/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6652238]

Why do the japs love this franchise so much? What makes it different from the others?

[Anonymous No.6652241]

It's good

[Anonymous No.6652242]

>>6652238
>Why do the japs love this franchise so much?
Autism, unironically.

[Anonymous No.6652249]

>>6652238
Why do the japs loved*

[Anonymous No.6652250]

play DQVIII and see for yourself

[Anonymous No.6652271]

>>6652250
It's a shit game but it's got cute anime graphics and tons of quantity over quality content?

[Anonymous No.6652285]

>>6652238
History

[Anonymous No.6652286]

>>6652238
>What makes it different from the others?

Nothing, that's why.
DQ is considered the OG and japs value tradition above all.

[Anonymous No.6652291]

Because it was basically pokemon before pokemon. I don't mean that it had monster collecting ( though they did add that in DQV ) but the fact that it was an easy as shit to learn battle system, iconic and recognizable enemies that didn't change in design between games, and gave that same sense of "Exploring with your bros" that pokemon fans use when explaining why they like the series so much. Toriyama's art was also pretty damn iconic over there even before Dragon Ball.

[Anonymous No.6652317]

Why are you seemingly so annoyed by the fact people might like something, anon?

[Anonymous No.6652392]

>>6652317
That's just 4chan culture man. Or have you missed all the soijack spam?

[Anonymous No.6652436]

No game over. When you die your character awakens in the nearest town, only lost some money but not the loot or experience found.

[Anonymous No.6652437]

>>6652238
decent early RPG combined with dragon ball z artist. like most things, people at the right place at the right time is enough to be a cultural event

[Anonymous No.6652441]

>>6652317
OP is just asking why the franchise is so loved in Japan, no need to be so defensive

[Anonymous No.6652457]

>>6652436
This! I laugh everytime people claim the NES DQ games (or Mother/Earthbound Zero) are unforgiving... they're pretty manageable once you understand that you don't lose any EXP points. In the case of Mother it's even less punishing because you only lose the money you currently have on the pocket, as all of your $$ goes straight to your bank account.
Most people are huge pussies when it comes to 8-bit RPGs, they get intimidated by the high encounter rate, not realizing battles are very quick and take a lot less times than in later generations, especially during the CD era when on top of random encounters, there was loading times and long ass unskippable attack animations.

[Anonymous No.6652462]

>>6652437
>decent early RPG combined
More like the first console RPG you absolute fucking nonce

[Anonymous No.6652492]

>>6652457
Basically in DQ you wont waste your time if you Game Over. Which makes exploring fun instead of dangerous. Now compare that to FF when dying is like reseting the game to the last save.

[Anonymous No.6652501]

>>6652462
Not even close.

[Anonymous No.6652512]

DQ feels far more immersive than some of the flashier RPGs like Final Fantasy. Something about it captures the sense of immersion into a world that one finds when reading a good book. Look at all the fan art and what people pay attention to when displaying a world one can imagine being in
that you don't see as much of with Final Fantasy or other fanart. Something about the colorful landscapes, the way the fantasy world could work, then, that quality being conveyed in fantasy and isekai manga often with DQ parodies as if to reference the essence of that fantasy environment and then, with more modern games like DQXI, here, that world becomes fully detailed as if it had existed all along in those sprites, being painted by the imagination with each step of the hero's journey.

[Anonymous No.6652550]

They like the art.

[Anonymous No.6652561]

>>6652462
maybe for you nipnip

[Anonymous No.6652581]

>>6652238
I think the series was a perfect storm of sorts to attract life-long customers.
>One of the first (the first?) console RPG
>Toriyama's art lending itself to the imaginations of players to connect crude blocky graphics to chibified characters
>A professionally composed soundtrack in a generation of bleeps and bloops

And then maybe most importantly, once they attracted a fan base they didn't screw it up by trying to change the formula too drastically.

[Anonymous No.6652614]

>>6652581
The biggest change was from 1 to 2 where you now had multiple characters to control. DQ knows what it is and doesn't try to experiment every iteration like Final Fantasy does, which is why DQ is consistently better than FF

[Anonymous No.6652642]

>>6652581
fuck how could i forget how amazing the music was? i was so offended when my fellow westerners insulted the "midi" music in the new game and had it rerecorded as bland orchestral shit.

[Anonymous No.6653112]

>>6652581
>One of the first (the first?) console RPG
Hydlide Special came out two months earlier.
There had been RPGs on previous consoles like Dragon Stomper for the VCS+Starpath Supercharger or AD&D Treasure of Tarmin for Intellivision but they weren't released in Japan as far as I know.

[Anonymous No.6653114]

>>6652238
Honestly it's just nice to have an old-style jrpg that never goes outlandishly far from its core design principles. A steady rock in the constantly changing tides of the industry

[Anonymous No.6653295]

>>6652238
Harems

[Anonymous No.6653340]

>>6652642
The original MIDI in XI is objectively inferior. Sugiyama is solely to blame for the MIDI/orchestrated debacle.

[Anonymous No.6653852]

>>6652238
Japs love grinding worthless enemies for hours.

[Anonymous No.6654071]

>>6653852
>be jap
>grind for 12 hours on your job
>go home
>grind 4 hours dragon quest
>sleep 6 hours
>repeat for the next 50 years
Paradise.

[Anonymous No.6654341]

>>6654071
>go home
No, you have to go drinking with the boss first.

[Anonymous No.6654357]

>>6654071
Unironically paradise because at least you grind for a sense of achievement and progression, it's established that. If you hate grinding in your job I'll be happy to take your job from you man, I need the money.