The Final Verdict On Dragon Quest XI
The Final Verdict On Dragon Quest XI
In this excerpt from The Game Informer Show podcast, Ben Hanson, Kimberley Wallace, and Andrew Reiner talk about Square-Enix’s Dragon Quest XI on the PS4 and PC and how it compares to other JRPGs out now. Subscribe to Game Informer’s podcast here – https://bit.ly/2iN5T5i
October 20, 2018 @ 8:44 pm
So the game almost broke her, she spent over 100 hours into it AND she’s staying up till 8 AM but she gives it an 8.25? I don’t understand. I get that anything over an 8 is pretty good but what are the games she’s playing that she scores over a 9?
October 20, 2018 @ 8:45 pm
It’s natural the people watching this video and giving all the thumbs downs are hardcore dragon quest fans. How DARE they give this masterpiece anything less than a 9.5!!! GRRRRR NERD RAGE.
Except for the fact they already are STRONGLY recommending this game for hardcore dragon quest fans… YOU WILL ENJOY IT FOR SURE. THEY ADMIT THIS.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:45 pm
"It’s not classic anymore, it’s archaic." Something gamers (and developers) need to take to heart.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:46 pm
Spoilers galore! Beware watching this. She even talks about the ending constantly.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:46 pm
This review leaves out important information and focuses too much on personal nitpicks. No attempt to seem objective was even made.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:49 pm
God she’s a bad reviewer. 1) It should not take this long to explain why it got the score it did. The grating voice doesn’t help. 2) All the criticisms don’t match up with the score. It seems like it should have scored lower but your fangirlism for DQ let you give it a free pass.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:50 pm
I totally disagree about save points in front of bosses. games where being killed by a boss does nothing but restart the battle to try again irk me so much. I like bosses to not only be challenging, but also have a stiff punishment for death. either losing money, or time or something.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:52 pm
8.25?! Come onnnnnnnn.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:53 pm
This game is so fucking infuriating. You go to a town and you see what you need, you are about to get it, but then you have to do a stupid quest for NO reason even tho you need to save the world, and you finish the quest, then 2 seconds later, rinse and repeat. And you better not stray off the path, there is nothing to do and it’s a waste of time.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:53 pm
I highly recommend Colin’s Side Quest review, as well as the Kotaku review.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:55 pm
F**k modern changes! Updated graphics and menus are fine. But classic games must keep the classic gameplay elements which made the games great initially. Look at final fantasy series. They ditched turn based combat for real time combat to appeal to newer generation and FAILED badly!
Look at Persona 5. It didn’t ditch "slower" turn based combat for "modern" real time combat and is considered to be one of the best RPG games of all time.
Bottomline: A little polish is good, but KEEP the classic core gameplay which is heart and soul of the series.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:56 pm
bitch doesn’t know what she’s talking about
October 20, 2018 @ 8:57 pm
Its not just nods to the series past. The story actually ties into the original trilogy of games.
October 20, 2018 @ 8:57 pm
Don’t know wtf they r talking about
October 20, 2018 @ 8:57 pm
Her voice is annoying
October 20, 2018 @ 8:58 pm
thankyou dragon quest 11 for sticking to what we love. im sooooo tired of rpgs switching to this live action bull shit. im so glad they used dq8 formula been waiting a long time for this!!!!!
I wish this lady would quit sounding like all the other millinials its not new enough, they didn’t innovate enough, persona did this and did that…. shut the fuck up… we want a true dragon quest game not some reimagined new and improved crap. The games graphics are upgraded to current gen with a new engine and it looks amazing. 100 hours of gameplay along with the formula true fans want.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
It’s an overall strange discussion in that it sounds like you guys are talking about a 5/10 sort of game, if you just sat and heard this without knowing the score.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
DRAGON QUEST = CLASSIC OVER INNOVATION
October 20, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
Every city in ni no kuni 2? There’s one…
October 20, 2018 @ 9:06 pm
gr8 b8 m8
October 20, 2018 @ 9:06 pm
Basket in a river is also the story of Moses
October 20, 2018 @ 9:10 pm
This whiny bitch doesn’t know how to Dragon Quest. Fucking cunt must be on her rag.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:11 pm
My very first rpg that I played was dragon warrior 1 & 2 on the NES. That’s what got me into rpg’s til this day. I don’t care what this chick says I put my pre-order in can’t wait
October 20, 2018 @ 9:11 pm
Heart breaks knowing the superior-looking 3ds version will never reach the west
October 20, 2018 @ 9:13 pm
So what’s innovation? just open world?
October 20, 2018 @ 9:14 pm
No one gives a shit that you thumbs-downed the video.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:14 pm
I had to laugh at the final fantasy 10 progress comment, that wasn’t even a game , it was a movie with a few Command options added.To this day it might be the biggest pile of dog shit I’ve ever played, give me the dated final fantasy 4 any day.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:15 pm
This game is for people born in the 80s and 90s lol. I dont think teens today will like this game.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:17 pm
I don’t think this needed 20 mins to tell us why she gave it a 8.25.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:18 pm
who are these people and what am i doing here
October 20, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
This is one of the worst reviews I’ve ever seen. What a bunch of idiots.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
Once I heard her say this game is a 8.25 I immediately took what she said with a grain of salt
October 20, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
I disagree with the ‘save anywhere’ idea. Not that kinda game.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:24 pm
No review/discussion of any Dragon Quest will ever be the same without Tim Rogers’ involvement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTbUGItU0s
October 20, 2018 @ 9:25 pm
Some of the comments bellow are cancerous. She’s just doing her job and stating an opinion. No need to attack her.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:26 pm
WTF is this? A review? Or a bunch of nerds babbling about non-sense??? wtf
October 20, 2018 @ 9:27 pm
Her voice is so annoying…
October 20, 2018 @ 9:29 pm
09:50 OMG is that Mass effect harbinger reference?!?!
October 20, 2018 @ 9:29 pm
Gamers are so fu..ing spoiled. Awww the music isn’t orchestrated, the game is too easy but I can’t save anywhere. The only thing that matters about games is. IS THE GAME FUN? Everything else is just stupid nitpicking.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:32 pm
I already beat this in Japanese. Personal favourite after Breath of the wild last year. So glad they didn’t change everything just to please the west the way FF did. I never beat F15. While it looked great I didn’t enjoy the gameplay too much and I felt that the cars and gas stations just looked dumb. I really wanted to love it too. Some of the bosses were awesome. But I want FF to be more classic next time. It could look modern but the characters and setting should be more like 9. And I want to control all my characters at once. Less running around like a chicken. Save that for Kingdom Hearts.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:32 pm
Octopath Traveller’s characters interact with each other! I don’t understand why I keep hearing people say they don’t.
October 20, 2018 @ 9:36 pm
Hex-ag-uh-null
October 20, 2018 @ 9:37 pm
I’ve been loving DQ XI so far and I kind of wish this was the direction Squeenix went with FF XV: traditional turn-based battles with an emphasis on strategy rather than "hold down the attack button and block occasionally."
October 20, 2018 @ 9:40 pm
after 100 hour play time of new content you are pissed of repeated dungeons in the post game ? this just stupid
October 20, 2018 @ 9:40 pm
Rates the game 8.25… goes on discussing how she can’t stop playing it till 8am. Lol nuff said ?
October 20, 2018 @ 9:41 pm
What a shitty review, lol
October 20, 2018 @ 9:41 pm
Nice try Game Informer, but we aren’t fooled by your BS review and babble here. We know the game is fantastic with very few if any issues at all whatsoever, it’s a fine game and everything in it is as it should be: it’s the pinnacle of the JRPG genre (turn based) and we know it. Too bad you guys are too dumb to know it!
October 20, 2018 @ 9:42 pm
Never change dq screw what anyone says
October 20, 2018 @ 9:43 pm
day one buy
October 20, 2018 @ 9:43 pm
Comments are cancer here. Listen fanboys, dragon quest is outdated and behind series like persona. Western audience will always prefer series like final fantasy and persona over dq. Persona is a 9 and dragon quest is an 8 get over it. Sad seeing dogpiling over an 8.25 which makes sense like who wants to do the same dungeon 5 to 6 times?