/vr/ - Retro Games

Holy fucking SOVL!!!!!

How come Final Fantasy took off on this west but these games never did? They are so much better in terms of game design. As somone who grew up on Fallout, Diablo and Elder Scrolls and used to hate JRPGs, Dragon Quest has a lot more in common with those games. The fact that DQIII had fast travel, open worlds, day and night cycles and multiclassing way back in 1989 is insane. The writing is unironically better too. The creators understand how to deliver a story in as little text as possible. It's minimalism that serves to encourage the player to explore the world instead of forcing them to sit down and listen to someone elses fanfiction.

Chrono Trigger was great because it had the unique settings of the final fantasy games, but the gameplay loop was definitely Hori's doing.