/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3627146
I do agree that newcomers to the series shouldn't be forced to learn Japanese right away. That seems like an unnecessary learning wall that will just drive people away from the series. However, I do have a message for the rest of you in this thread:

The unfortunate reality is that if you're a hardcore Dragon Quest fan and have been for a while, you absolutely should be learning Japanese by this point. Regardless of all the accent and pun localization woes. There was a four year gap in Dragon Quest games between Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 and Dragon Quest Heroes (unless you count mobile shit, which I don't), while Japan got over five new Dragon Quest games in that time.

Need I remind you that we got the inferior version of Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 six months after Joker 2 Professional was already RELEASED in Japan? And then we never got Joker 2 Professional. And we never will. There are so many spinoffs that we're never going to get now, including Rocket Slime 3, Dragon Quest Monsters 1+2 3DS, Dragon Quest Monsters Victory Road, etc. We'll be lucky if we even get Joker 3. Fan translations aren't perfectly reliable either, since Terry's Wonderland 3D took four years to come out.

Face it, you're going to miss out on lots of Dragon Quest games if you continue playing the western games. Hell, you're going to miss out on a mainline game, since Dragon Quest X is never, EVER, coming out here. And you're going to have to wait a long time for the localizations anyway (Dragon Quest VII 3DS took 3 years to localize).

There is an unfortunate stigma that you need to study Japanese for years and years before you can even touch a Japanese game, but that's completely false. Not to mention you're going to burn out if you just stare at flash cards all day. After taking a little bit of time to understand the basics of Japanese, just start playing a game you enjoy or want to play in Japanese and start learning in depth from there. It's that simple.