Lets Play II: Ye Olde Dragon Warrior

The adventure begins here.

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DO IT!!!!!

DW1: "TheSL, wilt thou play me?" (Y/N)
TheSL: N
DW1: "But thou must! TheSL, wilt thou play me?" (Y/N)
TheSL: Y
*cartoonishly cheerful fanfare*

Now there's a question I can't say "no" to.

I would love to see a playthrough of the MSX version.

I've fumbled through the Japanese SFC version of the game, so I don't see why it could be any more difficult. You do miss out on that ye olde English, though.

I'd be down for DQIII, as I've never beaten it, but I understand that the length of the quest would be somewhat off-putting. You can't really geek out about DQI the way you can with FF or even FF Legend.

I need to see if I can get X-Com playable again, as that would be an interesting experiment in this genre or articles.

Only if every one after Brick's is labeled with a Roman numeral and maybe a witty subtitle.

And why not? There are leveling tips (you guys have the northern peninsula, we have the bridge-to-metal slimes), minimum-level/suggested levels for each task and their order, and how to pull them off easily. And all in Ye Olde English!

Thread title fixed.

It's playable on GameTap! Not sure how easy it is to get screen captures, though. If you can't get it working, I might have to do it though you probably know more of the minutiae of the game than I do.

The "PrintScrn" button is your friend.

Oh, and to answer the original question, hells yeah! Let's Play threads are awesome and the more, the merrier.

Maybe I'll do one of an old school computer RPG like Bard's Tale.

Bard's Tale was fascinating in that it required a certain character class to complete the game. You could not win II without a Paladin, and you could not finish III without a Thief. Thankfully these were fully telegraphed in the manual ^.^

I call dibs on Mystic Quest, though it'll have to wait until after finals.

Didn't it have a Wizardry/DQ3/Etrian Odyssey thing going, though, where you didn't create a party so much as you just managed a big pool of adventurers from which you built parties from?

God it's been way too long since I've played Bard's Tale. I mean the PS2 remake thing was kind of fun, except wait no it fucking wasn't.

Bruce Campbell?

The one thing about Let's Play threads is that they're always done by people who know their subject inside and out. I'm thinking of maybe doing a Let's Play (Terribly) thread for a game I suck at or have not played.

Well, this one might have a few missteps since I've been playing the upgraded versions for probably about the last decade instead of the NES version.

Yes and no. There was a 'starter' team, but basically you wanted to put that aside and roll your own.

MIDI music aside, this is the best site I've found for BT information.

Only if you play without leveling.

I don't know if that's 100% possible, but I'm going to try my damnedest. The first green dragon was always my breaking point where I'd have to grind out a few levels back in the day.

but, HURTMORE!

eta- club and clothes or bamboo pole and armor?

Just saying that there's a lot more crap jammed into FFI than DQI, so the geek potential is exponentially higher (in much the same way that it's much higher in the Job System games than the other FF titles).

I'm waiting for a cable from Monoprice to hook up my old Win2K box (yes, it's going onto its seventh year and only has a bad hard drive sector to show for the wear and tear) to my TV (... need to check in with that, actually....). And since it's a 46" TV, my digital camera should be more than sufficient.

The only issue with X-Com is that, after a while, it gets to be a bit tedious, especially since I'm extra conservative. I *can*, however, explain why laser rifles are preferable to just about any other weapon in the game quite effectively. Maybe just mission highlights....

Brickroad - Final Fantasy - now
TheSL - Dragon Quest - ?
Sven - X-Com - ?
Red Hedgehog - Bard's Tale - ?

Anyone else want to add to this?

Would the community want these run concurrently or sequentially?

Just trying to get a little organized with the Lets Plays

So... this sort of obviates the need for the Fun Club forum, eh?

I wouldn't think so. Fun Club is for new (or newly readily available!) games that many people are experiencing for the first time. Let's Play is for (hopefully smartly narrated) individual playthroughs of well-worn titles.

not at all. the fun club is collective playing through new games, and has more than proven it's worth in the past few months.

Let's Play is a solo venture full of interesting commentary of old games.

there's no reason the two can't exist simultaniously.

What dj said.

Basically I don't want to be known as the guy who killed the Fun Club. =(

eta: I just noticed the irony of that statement, given my custom title. Nobody needs to point it out. =P

No?