The console RPG is a strange and dying breed—longtime players have high standards when held against the classics they grew up playing, and new players can find themselves bored with overly-high production values and confusing gameplay. There’s definitely a market for the games out there, but they can be an extremely hard bunch to reel in. Idea Factory and Compile Heart have taken a strange move by making one for an extremely specific audience, and NIS of America has made an even stranger and riskier move by bringing it to the states. Is Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 for you, or is this one you should leave on the game store shelf?
So many great games, so many franchises saved by developers revisiting exactly what it is players want. Hopefully, other developers wallowing in mediocrity can look to these games as blueprints for what they should do going forward.
Oprainfall interviews the translation staff at Idea Factory International about how they tackle localization.
Michibiku's Jenni Lada writes, "Hyperdimension Neptunia is huge. It’s a massive series that covers tons of games, all of which are sort of connected? Though also not really, because quite a few are spin-offs and non-canon. It’s a lot to take in, to be sure. With Megadimension Neptunia VII on the horizon, we here at Michibiku felt like we should offer an overview of the main series’ installments."
"The console RPG is a strange and dying breed'
false
"longtime players have high standards"
no they dont
"when held against the classics they grew up playing"
aka rose colored fanboy glasses
"and new players can find themselves bored with overly-high production values and confusing gameplay."\\
So gamers dont like complex gameplay?
Let me educate this review.................
Console rpgs are fewer in number this gen because consoles arent numbers 1,2 in japan this gen............
If they are next gen, then you will see them in even more numbers..............but as it stands considering the consoles position we are seeing the most rpgs IN HISTORY
Nothing is dying. When or if they do I'll stop playing video games.