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Akiran on 23 June 2014
RolStoppable said:
"Comming", really?

2DX is likely Etrian Odyssey 2 Deluxe. I wouldn't be surprised if they remade another game, although EO2 wasn't as archaic as the first game.

Can't blame them for trying, it could've been in Japanese :P

I would love a remake of the 3rd game but that one has aged pretty well compared to the others, although I'd love extra content. Maybe ship exploration to new dungeons and towns?! :O



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Vena on 23 June 2014
Kresnik said:
Atlus seemed to be struggling with Etrian Odyssey. It had been seeing pretty stagnant sales in Japan (not particularly bad sales, just never moving up no matter what they did) and it has never really been a hit in the west.

Given the massive success of Persona Q (which I'm sure is going to sell massively better in the west, too) I wasn't sure they were going to return to this. So props to them for that.


I can't imagine the dev costs for either IV or Untold were all that high so the the 200k-300k sales aren't terrible, are they? I don't know what you can exactly expec from a game that has effectively not changed since its inception. Its still the same Nocturne-style navigation, one-view combat, etc. The only that's really changed is the 3D animated sprites.

Unless 2DX suddenly changes up and freshens the stale IP and stale development therein, I doubt we'll see explosive sales ala FE: Awakening vs. previous FE installments.



Kresnik on 23 June 2014
Vena said:

I can't imagine the dev costs for either IV or Untold were all that high so the the 200k-300k sales aren't terrible, are they? I don't know what you can exactly expec from a game that has effectively not changed since its inception. Its still the same Nocturne-style navigation, one-view combat, etc. The only that's really changed is the 3D animated sprites.

Unless 2DX suddenly changes up and freshens the stale IP and stale development therein, I doubt we'll see explosive sales ala FE: Awakening vs. previous FE installments.


Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad thing.  They should be thankful they have such a dedicated fanbase which turns out to buy all the games.

It's just, Atlus seem to have been looking at expanding a lot of their stuff lately.  All the Persona animation/spinoff games.  They've tried to expand Etrian Odyssey, too.  It was a yearly franchise until IV which took 2 years, and then they tried to expand the audience by making it more story-focused with Untold.  But it was still being bought by the same core audience, it seems, since sales stayed exactly the same.



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Vena on 23 June 2014
Kresnik said:

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad thing.  They should be thankful they have such a dedicated fanbase which turns out to buy all the games.

It's just, Atlus seem to have been looking at expanding a lot of their stuff lately.  All the Persona animation/spinoff games.  They've tried to expand Etrian Odyssey, too.  It was a yearly franchise until IV which took 2 years, and then they tried to expand the audience by making it more story-focused with Untold.  But it was still being bought by the same core audience, it seems, since sales stayed exactly the same.


The development hop for IV would probably be the DS to 3DS generation change, and the need to redevelop base code with the new dev kits.

IV and Untold were, effectively, the same game which probably explains the lower sales of Untold (as well as its rather weak story... for being a story focused rendition). If they honestly are looking to expand (which I think is a generally valid thought for this franchise at least) then they need to really re-work some aspects of it rather than printing the same game with a larger numeral on the end or by slapping on a vestigal story. Otherwise it will mostly remain stagnant in appeal and sales.

In my opinion the games would be considerably improved without the tedious movement mechanics above all else. Its just not fluid the way its designed far and above the random encounter breakage which is still in the dated Nocturne-circle style. If they make the motion more fluid, I think the series would gain more appeal than trying to tack on stories without changing the core. I'm a  fan of the series and even I have started to find the mechanics tedious at this point.