Dragon Quest maps, Google style

by John Bardinelli { Jul 10th 2007 at 9:45PM }

A Dragon Quest fan who goes by the handle XB-LIM has done what every retro RPG gamer would have killed for two decades ago: mapped the first four Dragon Quest games in the style of Google Maps. They're zoomable, they're scrollable, and one of them even has bubble annotations (in Japanese). Kind of takes the fun out of wandering around and exploring, which is half the entertainment value of classic RPGs. Fighting hundreds of random battles to gain a few levels so you can actually make the trek to the first town is the other half.

[Via GamersWeb]

Tags: dragonquest, dragonwarrior, maps, nes, rps

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Joshua @ Jul 10th 2007 9:54PM

I want to play these games.

Or rather, I would have played these games I a lot back then...

Alistair loveless @ Jul 10th 2007 10:11PM

Neet

unlike this new layout.. i really hate it...

it fills me with a terrible range

Intellectualdiot @ Aug 12th 2007 11:18PM

Range of what? Emotions?

Be precise, man!

Kizul Emeraldfire @ Aug 14th 2007 4:54AM

…man, you know you're a nerd who's played these games too often when you can name every place on those maps. o.o

With the exception of Dragon Warrior II (which I don't own, and haven't ever really played), I know the name of every single town and stuff without even having to look at any names. By the way, speaking of which — that's Samanao castle from III in the picture above. :)

Jon @ Jul 10th 2007 10:22PM

You meant Google Maps GUI style.

Have to agree with the poster above. This new layout gives me a headache.

tactics @ Jul 10th 2007 11:01PM

DUDE THIS IS THE BADDEST ASS SHIT EVER! YES!!!

...damn. i wish my dw-fangirl Granny was alive to see this right now. i want to cry :( she and i used to make dw maps on graph paper... it took us WEEKS upon WEEKS. she would've loved this.

*moment of silence*

-"superfan" tactics.

BPM @ Jul 10th 2007 11:14PM

Very cool.

Now, I'd like to see this done for some other games, too. Maybe Pokémon (Oh, sorry, I mean... POKEMANS)?

Daniel @ Jul 10th 2007 11:45PM

I still have all four of these games for NES, and they still work with their original batteries.
I'll lose my save games and be forced to replace the batteries eventually.
Then I'll have to replay through them all again :)

I should just do it now and get it over with.