Gahars said:
Jeez, Machomuu. You're acting as if he insulted your mother or something.
Just look at the facts. Of course we don't have the final game in our hands, but everything Square-Enix has been saying hasn't sounded too good. An online focused game in a series that has, up to this point, only been a single player experience on a Nintendo console that will force players to pay a monthly fee, even if they don't want to play online? Right after SE's disastrous XIV and the very meh XI?
Yeah, I think the concern is very justified.
As for the Level-5 thing, they've only made two games, but they were the two most recent, very well received games (Some of the best received games in the series, if I'm not mistaken). Pulling a good team after success like that just isn't a good sign.
I get wanting to support a company when they are going for a "new direction", but that doesn't change the simple facts of the matter. Sometimes, you have to call an obvious blunder for what it is.
The thing is, I don't like DQ, really. I've tried multiple games, couldn't get into it. I'm sick of this bawwing over a game they haven't played yet.
Now, that would be all fine and good if what they were saying wasn't judging based on looks and not because the game looks genuinely bad, but in most cases in this thread it is, and that pisses me off.
Plus, all of the other games also did great, it's merely the fact that a game is DQ and follows the formula that sells (apparently), DQ games generally do great commercially.
Also, FFXI (made by Square, not SE) may not have done the greatest, but it did pretty well and was a pretty solid game. Sure, XIV sucked, but XI was pretty good.
