Outstanding PS2 RPG Dragon Quest 8 Is Now 20 Years Old

I only played this a little bit back in the day when I was going off JRPGs. But the last few years I've been back on the bandwagon and I would absolutely play a remastered version

DQ8 is definitely in my top 10 Jrpgs. Would love to see it remastered or even remade.

I think I'd much rather play a remaster yea. I'm playing it on the 3ds for the 1st time. And it's good but I don't love it anywhere near as much as I love 4 and 11. The overworld just feels so needlessly big and the characters run too slow. The story and the characters do have great moments but the dialog man. I know DQ usually has goofy writing. But in this one it's a bit much sometimes

A remaster on proper hardware would alleviate some of my issues with the game at least

While I was a big fan of DQ/DW in the early years (1-4), I kind of lost touch with the series until the phenomenal DQ11. Going to be playing through the ones I missed eventually, a remaster would be nice, though I prefer OG hardware.

Definitely, especially if they make all enemies visible. It's one of my favourite games of all time. I didn't like it at first, I think I expected all JRPGs to be like FF back then.

I've sadly only played 1-6 and 11, that 8 is still in my backlog is a black mark on my gamer status and I feel ashamed.😁 Hopefully I'll get to it sometime next year. Unless a remaster get announced ofc.

This was the game that got me into Dragon Quest and it's still one of my all time favorites. Shame that it's legacy currently ends with a downgraded port on a now dead piece of hardware.

It doesn't even need to be a remaster, I'd settle for a port with a resolution boost. As long as it still has the orchestrated music and Yangus' beautiful voice.

@themightyant The fact that the 3DS is now considered an old console makes me feel old

@LuXifer I am in a similar boat (except I stopped at 4). Mostly because 5, and 6 were not released in the US until over a decade later on the NDS, and by the time VII released I had forgotten about the series.

I played the first five dragon quests games this year, and still chipping away at the sixt one. I have seven, eight and nine ready to go after I blow the dust of my 3ds. After that some more modern dragon quest gaming with eleven en the new remake of three.

Jeeeez this makes me feel old! I remember getting it in 2005 after hearing how good it was. I got this and Shadow of the colossus on the same day. Didn't see daylight for weeks!

3DS version is the remaster. A remake might be nice though. Have it look similar to XI.

Personally I'm not fussed as I have it on 3DS but I think now that the 3DS store is shut and physical copies are going for a high price, it may be time to make it more accessible and release on modern consoles.

@thedevilsjester I played the fan translated snes roms of 5 & 6 a couple of years ago. Not perfect, but serviceable and it was fun to finally play them.

Time to feel old again.😏

One of my favorite DQ games. Happy 20th anniversary Dragon Quest VIII.🎉🎈

This would be a timely drop for next month as a PS Premium drop...

Seen DQ8 and thought we were finally gona get a PS2 port atleast. My heart, it has sank

@Bigkopman I would love that! But Square Enix hasn't really been playing ball with Sony on Premium, unless the game was already released by themselves (SE). This would be unique to PS+

@L_Bosch Oi, guv!

Played it using citra on PC with 4K textures and resolution on laptop recently. Still a masterpiece

Was 1 of my favorite JRPG and I’d like to play it again. Not sure what qualifies as a “remaster” these days but I just bought FF8, either on the Switch or PS5 🤷🏻‍♂️ and looking forward to playing that so yeah sure, make it playable. Then let me know when it’s like $7 or $8. 😂

Was the best one and it's just left in the past, the 3ds port and mobile version are bad.

I currently have this game on my PS2. It is the first Dragon Quest game I ever played, and I think it's awesome. I love everything about it. I would love to see it remastered.

Just release it as Back Compat. I'd buy it in a second.

If this is remastered, you just know that they'll nerf Jessica's cans.

It's a travesty that this has never been ported across. Thankfully still got a physical copy along with my 60GB PS3 that somehow fires up, so I can get my Jessica fix when needed

I worked in video game retail at the time this came out on PS2 and it sold amazingly well in my store. I have it on 3DS and it's a brilliant, brilliant game.

Well worthy of a modern day remake.

Still need to try it. The art style is just to gorgeous not to. My only one so far was XI, which was great but eventually outstayed it's welcome after expanding after what felt like the finale.

@ApostateMage But then there's no point in Jessica performing her puff-puff on... anything

Didn’t play on PS2 but enjoyed the 3DS version.

Got it on release and last few months been thinking about emulating it on my Deck. So if there's going to be a remaster they better hurry up and announce it.

As long as they don't censor anything "For Modern Audiences". Puff puffs for everyone.

What a beautiful game with a great story and characters i still have my copy on my shelf in good condition

A beloved game on many lists, a landmark title in certain ways. With how well DQ11 did, why is DQ8 not on modern consoles?

I would totally play a remaster

It would need to do without the random battles. I got the game when it first came out on the PS2 but never finished it because after a while the random battles just wore me down. I was already pretty fed up with random battles in RPGs by that point and it was disappointing that DQ8 still had them.

I've gone back to the game once or twice since then, but still didn't finish it because of the same reason. So I would only buy a remake/remaster if that feature was changed. Other than that it was a brilliant experience: charming and beautiful.

I'd love it.
But knowing SE we either get trashy 3ds graphics or the superior PS2 graphics but no 3ds content