Do you prefer Dragon Quest's Battle System?

[Alucard von Elru]

See, I read that as "I love Dragon Quest for basically being the same game for 20+ years instead of taking even the slightest risk with the game design because they know people will buy it just because it's called Dragon Quest and has Akira Toriyama's name attached to it."

If it aint broke, call it a success and try to make something else that aint broke. That's the best possible attitude a game designer can have.

Thank you. Now I don't have to say it.

As for this particular style of combat, I don't enjoy its implementation in most things, but I think Earthbound nailed it and everything I've read about Mother 3's enhancements to the style really sounds interesting.

[Bolivar]

Not at all, but I enjoy the Dragon Quest series tremendously.

Final Fantasy XII was a great game but I seriously want to tell Square-Enix:

"Don't you ever pull sh*t like this again."

The battle system was interesting when I played the demos, but anyone who's ever played an MMORPG will tell you it's nothing new, and all throughout the demo I questioned how they could possibly make the boss battles as dramatic as in previous games, and the answer I got is that they didn't. I'm in no way bashing the game, it's just frustrating waiting all those years for the next installment in Final Fantasy, when all we got was merely a very high quality RPG.

On topic, what I'm trying to say is, Enix delivers, and you can count on them to give you that experience when you purchase a game. Final Fantasy, for all of its innovation, lost a step when it tried so hard to be something it can never be - a western RPG. Don't get me wrong, they're fun games, but I would never rank a western RPG anywhere near a DQ or FF.

[Crossblades]

I dont really prefer DQ's battle system, but I find it very tolerable to not let it bother me