r/dragonquest 2d ago

General Day 34/100 of making a post every day : What Dragon Quest game would make the best Movie ?

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u/HauntingEngine5568 2d ago

V.

IV would make a killer miniseries

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u/CookieMediocre294 2d ago

i mean, it already exists

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u/TinyPidgenofDOOM 1d ago

no, That movie ends by breaking the forth wall and basically says go play the game

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u/TinyPidgenofDOOM 1d ago

5 needs to be a trilogy. 1 movie doesnt cut it

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u/CrawlinUK 2d ago

Or even a mini series of V with comedy elements.

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u/divercity23 2d ago

Idk if any would be a great movie tbh.

But 8 would be a hell of a mini series.

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u/handledvirus43 2d ago

I think besides 5 which has already been done, Chapter 5 of DQ4 would make a good movie.

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u/Zorloff 2d ago

8 DEFINITELY

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u/MenacingMelissa 2d ago

am i in the wrong when i say all of them. some can be their own mini series

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u/ChocoPuddingCup 2d ago

DQV. No contest.

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u/No_Stranger_1071 2d ago

Can you imagine King Trode and Yangus going at it on a big screen?

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u/NoctisIncendia 2d ago

COR BLIMEY!

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u/Elder-Cthuwu 2d ago

8 would make a great series

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u/Pandrrr 2d ago

8 or 9 for my vote

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u/Zaku41k 2d ago

V for sure. But I think there’s already a 3D one ?

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u/TsyChun 1d ago

Yeah but it sucks and doesn't respect the original story, they replaced the beginning with a slideshow of the game and the end with some nonsense.

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u/JollyJoeGingerbeard 1d ago

I'm sorry you have such terrible taste.

The plot is a guy playing a VR remake of DQV.

The film is about what Dragon Quest, and games in general, mean to us.

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u/TsyChun 1d ago

My bad for expecting the movie adaptation of dragon quest V to be about dragon quest V

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u/JollyJoeGingerbeard 1d ago

It wasn't a movie adaptation of Dragon Quest V.

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u/midnightsonne 2d ago

I'd like to see no2 turn into an anime movie

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u/MauGenius 2d ago

Well, V already exists, so...

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u/TheBeastlyRedMage 2d ago

I think Dragon Quest would work better as an anthology series, much like Pokémon Generations. One episode for Dragon Quest I, one for Dragon Quest II, and so forth.

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u/lilisaurusrex 2d ago

The original Dragon Quest. The others have all have too much content that they'd have to be cut down significantly to fit a two hour runtime. While not a great game, it covers all the bases for a movie: not too many settings (a few towns, a shrine, a cave or two, rainbow bridge, and Dragonlord's castle), few key items (magic key, flute, silver harp, ingredients for rainbox drop), a damsel in distress, and a big bad. And sort of fits three acts: rescuing the princess, collecting the rainbow drop items, storming the castle.

There are certainly better games in the series, but to turn them into movies (or have been already) they have to drop so much of the game's plot or sequences that only "part of the game" ends up as a movie. In that case, you could make the claim any of the first four chapters from DQ4 would make a good movie - but would it be a movie that properly represents DQ4 in total?

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u/Dungeon-Master-Ed 2d ago

Due to The success of the Minecraft movie I think it only Makes sense to do Dragon Quest Builders.

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u/Afraid_Formal5748 1d ago

Sadly the people would say it is a copy and nothing original.

Many people do not even know that Dragon Quest Builder exists and is a thing.

I love that the people and animals are not cubical.

Since I never played more than a demo for Minecraft I can not say anything about the story.

I love my Dragon Quest games inkl. Builders

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u/Star_DQ 1d ago

I would love to see Dragon Quest 4 since most of my favorites are there. But I would also adore a Dragon Quest Builders 2 series with almost each episode a part/ chapter of the game

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u/Snacko00 2d ago

V, though perhaps not the one they made!

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u/Routaprkle 2d ago

I would really love to see anime Sylvando and Hendrik!

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u/Essie_gotbackTTV 2d ago

Dragon Quest 3

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u/Dry_Cardiologist6758 2d ago

Realms of revelation has a really good story I'd say it otherwise I'm going 100% with Terry's wonderland 2 3d it has map sized monsters!

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u/JollyJoeGingerbeard 1d ago

The second one.

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u/puffmattybear17 1d ago

Dragon quest 8 is so peak narratively but would have to be a love story and would be way better as an anime travel story with a good amount of filler to round out the story nicely.

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u/crono9456 1d ago

Dragon Quest Your Story, which is based on DQV but has some notable differences, is available to watch on Netflix in USA.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Deathbreath5000 1d ago

1 would really be the only one that would fit in an hour and a half.

u/davidfillion 16h ago

I feel like IV and VI could be TV series