Why isn’t the Square-Enix JRPG series “Dragon Quest” as popular in the United States as it is in Japan?
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Why isnt the Square-Enix JRPG series Dragon Quest as popular in the United States as it is in Japan?
Amurricans are moronic
Americ**ts like cowadooty and halo, and it’s loved by everyone in Japan from the wrinkliest granny to the smallest babe
ah, another day on Ganker, another classic game I haven't heard about before
let's see here:
>The basic premise of most Dragon Quest games is to play a hero (actually named "Hero" in spinoff fiction) who is out to save the land from peril at the hands of a powerful evil enemy, with the hero usually accompanied by a group of party members. Common elements persist throughout the series and its spinoff games: turn-based com-
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>he falls asleep at turn based combat
Americans everyone
Except while Japs were busy dumbing down their mind with babby's turn based, Americans were already playing actually good turn based like UFO Defense, Alpha Centauri, Civ, Masters of Orion, etc.
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let's see here:
>The Japanese approach to CRPGs or
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>hurr murica GOOD japs BAD
Go have a wet dream about yourself somewhere else!
They simply don't want to appeal to the west. It's a Japanese game appealing to Japanese culture. Not everything needs to be generic mass market appeals to the whole world. Some things are okay being treated as only a small national enjoyment.
I thought this board was against immigration and forced integration of other countries ideals?
>japanese game appealing to japanese culture
>based of European history and myth
>took heavy inspiration from American RPGs like Ultima and Wizardry
What the hell are you talking about?
Was overshadowed by pokemon and final fantasy i guess
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As far as technological and superficial bells and whistles go, it's always been behind Final Fantasy. Compare FF7 to DQ7.
And for decades, it's always been localized so late that it looked even more dated. It only just recently started to get earlier releases. By that point we were on 8/9, the former of which was probably too old school for audiences at the time, and the latter was a quirky multiplayer handheld game. Obviously we never got X
XI has done really well, though. It helps that a lot of the game was modernized, and honestly the Switch port with a Smash collab was a big boost.
It's gonna be really exciting to see what happens with 12 now that shittyama is dead and HORI wants to get edgy or whatever.
Also, DQ has cultural associations. The first game was popular cause it had Toriyama's art. The rest of the series has been popular because of brand recognition.
This trailer is amazing but it wouldn't make sense to a non-Japanese audience:
DQ 11 was great. I wished I could play other DQ games outside of emulation or owning the original game + console. I think the biggest problem this franchize has is that the older games simply arne't available on modern consoles or PC. At the very least they should do a remake of DQ 8 in the engine of DQ 11.
Let me guess, in order to play all the dragon quest games you need to own 20 different platforms most of which are outdated, you need to figure out which games are main games and which are spin offs and what order they're supposed to be in, some versions on x console will be radically different from another because some are just never updated, some will be remastered for a specific console and the remaster will never be released for another, etc etc
This is the same reason I don't bother with shit like SMT, Persona or the worst offender: Disageae
Jap devs are too incompetent for me to bother with their mediocre games that are always full of cringy dialogue and fanservice
Nailed it
low iq: the post
Cope all you want, if you're too incompetent to release the content of the disgaea 1 remaster on PC, on which you're selling an outdated version while pretending it's up to date, I'm never going to play any of your games, moron.
no one cares what games you play, "moron"
And yet you're here, coping hard when I tell the truth about why nobody plays your obscure series that will remain obscure forever: jap incompetence.
>you need to figure out which games are main games and which are spin offs
They're basically all self contained
You don't have to play the series at all before each installment.
Shut up and post Jade. I’d have my wicked way with her, if you know what I mean
They're incredibly bad/generic games but they've got the artist from dragonball working on them
GIVE US DQX YOU FRICKING ASSSSSSSHOLEEEEEEEEEES
>games have bongistani voice dubbing
Yeah not playing that shit
Unfortunately it's all thanks to FF7 and FF8. Both series introduced your edgy homosexual Protag, which then brainwashed American Youths into becoming obsessed with said characters of a similar design.
9 did shit despite being the best entry since 6, and then 10 came out and more brain rot occured.
Dragon Quest doesn't follow any of the nonsense that FF7, 8 and 10 did, yet subhumans obsess over the latter.
KH didn't help this either.
10 doesn’t feature an edgelord protagonist hero tho. Tidus is cheerful and naive while Yuna is happy to be traveling on her last journey with her closest friends.
Cloud isn't even really edgy in the og game either, that's some advent children started.
Dragon Warrior came out too late in the US to have any sort if lasting impact. Had they released it closer to the original Japanese release it would have been more novel but by 1989 it was already dated. The whole series post-Dragon Quest VII is mostly just catering to nostalgia for people who grew up with Dragon Quest whereas Final Fantasy tries to do something new with each entry, if you didn't grow up with Dragon Quest a lot of the retro-charm of the latter sequels will not be as appealing as whatever Final Fantasy is doing.
amerifats have shit taste simple as
Here's a hot take for all the fanboys in this thread. Dragon Quest just isn't that good compared to most other big JRPG series. It's telling that it took until XI to really start catching on, after Final Fantasy has been in the gutter for 15 years.
>It's telling that it took until XI to really start catching on
I'm pretty sure it took off during IX I remember there were commercials everywhere