I have been playing this game recently as my first Dragon Quest and I'm surprised how good it is...

I have been playing this game recently as my first Dragon Quest and I'm surprised how good it is. Any other games on the saga, including spin offs, I should check?

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DQV is the other best one. Play the DS version.

After that you can play VII on 3DS or IX on DS, then IV and VI on DS, and then the remakes of the original trilogy on PSX.

How about the spin offs? Anything worth it?

Dragon Quest Monsters in pretty good.

Welcome to D user, most games are pretty good so just look into thema ll and see what interests you most. I would say the must plays though are III, IV, V and VII.

Monsters series is fantastic. Builders is pretty great as well.

I've never played Rocket Slime but it has a strong cult following. The Heroes games are decent if you're into the Dynasty Warriors style, but they're mostly just fanservice.

Any game from the Monster series to start with? Should I play the GB ones or just start with the DS?

Forgot to mention, before VIII I played Rocket Slime and it's awesome

5 and Rocket Slime were my favorites.

You can start with any of them, but the DS one is probably the easiest way to start. The whole series puts Pokémon to shame.

The whole mainline series is pretty good. If you like the character/story aspects of DQ8, you'll probably like 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11 the best of the others. 5 and 11 would be my most highly recommended.

As for spin-offs:
DQ Monsters (known as Dragon Warrior Monsters on the GBC) are great little monster-collecting games. Do start with the first if you're cool with GBC games.
DQ Heroes is solid if you like musou games.
DQ Builders is a block-building/adventure game, but don't be fooled into thinking it's Minecraft with a DQ skin; the RPG elements make it very fun.
DQ Rocket Slime is a lighthearted adventure game that is just delightful.

Thanks for the recommendations!

I'll start with the DQ Monsters on the GB then. Are there only games on the GB and the DS? Or is there anything that didn't left Japan?

I tried the DQBuilders demo on the Switch and seemed a bit too slow, but I might pick it up to give it a chance.

1,4,5 and 7 are all fun. 2 is a grindfest, haven't played much 3 but I've heard it's great. I lost my 9 save file, I didn't play for too long but I was mad and never picked it up again.

>finding 7 fun
I honestly thought the game dragged on for far too long without much in the way of anything interesting happening.

>is there anything that didn't left Japan?
There are very many. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragon_Quest_media

General consensus will tell you V or VIII are the best games but DQ is a series where every game is consistently good and no doubt you'll be able to make a DQ game tier list by the end of it based on your own tastes.

Literally all of them
They are all the same game

I'm a Final Fantasy V faggot, so I enjoyed DQ6 and DQ7. 7 drags on and on and on and almost killed the series, though. Play the 3DS port, it seriously hastens the game a load.

The question you should be asking, OP, is whether there are any BAD games in the Dragon Quest series.

No there are not.

Rocket slime is great

Why is DQ 9 rated like the lowest among DQ fans? I played it through in co-op with my brother and loved literally every second of the game (and the story was really good too), possibly one of my favourite DS games ever.

It relies on both coop and DLC and it's hard to do either these days.

Coming off of DQVIII, I really wanted another strong single-player, story-driven experience. I didn't want to play DQ with others, and I wanted party members who were actual characters.

VI is my favourite, is it worth playing the SNES English translation just to experience what it was first like? I've played IV NES, DS and V on SNES, DS but not VI.

It's a top contender if you like the idea of a singleplayer jrpg mmo especially with all of the side quests and ghettos post game.

oh my god I just realised VI's title has a "dream world" type dragon quest under the main title

>7
>perfect
9 was fucking better than it, and it was still pretty shit.

DLC?
Fair enough

>is it worth playing the SNES English translation just to experience what it was first like
If that's the reason you want to play it, sure? It's an attractive SNES game, and I became fond of VI when I played it on the SNES for the first time, but the remake with Party Chat is the objectively superior version.

> People like this terrible series