Slouching Toward Alefgard
July 13th, 2007I know, I know, action-based RPGs are the wave of the future. Nevertheless, I actually empathize with the Dragon Quest fans who decried the possibility that DQIX might ditch turn-based combat.
Look - you can’t create a franchise whose defining characteristic is blind, immutable fealty to the same RPG fetishes that created the genre, and then be surprised when people object to changing it. There’s something vaguely comforting in the fact that no matter how much better games get, there are still people who want to spend 45 minutes just walking from one town to the next… pressing the A button all the while.
Posted in DS, Gear |
July 14th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Square has changed up the Final Fantasy series before in different ways, apparently quite a bit in FFXII. Fans complain, but then buy the games anyway and they go on to sell a trillion copies. Strangely enough, I haven’t been too big a fan of the DQ series before, but a change to a more Zelda-like system probably would’ve intrigued me. Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime took more of a Zelda approach and is one of my favorite games for the DS.