DQXI Switch in the West

[Ljink96]

vivster said:

Ljink96 said:

When was the last DQ you played? Couldn't have been XI as you don't grind in that game. Unless you willingly use the Draconian rule sets to make it harder on yourself. True, FF is huge in the west but Persona...eh...it's still pretty niche all things considered. A lot of people are vocal about Persona but FF, it is not. There are DQ games that have sold as well if not better than P5 in the west (DQ8 and DQ9 come to mind with DQIX doing 1.5M outside Japan across NA and EU. In April 2019, P5 shipped 2.4M WW including Digital across PS3 and PS4. I don't know the breakdown of this by region.

DQ games since DQ8 have not really been NES like. 1-7 sure those all played like NES games but 8 became more like FF before XI. 

All lies. DQ games have never changed from their origin, if that were so I wouldn't enjoy the newer ones as much as the first ones.

Well, there are 2 things that separate the NES games from the post 7 era. Skill trees, and a 3rd person battle system...and uh maybe Voice Acting. I personally dislike the older Dragon Quest games despite developing remakes of those games myself. The first person battle system...ech I don't like it. That has been gone since 8. The battle system is turn based, but that is even true for a lot of games today that garner praise. 

There are people who wouldn't touch the NES games with a 10 foot pole that will play 8, 9 and 11. That's kinda what I'm getting at. Most of that is probably presentation, but there's not really much DQ can do to be "modern" besides make an action RPG but nobody in the west even played the Heroes games despite being exactly that. 

Last edited by Ljink96 - on 30 September 2019