Dragon quest is not releva-

The better question is why do Japanese people pretend to like dorakue
Because it is only popular in Japan because they didn't have D&D, Ultima, Wizardry, or even Tolkien novels; so, in Japan it was seen as new and original despite being a shitty bootleg with LE EPIC SO FUNNY TORIYAMA SMIRK LE ART

The real reason? The original NES games were released way way too late in the west and thus there’s no nostalgia. I guarantee if DQ3 was released in 88 in the west, it would be close to Japan’s popularity.

junk food of RPGs

>forgetting crono and neku

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>next dragon quest monster game is a full console game
>dq warriors and dq builders series resounding successes
>dq11se on the horizon

all that needs to happen is a dq10 release for the west andndq chads will have finally won.

>online DQ
Yuck. Japan can keep it

>repeat the same game with incremental improvements and flair
>DUDE WHAT IF, GET THIS, IT'S ALL MASHING LOL
Westerners have shit taste. Just look at the top selling games in Europe.

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Outside Japan it's really not.

Well they DID have RPGs, but only people with computers played them, which was a very small market. Hell, Falcom started as an Apple II seller and Kiya stated that he played Ultima and Wizardry.

5 and 6 were not released in the west until the DS, so the west only got 4 for NES and then 7 for PS, with the occasional spinoff. Europe started with DQ8.

>because they didn't have D&D, Ultima, Wizardry
Imagine being this uninformed

Speaking as someone who got into the series only after the June direct, its got a pretty rough localization history and poor timing on its release. By the time it came out here, didn't the games it inspired already got localized and released in the West?

The main appeal is also often described as "JRPG comfort food" which is a harder sell when the West isn't really that hot on traditional JRPGs to begin with.

Real talk? Why is meme fire emblem ball Z in over Sora?

>no neku

it's a great mmo.

The localization process was trash. Mother struggled with the same thing.
I'm playing the Super Famicom ver of DQ3 and I can totally see this having been a big hit in the west had it ever actually come out.

Japan had those games. The japs kept Wizardry seriea afloat at some point.
DQ was directly inspired by Ultima and Wizardry, but with an eye towards making it accessable and fun to a mass audience. DQ is the reason the RPG genre broke from the niche in Japan, contrasting with the west where it remained relatively niche for a long while.

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You will never be taken seriously.

>no gex
>no marina liteyears

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>Sakurai said he didn’t think Smash was big enough to have DQ in it and it’s his dream.

Imagine being BTFO this hard Soracucks.

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Dragon Quest was only played by that one weird kid who you always saw in the library for some reason. Not much to woo nostalgic boners for

How is Dragon Quest 11? I need a good RPG to sink me in for awhile.

Good game to play if you want to see if the series is for you.

because they refused to release the snes remakes of the nes games here and the ds remakes of nes games like dq 4 suck dick because of removed features like party chat

they even cut sprite animations out of the mobile remakes for some reason

just retarded decision after retarded decision

Great starting point for new Dragon Quest players.

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I head the voice overs were kind of annoying and that it's best to turn voice audio off and just read the text. What would you say?

I found the VA to be fine. But unless the VA is actually bad I don't really complain. If you are planning on getting the Switch version there's going to be Japanese VA that the other versions don't have.

sylvando was annoying and eric sounds weird but the rest are all pretty much fine, rab is pretty good

Dragon Quest is a series that's built primarily on nostalgia and familiarity.
The problem for non-Japanese people is that they originally never got the chance to play half the games because they never got localized, so the franchise's main draw has little to no relevance to them. Hell, Europe's first DQ game was VIII.

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because it never gets released in the west.

What's so bad about that?

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Banjo also got in so that never was a factor.