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  • Yo people, iv been looking at walkthorughs on youtube for this game and the problems are, people dont get the chest's, people dont show you how to make Alcemy Pots, and people dont comment right, so Im gonna do a full on DQ walkthrough call Lets Play Dragon Quest 8: Part 1 The Opening, and continue from there, it will have commentery show almost all the chests, and there will be little video cutting so you can keep up :)

  • ahh the memories :]

  • Best...Fucking...Game...EVER.

  • I dont know how ppl can like this game. Ok i like the game, but its offer you more frustration then enjoyment. The this is you have whole dungeon to go through with out a SINGLE DAM SAVE and on top ot that fight BOSS. I so far didn't find anything more fustrating then this.

  • @abyssDT The simple solution to this, get to a higher level!

    If you're struggling with even the trashpacks leading up to the boss, you are too low a level.

    And stock up on herbs to heal your party right before the boss so you can heal with your MP bar full.

  • Dragon quest 9 = An Amazing RPG Beautiful music storyline art everything about this game rocks! even if i got it late no regrets

  • This is one of my favourite games of all time, fantastic story, awesome characters and graphic and the random battles can get really annoying at times but it is still freaking awesome

  • this is one of the best games ever, lots of things to do and many secrets to it. its a game thats had a lot of work put into it and even though it was great for its time it kept the classic rpg face. i still play this game and i have to say it never gets old

  • really all you have to do is find metal slimes and kill them before they run

  • someone please help me i need the defeated monsters list with all the monsters listed. someone help please.

  • DQ8 IS THE BEST GAME EVER 4 ME!

  • Dragon Quest= challenge? O.o

  • I've played at least 100 rpg's, and this is my favorite ever. Skies of Arcadia is a close second. The story in this game was so epic and well written, and I loved my monster teams. Plus when you think the game is over you get a new dungeon with hard enemies and new items. Only thing i didn't like, was how hard it was to steal items. I never even attacked with Yangus for most of the game cuz I was too busy trying to complete the item list lol.

  • was just playing dragon quest 9 on an emu, quickly watched a review, found out there is hardly any character personality in it, instantly deleted emu, found my old copy of this and am currently on another play through of the best game i have ever played. this made my childhood (well around 12 or something, whenever it was released) still got the guide and everything. fuck yeah, jessica in a bunny costume here i come.

  • Zelda OoT is way too overrated. Dragon Quest 8 IS the BEST game ever made..

  • one of the best games ever but its a hell to level up when your higher level :3

  • why the hell would i want summons or limit breaks? DQ OWNS FINAL FANTASY

  • the best Dragon Quest Ever..

    the upcoming dragon quest X for wii and wii u sux..

  • kinda frustrating when the game makes you battle 8 guys at the same time ,but its still fun..worth every penny

  • that chicks hot

    

  • @JerrySeinfeld420 the main dude is hot ;)

  • @JerrySeinfeld420 i really hope thats sarcasm

  • Graphics still are dope

  • DQ8? Sub...

  • well i'll always remember final fantasy 10 being best rpg I ever played. Been trying to get into final fantasy 2 but its story is basically 3 people save kingdom so far . . . ='(

  • @TheMostDefinately Final Fantasy 2's story is actually a very good story once you get far in the game...

  • I really enjoyed this game, battle and level up system is great BUT the random battle music is SO FREAKING ANNOYING

  • I tried really hard to like this game but eventually gave up. This serie is the Japanese answer to Call of Duty: little to no improvement at every game, paper thin storyline and same gameplay mechanic. The only difference is that the so-called "hardcore gamers" will hate on Bobby Kotick but will praise Square-Enix even if they have been playing the same game for 20 freaking years!

  • does this game has a good story ? most importing thing for me in an rpg tbh : )

  • @RemovdSande11 this game is the most fun rpg game there is in my opinion. GET IT!!! you will love it and you will at least put in 100 hours of extremly fun gameplay. I dont even like rpg games very much but this game is gold X)

  • @RemovdSande11 VERY GOOD STORY.

  • remember playing this game 2year ago! One of the best times in my life (so far):D Hate that i can't find it anymore D: So just waiting for a better PC so i can play it on PCSX2 :D

  • @TheDanishVanHouten Jeg er glad for at jeg ikke er den eneste der synes det. :D

  • @DBZOreimo self er du ikke den enste som syntes det! :) ALLE ELSKER DET JO!! Regner med at lave en Dansk Let's Play af det når jeg får min nye Pc :D

  • @TheDanishVanHouten Lyder godt!!

  • @TheDanishVanHouten It's £10 on Amazon :P

  • @BainScalibar Yearh.. i know :( But my Ps2 is broken :(

  • For some reason, I think this is the best RPG I ever played in my life.

  • @SmexyAsianGirls hmmm i defenitly like this game but i liked skies of arcadia more demons souls is also good its action rpg though. i still have this game =P but damn ps3 cant play ps2 games thats so bs

  • that was the most repetitive review I've ever had to suffer through

  • This blows every other RPG out of the water.... wait no the universe!!

  • I play all the recent games (halo,cod,legend of zelda,fallout etc)and I still say this is easily my favorite game ever.

  • Best RPG ever that's all I could say

  • Ow... I miss this game soo much my Playstation 2 can't read this game anymore... And i cant buy this game anymore because i cant find it in the shops... I love this game realy much!

  • @IgreGames lol my stupid little sister droped water on ps2 and ps3 cant play it wth srsly sony? i think my ps2 should do fine now though but sony srsly why cant ps3 play ps2 games?

  • @bazooka1hitko only the slim doesnt play ps2 games the old ps3 versions play ps2 but costs more and are harder to find.(i think)

  • @natureboy295 i have the old ps3 with 80gb i cant play ps2 games

  • Starting Dragon Quest with 9 and starting down. Wish me luck. Though, if 8 is anywhere as good as 9, I can't wait.

  • Although FFXII and the Personas were great too.

  • Top 5 ps2 Rpgs along with Shadow Hearts Covenant, Wild Arms 5, Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne and Tales of the Abyss imo.

  • this game is long, i still haven't beaten it and i have 70 hours total gameplay

  • I Played Dragon Warrior 1-4 back in the early 90's, Just played 250+ hours of Dragon Quest IX (and then lost my DS!) , getting Dragon Quest VIII when i get payed in 2 days, for $10!

  • man this was the last gd rpg ive played since persona

  • @mikolyyyy same here bro. P4 and DQ FTW!!!!!!

  • Is it just me, or ir this game really hard? I finished DQIX week ago and started this but sometimes its like pain playing this.

  • One of the best RPGs i have ever played. And it only has been like 1.5/2 months since i finished it, and i really want to play it again.

  • jessica has dem big ass titties.

  • @MoisChanVsTamama It's been out for about six years and people return it A LOT. They decided to put down the price so that people don't feel like they're wasting their money :/

  • Ok some of you say about ffx(which is my favourite btw)that is better,but pls dont say that ffx soundtrack is better.Sugiyama is the greatest living games composer.None comes close,except mb from Sakimoto.

  • @VFellhn nobuo uematsu doesnt come close?? wtf? xD

  • just picked this up today for 5 pound lol gunna see how i likes it

  • oh cool a dragon quest 8 review...watches intro and hawks flying over the main character.....OH SHIT THAT IS SOME UGLY CHICK DAMN!

  • @jcudal32

    lolololololololol

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  • This is not 5 minutes! Its way to short!

  • back in 2006 they didnt hire hot girls to read the reviews?

  • @AutomatikSynthetik i guess not

  • People always ask me:''Why don't you like Final Fantasy!?'' because...there's Dragon Quest.

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  • Good review! But you forgot to mention the best attack in the game, SEXY BEAM!

  • i gotta try it i got it for $1 at a yard sale

  • Blargh, she is so dumb at 2:46. In any dragon quest, you can expect to grind so that you can get past these enemies with relatively no trouble.

  • @hammerinhand: More importantly, if she'd opened the Tactics menu just once, she'd find her battles getting much, much shorter.

  • UH BITCH YOU UGLY XD

  • One of the greatest rpgs i ever played.This game is amazing

  • i wanna get more into rpgs, and ive heard this is a really good one. would anyone recommend that i get this game?

  • @HeThrewUpEverywhere YES! It's the best RPG on PS2 and IMO the best game ever made!

  • @DiscoStu139 definetly not the best rpg on ps2, ffx is 100 times better. story is much better, graphics, gameplay, characters(way better), and the soundtrack is the best iv ever seen, the songs set the mood and pull u into the game

  • @fullmetal891 totally

  • @fullmetal891 I like FFX, but Dragon Quest VIII is a much better game. It is the traditional JRPG fried to a delicious golden crisp.

  • @HeThrewUpEverywhere This game pushed me up to 105 hours to beat, also did a few side stuff, Final Fantasy X is good, mainly for it's story, Star Ocean 3 is good, so is Persona 3&4, the ps2 has a lot of good RPG's, but the snes is like the god in my opinion, with games like Chrono Trigger, Earth Bound, and Star Ocean 1, it's hard o go wrong.

  • @HeThrewUpEverywhere idk man, i love rpg's and im really leniant with games, but iv tried this game several times and i just dont like it at all

  • legendary game

  • Got this 3 days ago for 9.50 and this game rocks!!! I'm so addicted I have 27 hours in already. Was looking for an rpg and now I find the best one. Tons of exploration, and the alchemy is cool too. If you get stuck its so easy to grind it, just use whistle and you can stand outside of a town and just keep summoning and at night its off the hook. I recommend this to anyone wanting a rock solid game. Would love to see level 5 do another like this for 360. Now that would be a preorder!

  • @sevantofra level 5 only work for sony sorry

  • @future9mm actually level 5 has games on nintendo DS including Dragon Quest IX and the Professor Layton series.

  • @iam16bit I HATE the fact that so many sequels to so many amazing games get released just on handheld consoles, pisses me off like crazy. Like kingdom heart sequels on hand helds only, final fantasy 7 spinoffs and sequels on hand helds only, shit like that poppin up everywhere, drives me nuts.

  • Whilst I do agree with your review and most of the comments heres, Dragon Quest VIII didn't feel like a Dragon Quest game in my opinion. It had the beautiful visuals, music and the usual crazy plot but I generally felt that something was amiss. I can't quite put my finger on it though. Perhaps I'm stuck in the past haha . An excellent review of a great game regardless. Good job. ^_^

  • I got it for 7 dollars brand new at Wal-Mart, worth every penny...even at 30 dollars still worth it, this is the best rpg for ps2...

  • I just bought this game used ($9.00) and I'm playing it o my ps3. I appreciate the old-school style RPG, grinding, music.

  • @Kevitivity - if you like this game go pick up White Knight Chronicles on the PS3 when it comes out on the 2nd...its made by the same dEvs LEvel 5. they also made Rouge Galaxy and Dark Cloud 1 and 2 on PS2. As well as Jeane D' arc on PSP... GREat Dev Great game!

  • @Kevitivity me too

  • One of the greatest games i have ever played. Great memories watching this.

  • awesome game but too much level grinding

  • A fantastic game, totally absorbing and very very beautiful.

    Be sure to fire it up again after you've reached the "ending", there's a whole lot more to complete.

  • Although it has a high difficulty, this game is a MUST HAVE. One of the best storylines in the world.

  • I got this game xd

  • i bout miny for christmas for 10 dollors

  • This is one hell of a brilliant game! It is by far one of the best RPG's I have ever played. I highly recommend it to rpg fans!

  • where is this lady?

    is she still with gamespot?

  • awesome fucking game.

    Buy it. Now.

    its amazing

  • when i first saw the commercial for this game, i thought it was another dragonball z game lol, the characters look like dbz characters

  • i thought the same thing, someone told me therye made by the same artist. weird

  • the artist did artwork for dragon ball also did art work for dragon quest games

  • The same character artist Akira Toriyama.

  • One of the best RPGs there is!!!!!!!

  • @PunisherSNS no, its the best rpg of the ps2 and possably of all time

  • hahaha

  • what a beautiful woman!

  • I hope you're talking about the woman in the game (Jessica), otherwise you might seriously need glasses (or a new pair if you are already wearing one) XD.

    And if you were being sarcastic, then disregard my previous comment altogether :P.

  • I've just finished dragon quest monsters joker and I really enjoyed dragon warrior monsters for the GBC but I've never played any of the other dragon quest games. Would this be a good place to start?

  • Hell yea! xD This is my Fav Dragon Quest game.

  • Definitely. This game has an amazing story to it and it's incredibly addicting. It's a MASSIVE exp-farming fest so I hope you are prepared for spending hours in the later levels trying to level up.

  • yes.

  • I beated it a few days ago [not the best ending though, I need to finish a last quest to get that]

    for me, it was a great game, there are parts I would cut, but besides those parts [that aren't long , at least] it's an awesome RPG, great graphics and music, it's very long, and has a lot of stuff to do... you can play it forever, lol

    I'm still playing it after 74 gameplay hours and having beated it xP and some people have gone for way more hours lol

  • @PatarWolfe Yes.

  • i love this game

  • her characters levels are super low

  • im getting this game i got it on ebay it was $12.95 new and sealed

  • BEST FUCKING GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!1

  • @NearTheReviewer I put this game and golden sun as well as chrono trigger

  • all the things she said bad i think there good

  • this game is of the shit lol

  • Is this a good game for someone who isn't an RPG fan? That's not saying I dislike RPGs. I'll play an RPG if it's a good game overall. The only RPGs I have played were FF 7, 9, and 10. Final Fantasy 7 was the only RPG that I really got into (go figure), and is actually one of my favorite video games of all time. Given this information, would I like DQ8?

  • This is a RPG game, so if you aren't a RPG fan, then I don't suggest buying it.

  • Did you read the rest of my comment? I said I wasn't an RPG fan. I didn't say I didn't like RPGs. Final Fantasy 7 is one of my favorite video games ever.

  • I gave you my opinion from you said, and you said "Is this a good game for someone who isn't an RPG fan?", and yes I did read the rest, but that doesn't change my answer.

  • Final Fantasy has the same battle system as this one, except a few more options are added and the camera focus on the monsters. So, if you like Final Fantasy, like i do, you're gonna love playing this one :)

  • yes you would i started as a final fantasy fan but i played this game and loved it you should too

  • it an amazing game trust me on this one

  • i have it but i didnt played it ...lol is it that good ???

  • i heard this game is good and i wanna get it, but the only thing thats stopping me is that is everyone telling me "its hard as hell!!!" im not sure if i should get it.

  • The game itself is easy, the bosses are hard as hell.

  • It really isn't. As long as you take good advice from good people and stay at a good level throughout, this game'll be a breeze. Trust me, I've mastered it.

  • ive mastered it too the only thing left to do is get EVERY item in the game which i dont think is possible cause of things like the megaton hammer needing conquers axe

  • well i got one piece of advice for you, you gotta grind alot. if your not into grinding you'll be kinda fustrated and the battles will be harder for you but overall its a greawt game

  • This game is fantastic! From the music to the graphics to the voice acting to the characters... This woman...talk about lack of enthusiasm... go take another valium, theres a good girl...

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  • I tried to play it on the emu, but its too slow sadly ;/ like half of the speed.

  • thats why u buy it. Its only like $15. Don't tell me its not worth it.

  • you still need a ps2 for that.

  • i liked 3 the best

  • I recommend this game. It has all the classic RPG elements and some humor. It's very lengthy too, it took me 80 hours the first time through, a very enjoyable 80 hours.

  • I love the music to this game I've met the Composer for it

  • i wish they would have remade dragon quest 4 5 and 6 in this style instead of the ds style. in fact they could have probably put all 3 games into a single ps2 game with these graphics AND orchestrated music. then i state the obvious: i wish dragon quest 9 were on ps2, ps3, or even psp instead of ds

  • i like dragon quest 8 and i beat in 131 hours final fantasy rocks

  • I didn't liked the Final Fantasy series and I used to hate the RPG games. But all that changed when my sister bought me this game for my b-day present, I was addicted.

  • I've shitted better reviews than this, her voice is tedious, and she is just saying the same thing over and over again, albeit with different phrasing.

    The only reason I'm giving it five stars is because its not mistressatma's fault that the reviewer is so bad, and I like the game.

  • woot yea a 9!

    this game is pretty fun, especially when I feel like playing an RPG thats fun and has lots to offer. Only this is that tuen based fighting can get a bit boring, especially in the begining, but you learn some tight skills

  • alchemy pot is a brilliant concept

  • i really like this old style rpg, they just need better graphics and some cut scenes with great summons during battle. Besides this style my favourite is the one in Kingdom hearts, really awesome!

  • It's not Final Fantasy.

  • This games play style reminds me of old fashioned Final Fantasy games with random battles and the Acid screen haha.But since I have played it I know that it is totally different from their norm of a story.

  • The grand master of RPGs, i would happily stay up all night playing this, in fact i think i will tonight lol!!!!!!

  • i love this rpg but its reaaly long

  • I am confused at your comment isn't that what the best RPG's are? I mean take for example any Final Fantasy game I personnally find that to be a long game turns out to be an extremely fun game to play. Also World of Warcraft is a constant ongoing MMORPG and is rated to be a very highly played game still and I like it too.

  • This may not have the best plot, I believe it's one of the most predictable I've ever seen. But I can easily say this is the best made and most enjoyable RPG I've ever played. It doesn't hold your hand for you, and I like that.

  • why is a boring person reviewing a good game

  • why cant this come on the psp!?!?!?!?!?!

  • yeh that wud be cool! this games awesome,

    but us psp owners have enough to look forward to what with KH:BBS, FF Dissidia and FFXIII Agito all coming our way next year! :D

  • persona is coming to the psp.. so is assassins creed, lbp, rockband and many more.. what the hell are you on? 'the psp sucks' LOL

  • she cant review at all, shes saying the same thing over and over again

  • If only Square would make more games like this nowadays.

  • will i enjoy it if i've never played an RPG before since it looks very interesting

  • Well, its for experienced players and its really hard, so idk but, I consider it one of the greatest RPGs for the PS2.

  • LOL BETHANY LOL

  • Can We have some G4 girls please

  • this is an awesome game, and i think thats why its still $14.99 even though its been out for a while now.

    I love RPG games, i remember playing Dragon warrior on gameboy and i beat every single one in the series. took about 3 weeks.

    10 stars

  • DQ8 is THE best RPG for the PS2 (no doubt).

    KH2 would be second and then either Dark Chronicle or FFX (..not XII)

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