still a good go-to game for when I just wanna dungeon crawl with a custom team.

So this game will be like the side quest in VIII where you collected monsters and formed a team of them to fight, only moreso?

Yes.




Long Answer;

Yes, the entire game is the building of an amazing monster team, with a new interesting mechanic!

Apparently the larger the 'size' of a monster, the more slots on your team they take up to compensate for their massive size and power. Previously you could have the gargantuan final bosses of previous Dragon Quest games, at a reduced power.

But now! Can you consider having a FINAL BOSS on your team? Complete with world-shattering abilities and the 5x larger than anything else in the world size!?

Build a team, fuse monsters, etc. etc.

The only downside to people who are not entirely versed on the series is that...

Well monsters go back to level 1 when fused. This is not a problem because of the mass power boost, but if you are trying to follow a fusion chain you might want to wait until the post-game.

But this is built around the ability to have a level 99 monster that's never been fused to equal the power of a level 50 monster that has been. So it's give and take.

Also keep in mind weapons, which give serious stat boosts, but cannot be used in vs play.

i might pick this up. been playing a lot of IX lately

Exceeeelllleeeent! We're shaping up quite a little league here!