So… apparently the King of the Hill team decided to do an anime? Holy crap.

20-30 times as much…

But there are far, FAR more than 20-30 times as many casual gamers than hardcore gamers.

See the problem?

I hate to break it to you, but those “casual smartphone gamers” *are* the “real gamers” nowadays.

It makes more economic sense to target them than it does to target an increasingly shrinking, increasingly hard to please audience of “hardcore” or “obsessive” gamers.

As long as they don’t mess with the DQ team, I’m fine with whatever. The Dragon Quest guys haven’t screwed up at all. If they want to fix something, force Nomuria / Kitase / Toriyama to actually listen to budgets, deadlines, editorial control, et cetera. They’re directly responsible for the dire state of the Final [...]

They’re just going to keep making FF13 games until we all break down and admit FF13 was a literary masterpiece and Lightning was the most amazing waifu in videogame history, aren’t they?

Anyone bitching about graphics in a SRPG is completely, comically, missing the point.

Yes. The Japanese company specifically did market research to pick what some random person on a English language pornogrpahic blog in the United States would most dislike, and then animated that.

Yes. It’s actually a take on Dragon Quest 3 or 9 (the hero and other “PCs” are very obviously based on the DQ3 or DQ9 generic characters) with the following hook: “What if the Demon Lord was an Economics Major?” Basically, the hero goes to kill the Demon Lord and the Demon Lord points out [...]

Don’t feed the trolls.

Er, a major part of the problem is that Enix USA was disbanded in lieu of renaming Squaresoft USA Square Enix USA. This means there’s almost no Enix presence over on the US side of things, and thus no push to get things localized. Fortunately, Iwata over at Nintendo disagrees with this stupidity, and is [...]

Look further back. The disease started with 8, or perhaps 7. Squaresoft got bought out by Enix because they were in a tailspin and Microsoft was trying a hostile takeover.

No, the reason Square Enix is doing bad is the same reason Enix had to buy Squaresoft to save them from Microsoft’s hostile takeover: Squaresoft lost their goddamned minds. Squaresoft had severe Peter Principle problems. Too many people moved up beyond their competence areas. This problem has continued after the buyout. But here’s the thing. [...]

Everything’s too hardcore for the WOW-generation. Seriously, WOW is the lowest common denominator for MMORPGs, everything is taken out and nerfed until the worst newbie can do everything, given enough time and hand holding. And they automate the hand holding.

Wow, just how many times have you spammed this article with your troll droppings? No one cares.

I thought so, wasn’t 100% sure though. Thanks for the clarification.

It’s artistic licence. The artist does show her eyes when she’s being emotionally vulnerable. That, and she’s based a tiny bit on the villain of “The Ring”.

Yeah, because that’s logically consistent with doing their spit bond thing, sure.

I just don’t get the hatedom this series gets on Sankaku, although since it’s SC, I’m pretty sure people hate things just to say they hate things.

Realistically there’s no way it could have. It would make a great season two, however.

Enix bought Square to keep them from being bought by Microsoft. Unfortunately, Enix did not force them to uphold the high quality standards that Enix does. You’ll note that it’s only Square properties that are having these horrible problems — Dragon Quest 9 was probably the best “old school” style RPG in the past decade, [...]

Her contract likely says she’s not to do things “unbecoming” or something similar. It’s highly unlikely her agreement actually says “you must remain a single pure virgin princess for fat fanboys to masturbate to” or anything similar. Simply put, the second they acknowledge that kind of creepy fuck, things get weird, quickly.