Why don't the west like Dragon Quest?

Why don't the west like Dragon Quest?

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all look same

nip shit

Extremely generic series that more of a meme than anything in Japan, what's not to get?

Niche entry in a niche genre. Enix botched their attempts to market the game in the west, so few people had even heard of it for most of its life cycle. Personally, I spent the PS1's life cycle playing tons of JRPGs, but even I never ended up playing Dragon Quest VII and heard almost nothing about it. Even when Dragon Quest VIII proved successful, releases were so few and far between over here that interest in the franchise as a whole quickly died back down.

game sucks idiot

they're fun, have charismatic characters and have soul, as simple they may be. westoids are not interested in that

>2019
>turn based combat

Don't forget that western releases often have gotten screwed over in various ways. So that is also a bit of a evil cycle. Bad Localization>People Don't Buy Inferior Product>Bad Sales>Bad Localization.

And really, im sure they don't even want DQ to be successful in the west anyway when all things are considered.

Personally I dislike the character designs
I literally did not buy 11 because of them. I liked 8 though.

Same thing with the side games like rocket slime and monsters.
Here's some magazine ads, that'll be enough, people will know about our game!

but i do, just I already own it on NES, why would I buy 10 more copies?

The only DQ game I liked and frankly loved is DQB. Otherwise, DQ just seems bland. Also, fucking hate the midi music and terribad Toriyama designs.

It's all sequential right? Like each game isn't stand alone, and the story continues off of the last?
I imagine that's kind of a barrier to entry. Having to play 10 other games just to play the one you want.

Especially when you factor in casuals and their aversion to older graphics, and JRPG's in general.

Check out the other side series if you haven't, monsters in particularly is great.

Rocket Slime is the best DQ game, and it's not even a mainline game.
>3rd game never ever ;_;

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No

Its shit

You and your opinion is shit.
kys.

Westoids are retarded animals interested in action shit or cinematic garbage.

they should rename is dragon qweast cause nobody in the qwest plays it

Joker 2 released like a year into the 3DS's life cycle with no advertising whatsoever. On top of that, Japan got the fucking Pro version that added a significant amount of content, months before the regular version released in the west. They wanted it to fail.

Go to bed dad

DQ is for kids
Final Fantasy is for teens
SMT is for adults

Stop making these DQ games so tedious, childish and repetitive and maybe they will succeed outside of Japan.

It would be cool if they rename Switch version to Echoes of eXClusive Age

Why is Square so bad at marketting in the west? Same Reason Deus EX MD had a big controversy with it's ''augment your pre-order'' bullshit

THIS
but in all seriousness if DQ had a better character/monster designs and replaced that god awful music with something isn't painful to hear for +30 hours of playthrough it would be more popular

playing DQ III and already getting sick of having to spend 15 minutes doing repetitive grinding every time I step into a slightly different area

switch DQ with FF
and i agree SMT is for the big boys only

I know it all too well, Joker 2 is easily one of my favorite games.

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SMT is textbook edgy teenager fare.

Dragon Quest is a fucking baby series with gameplay straight out of the late 80s, because the damn thing copied Ultima 2 and somehow dumbed that down even further, and then never evolved the game since. They're stuck thirty years in the past and think rehashing the same baby's first RPG will fly elsewhere in the world.

This is the same bullshit where the idiot at Square wanted "Final Fantasy USA / Mystic Quest" made because he somehow forgot that Japan got RPGs from Americans who have vastly more complex cRPGs than they do and didn't give much of a fuck about FF/DQ because they looked like shit compared to the actual M&M/Wizardry/Ultima/D&D computer RPGs.
What a surprise that Japan does the same thing to Wizardry, constantly mimicking Wizardry 3 without ever leaving their comfort zone, meanwhile Wiz 6 7 and 8 were massive leaps and bounds ahead. Every Jap spinoff that has come out since Sir-Tech sold it off to Acquire is the same boring shit I played thirty years ago.

Nobody likes Dragon Quest because it is fucking archaic in the worst ways. Plain, lame gameplay, no depth to interactions. Fuck Dragon Quest. What a surprise that FF actually tried evolving and mixing things up over the decades and became popular because of giving people something relatively unique and fun.

FF is almost as bad, it's just DQ but taking itself seriously

Over 600k in 2 months overseas is not bad at all, definitely over 1 million at this point.

So the west does like Dragon Quest.

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It's not that the west doesn't like it, it's that western retailers refuse to carry it.

Is this a copypasta? Stinks like one.

FF is kids
SMT is teens
DQ is adults

Most ff and smt fags couldnt even beat dq8 due to the high difficulty and lack of hand holding.

Because Japan largely ignored the western audience with DQ and instead pushed FF. Also, DQ is an institution in Japan so no figures in the west would ever approach it comparatively.

>dq8
>high difficulty
he didn't play Nocturne and DDS

Because it's generic weeb garbage. The biggest fact is the art style is DBZ shit.

>extremely generic
because it started everything you brainlet nigger
that's like saying Astro Boy, Akira, Evangelion, Suzumiya Haruhi or SAO are extremely generic

>it started everything
actually it copied Wizardy

I didn't even know the series existed until I played a rom hack of one of the gameboy games in high school in the early 2000s and I don't remember much about it. Now days I only give a shit about the porn the series has, So poor marketing in the west?

>dumbed down crpg
>"started everything"

>nipclick "press A to win" gayrpgs
Weabboos are fucking retarded

I didn't buy it because it's very twee, no violence or sexy females. Literally felt like a disney cartoon or something.

The only thing SAO started was another wave of shit anime adaptations.

Pretty much every DQ player is a school kid. They had to change the release day for DQ games because too many kids were skipping school to buy them on release.

Seethe harder weebs, your games are made for elementary school children.

Was revolutionary in the east because it introduced RPGs, something that had been in the west for decades prior. Series survives off nostalgia now, which the west doesn't have for that reason.

JRPGs are old school crpgs but extremely simplified and much lower difficulty. They're the original cinematic experience.

All the designs are designed by the DQ creators Toriyama just drew them in his style

>muttclick “mash/hold left mouse to win” gayrpgs
RPGs are just shit

enix screwed the pooch in localization and never fostered a healthy relationship with the consumer base until at least 2005, long after their merger with Square. Franchise is the literal embodiment of why you should strike while the iron is hot.

You can say that about every piece of art
Yeah it was influenced by Ultima and Wizardry but without Dragon Quest JRPG's wouldn't be a thing

SAO started the whole Isekai cancer (inb4 some retard says something similar like the retards I'm responding to above, yes it wasn't the first Isekai but without it we would't get 6 Isekais every season since 2012)

>but without Dragon Quest JRPG's wouldn't be a thing
you say that like it's a good thing

SAO made the situation worse, it didn't start it.

Because it has anime graphics and very traditional gameplay

Didn't SAO start the whole "Stuck in a game" trend rather than the Isekai trend? They are different trends

>80+ hour game
>brainlessly easy, "difficulty" modifiers pretty much just adjusting grind time like Darkest Dungeon
>MIDI music
>even if you fix it they just play the same fucking song\ for every fucking area and the overworld/battle theme are the worst (one of them is like 3 minutes long too so it just loops and loops and loops and loops)
>can't customize appearance of MC aside from armor sets but still 0 personality silent protagonist
It's just not fun. I tried, 40 hours of fucking trying.

DQ has only sold in the west when it was competently marketed.
When Nintendo marketed DQIX that shit sold hard.
DQ11 is gonna sell a ton, just watch.

Wasn't that .hack originally anyways?

Who gives a fuck what the west likes? Johnny Millenium loves this series and that's the only thing that matters

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It's called "stagnation". An original idea gets stale after 30 years.

It's a boring ass series in every aspect that dumb down some shit it stole from the west, doesn't help that it looks like discount Dragonball cause Toriyama has the least flexible style out there so it loses part of its identity
The only thing it has going for it is being first, but naturally something else would've came along and did the same shit it did. Like if Astro boy didn't ripoff Disney animation something else would eventually

Taking inspiration from something and make another thing from scratch with different artstyle to biot isn't copying. Genshin Impact to BOTW, now that IS copying.

This
They look so fucking ugly