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The Anarchyz on 24 March 2009
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Riachu said:
emilie autumn said:
the first lines lost me, JRPGs were bigger in the 16bit era than in any time, saying that the genre exploded into mainstream when FFVII was released is not accurate.

In was still niche in the West in the 16-but era.  In Japan, JRPGs were mainstream since the original Dragon Quest.  Heck, Dragon Quest invented the sub genre which is partially why Japanese gamers are so loyal to the series in the first place.

 

 

Exactly, in Japan Dragon Quest started the trend (and that was in the 8-bit era), but in the West the genre was so niche that 3 Dragon Quest games and 3 Final Fantasy games didn't make it here, IV and VI even got renumbered to II and III to give them continuity... When Sony made the deal with Square, one of the points was to make Final Fantasy VII popular as hell in the West, when that happened the entire JRPG genre exploded here...