| Kresnik said: You do realise these two things don't interact with each other at all, right? I get what you're saying - I miss things like Grandia and Suikoden too, but getting Disgaea & Neptunia games in the west doesn't jeopardize our chances of getting these franchises. They're completely separate. Konami, for whatever reason, have decided they don't want to make any more Suikoden games. Same with GungHo with Grandia. Same with Capcom with Breath of Fire (and 6 doesn't count! :P). Regardless of that, Neptunia & Disgaea games are made by different developers. And localized by different teams who, if there was a new Suikoden game made for whatever reason, wouldn't be able to get their hands on it anyway. If you dig through NISA's forums, there's a post somewhere where Houk said that they approached SEGA about localizing Yakuza 5 and were turned down. So companies like NIS, like Aksys, like IFI, like XSEED, go after the games they've actually got a chance at being allowed to localize. And people like me are damn grateful we get stuff like this rather than the alternative - nothing at all. I'm guessing you probably know all this already, but it's worth repeating. The choice isn't Disgaea or Suikoden. It's Disgaea or nothing. |
Oh yes, I'm aware of that. Like I said on my second post, you shouldn't take what I said too seriously. I'm just pissed because it seems the universe keep taunting me. "Oooh, so you want rpgs? How about these Disgaea and Neptunia stuff? No? Well, FUCK YOU THEN". So I just take my anger on these games instead =P
Also, seeing Disgaea 5 needing just 150k copies to be profitable kinda raises the question if rpg's are really that screwed up in today's markets. They don't need big budgets, I think it's more a thing of managing your resources correctly (something that japanese developers have been TERRIBLE at in the last few years, but oh well, there's always hope).
It's especially more agravating since another niche genre (adventure/point-and-click) is somewhat being revitalized (remakes of classic Lucasarts games, Telltales game etc). Goddammit, what about the other niche?
