Is it strange that I hope they HAVEN'T been actively working on Next Stage for too long? Well obviously they can't have been the whole time if the team's been getting drafted to work on other games.
But what I'm trying to say is that EO was able to flourish on the DS console line largely because of the low budget requirements low-res handhelds had. Dungeon crawlers are never gonna sell crazy amounts, but that's fine if the dev time and needed sales are low.
So I'm scared that an EO made for HD from the ground up is gonna get retarded executives trying to make it a big seller somehow, pushing for a big budgeted, "wider appeal" sort of game.
Even if they could manage do that without sacrificing the core appeal, that just means it'd be burdened with unrealistic sales expectations. And even if they succeed, it's still likely that we won't get games at a decent pace anymore. It doesn't have to be every year like we had it, these games last for a long time thankfully, but once a decade sucks.
TL;DR Etrian's dead, and should stay dead. Next Stage a fuck, DOOM.
