Does every Japanese Dev have a long running RPG series?

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SmokedHostage on 28 December 2008

Sega has Shining Force as well as Phantasy Star.

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piggychan on 28 December 2008

Hudson Soft have - Tengai Makyou aka far east of eden series

sega also have - Sakura Taisen aka Sakura wars

Camelot have the Shining games

Game Arts have grandia and Lunar games

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outlawauron on 28 December 2008

Sony also has the Wild Arms series.

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bigjon on 28 December 2008

I was talking mainline series

forgot about sony lol, the Did Legend of Dragoon which I like alot in addition to those already mentioned.

Also who made the Lufia series, that was very good.

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lufia 1 and 2 were developed by neverland if memory serves correct and published by taito

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patjuan32 on 29 December 2008

zexen_lowe said:

bigjon said:

It has always seemed that way, but is it true?

Square- Final Fantasy

Enix- Dragon Quest

Capcom- Breath of Fire (now they have MH instead it seems)

Nintendo- Fire Emblem and Pokemon for portables

Sega- Phantasy Star

Namco- Tales

Konami- ??? are they left out? do they make Suikoden?

I quess I was just thinking about this the other day, it seems kinda funny how they like to make everything in a series... Even though none of the games are releated at all (unless it is FFX-2 or ToS:DotnW) And it seems really only square makes alot of non-mainline RPGs (Chrono, Vagrant Story, SoM, etc) ok Enix had Star Ocean too.

(just a disclaimer, I do realize that Square and Enix have merged, I was just seperating them for old times sake)

Yes, they do make Suikoden...and they still keep making it (Suikoden Tierkreis released last week). They do a better job with RPGs than any other company, I might add

To add more:

Atlus: Shin Megami Tensei
Nippon Ichi: Disgaea
Gust: Atelier
Sony: Arc the Lad/Dark Cloud/PoPoLoCrois

Level 5 actually develops Dark Cloud

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The Anarchyz on 29 December 2008

Talking about Level-5, they develop for Sony and Square Enix, but they also do their independent titles, and one of them is converting into a RPG series, i'm talking about Inazuma Eleven, they have 1 and 2 for the DS and break for the Wii...

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Splenda14 on 29 December 2008

Sony owns Dark Cloud IP and Rogue Galaxy so i guess those are there RPG now its WKC

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leatherhat on 29 December 2008

Too add

Konami does have suikoden

and sony has wild arms plus the level 5 stuff/ arc the lad

so yeah pretty much every major japanese publisher has a jrpg series

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zexen_lowe on 29 December 2008

patjuan32 said:

zexen_lowe said:

bigjon said:

It has always seemed that way, but is it true?

Square- Final Fantasy

Enix- Dragon Quest

Capcom- Breath of Fire (now they have MH instead it seems)

Nintendo- Fire Emblem and Pokemon for portables

Sega- Phantasy Star

Namco- Tales

Konami- ??? are they left out? do they make Suikoden?

I quess I was just thinking about this the other day, it seems kinda funny how they like to make everything in a series... Even though none of the games are releated at all (unless it is FFX-2 or ToS:DotnW) And it seems really only square makes alot of non-mainline RPGs (Chrono, Vagrant Story, SoM, etc) ok Enix had Star Ocean too.

(just a disclaimer, I do realize that Square and Enix have merged, I was just seperating them for old times sake)

Yes, they do make Suikoden...and they still keep making it (Suikoden Tierkreis released last week). They do a better job with RPGs than any other company, I might add

To add more:

Atlus: Shin Megami Tensei
Nippon Ichi: Disgaea
Gust: Atelier
Sony: Arc the Lad/Dark Cloud/PoPoLoCrois

Level 5 actually develops Dark Cloud

I know that, but if we go by that, then we should take out Dragon Quest by Enix, since not a single DQ was actually developed by them

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