Firstly. I guess SQUARE are on a casual quest.
Secondly, IN B4 Bortzy's salty tears after hearing the news.
You stop that! I'm not gonna cry!
I'm not gonna... gonna...
/runs away
Firstly. I guess SQUARE are on a casual quest.
Secondly, IN B4 Bortzy's salty tears after hearing the news.
There is arguably a lack of games of similar scope on mobile phones, dragon quest never made it that big outside Japan and is huge within it (way beyond the point of having a self sustaining fanbase) and people have demonstrated time and time again they are willing to rebuy old games, to say nothing of people having not played it before.
How dare they indeed!
Besides, I'm sure I'm not the only one who hates gaming on phones.
Do you know why that is? Because Square Enix has a terrible marketing team that couldn't tell their heads from their own asses. They continue to belch out Final Fantasy games let and right all the while they try and promote the crap out of games that get less then stellar reviews, meanwhile they completely ignore the Dragon Quest franchise from a marketing standpoint and expect it to sell internationally. Well, if you don't market it, of course it's not going to sell. Maybe instead of pumping all their marketing funds into rehashes of Final Fantasy games and more crappy Kingdom Hearts games, they should market Dragon Quest which has a cult following internationally but is never properly promoted to sell like Final Fantasy.
People aren't going to buy ports of old games on mobile devices when the franchise has very little recognition outside of the hardcore old school gaming audience who have played Dragon Quest since it's early days. Final Fantasy is a recognized and overly promoted brand, Dragon Quest is not. Herein lies the stupidity that porting games that aren't at all recognized by casuals, and would be a waste of resources when the hardcore gamer's want translations of games that many have not played and many have wanted a quality remake of for the last few years. Square Enix doesn't give a flying fuck about their devoted fans and continue to think $$$$$$ with everything they do rather then considering what the fans want.
Because 3DS and Vita are known for having a lengthy battery life?
Kingdom Hearts has, including re-releases such as HD:Except Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts sell more than Dragon Quest and also have infinitely more western appeal than Dragon Quest does.
Also they developed and put out Dragon Quest IX and X recently so the whole "They ignore Dragon Quest!" argument is pretty bullshit. It just doesn't have as many spinoffs as Final Fantasy. And the Final Fantasy spinoffs are awesome so they should keep making them.
Also there's all of um... like 7 Kingdom Hearts games? I, II, CoM, Re: CoM, 358/2, Re:coded, and BBS?
How dare they indeed!
Besides, I'm sure I'm not the only one who hates gaming on phones.
Except Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts sell more than Dragon Quest and also have infinitely more western appeal than Dragon Quest does.
Also they developed and put out Dragon Quest IX and X recently so the whole "They ignore Dragon Quest!" argument is pretty bullshit. It just doesn't have as many spinoffs as Final Fantasy. And the Final Fantasy spinoffs are awesome so they should keep making them.
Also there's all of um... like 7 Kingdom Hearts games? I, II, CoM, Re: CoM, 358/2, Re:coded, and BBS?
Dragon Quest titles aren't even famous among hardcore gamers and they decide to port it for cellphones.
What the hell they have in mind? Do they think casual public will support such ignored franchise?
In my opinion, they should be localizing Dragon Quest Monsters 3D and Dragon Quest VII,
and marketing the hell out of it, that would be the best chance to make the franchise more known, at least for now.
That font is way too bright to be reading at 3am... anywhoo:Aaaawwwwww YEAH! I just hope that these games can be played in landscape. I refuse to play Dragon Quest 8 in portrait mode. Especially since I would want to play it on my OUYA! I can already play 1-4 on my Wii via NES emulation and 7 on my OUYA via PSOne emulation. I'm still confused as to what platforms were 5 & 6 released for.
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A turn-based, menu driven RPG on a touch screen? How could they?!
How exactly does a game that has been screwed up so many times in the last decade have more appeal then a franchise that sticks to tradition and it's roots? Final Fantasy stopped being good after 10 while Dragon Quest continues to be consistent rather then trying to reinvent the bloody wheel with every iteration. And again, Dragon Quest sales have dropped off because of poor marketing in the west, not because it isn't good, especially with the
lack of RPG's being released year to year. If Square wants to give DQ more exposure, then they damn well have to market it properly. I remember seeing a reasonable campaign for 8 and 9 respectively, but they did nothing for the Monsters games or any of the DS remakes, and yet they wonder why they don't sell. Don't screw the die hard fans just because like every other corporation all they see is 'dolla dolla bills yo!' with every game they make. And people wonder why the gaming industry is stagnating, because companies out of Japan are too chicken shit to localize games and advertise them and no one wants to innovate or make a great game, everything is just average and lacking in freshness.
All they care about is money and the largest demographic, even if it doesn't make sense. Here is a wise idea, how about an HD remastered version of the first 8 games for the Wii U, Xbone and PS4? If they want to hit as many players as possible, would not releasing a collection for consoles also be a good idea?
Anyway, the 3DS still doesn't have a huge market outside of Japan yet compared to the DS, maybe when it seems more lucrative for them to translate the games they will do so.
It's not like Square is forcing you to buy the games, I like Tablet/Smartphone gaming, lots of great gems.
This custom font shlock needs to end - there were instances of members getting officially warned for using them and LightyKD shouldn't be an exception. Unless there's a good reason to use a custom fonts, for God's sake don't use'em.That font is way too bright to be reading at 3am...