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FishLion
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I always knew that Dragon Quest was really innovative for its interaction methods, but I had never considered the fact that it's contemporaries were built for keyboards and that's part of why it's seamless (relatively at the time) control scheme was so important to game design history.
The more you know! That's why this feature is probably the recurring one I read the most, even being a game nerd I usually learn a few things, so thanks for all the effort you put into this column.
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AiddonValentine
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 2:33 pm |
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RPGs in the eighties were pretty obtuse so Dragon Quest streamlining things basically made it to someone other than hardcore nerds could play it. Heck, a lot of CRPGs well into the 00s insisted on being as complex as possible, forgetting complexity doesn't equal depth.
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Joe Mello
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2025 3:07 pm |
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Dragon Quest also begat* what Apple TV is apparently calling The Brave "Yoshihiko" and Great Satan's Castle aka that one live-action parody show that asks"What if Dragon Quest but Monty Python," and the show I have always presumed gave the oft-footnoted Blade Licking Thieves Podcast its name. (If it wasn't it should've been)
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FinalVentCard
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2025 3:46 pm |
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| Joe Mello wrote: | | Dragon Quest also begat* what Apple TV is apparently calling The Brave "Yoshihiko" and Great Satan's Castle aka that one live-action parody show that asks"What if Dragon Quest but Monty Python," and the show I have always presumed gave the oft-footnoted Blade Licking Thieves Podcast its name. (If it wasn't it should've been) |
The funny thing about Yoshihiko is that the hero in that show is modeled after Dragon Quest V's hero. The thing is, that's the player character--and he's not the hero who's supposed to defeat the overlord in his own game. His kids are. That's the big subversion in DQV: you're inheriting your father's quest to find the person worthy of wielding the Zenithian armor to save the world.
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FilthyCasual
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| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2025 5:14 pm |
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| Quote: | | (and now you know why men tend to have darker skin tones in eromanga: it's so they don't distract the reader). |
Also to make it easier to differentiate between them and the women.
Unfortunate issue for the LaDS players.
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