Topic: Dragon Quest VII: Reimangined

With a demo coming out here soon I figured its time for a thread about this game.

I will be honest I never played the original of this game to be truthfully my knowledge of DQ games is quite lacking. For some reason I never really got into them which is odd because I love RPGs. I played the first one of course and beat it years ago (thank you Nintendo Power) and played 2, 3, and 4 a handful of times when I was a kid. Now I know they had a few DQ games on PS2 and DS which I might go back and play some time but I just recently got into DQ with XI S.

So.after all that I am wondering how do they all connect? I know 1-3 connect but after that I am clueless. While I have been understanding most of XI S without this knowledge I am sure I am missing some things that connect it to the previous games. So before I try out 7 I want to know should I go back and play 4' 5, and 6 before 7 so I can understand 7 or is that not necessary? Also I amnassuming that 7, 8, 9, and 10 will fill in the gaps between 7 and XI S.

storywise 7 doesn't connect to any other mainline DQ game, one of the characters in 7 is a protagonist of a spinoff game Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart but you do not need to play it to enjoy DQ7

So are they like the Final Fantady series where the games dont connect?

@Tasuki some of them are in trilogies and some totally separate. And some of the spinoff games relate to the mainline games. But generally a lot of them are in totally different worlds.

Ok that's good to know. I figure after I finish XI S I will go onto the HD remakes of 1,2, and 3 then go onto 7. I was wondering if I would have to play 4,5,6 before hand.

Dragon Quest 11 also sort of connects to all of them. . . but only in a "dimension hopping side quest" kind of sense.

Anyway, I'm a weirdo who actually quite liked DQ7 when I played it on the PS1. . . at least until a poorly designed element rendered the game unwinnable 20 hours in or so. I am low key looking forward to the remake, it just has the poor fortune to come out when I have a lot of giant RPGs in the qeue ( starting with Trails Beyond the Horizon ).

I support DQ whenever possible. I'm buying a copy on general principle.

Question is, will we get DQ XII before I'm six feet under? It has been in development hell for seven years now. I think S-E were going to go the action/rpg route FF XVI took, but after that sold less-than-expected perhaps S-E pivoted back to turn based?

This is one of the very few Dragon Quest games I haven’t played. When the remake was first announced, I was not sold on its art direction; but after its most recent trailer for its demo, I am completely on board. I’m looking forward to finally experiencing the game.

@Kraven Did you try the demo yet?

Yeah, I have long suspected something like that is going on behind the scenes. Maybe in combination with some critical exec really resenting the hell out of the Switch's success and how it might "force" them to actually make the next DQ game for it. I'm solidly in "expecting the worst, will be happy to be pleasantly surprised" territory with DQ12.

@Tasuki Not yet. I have it downloaded and I’ll be trying it out tonight.