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A community dedicated to the Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior series by Square-Enix. Rules.Do not post links or requests for pirated content. Do not help facilitate requests for pirated content. This includes modded game files in whole or in part. Patches and fanworks are fine.No major spoilers in post titles, in your comments. As we have newcomers to the series all the time, this applies to all DQ games or media.Be respectful.
No personal attacks, no trolling, no baiting, no witch hunts and no posting personal information.Be helpful and answer questions that are asked. Don't send your fellow fans away to Google or GameFAQs on an aimless quest.No excessive self-promotion. We consider it spam and Only one post per month. If your account is used primary for self-promotion, you are not welcome to post here.Absolutely no t-shirt/clothing/mug posts or comments. So I've been going back and playing through some of my favorite old JRPGs, and I want to play DQ8 again.My question is should I play through on the new 3DS version, or the PS2 version on my PVM?Really torn here.
As I want go play this game on the nice monitor, but the newer version has some additional content?Edit:Thanks Everyone! Yea I played the crap out of DQ8 on the PS2 when it came out years ago. I started the 3DS version when it came out, but didn't know if it was worth finishing over just going back and playing it on my PS2. Sounds like a lot of folks say give the 3DS version a try if I've already played the PS2. The additional things on the game make up for the graphics and sound downgrade. 3DS is better, hands down. With that being said, I do think PS2 provides the player with 'purer DQ experience'.
I'd suggest playing it on 3DS if you had to pick now, only because the changes the team made over at Square Enix is more inline with what we're used to as gamers go today.Certain things like the items menus, unedited costumes, games score (music), and the hero's 100 transformation are superior/ way cooler on the PS2.Lol, hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. DQ is by far my favorite series, so I'm happy to help ???. War wings app. The newer version has additional content, the most worthwhile of which is new party members that makes up for a minor visual downgrade.It also allows you more freedom to customise abilities (you're not forced to distribute points after levelling up, and can see all the tiers of skills on the skill table) and has no random encounters on land. I also prefer the new/old menu.
Even though it isn't as well done as the DS games, it has new items going to the bag by default. That's something I really appreciate so I needn't move my items constantly.Also, I have to say I don't think that a chiptune soundtrack is a downgrade compared to orchestra. That seems to be taken for granted for whatever reason. I like how it sounds now.