Dragon Quest vs Final Fantasy

Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy have always been the two giants of the franchise. I wanted to dive in and talk about how they are both different but also very important in regards to how they offer gamers a roleplaying experience.
I am very new to video editing, so I know this is as basic as it comes, but I wanted to voice my thoughts out anyway so here we go. I promise to get better as I practice using my editing tools more.
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[@tats_sacs]

It’s Active Time Battle.

[@Michirin9801]

While it is true that Dragon Quest mostly refines what already worked, there's one pretty major thing that changed in the series after the 3rd game, they're not open-world anymore. The first 3 Dragon Quests were true open-world games, you can go anywhere, and there's no order in which you have to complete the games' objectives, from DQ4 onwards, the games got a lot more linear, though DQ4 still opens up in the final chapter, and the later games still retain just enough out-of-the-way things for you to find while exploring that it still feels like an adventure, but yeah, they've become pretty linear... Which isn't a bad thing but... I still want another true open-world Dragon Quest akin to the first 3 games...

[@RCScorchCore]

I just picked up DQ11 to play for the first time before the original trilogy remakes.

[@channelmovedseefeaturedcha3500]

ive always plays final fantasy and loved 1-9 (minus 8 haha) but have since fell off. I love what I can play of Dragon Quest but they're not easily available in the West - i don't have a 3DS. I played DQ 1, 2, 3.... and 11 on steam. I tried DQ8 on iPhone but didn't like playing it on that device. I wish they had more DQ on steam Great video by the way!

[@lackingsuperstitions]

I love both but if I had to pick, I'll always go for Dragon Quest. It's a guaranteed good game whereas Final Fantasy takes too many risks for me. I love every Dragon Quest game but there are some FF that I only played once and never went back to.

[@michaelclifton9498]

Same, i prefer FF games like 9,10,12 plus the earlier games(1-6)

[@milesdarobot4980]

I feel like your argument towards ppl who want Turned Based Final Fantasy back is a bit contrived and playing with semantics a bit. Im pretty most understand that 4-9 aren’t traditional Turned Based games. But im pretty sure when somebody says “i want Turned Based FF back” the more than likely mean the ATB system(4-9). I know some ppl wanted FF16, but i(and others), main issue was that it felt like it strayed too far away from being an RPG imo. No party control. Equipment swapping was very linear and boring. Enemies didn’t seem to have elemental weaknesses. Etc. Etc.

[@sagepirotess6312]

I would disagree with you on ff popular in west. It's TRUE by older gamers. But ff 15, ff16, ff7 remake didn't resonate with younger newer audiences. And even older ones kinda moved on by sales numbers.

[@evening_liam]

I think so too but in general FF is way more popular.. I don't a single person who played Dragon Quest other than XI S but almost everyone has played some kind of ff

[@selinagreatestninja]

Don't forget to look at the numbers too. FF7 Rebirth "failing" is from their POV. It still sold over 2 million. FF16 sold over 3 million. FF7 Remake hit over 10 million since it was out during the pandemic and on the PS4, a console most people had. In comparison, the most successful Dragon Quest is XI and that barely hit 2 million..by numbers, FF is still way more popular.

[@sagepirotess6312]

@@selinagreatestninja it couldnt sell and recouped and make s profit. Yes it sold but console exclusive hurt it. Dq has issue getting its games global. But it's well know do to side games like builders, heroes, monsters. Ff lacks not able side games. Its possible dq will overtake ff in west if they get dq 1 to 10 stateside.

[@sagepirotess6312]

@@evening_liam ff is meh, do you see a final fantasy theme park, side games nope. And dq bought Ff. Ff is the servent to dw, enix, who bought squaresoft.

[@EPS5000]

@@evening_liam you need to expand your horizon then. I know several people that played every Dragon Quest mainline game and several of the spin-offs.