What is best Dragon Quest, and also the best one to start at?

You can beat 1 in half a week.

What's the best version of 1?
I've seen there are several remakes out there.

nevermind, based delivered.

The Joker series is kino

8

My favorite is IV. It had a nice story and characters. Best villain too, Psaro in my opinion is one of the best written villains in the franchise.

>Pick Eleven if you don’t mind starting a 200 hour RPG
user 11 is not that long. I'll admit I'm a series vet, but 11 only took me about 100 hours to beat and that was with doing almost every sidequest and mindlessly grinding to an average level of 95 in my party near the very very end of the game since the game made it very easy to do so.

I have had DQVII for so long, inside my 3ds in a drawer. I need to get back to that game someday.

Ah I mean that it took me 100 hours to beat including post game. Main game took me about 70 hours.

>GOD TIER
III, IV, V, VIII
>GREAT TIER
I, VII
>GOOD TIER
VI, IX
>MEH TIER
II

VIII was the starting point for most westerners and remains a good entry to the series. Some people prefer the 3DS version but the PS2 version is the way to go in my book.
V has the best story. DS and PS2 versions are both viable.
IV has the chapter gimmick which focuses on different characters, and has a good mid-battle party switching mechanic a la FFX. Phone version is actually best since party chat was added back in, but DS is fine as well.
III introduced the class system and has good exploration. GBC has some more content but SNES has better graphics.
Haven't played X or XI

R8 and H8

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I'd recommend GBC of I & II, GBC of III, DS of IV, V, VI, VII for 3DS, VIII for PS2, and IX, then XI.

I’ve played a couple games and I got like 90% of the way on normal mode in 100ish hours, restarted on hard and it took me 200 to finish the game.

>rocket slime and builders at the top
All I needed to see, good taste user
Your main series ranking is shit though

Yeah I know I have some hot takes on the main series since 8 is that high and 9 is in S tier, but that's how I feel. Honestly 9 is still my overall favorite DQ, and I played all but like 4 hours of it alone. I have 250+ hours total in it last I checked. Probably more since this is spread across multiple saves.

9 if you want to customise mc and party

DQM Joker 1 was the first (and only) DQ game I played.
I was super hyped at first, it was charming and all, but then it became super grindy and repetitive and I dropped it.
Should I go back to it?

And also if you want to play a dead proto-MMO

DQMJ3 is incredibly good and people only don't talk about it because it never got an english release. The translated crack is easy enough to find though.

I also found Joker a bit grindy, which is why Joker 2 and 3 are above it. Joker 2 was damn near perfect last I played it. I'm not a huge fan of the monster catching sub genre, but I loved it. I say skip it and got to Joker 2. If you have a hacked 3DS or a decent PC, then play/emulate Joker 3. That is also really good. Better mechanically that Joker 2 imo.

It is grindy, but they kept improving it in the sequels.

>I wanna play DQ which one do I start with?
Number fucking 1. It's short, inoffensive, simple and you can play it on your phone. I'd tell you to skip it, but playing it is a requirement to understand the main twist of DQ3.
DQ2 can be skipped somewhat safely, it does introduce a lot of mechanics and setpieces that would become mainstays in DQ games, but it doesn't realise those things particularly well. The game feels a bit bloated, like they ran out of content halfway through development and still wanted to make the game longer. Also it requires some hard fucking grinding closer to the end. It's also relatively disconnected from the plot of the Erdrick trilogy, being the latest in the timeline. So just skip it unless you're looking for a history lesson rather than a fun vidya experience.
DQ3 is a shining jewel and a massive leap forward for the series, PLAY IT.
There's only one problem with it - the version choice. The choice is between the mobile version and the fan-translated SNES remake (because the remake was never officially released in the west). Mobile version features a good localisation (arguably), an option of auto-combat and it highlights items hidden in the cities and dungeons with little sparkles. The remake has animated monster sprites, a somewhat fun boardgame style minigame, you HAVE to class switch into a thief at some point just to learn a spell that helps you find aforementioned hidden items, and the fan translation is janky as fuck, a fact that will probably impact you if you're trying to beat the game without walkthroughs.
It's a shame that we don't have the "definitive" version of the best DQ out there, but that's how it is, make your choice. Or just play both versions, I did that.
After 3 just play them all in order, they're all great to good, with part 6 being the lowest point of the series past part 2 (still decent, but you'll learn to fucking hate the game if you try to get deep into the modified class switching system).

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Thanks anons. Would I be missing much storywise if I skipped J1 tho?
Also, why are the "Professional" version so low in the ranking if they are supposed to be improved versions?

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You won't be missing out. They are not connected story wise.
>Also, why are the "Professional" version so low in the ranking if they are supposed to be improved versions?
Read the rank they are in. Those were only released in Japan and have no fan translation.

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They don't have translations.

Also if you're gonna play the DQMJ3 translation watch out for a chest reasonably early on that crashes the game.

>Stuck on Arachtagon in 11
I've lost this fucker like 3 times now. He just does so much damage with his retarded spikes that Serena can't keep up. I can't even cheese him with Erik because I'm 99% sure he's immune to both sleep and poison.

you can beat 1 in an afternoon

Good on having IX and VII high up there

>Read the rank they are in.
Oh okay. I though it meant "only a filthy no-taste gaijin would like that", guess I was overthinking it.
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You should tho. I'm only starting, but it's fun to suddenly be able to read jap words, even though you don't understand shit what they mean.

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Most people start with 8 in the west. Both the ps2 version and 3ds version are solid