What videogame are you playing recently?

[Akibiyori]

Originally Posted by mysticwaterfall

Been doing Dragons Quest XI S lately. It really sucks you in, and being able to alter the battles be Ultra Fast is certainly a nice improvement in grinding. This actually only my second DQ game after playing IX on the DS years ago and loving it. Someday I'm going to try some of the older games.

Excellent! I recommend V and IV when going back to the classic era. VIII is a good next stop after XI.

For the first three, depending on your tolerance for NES games you might want to try one of the remakes. It makes the most difference with the original Dragon Quest - the NES version could be accurately called “Grinding: The Video Game” but the remakes transform it into the brisk, light RPG experience it really should be (the SNES and GBC versions are equally good and, as I understand it, the current port for the Switch plays the same way.) II is infamous for its late game difficulty spike. It’s less grindy than the original DQ until a certain point where you’ll need to do a ten level or so grind, but I don’t think it’s too imposing. III is one of the best and very impressive in scope for its time (also when the series began to master the episodic style it is known for.) I’ve only played the original PlayStation version of VII but I hear the DS version is just as long (this is where the series got the reputation for 100 hour plus lengths, the earlier ones aren’t even half as long.) VI is good but I think VII does a lot of the same things better.