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The builders demo wouldn't let me change the default controls. Other than that, seems like a nice mix of actual game and building stuff. Gonna finally break my 10+ year dry spell of DQ games.
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Nephzinho posted:How much actual game is there? I don't need another sandbox game, but if this is going to be an avenue to play through/make essentially DQ7 island sized bites of content it might be a good time killer. As far as the demo goes, you only get to do stuff on the starting island. The demo leads you through all of the basic building, crafting, and combat stuff, but it leaves a few exploration secrets you can find on your own. It's definitely a multiple island deal, but I don't know about what needs building on those islands. I got the impression all the city building happens only on the starting island. Some more gripes: The UI could be better. When making items, you either make one at a time or all of them (including the raw mats in all chests). There's no durability bar for your armor outside the menu, just your weapon, so if you get hit a lot, expect to lose your armor without any warning. I also haven't found a repair function, but at least you can carry up to five weapons equipped at a time.
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Deki posted:In dq builders, has anyone managed to kill the dragon? I tried to tunnel to him and attack but it failed hilariously. Unequip your weapon and use just your fist to dig a one-wide, two-deep path to him. Once you're directly under him, you can equip your weapon again, hold L1 and spam that triangle until dead. Try not to take out too much dirt once you start swinging, you can take out a couple blocks but too many and the dragon will flop down to your level and you can't get him out. I ended up having him body drill through five layers of dirt before I got it right.
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Oct 1, 2016 05:16
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Lakbay posted:you have to start from scratch at the beginning of each chapter In a way I'm glad. It's a nice change of pace from most building games.
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Oct 12, 2016 04:13
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I didn't get time to play DQB until yesterday evening. It's fun but it's taking a while for things to open up. I'm upset I can't change controls at all. I got stuck with one of Larouche's requests and couldn't figure it out for some time. He eventually asks you to upgrade the stonemason's workshop into a studio. However, if you're a clever builder like me, you'll have already figure out putting both the mason's bench and the smelter in the same room turns it into a different room type. Larouche was not updating his request because the smelter is present. Also, don't leave your town in dirt mode. I learned the hard way. Level 3 night mobs have those hammer guys. They break dirt blocks. There's quite a few little things that are missing from what I'd expect from a minecraft-like, but just about what you'd expect from a jrpg/DQ is all there.
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Oct 15, 2016 02:23
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Lorini posted:I found one and ran away immediately. You can still dig under it and kill it that way without taking damage. The rewards so far have been nice furniture so it's up to you if you really want them.
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Oct 16, 2016 00:11
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I have a question about chapter one. When you retrieve the evil idols, are you supposed to fight the mobs? Because that's what I did. I used the evil idols against them and had enough food/healing to survive, but I didn't get any prize for it. I eventually walked out and that's when the actual event ended, like that's what was supposed to happen. I did find the hidden magic boots and fireplace though.
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Oct 17, 2016 00:58
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RedRupee posted:That Hades Condor fight I had a feeling something was amiss so rather than build anything my first attempt, I just watched the bird do his mechanics. Yeah it's kinda cheating but I saved myself a whole lotta time, because I was ready to go full tilt making 3-4 ballista per wall. I just started chapter 3 and I've already got a muscle buddy yelling  during and after a fight.
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Oct 19, 2016 06:45
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Beat DQB. Never not use Bashmobile.
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I appreciate that Terra Incognita has a few puzzles in it and isn't just islands with extra resources. However I feel like maybe the game could use another chapter or two. Maybe I just burned through it too fast, I dunno. edit: RSZXRfbZS is my summon code if you want to see my recreation of the mage tower from Ultima Online. Freakazoid_ fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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If you can't find flowers, beat up blue slimes and drackys. They drop white and pink flower seeds, respectively.
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Free build does have random people and monsters join your town. They come and go, but you can favorite which ones you like and they'll stay. Monsters don't do anything in your base though.
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I appreciate how DQ sticks with using the same terrible midi keyboard for their music.
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Looking forward to Builders 2, even though it appears to be mostly the first game with a couple improvements.
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Aug 13, 2017 21:53
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Now I just need a release date for DQB2.
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Mar 29, 2018 01:52
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kirbysuperstar posted:Heard you wanted some DQB2 news: https://gematsu.com/2018/03/dragon-quest-builders-2-japanese-subtitle-protagonist-setting-revealed welp, time to grab an emulator and play DQ2.
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Mar 30, 2018 21:44
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I'm kind of a purist, so I have to give DQ2 on NES at least a chance.
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Finally beat XI, 146 hours. What a game.Professor of Cats posted:Woof. (Late post game) last luminary trial fight with the Jasper look alike...I'm around level 70 and getting my rear end handed to me. Any advice? Make 4 Catholicon rings +3 and put them on your preferred team, if you haven't already. I wish I had done that as soon as I got the recipe, would've saved me some headaches.
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When I did the roulette jackpot side quest, I didn't look for advice. I thought playing both black and red would cause it to happen, because a normal roulette table would have given it up at some point. 3 hours later, loving nothing. It was like the game was actively preventing me from gaming it that way. Then I looked it up, tried to do the npc trick but the key phrase never came up after an hour. Then I did the 12/14 split thing with different numbers, almost got jackpot twice in a row, then got the jackpot after half an hour. That's probably the worst side quest this game has offered. Not even the "hit the boss with the pep skill on the last hit" side quests are in the same ballpark. Not even the final wheel of harma gave me that much trouble. However I felt much better after winning the jackpot on a 100-coin slot machine. It just so happened with 7 free spins left to go in metal mode that also had 7 left to go, too.
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Nov 1, 2018 05:32
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I didn't know it was so close to release. Kinda glad the US release date hasn't been set, I've got hand surgery coming next month.
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Also the upgraded Trodian set isn't even competitive with the other end-game sets. Felt like I didn't get to wear the base set for long at all. Really they should've just gone full dress-up, making each armor piece change your appearance.
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Dec 25, 2018 00:19
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DQB2 lands in a pretty good spot, couple months after MK11 and a couple months before MW5, I'm excited
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Feb 14, 2019 02:50
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U-DO Burger posted:midi is good and orchestra is overrated imo
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May 7, 2019 01:05
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Hakkesshu posted:DQB 2 looks great but I keep hearing it's super grindy and worse than the first game in a lot of ways, has anyone here played it? I haven't heard anything. I didn't feel DQB was too grindy, so it would have to be a huge jump, like a minecraft mod tier grind before I consider not playing it.
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I've been avoiding this thread since DQB2's release, but now I think I'm close enough to the end that spoilers won't bother me. Question for island three: Do I get anything out of burying bodies? They don't seem to be a specific quest and while I did bury them, I put them just outside the castle to the side. Man I have so much to say about this game, I'm so conflicted because it does some things better than the first but some things worse and STILL no see-through roofs.
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Jul 28, 2019 02:01
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I'm an idiot who keeps thinking it's ok to build rooms and farmland much bigger than the limit. Like, it still boggles my mind that the game doesn't want you to build big. Right when I decided to get my farm planned out on my island, I sat there for over a minute wondering why my fenced in farmland with scarecrow wasn't ticking as an enormous farm plot and it was because it's too big. So now I just have a fence around ~7 scarecrows.
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Jul 28, 2019 22:04
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If the trowel were easier to use, I would seriously consider changing the brickwork of the pyramid into obsidian so that I can make the Luxor hotel and casino.
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Aug 1, 2019 02:39
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Pollyanna posted:Edit 2: now that I’ve finished the story, I really don’t have any interest in continuing to build. Oh well. It's sad that the only post-game content they can think of is an island where you grind for the rest of your builder's tools and free resources. Did none of them have any imagination what they could do with a bunch of npcs who need to find a settlement and
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Aug 2, 2019 09:35
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They let you break skelkatraz, but they made absolutely sure you couldn't break Malroth out of jail in moonbroke. It's not fair.
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It's disappointing that there's nothing hiding outside the main island in the isle of awakening. I flew the buggy buggy all the way around and there's a lot of just empty open ocean. However, I did find a hidden chapel to hargon. There's a cave west-south-west of the mountain peak under the water. I think you need the sledgehammer to break apart the iron bars, but inside is a bunch of citadel themed pieces and a hidden room with more citadel pieces in it. Good spot to get the build a room in a low location goal. Also, if you decide to explore under the water deep in the ocean, there is a bare ocean floor but it goes completely dark. There's a hidden monster out there too. It's a merman. But he hits pretty hard! I'm kinda curious because with end game gear it seems beatable, the only major drawback is that it's in the water. I might try experimenting with an arena, since I can drag it from the deep ocean to the shore.
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It's funny that Brownbeard's reasoning is that his ship can't handle that kind of cargo... until you beat the island. Then you can carry as much back and forth as you like. And also it's fine hauling back all that stuff you found on the side islands pretty much anytime. It's like they still wanted to do the thing they did in the first game and struggled to find an acceptable reason but couldn't, so they said gently caress it and rolled with it anyway.
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Blaine the Train posted:Speaking of which....what's a good way to keep the ghosts from killing all your chickens? two block high fences with light sources all around with at least two close to the gate door. or build a ward of erdrick and place it somewhere in the zone.
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Aug 17, 2019 02:38
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Inuyasha and Kagome never high-fived. Also they got married in the end iirc. Malroth has pure friendship feelings and wants nothing to do with marriage.
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Aug 30, 2019 18:09
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Speaking of maps that aren't round, DQB2's isle of awakening has a lot of extra sea water around it, but it doesn't seem to serve any purpose. There's no extra islands or huge sea monsters roaming around, it's just empty ocean.
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Oct 10, 2019 20:16
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A lot of problems in DQXI can be solved using that.
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Oct 14, 2019 23:06
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How modable will DQB2 be? Are we just talking custom blocks and gear, or maybe gameplay/mechanical changes? Because this game could really use some more combat variety.
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It's a huge shame, they're so close to nailing a city management game and with a couple more iterations they could even shoot for a dwarf fortress kind of game. However I don't think the developers are even trying to make that kind of game. It's frustrating once the main story is over.
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Agent355 posted:Minor complaint about builders 2. That's correct, you need a better hammer which you learn to make in the second chapter. Also, you won't really get to mess around in peace until you can make wards of erdrick. It's not a well thought out system.
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Mordiceius posted:So I picked up DQ11 on PS4 when it was on sale last year, played through the first hours and only go to where you use the keystone to step through the dimension door, just before Hotto. It was fine, though I found myself not super hooked by it. Life stuff got in the way so I ended up never getting back to it. Finally, I picked it up again and have just been playing just a little bit here or there. I just got to Gondolia. Like others have said, you don't have to grind... but if you just happen to be out in the world and you run into some metal slimes, I found that if you run around the area for a few minutes you'll have multiple encounters. If you can punk even one per battle that's about one level per fight at your level. I had some good luck in multiple locations where I'd get one every other fight for around a dozen fights.
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Not interested in playing through DQ11 again. It's a good game but it's not worth playing through more than once. Now DQB2, that deserved more content. I need an excuse to keep playing that.
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