Eteric Rice
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You know what would be awesome? Dragon Quest Tactics.
With 20% more Slimes. :lol
With 20% more Slimes. :lol
Enix of America #1 started by releasing Dragon Warrior 1-4 on the NES. Then they relased all sorts of good games on the SNES, like Actraiser, Soul Blaser, Illusion of Gaia, The 7th Saga, Brainlord, Robotrek, Paladin's Quest, and Ogre Battle.jaundicejuice said:Wait, what? Are we talking spin-offs (like that Slime game--didn't that become Rocket Slime for the DS?) or were some of the earlier entries in the main series remade/re-released on the GBA in Japan?
It was on ps2.ruby_onix said:the Fushigi no Dungeon starring DQ8's Yangus on the PSP
MasterMFauli said:YEAH, come to the west!
GeneralIroh said:I dont think the artist drew his signature with white paint.
GeneralIroh said:I dont think the artist drew his signature with white paint.
Eteric Rice said:You know what would be awesome? Dragon Quest Tactics.
With 20% more Slimes. :lol
ruby_onix said:Then Enix of Japan shut them down for not making "Dragon Quest" amounts of money, and we missed out on games like Dragon Warrior 5&6, Star Ocean, and the Dragon Quest 1&2 and 3 SNES remakes.
ruby_onix said:Then Enix merged with Square and shut down Enix of America #2, giving their job to Square of America, despite Square having just broken off ties with EA and having no infrastructure or accomplishments (with Final Fantasy's success being due primarily to Sony and EA). The Dragon Warrior 4 remake was cancelled, with a deliberate effort to blame it on Heartbeat, and not SquareEnix's lack of interest.
jarrod said:Finally... Sqeenix USA seems to be taking their sweet time with the Enix properties still though. I guess we'll see DQIX sometime in 2009 then. :/
I'm also a little surprised not to see any FFCC announcements? I thought for sure they'd be co-produced for closer western releases (given FFCC was far, far more successful in the west). No Wii releases in 2007 seems pretty short sighted too, especially with Last Remnant coming on the HD twins.
True... it likely had more to do with DW7 tanking than anything. Heartbeat made for a nice scapegoat though, given they ceased to exist by that point.FoneBone said:You have a point overall... but the localization of DQIV was axed well before the merger happened.
Possible, though the original was published by Nintendo in all regions (being a Q-fund product). That's not really the case with the DS/Wii sequels.Zierath said:I think Nintendo may be publishing the FFCC games in NA. Nintendo published the GC FFCC in NA so I wouldn't be surpised if they do the same for the newer titles.
I kind of thought it was a combination.jarrod said:True... it likely had more to do with DW7 tanking than anything. Heartbeat made for a nice scapegoat though, given they ceased to exist by that point.
There has been some controversy with Dragon Warrior VII's sales figures due to a Yahoo! Japan article and the charts on The Magic Box. If Enix of Japan/America does not publicly release their sales figures, where do these numbers come from?
If you find the article on yahoo it is credited to an unnamed source like a month or 2 after the US release and doesnt factor in the upcoming holiday sales. What is funny though is the life this topic has taken on hardly ever does a non-publicly traded company announce sales figures. Not once has any of the companies I have worked for publicly announced their sales figures. It seems like people want to pin the blame on some conspiracy of sales figures for DW VII leading to DW IV not coming to the US. Which could not be any FURTHER from the truth.
You knew this question was coming. Dragon Warrior IV. For those who still don't know, what happened, development-wise?
If you dont know the story you must be living under a rock! Hahahah! I think from the time we announced the cancellation to the time of the merger the message board was FULL of posts calling us liars. If we wanted to lie, I am sure we could have come up with something much more creative than Heartbeat closing up shop wanting to move on. Ask any programmer of any programming language how interested they are in working on someone elses code. That will give you an idea of what we went through to find a way for us to bring the title to the US.
Please explain to everyone why hiring new programmers wouldn't work.
As I mentioned working on someone elses code no matter what language is difficult, add in the fact that DW IV was IMMENSE- Nobody wanted to touch it, it was just too daunting a task There would be nobody to ask how certain event scripts are handled how anything is done within the code, Every programmer does tasks differently, and having anyone have to learn what does what on the fly would be daunting to say the least.