Dragon Quest XI: The Return of the (Truly) Traditional JRPG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- For many of us, Dragon Quest -- or Dragon Warrior, as we once knew it -- was our very first taste of a genre we'd come to love. But mainline releases in the popular JRPG franchise are few and far between, making the upcoming release of Dragon Quest XI in the west so special. Not since PS2's Dragon Quest VIII, which launched outside of Japan in 2005, have we received a traditional console iteration, and it's been eight years since we even had a western entrant in the series at all. So let's take a look at a small slice of DQXI about 13 hours into the 100+ hour adventure, and show you what the combat, the menus, and the systems are all about.
All footage was captured by CLS on a PlayStation 4 (1080p60).
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Love how informative Colin goes with his Let’s Plays! Keep up the great work
Best and the least Let's Plays around! Agree with this comment.
Started playing it 3 days ago... so now I'm not leaving my apartment anymore! 🤣😅 It's so comfortable to play an old school jrpg again, it feels like finally coming home!
JRP Colin is a great Colin!
Very good first impressions review (since you only played 14 hrs). Better than most reviews because this is how a new game should be presented. Showing the mechanics of the games, instead of hyping up the game and showing unrelated footage.
Colour me impressed.👍🏼
Thank you Collin. I’m so excited for this game!!!
You would think Colins commentary on his Let's Play makes it sound like he developed the game. Developer should just hire Colin to do their lets plays I'd rather hear him then let some PR guy bs me.
Awesome video, Colin! You're an inspiration, and I always look forward to your content every week.
YESSSSSS... Oh my good god, YES. :)
Great video. Thank you for the in depth first look into Dragon Quest XI. It will indeed be my first Dragon Quest ever, and I'm super excited to dive in!
A masterpiece have finished it. If you like quality rpgs then this is it.
Hey colin you are the best!
A suggestion would be to name these kinds of videos a "let's look at" instead of "let's play". Being that this is more of an introduction and mini review for the game rather than a playthrough. I'd like to see you do this for more games! That way yu ou dont have to do a full on review for every game you play but you could still give us your opinions on the games. Keep up the stellar work!
Colin M doing a let's play of my most anticipated game of the year? I hit that like button with a quickness.
God I love these lets plays, it’s rare to hear anyone explain and analyse a game in such an intelligent and articulate way, incredible stuff as always Colin :)
Aaaand subscribed. This is the amount of brain, game knowledge and sense I want from the games media I consume.
Great game. Cant wait to play it! You're a natural at the let's plays Colin. Keep em comin.
Colin, thank you for being you. The gaming industry wouldn't be the same without you and your insight. I honestly have never played a Dragon Quest game. It looks very interesting though. I truly mean when I say that your genuine heart and personal take on life and gaming helps me stay true to who I am. I appreciate your time and work for all of us. Thank you Colin. "Keep On Gaming" -CM
5:00 I kindly disagree, Colin. I can't stand random battles in any JRPG; they feel like an interruption. I vastly prefer seeing enemies and having the option to fight/avoid them, so that I'm in control of my exploration and XP levels. If devs insist on random battles, "Bravely Second" is the new industry standard for me. Players have full control of the encounter rate, and can even chain battles together to make grinding optional.
Don't forget the FFWD option as well. Just brave everybody and watch the massacre ensue in super fast glory.
BD2's story is kind of "meh," but man, does it respect your time.
Honestly I understand the hate for random encounters, yet for me they add that dice roll which makes games like DQ so frustrating/challenging and interesting. Like beating a boss having about 1 hp and then all of a sudden you rolled an enemy tile and die. Its what makes great stories to tell friends etc.
When I was a teenager I used to turn my nose up at the common whining about random battles, but now I almost instinctively groan every time one initiates. The fact that you can run away from them effectively leaves you with the same choice as non-random battles, except with added tedium via loading screens.
@Dfwmbistg - Yeah I can see that. I guess one guy's story-worthy situation is another man's frustrating situation.
Just start playing this for the first time ever and it’s really good game loving the battles.
Thank you for this Colin
Colin, I had no intention of buying this until you showed it off. It looks like a ton of fun and I love seeing Toriyama's designs come to life
God bless Dragon Quest.
Looks like we tied for first ;) :)
Really do appreciate how informative you get with your lets plays.. Also very considerate with the story aspect, awesome that you are creating game related content, long time fan colin keep it up \m/
Great impressions Colin. I wasn't going to check this out, but I think I will after watching this.
Can't wait for this game to come out! Been a DQ fan since the early 90s.
This game looks great. Gonna be first in line to buy it
I really liked the way you went gameplay and the menus and explained everything. This game will be a release day purchase for me, especially after watching your video. Looks great!
Thanks Colin, this has absolutely been the most helpful video I've seen with regards to actually explaining the gameplay, menus, etc.
I really enjoyed this. It felt like a genuine conversation i've felt kinda jaded with recent game reviews everything feels too robotic while this feels genuine. I'm interested in this game now because of this video. Well done Colin.
Newest DQ release on my birthday? Yes please! Keep up the awesome work, Colin!
I consider the Persona series the best traditional jrpg series but I just like the modern setting.
persona is da best
Lol
Try Dragon Quest. It's super fun. A new Dragon Quest is like 4 new seasons of your favorite comfy anime.
You had me at Turn Based.
The only thing I dislike about JRPGs is the fact that the gear never affects character models. I love to have visual progress, if I find a cool helmet, I want to see it on the character, not just an icon in the menu. Otherwise, looking great. Recently started playing Tales series and love it, this will be next on the list.
Been lookin' for Colin, subscribed.
Forgive me if this was covered, but is there a way to wander around while looking like the armour you have equipped? How come he's always in that pink/purple robe type thing and never displaying that awesome set of iron armour? Thank Colin, Awesome Vid!
I had a rule in my house to where no one could play any Dragon Quest game tell my mum beat the game im the reason the rule was in place cause i beat Dragon Quest 2 before her all in one night and she was near the end so yeah my family is huge fan of Dragon Quest
That's awesome.
I'm so happy that you got this game Colin! :) Been waiting for the NDA to break!!! Dragon Warrior baby!
Would you suggest this to a someone who is new to jrpg’s in general? I’ve been looking for a game like this for a while, but haven’t really played many jrpg’s in the past.
There’s a setting where you can make the fights in the vein of 8. The characters are fixed. Really love that they added the function to let you choose. Feels like a classic jrpg
Hey Collin. This is completely unrelated to Dragon Quest XI, but thank you. Thank you for everything you do: for inspiring me and others with the success CLS and everything before, for protecting the importance of real conversations and free speech, and most of all for being you. You’re a brilliant dude, seriously - you really are. I know that people try to beat you down and want you to lose (I just listened to fireside chats EP 50) but for every hater there’s someone like me who is constantly inspired by you and appreciative of you. Keep up the amazing work, and try your best to give yourself a break every now and then because you deserve it. I hope that I can build something like you’ve built cls. Thank you for inspiring that dream.
I platinumed this game. Played it for about 150 hours. This is my favourite game in almost 20 years.
Thanks for showing a taste of the game Colin. I think this looks like a lot of fun.
I'm glad you are playing this game Colin, was waiting for someone who played the franchise to give us a take.
On field enemies started in Dragon Quest VIII. Except on the ocean, that was still random battles. I also don't mind random battles, but a lot of people tend to hate them.
colin the game looks wonderful i started the series later last year and have been looking forward to this game well done video ☺🖒
Perfect title. NNK proved that it could be done this gen without changing up what we live about jrpgs. NNK2 is good, and much better now that they added a difficulty level, but this game looks unbelievable!!!!
It oozes atmosphere!!!! And it’s what I wanted from FF and others. So glad to have this. Played DQ8 in PS3 and it’s one of my fondest memories. Can’t wait!!!!!!!!
I got my JRPG 100+ game earlier this year: Ni no Kuni 2 Revenant Kingdom. Ghibli
Ghibli wasnt involved with the sequel
@@ragnaruq but people working at/assosiated with Ghibli worked on the sequel. Like, Joe Hisaishi scored the game and a character designer from Ghibli did a ton of art. Just look at the art style. Screams Studio Ghibli.
@Bodie Broadus oh, i kinda enjoyed the over-world map. Dencently stylized, but too janky and limited for a 100 hour experience.
This destroys nino
Its a toss up. Ghibli art is amazing, but so is Akira Toriyama.
So hyped for this game. Been waiting for it since it got announced back in 2015. I wonder if the game will actually be 100 hours. People always say that about DQ games but even 8 only took me like 61 or so hours to beat the main story. Not a big fan of side quests personally.
The only game that has natively taken me 100+ hours to beat the main story was..... Persona 5. Get on it Colin. Also great video.
Always have to factor in that dev math, yeah. Specifying all the content in those estimates always makes your game sound beefier.
Yeah dev math is always misleading in that regard. But people who play the games in general can also be really misleading about them too. Like I have had people tell me absurd things like FFX's main story took them 70-100 hours, or FF7 was a 70+ without sidequests. Are these people on drugs? Did they fall asleep with the game on? Games that are like 20-25 hours touted as 70+ hour games. DQ 8 heard people say it took them 200 hours for the main story a few times. zzz. So much misinformation.
It's that Akira Toriyama artwork. Always cool and unique environments and monsters while the character models still have his trademark designs that made him famous with Dragon Ball!
Dragon Quest is a jrpg series I've always wanted to jump into but just never got around to playing (so many great jrpgs, so lil time). Thanks for showing this off Colin, I think this may be my jumping on point into the franchise. I'll wait for the Switch version though, as I'm not in any rush to play it.
Did u ever finish playing Colin ? What did u think ? I’m 84 hours in and still not finished lol but it’s dope man i love these games
Can we get a final review? Seeing as how later in the game many things change and many things you mention here as pros or cons change and evolve.
No random encounters: This is a godsend. That was the absolutely worst thing about Dragon Quest 8. Every 5 steps you were being harassed by mobs and possibly murdered.
No it wasn't.
Jessica can dispell the random encouters for a short amount of time and for little mp cost
A "short" amount of time, so yes, it was. Having to cast a spell to avoid them over and over doesn't make it tolerable. People who defend random encounters need to go randomly walk into traffic.
I personally love the art style, perfect for JRPG's like Ni No Kuni 2
If anyone plays this on PC, I can't recommend enough the orchestral soundtrack mod. look it up. really improves the ingame music by replacing the MIDI files with the Orchestral Track
man, so great to hear a colin deep take on a game i'm so looking forward to, Thanks!!
Based on the aesthetic alone I'm sold.
I think I good compromise for the roaming monsters vs random battles would be that the monsters can easily chase you down until you become a certain number of levels above their level, at which point you can easily run around them
i think the ambient occlusion helps on the character models to makr them pop out.
THIS is a TRUE next gen traditional JRPG! So amazing!!! I literally can’t wait! Though it’s gonna take me about a year to finish lol!
how does the game compare to the hero's series? those games felt almost like a DQ game, but not quite what i want. will this game be the DQ game weve been waiting for?
this series passed me by somehow I always thought they kind of looked dumb but for some reason I am really starting to like them I'm Still A Dragon Quest virgin but I do have Dragon Quest 8 in the mail to me right now for my 3DS which I am planning to play at work during lunch and break and before bed. I can't wait to play the other old 90s RPGs, I was born in 89 so I was really young when all the cool little sprite RPGs came out on the Super Nintendo. even a link to the past was too advanced for me as a little five year old.
Hey Colin. Love you bro.
Damn, this is coming out soon and I still need to Finish Xenoblade!
Great way to start an early morning on the way to work.
Playing now
I’ve never played a Dragon Quest game. Is 11 a good one to first try out?
Excellent video thanks Colin
I don't care much for DQ but this video format is AWESOME
Good stuff Colin! Great review!
Dragon Warrior 4 (NES US release, so it's always "warrior" to me) is the game most responsible for me being a gamer today, i spend hundreds of hours playing through those 5 chapters many times on the NES. This is my most hyped game in a long time, cant wait for DQ 11.
Why doesn't anyone record gameplay with the cinematic camera?
I put almost 300 hours into this game. It was amazing. Did you ever finish it Colin?
The art direction is unbelievable in this.
How much space does it occupy in the console?
about side quest and map i think you need to play more you will find out what you worry about and how long and how big this game is
I have like 4 RPGs that I still want to play, and i have NO time. I keep buying them, and not getting to any of them. >,
They've definitely switched dragon quest to visible enemies since 9. When they remade 7 and 8, both of those had visible enemies as well. Some have definitely argued that you end up fighting more enemies with visible enemies than with random battles because there's often choke points that force you to fight the enemies there.
Looks good!
I'm just glad the battles aren't first-person.
I like these style of videos, Colin. Reminds me of Total Biscuit's WTF is
Wdym "certainly not the most beautiful" bro I can't think of any game of this genre this good looking.
And I'm talking in terms of turn based games.
Is there a video yet where someone checks out the Misc. in the menu? I want to see if battle records/Bestiary is in this game :)
MY PRECIOUSSSS!!!!
Are there metal slime hunts areas
Hey Colin! Does this play like the 2nd Nino kuni??
Splatypunks are adorable.
Colin's Last Stand: Side Quest? I didn't know this chanel, I'm a fan of Colin since the review of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch ;)
I was always a Final Fantasy boy, admittedly my first DW/Q game was Builders. Man do I love Toriyama's art style though.
That smithing system is really cool.
Between this, Spider-Man and Shadow Of The Tomb Raider this month.. I’m fucked. Same with next month and Jan-March of next year..
Pure gaming bliss
DQ9 definitely had a deep quest system, but they kind of expected you to play that for hundreds of hours.
Anyone have any input on which game has more interesting towns bewtween this game and ni no kuni 2?
I cannot fucking wait .... like seriously it hurts that it’s so close but still so far away lol
I’ve never played Dragon Quest, but I’m looking forward to getting 11
Dragon Quest 11 looks really enjoyable.
I really want to play this but I think I’m going to wait for the Switch version. I seem to have an easier time completing these large JRPGs on handheld. With Spider-Man, Tomb Raider, and RDR2 on deck, there’s just not enough time for some of these awesome games. Cheers Colin!
I like the tactics thing
I play a lot of Tales games so it's cool to see that system used more often
Looks good. I still have to play Tales of Beseria and Nino Kuni 2! Too many fun niche games!
Friends, I never played any Dragon Quest game. I always feel a bit overwhelmed when I look at a big franchise like this one, I never know where to begin, and sometimes I end up not playing them at all. But I love jrpgs, and this game looks perfect for me. Do you think it's OK starting with this one not having played any of the previous games?
I'm pretty sure none of the stories relates with each other. It's kinda like how the Final Fantasy series is structured.
Thank you for the answers guys! I'll definitely be trying this in the near future.
@@aun1426 1 thru 3 are related
You can raise the difficulty with draconian mode.
Is there a character creation?
Cause every video I've seen has the same player character
I'll definitely play this but I can't decide if I want to play it now on PS4 or wait for Switch. I always prefer JRPGs on handhelds, but... I don't wanna wait.
Could buy it physical for PS4 then trade it in when it becomes available on the Switch and replay the whole game :D
@@JamesNaden By the time the Switch version comes out that PS4 copy probably won't be worth much lol
probablysanny It will probably still be worth a decent amount. JRPG's seem to hold their value a bit better than more mainstream titles.