Topic: Requests/Ideas - Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

TheMysticalOne

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Joined Nov 18, 2019

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May 20 2022, 10:25pm, last edited November 24 2022, 3:27pm

Official Topic Post for discussion about

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (PlayStation 2)
Created 20 May, 2022 22:25 by TheMysticalOne

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TheMysticalOne

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Joined Nov 18, 2019

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May 20 2022, 10:26pm

Official topic. Official claim. Let slip any idea you might have for achievements. I shall harvest and curate.

Ghal416

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Joined May 19, 2020

May 20 2022, 10:42pm

Love this game so much. Look forward to hearing more. Good luck! :)

Andrewgomez904

Joined Jun 9, 2021

May 23 2022, 12:55am

maybe some Specific Trophies for Ultimate weapons? I don't think you can get all the metal slime weapons but a trophy to unlock any of them would be cool. maybe a title like, All Metal No Slime? pretty bad but its just a thought

suspect15

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Joined Aug 16, 2021

May 25 2022, 10:32pm

Nothing to add at this point, but I'm incredibly excited to see this game being worked on. If I come up with any ideas, I'll share them here.

suspect15

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Joined Aug 16, 2021

June 18 2022, 2:03am

I enjoyed how blendedsea added missable challenge achievements for bosses in DQ IX. Typically things like somehow handicapping yourself (using no armor/weapons, not using certain abilities, etc). I think DQ8 lends itself to be more of a completionist, grind/gather everything set due to the lack of party flexibility, but there is probably room for some specific challenges. Unfortunately it's been quite a long time since I've played it and I don't recall enough of the game to give any good specific recommendations at this point.

Andrewgomez904

Joined Jun 9, 2021

June 20 2022, 5:26am, last edited June 20 2022, 5:43am

Im not really a fan of sets with boss challenges in sets, tho 100% completion is a pretty great idea. maybe for the challenges there can be a subset just for that? If not then I'm still glad to try and attempt the set :)

TheMysticalOne

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Joined Nov 18, 2019

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July 12 2022, 7:15pm

Most of the game is annotated, including post game. Need to do another playthrough because I completely forgot to be checking party chat, many of which are one-time unique conversations. I doubt I'll make specific achievements for most or maybe even any of them, but I want them documented, but I do have some other things to clean up via another playthrough.

Will probably work on achievement coding as I do that playthrough.

alundra82

Joined Aug 4, 2021

July 12 2022, 8:29pm

I'd love to see a couple of achievements based around the characters' unique skills, e.g. shock x enemies with Yangus' underpants dance lol

TheMysticalOne

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Joined Nov 18, 2019

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July 12 2022, 9:07pm

Something like that should be doable. I just have to see what it looks like on the battle round playback data.

Strikeforce

Joined May 9, 2015

July 14 2022, 1:41am

I do not mind missables as long as they are labeled as missable or even boss challenges where you are handicapped as long as the challenge doesn't require you to grind your ass off such as the DQ3 "Masochist" achievement where you have to kill Zoma without using the Light Orb. You have to grind so much to do that achievement and grinding in that game is painful. Greatly looking forward to this set and I hope there are a lot of achieves to get :).

alundra82

Joined Aug 4, 2021

July 25 2022, 4:45pm

I hope its not too late to make more suggestions...? I reckon the Mystical Spring events might be a good candidate for an achievement (if feasible) - no in game rewards that I can remember, but they had interesting backstory for some of the characters, and the player needs to go to a bit of effort to witness them (I don't think I ever saw them all).

This is probably stretching the idea of an "achievement" beyond reason since you can't really miss it(!), but would it be possible to have one for triggering the scene where

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King Trode goes ballistic and calls you a "blinkered idiot"?

?

TheMysticalOne

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Joined Nov 18, 2019

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July 25 2022, 4:53pm

I plan for mystical spring and dmedra dream sequence achievement (s) as well as that scene from trode, assuming it's the one I'm thinking about. (It has a Cor Blimey in it, IIRC). Good suggestions! Glad someone else thought the same .

Working on the achievement-making playthrough now, though on a mini break for megaduck/channel-f rollout plus my vacation.

TheMysticalOne

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Joined Nov 18, 2019

OP

July 25 2022, 4:53pm

I plan for mystical spring and dmedra dream sequence achievement (s) as well as that scene from trode, assuming it's the one I'm thinking about. (It has a Cor Blimey in it, IIRC). Good suggestions! Glad someone else thought the same .

Working on the achievement-making playthrough now, though on a mini break for megaduck/channel-f rollout plus my vacation.

TheMysticalOne

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Joined Nov 18, 2019

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July 25 2022, 4:53pm, last edited September 5 2022, 12:31pm

I plan for mystical spring and Medea dream sequence achievement (s) as well as that scene from trode, assuming it's the one I'm thinking about. (It has a Cor Blimey in it, IIRC). Good suggestions! Glad someone else thought the same .

Working on the achievement-making playthrough now, though on a mini break for megaduck/channel-f rollout plus my vacation.