/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9191154
>How come Final Fantasy took off on this west but these games never did?

Enix quickly gave up on the US market after the NES, despite Dragon Warrior games doing well there and *were* in Nintendo Power's top games all the time, it apparently wasn't enough and all the pencil pushers on every side of the world seemed to believe that westerners didn't want RPGs, they only wanted action games.

And, Enix never settled in Europe. The language(s) barrier probably didn't help over there (having to translate to various languages, and manufacturing a different version of the cartridge per country, that just was NOT done at the time); still I find it crazy that countries like France in which Dragon Ball was a religion since the late 80's, never attempted to bring DQ there until DQ8.

Anyway DQ8 is my second favourite after 2. It certainly nails the exploration factor just right. I just finished playing 11 and despite modern tropes that bring the game down, it managed to remain DQ and could have been one of the bests in the series except for the fact that it suffers from a big DQ7 syndrome, aka "We swear we have a 100+ hours campaign!! ... by forcing the player to re-do the same shit two-three times!"