You'd think the Dragon Quest series could do no wrong, but despite DQIX's ridiculously huge Japanese success, there are haters. Japanese consumers have been ripping the game a new arsehole on Amazon, despising the game's character customization, cutscenes, costume changes and female character Sandy. Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada, however, doesn't really care. To him, this is just another day online.
"Because it's the internet, well, that's the Internet for ya," shrugs Wada. "We were telling the game creators 'Don't worry about that. Regarding likes and dislikes, there are good opinions and bad opinions."
By all accounts, Dragon Quest IX seems to be actually quite good, and there could just be a few hundred morons upset over some little things and going on a rampage. We'll have to wait and get our own hands on it to see. If we don't like it, however, Square Enix better not come knocking on our door over a bad review. It's just the Internet!
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3:00 PM on 08.08.2009
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So tell me, when is Square-Soft coming back?
But more topically he writes; "However, it [Dragon Quest IX] scored just two stars overall on Amazon.co.jp with a brain-numbing number of one-star votes that all spill the same story.; they hate the tanned girl fairy character, and wish it was on PS3. Japan's biggest internet community, 2ch.net contains a 94,000-post 'anti-Dragon Quest IX' thread where bored people [...] have organised 'trolling efforts".
He also states that he himself thinks the game is damn good, if not perfect, and it scored the full 40/40 from Famitsu. 94,000 posts is an insane quantity.
But all's good, this was in responce to 2ch being a bunch of pricks, so basicly this is the equivnat of teling 4chan where they sit in the great scale of things.
He's just watching TV. The drool must mean he's watching a reality show.
Jim Sterling lately has been making quite a point of putting at least something slightly controversial in every one of his posts that aren't designed completely to start fights.
I think the default image matches my user name =D
@ParsleyBoots
More reason why Square-enix should stop thinking they know best with their mediocre 360/PC games and constant remakes.
Granted they put a lot of quality into the remakes but I haven't seen a truly great, truly original game from them in ages!
Hopefully their partnership with a western company (Eidos) will bear interesting fruit.
HE'S NOT FAST ENOUGH! HE'S TOO FAST! 2D FTW 3D SUX! EWW 2D GO BACK TO 3D! GET RID OF HUMANS! GET RID OF EVERYONE BUT SONIC, TAILS AND KNUCKLES! GET RID OF TAILS AND KNUCKLES! WTF YOU GOT RID OF MY FAV CHARACTERS! NEEDS MOAR OVERWORLD! NEEDS LESS OVERWORLD! EGGMAN SHOULD BE THE ONLY VILLIAN! WAIT ONLY EGGMAN WTF GUYS! EWW BEASTIALITY!
And many more useless complaints have screwed up the entire series to the point where you think with so many games in so little time they're just throwing the games out there to see what will hit or miss. We can complain that Square Enix aren't listening to people but maybe they would listen if people simply stopped making dumbass complaints. Nothing good ever comes from messing with the designer's orginal concept.
When your fanbase is comprised of people between twelve and fifty year olds: you can be sure some part of it is going to be mad when it sees any kind of change in the series.
I'm gonna take a deep breath and hope that that was a joke. -Sigh..-
I'm happy the way it is and has been with Toriyama's character designs. We don't need you to play DQ anyhow...
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