@Johan: FFIV is more than 10 years old game and it´s been used in every FF until X. People didn´t complain about it being old . CTB was more near to a traditional turn-based system, it actually didn´t play much differently than DQVIII. Overpowered is no fun to me, it takes out all the fun.

And you're a douche bag who says things without providing any argument.  I hate dissing you because of your Bruce Campbell icon.  But yeh DQ makes the same game over and over like madden.  Provide an argument back perhaps.

When FFIX came out, FFIV wasn't a 10 year old game. They both came out in the 90's.

Largely, I suspect, because fewer Westerners like the slower, more methodical pace of DQ games. They want non-stop ZOMGACTION, and other series have moved to provide that.

@Pyramid Head

That's funny, I've played most of the DQ games, and I could swear that I was playing different games..!

youre easily impressed

I'm sorry for calling you an idiot. I had written a response, but decided to delete everything and go with the idiot comment cause I knew you probably wouldn't listen, seeing you called an entire genre "lame", based only on personal taste.

You're obviously not a fan, so when you criticise the genre, you're not trying to be constructive, you're trying to feel like you have superior taste than all the people who buy the game. Fans of the genre are allowed to criticise it, cause they want to see the genre grow. Haters of the genre like yourself want to see it crash and burn. They should just not comment.

Honestly, I think the game just has the perception of being dated. And I can't speak for Japan, but Western society in general is fast paced and perhaps the slow pace doesn't appeal to them. Different cultural sensibilities?

You make a good point.  I was being a hater.

I do like some JRPGS like Chrono Trigger, and the more tactical ones like J'eanne Darc.  I guess I meant the melodramatic ones with simple fighting.

How man? Outside of the first two bosses, the game was a cakewalk.

But I will say that Toriyama character designs are getting old and annoying.