Current Events > About to play Blue Dragon, any of y'all did before?

(+) Yeah! (+)

It looks a little camp but it was Mistwalker's first game so I'll give it a chance

Playing JRPGS on Xbox is strangely relaxing

Probably because I'm not thinking of the 400 other ones I could be playing instead
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I did. Made it quite far, too. But it's definitely not able to compete with the giants of the genre. By the way, you'll definitely want to play this game on hard.
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Blue dragon is an enemy stand

Lathissamus posted...

By the way, you'll definitely want to play this game on hard.

By far the best advice.

The game is far too long to be played on the default difficulty, as it offers no challenge whatsoever, and turns into (even more of) a grind.

Overall, it's not a bad game, but nothing I'll ever play through again.
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Great game with a nice class system.

I recommend downloading the Hard Mode DLC off of XBOX Live, if it's still available, and the Pack of Handy Items and Shuffle Dungeon DLCs are only a dollar each. And I think that's all the DLC for it anyways.

A few minor tips

- this game rewards searching EVERYTHING. Every rock, box, stump, pot, etc. is searchable, and not only do you get items out of it, you can also get stuff like Exp points, Job Points and even stats (usually only like +1 to a stat, but still pretty nice).

- for job unlocks, get Generalist as your first or 2nd choice (first choice of new job at level 5, and from then on its 10, 20, 30, 40 and maybe 50, I forget). It lets you equip more skills in other jobs, and also accessories.

- Barrier Magic is also good, for its final ability, which will help with grinding job levels later in the game.
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Oh, and also pick up Lost Odyssey after beating Blue Dragon. Same studio, but more of a set job system compared to BD's pick any job for any character, although in LO you still get plenty of customization. Well, for some characters anyways.
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It's a pretty fun game, but it's extremely cheesy in like every way possible. If you can handle that it's good.

Super Slash posted...

It's a pretty fun game, but it's extremely cheesy in like every way possible. If you can handle that it's good.

True, but it also gets pretty dark, IMO. It definitely has a serious enough story hidden under the kiddy graphics and humor.
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Kind of overrated for a simplistic, plain turn based RPG.

It's playable, and a bit of fun to be had, but nothing about it is great.

Not trying to be a killjoy, it's just not one i'd go back to again.
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Download the free difficulty patch from the store, worth it.
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superstud69x posted...

Oh, and also pick up Lost Odyssey after beating Blue Dragon. Same studio, but more of a set job system compared to BD's pick any job for any character, although in LO you still get plenty of customization. Well, for some characters anyways.

I also got Lost Odyssey and I'm contemplating just playing that instead
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

superstud69x posted...

Oh, and also pick up Lost Odyssey after beating Blue Dragon. Same studio, but more of a set job system compared to BD's pick any job for any character, although in LO you still get plenty of customization. Well, for some characters anyways.

I also got Lost Odyssey and I'm contemplating just playing that instead

i much prefer LO but again, it's also not a genre great.
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IMO it's really good. I'm also not terribly hard to impress though.

I'd like to revisit it sometime, but I've got too many games to play that I've never even gotten to.
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It's pretty good, even if it looks like an alternate universe DBZ RPG. superstud was right, max out Generalist first because of the bonuses.
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I feel like DQ11 fills the same itch except better made >.>
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