It’s unlikely Dragon Quest will ever be as popular in the US as it is in Japan, where an urban legend persists that new entries are released on Sundays so that kids won’t skip school to buy them. But the hope is that by increasing the visibility of the series — through releasing a combination of ports and spinoffs, in addition to the main DQ games — Square Enix will be able to make Dragon Quest a more globally prominent franchise.
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Two 3DO games recently reissued by Limited Run Games, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and D, appear to have a major problem, according to customers.
D was a great, atmospheric horror game. It was worth the rental back in the day. Also, Limited Run Games sucks.
LRG are just glorified overpriced reproductions.... and now they can't even get that last part right. I make better repros using my own stack of CD-R.
Just don’t. 3DO games were the worst. Imagine paying premium prices for a dog-crap version of a game. The era of barely trying or understanding their own tech and charging asinine prices… 3DN0. It’s best that you don’t admit that you had one of these.
The 3DO was ahead of its time and one of the first to enter the 32 bit console space. Yes FMV games are awful, but at the time there was a real thirst for games to look like movies. Removing the FMV games the 3DO had Gex, a solid Myst port, and was often the best place to play non-SNK (best on NEO GEO) near arcade perfect arcade ports. Their downfall was poor marketing and a high price point for a time when consoles were considered to be kids toys.
It was certainly superior to the “64 bit” Jaguar, which was falsely advertised as stronger hardware and had one of the worst console controllers in history.
Limited Run Games makes me sick. The prices they ask are ridiculous and then the whole burning discs instead of pressing them is pretty disgusting. This is a company that takes their customers for a ride and demands extortion level prices for a product, like we’re talking 2x to 3x more than MSRP.
Brendan writes; "Head of digital product development Dan Ayoub tells us about the toy maker's plans to get back in the game."
it was successful on the DS in America, if anything article should talk about why Sony struggle to make it relevant, when the DS, 3DS line bring so many sales to Dragon Quest series.....that the whole series can be played on the 3ds from 1 to 11
I've been a fan since it was known as Dragon Warrior over here. One of my favorite games from my childhood.
* I love Dragon Quest. DQ 9 was the game that got me hooked on Dragon Quest and rpgs.
I'm really looking forward to playing Dragon Quest XI, and it's my most wanted game to come over to the U.S. that at the moment is still Japan only.
If we got DQ Heroes 1 & 2, which are spin-off side games of the DQ series, then I'm pretty sure we have a good chance of getting DQXI state side.
We just got DQ 7&8 as well.