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Ljink96 on 12 November 2014
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thelalaby said:
Ljink96 said:
Can I just say, I miss Dragon Quest? We haven't had a single DQ since 9 and that was... 4-5 years ago. I'm extremely saddened by half done ports when we could be getting the real deal on 3DS. I mean, it isn't like DQ9 sold poorly as it did very well actually in the West. I hope we get some news at E3 2015.


Mainline DQ games have been years apart for decades now, ever since the SNES days actually... in fact, ever since the franchise moved to PS1, there has been only one mainline entry every generation (with the exception of the last generation, if you do not dismiss X).

 

Anyway, frankly I don't see any other solution for SE. JRPGs have simply lost a big chunk of their popularity... even the most critically-acclaimed RPGs from the last generation (Lost Odyssey, Ni No Kuni and Xenoblade) were not able to do much. It doesn't make sense for a company to invest millions and millions in high-budget RPGs anymore, unless they are already established IPs (such as Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts).

Of course, this truth saddens me... I grew up playing RPGs and I miss how the market was flooded with RPG offerings from so many developers, but it is what it is. I just hope SE's selectiveness means better games this generation!

That's the thing, Dragon Quest has proven to be different than the series you've mentioned. Ni No Kuni, Tales Series, Persona, all of them never do better than Dragon Quest in the west. It just doesn't make sense to me to not localize the games that have proven themselves and still have much more to proove. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and now Kingdom Hearts... along with Pokemon are the best selling JRPGS of all time. Dragon Quests 8 and 9 have both done 1.2M copies outside Japan and that never happened before in the series' past. To say that Dragon Quest isn't relevant is stupid when games like Bravely Default, Xenoblade, Etrian Odyssey, and so on get localized all the time and don't sell near as well as DQ could.