#dragon quest iii hd2d remake

[liquidmetalslime]

There they are 😍

[chase-omega]

Take this quiz to see which Dragon Quest class you are. Based on your results you get profile pics, wallpapers, Twitter banners and YouTube banners.

[yumalianinja]

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I ate turkey and I got the Dragon Quest 3 Remake! This game is so beautiful!

[uniguinflutist]

ERDRICK IS THE REAL TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR

[agnol117]

just did the first new boss fight in Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and honestly i didn't like it?

like, this is probably my "old woman yells at cloud" moment, but it really hurt the worldbuilding and overall vibe of the game for me. Dragon Quest III had a great vibe going on: Baramos, like the Dragonlord before him, had already won. there weren't a lot of boss fights, because there didn't need to be. why bother? Baramos doesn't think anyone can stand against him. the last hero that tried failed. adding boss fights cheapens that a little, i think.

don't get me wrong: Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is a great game. despite my slow pace, i'm really enjoying it (i was procrastinating the pyramid, it's my least favorite part). it just can't help but feel like this particular change was made because they felt like video games need boss fights in some way, rather than to actually improve the experience.

[meimikana]

Meimiday 2025 Wall of Awesome

AROUND AND AROUND WE GO!!!

January 28th is my birthday, dubbed Meimiday several years ago by my friends (I think it was hojo who started it). For those years, I would spend all day watching streams from said friends playing games for my birthday entertainment. Over a decade ago, however, when asked what I’d like to see I kinda just went “Why don’t you just beat some games?” and so the festivities truly began. Most of us frequent the Backloggery, so it’s kinda easy to see why it has snowballed~

IT'S GO TIME!!! LET'S PLAY SOME GAMES!!!

AstraeFeres :B: Tales of Vesperia

Hojo :B: Trials of Mana :C: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest :C: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble :B: Tuff E Nuff :C: Picross S: GENESIS & Master System edition :C: Picross S4 :B: Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle He also complete the ARR fishing stuff in FFXIV to remind me what suffering is.

Cephiyumi :B: Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus :B: Sonic X Shadow Generations :B: Harmony's Odyssey :B: River City Girls 2 :B: THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake :B: BATSUGUN Saturn Tribute Boosted :B: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom :B: Princess Peach: Showtime! :B: YOHANE THE PARHELION -BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE- :B: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

Neko :B: Metaphor: ReFantazio

Endaso :B: Mouthwashing :C: Darkest Fear: Grim Oak :B: Gylt

Drumble :C: Mario Is Missing :C: Gekirindan :C: Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania

Sobou :B: River City Girls :B: Palworld (co-op with bnuuy)

ShadowStarEXE :B: River City Girls (co-op with burr) :B: Palworld (Feybreak Island boss defeated)

Valkoor :B: Axiom Verge :C: Treasure Planet :C: & :M: Super Mario Sunshine :C: Gravity Rush :B: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty :B: The Legend of Zelda

FireEmblemLord :B: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

mrdots :C: Mortal Kombat Gold :C: Cruis'n World :C: Philosoma

Macc :B: Stretchmo - Mallow's Plaza (3DS) :B: Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge (3DS) :C: Super DX-Ball (PC)

John :B: Metroid Dread :C: The Final Fantasy Legend :B: Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 2

Slythex :C: Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate :C: Metroid Fusion :B: Astro’s Playroom

PaperLink :B: Visions of Mana

Moomba :B: Kirby's Star Stacker :C: Doom 3: VR Edition :B: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

eski514 :B: Super Mario Bros. 2 :B: Wargroove :B: STREET FIGHTER II' CHAMPION EDITION :B: Newtonian Inversion :B: Castle Break

Pally :B: & :C: Astro's Playroom

Wude :B: Ninja Gaiden II Black

spagetiii :B: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge :B: Thank Goodness You're Here

Krile :B: Dragon Quest III HD2D Remake :B: Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Lyndis :B: Smushi Come Home

Lottie :B: Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Honorable Mention: Hojo :B: Little Samson

Honorable Mention: Drumble :B: Valfaris

Honorable Mention: Geminias :C: Metaphor: ReFantazio

[transgenderization]

you mentioned a Dragon Quest recently (or maybe months ago idk my memory is bad) how many have you played what's your favorite. I'm going through them sequentially btw (technically the remakes mostly, I'm currently on VI on DS)

I know you don't need to play them in order but I have ocd and autism and I do actually have to

(I started with III on GBC as a kid but that was a very long time ago, I only finished on Switch and want to get the HD2D remake eventually since I liked III a lot)

anyway hopefully this is not annoying you

pets you i like dragon quest 9 the most. i want to steal the dq3 2dhd remake at somepoiny roxy doesnt pay for videogames

[garactor-zuckerberg]

Yesterday, the release date for Dragon Quest III was announced. I knew from the first video that the visuals and sound were very clear, but when I casually looked at the official website, I saw that it said "Audio: English, Japanese"! 👀 I wonder where the voices are? I'm looking forward to it ✨

Dragon Quest III HD2D Remake | SQUARE ENIX Store (square-enix-games.com)

昨日、発売日が発表された『ドラゴンクエストIII　そして伝説へ…』 映像と音がすごくきれいになってるのは、初報の映像が出た時から分かってたけど 何気に公式サイトを見たら『◆ボイス：日本語/英語』って表記がある！👀 どこにボイスがつくんやろう？楽しみ✨

ドラゴンクエストIII　そして伝説へ… | SQUARE ENIX (dragonquest.jp)

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DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D REMAKE: Entérate de su Éxito Impresionante

DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D REMAKE supera 2M de copias con su combinación de nostalgia y novedades que conquistan a fans nuevos y veteranos. Disponible en plataformas principales. #DragonQuest #RPG #HD2D

DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D REMAKE celebra a sus fanáticos Un remake que respeta la nostalgiaNovedades que enriquecen la experienciaUn RPG para todos los públicos DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D REMAKE se ha convertido en un fenómeno global tras superar los 2 millones de copias distribuidas y descargas digitales en sus primeras semanas de lanzamiento. Este remake, desarrollado por Square Enix®, ha sido…

[liquidmetalslime]

Dragon Quest III HD2D Remake has sold over 2 million copies worldwide as of December 5th!

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DRAGON QUEST 3 HD-2D REMAKE IS CONFIRMED TO BE VERIFIED FOR STEAM DECK COMPATIBILITY!

[gplayr]

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake shipments and digital sales top two million Total worldwide shipments and digital sales for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake have surpassed two million units, Square Enix announced. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake launched for PlayStation 5, Xbox Se... https://blog.gplayr.com/dragon-quest-iii-hd-2d-remake-shipments-and-digital-sales-top-two-million/ #ArtdinkCorporation #DragonQuest #DragonQuestseries #DragonQuestIIIHD2DRemake #HD2D #JRPG #Nintendo #PC #PlayStation #PS5 #RPG #Sales #SquareEnix #Switch #TurnBasedRPG #Xbox #XboxSeries

[samuelhowitt]

Go Make Some Friends - Dragon Quest II and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

This article contains major spoilers for Dragon Quest III. With the recent release of Dragon Quest III HD2D Remake, I felt as though I had to be caught up. In recent years I had only played the original Dragon Quest (I have played otherss but that was a long time ago). While there are remakes of the first two arriving next year, it didn’t feel right to jump from one to three. Regardless of its…

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Dragon Quest III: HD-2D should be the blueprint for pixel-JRPG remakes

Note: The following is from my personal website https://vidyathoughts.com/.

Time for a bit of an embarrassing confession. I don’t have a lot of experience with Dragon Quest. Despite having this website dedicated mostly to old-school turn-based Japanese RPGs, I had only beaten two titles from the old-school turn-based Japanese RPG franchise. Those two games are DQ VIII and XI. I’m an outsider, a tourist in an unfamiliar land.

When it was announced several years ago that Dragon Quest 3 would be receiving the HD-2D treatment, I was pretty excited for an excuse to play a certified classic. DQ3 has quite a reputation, it’s almost like a Final Fantasy VI where people from all walks of life who are into all sorts of different game genres have an affinity for it. It’s a special title. And it was time to try it for myself.

As a first-time player in 2024, my takeaways are probably pretty common. “This game has a pretty barebones story, the battle system is pretty simplistic, the difficulty can be a little unfair at times and there is an expectation for grinding.” In short, it feels old. It feels like a game from a bygone era. I wouldn’t expect to pick up Dragon Quest XII and have it feel like this game.

Does that sound negative? Because it’s not. That is exactly what they should have done with this title. By keeping all of the dated elements, this feels like a title true to its roots. It feels like I got to play Dragon Quest III like people back in 1989 got to play Dragon Quest III. The sense of discovery, the difficulty, all of that stuff is still there. It just depends on how the player wants to interact with it.

I spent a lot of time looking at the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on this site. In the very first one, I made a note about how it’s imperative that players at least try out the original NES version of the game. The ‘aged’ mechanics are what gives that game an identity. Final Fantasy I wasn’t a game you beat for the story, it was a whole adventure about item conservation and discovery.

The Pixel Remasters sanded off a lot of edges to the old school experience. There was a lot less grinding and it felt like a lot of battles that I remember being slightly unfair, uh, weren’t. It felt like they were altering things so people who were into later entries of the franchise could boast ‘I have finished all the Final Fantasy games.’ And that’s fine, I think those are solid ways to experience the classics for people that just want an idea of what they were like.

But playing those games in 2024, it didn’t feel like I was teleported into the past. All of the changes to how the game feels are shoehorned into the game itself. I had never cleared any version of Final Fantasy III prior to writing my recap of the Pixel Remaster version and even then, something about it felt modern to me. I could see the soul of the original in what I was playing, but it would feel too ‘advanced’ if I were to somehow port it back in time.

DQIII HD2D doesn’t feel like this to me. Everything that I associate with old-school JRPGs is still there. That’s not to say they just prettied up the graphics and shipped it out, there’s definitely some QoL features implemented. You have difficulty modes, waypoints and autosaves for instance. If you don’t WANT that grindy experience, just turn on easy and go for more of a ‘point A to point B’ thing like you’d get out of a grindy JRPG.

Want to be lost for ages and rely solely on NPCs to figure out where to go? Want to experience the frustration of walking through a dungeon only to get blasted by the final boss and lose all your progress? You can do that because the game gives you multiple options on how you can play. You can turn off waypoints, you can go for an immediate rematch after losing, you can reload an autosave, you can respawn at a church and lose half of your money or you can just reload the last save you made. It’s a more customized experience, but you can basically fine-tune your immersion. How much do you WANT this to feel like an old ass game?

This feeling extends over to the boss battles. While the combat system feels very simple, the bosses are an endurance test that really make the player think about each and every action. Should I take a turn off of my offense to buff everyone up? I think I have maybe one or two turns left alive, if I go all-out on offense now, can I win? Every major boss encounter after a certain point feels like a major trial of what you’ve learned to that point. It never feels like ‘well here’s a boss because there’s supposed to be a boss at the end of a dungeon.’ That’s impressive.

And I will be straight up with you, some of these bosses are unfair. King Hydra, one of the final bosses in the game, is straight up bullshit. It has three actions per turn in combat and can often disable your party (via sleep or fear), which prevents them from acting or healing for prolonged periods of time. You can equip accessories to ward off things like sleep, but it’s not like a modern game where you’d equip an accessory and it just always does what it says, sometimes your rousing ring won’t prevent you from falling asleep.

And when I say sometimes, I mean damn near 50% of the time. In this fight I had a strategy – the main character and my warrior would attack for as much as they could while my healer and other magic would focus on buffs and keeping the party alive. Seems basic, right? The inability to prevent sleep 100% of the time resulted in healers falling asleep when I needed heals, which required my combat units to shift into healing roles.

The boss would also heal up after every round of combat, so the player needs to constantly cause damage in order to make any progress. So I had to constantly change tactics in battle based on what felt like random status effects. And to make matters worse, the boss had an ability to just completely shut off magic after a certain point. So when this happened, it was important that I had items that could heal the whole party AND items that could damage the boss just so I could tread water until I could use magic again.

It felt completely unfair at times. It’s one of the most tedious bosses in the game, but you know what? Every single attempt at it was exciting. As my HP and MP trickled down, I could see the boss slowly weakening and each turn I was asking myself ‘how much more does this mother fucker have left?’ I was both enraged and enthralled. And when I finally won, it felt like I had overcome a major obstacle. It was a cause for celebration.

This isn’t the only boss in the game I felt like this about either. There were several encounters where I had no idea how to continue, but through looking at the mechanics of the game and just experimenting in fights, I was able to come up with strategies and persevere over what felt impossible. In a lot of re-releases of classic games, they tone this stuff down. But here, it feels like they celebrate it.

If I wanted to just get on with things and finish the game, I could have turned the difficulty down to easy mode. I think having options like that in games like this is important, because in a modern sense people expect to finish their games. It’s less about ‘overcoming a challenge’ and more about ‘seeing everything there is to offer.’ And there’s nothing wrong about that approach. But that’s not what I’m looking for, so I’m glad this game gives you options instead of making the ‘casualized’ experience the main way to play.

They even added things for experienced players. There’s voice acting for specific important scenes and there’s a harder difficulty mode that lessens gold and exp earned from battle and there are also additional little story elements placed into the narrative. It’s not anything game changing, but it’s a little bit extra for people who have played this game for 30+ years.

I think the picking-and-choosing when to use voice work is an exceptionally good call because it makes ‘larger’ moments in the game feel that much larger. Since most of the rest of the game is just text, you get a bit of a mix of old and new with that. The authentic text-experience most of the way with a little touch of something new. Do you know how cool that would be in a game like Final Fantasy IV?

I’m inexperienced with the original Dragon Quest 3. I played a little bit of it on Gameboy way back in the day but I bounced right off. After playing this version of the game, I feel no need to go back and play the original version of it to see what’s different, what edges were sanded off. It feels like they took the original game, made it absolutely beautiful, and embraced what made it work in the first place.

Here is hoping there’s something to those HD 2D Final Fantasy VI rumors.

[miimomonstragora]

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DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D REMAKE YA DISPONIBLE: Una Revolución Épica

Descubre la nueva versión de DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake. Gráficos impresionantes, mejoras modernas y la magia de siempre. #DragonQuestIII #HD2D #RetroRPG

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