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Modern Video Games / Re: Petition to get DQ VII 3DS and DQX outside of Asian countries.

« on: June 20, 2014, 02:25:15 pm »

If anyone is interested in owning DQX - the Japanese version - just for their collection, CD Japan has it on clearance right now for about $19 US + whatever shipping is.  That's the Wii version, btw.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/RVL-P-S4SJ

Says they only have 9 in stock, so if anyone IS interested don't wait around on it.

Ok, that's a pretty cool deal that I might just get. I can always mod my Wii if necessary since I found a guide to connect to Japanese servers for the game, although the amount of stuff you need to do to connect is extensive, and apparently you also need a 16gb sd card to hold all the online data of the game.

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User Feedback / Re: doctorlaudanum

« on: June 19, 2014, 07:51:48 pm »

Purchased Disgaea 2, Bioshock, and Baten Kaitos from her for very good prices in my opinion. Items came pretty fast in the mail with tracking info and everything seems to be in the condition it was described as, and all of the games work perfectly! I would gladly do business with her again in the future, thank you!

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Modern Video Games / Re: Petition to get DQ VII 3DS and DQX outside of Asian countries.

« on: June 19, 2014, 06:11:07 pm »

I really dont understand their train of thought "Hrmm, everyone here in Japan loves Dragon quest. Lets say fuck the rest of the world on getting to enjoy it as much as we do".

I'm not really sure what they're thinking about this. I know that  the Dragon Quest series has generally hasn't sold very in the US, at least compared to how well it does in Japan. They probably feel that they should only focus on the games that would appeal to their Western audiences, and to them, they might think that Dragon Quest wouldn't bring enough sales from countries outside of Asia, and as a result, they wouldn't feel like putting forth the effort to bring it to others outside of Japan. I'm just a bit disgusted with their rationale of their handling the DQ series for international audiences. The only thing they've done in the last month for the dq series was an ios/android port of dragon quest 8.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Petition to get DQ VII 3DS and DQX outside of Asian countries.

« on: June 19, 2014, 12:45:00 am »

Signed it. I've been pretty mad at how Square Enix has handled the franchise in the last few years, seeing as how they feel that DQ doesn't really matter to the Western market. Those ds remakes of dq iv, v, and vi had to be mostly promoted by nintendo since square enix didn't feel like promoting it and localizing it to the states. I would like to get the chance to play  the dragon quest vii 3ds remake, since I've heard alot of good things about it.

I'm hoping that their new-found insight that we actually do still like traditional RPGs thanks to the great sales of Bravely Default will prompt them to localize it.

Oh, and welcome to the site! 

Thanks argyle!! I'm glad to finally find a good collecting database to store my game info!

I feel that those sales figures from Bravely Default have a strong indication that the turn based JRPGs can still work well to North American audiences if you put the time and energy into your products. I played through the whole game on hard mode, and I have to say, despite some  fairly noticeable flaws in the game structure, it was a pretty fun jrpg experience from start to finish, and I can't wait for the sequel, and any of their jrpgs they release here in the U.S.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Petition to get DQ VII 3DS and DQX outside of Asian countries.

« on: June 18, 2014, 08:56:46 pm »

Signed it. I've been pretty mad at how Square Enix has handled the franchise in the last few years, seeing as how they feel that DQ doesn't really matter to the Western market. Those ds remakes of dq iv, v, and vi had to be mostly promoted by nintendo since square enix didn't feel like promoting it and localizing it to the states. I would like to get the chance to play  the dragon quest vii 3ds remake, since I've heard alot of good things about it.