Thread 722922026

This is the first Final Fantasy game sold by Squaresoft in Europe because they thought europeans were too dumb to properly play JRPGs.

>>722922026 (OP)
Guess they we wrong.

>>722922026 (OP)
Guess they were right

>>722922026 (OP)
They thought the West in general didn't 'get' RPGs, which is hilarious when you consider the direct inspirations for DQ and FF. It was always a problem of marketing, and they didn't figure out what they were doing until right around the time Enix closed their Western branch entirely.

>>722922304
>I-it was the west in general

Cope euroid. We got FF1 just fine in Merica

>>722922304
Ironic, I don't think japs get RPGs. JRPGs suck.

The music for this was made by alicesoft btw

The music for this was made by alicesoft btw
>>722922447
Neat

They were right about westerner gamers being retarded golems. Just look at the state of /v/ as proof of such.

>>722922437
And it was the weak sales of FF2 in the US (which was already based on FF4 Easytype) that inspired them to make FFMQ or Final Fantasy USA, if you want to use the Japanese title.

>>722922552
Oh what? Ryuji Sasai work for Alicesoft? Did he move on to do Rance?

>>722923148
Such lying. FF2 did not had weak sales in the US.

but they were right and it didn't do well.
This was actually my first JRPG and got me into the genre. I bought it at this place, many many moons ago.

RPGs were one of the few things Westerners knew how to do better than the Japanese, and even then the Japanese decided they needed to make a game tailored to noobs to try to sell better in the west. Holy shit, I'll tell you, the Japanese are always either geniuses or complete retards, there's no middle ground.

>>722923614
FF1 sold well enough in the US thanks to heavy promotion from NoA at the time, so Square decided (after aborting an attempt to translate FF2 on the NES) to just release FF4 themselves as FF2. They didn't get the same numbers as NoA did for FF1 and were confused.
It could be because it was on a new system for the territory, because it was one of the lesser-promoted titles of the first six months (Gamepro gave it 5s across the board and it still didn't get much advertisement outside of a print ad referencing a late-game superboss), or whatever else. But Square saw weaker sales and thought the West needed tutoring.

ok and?

disco elysium is a visual novel and i managed to play and enjoy it twice

every turn based game in existence makes me want to fall asleep in 1 hour

>>722922026 (OP)
And it will never get a remake solely because NO ONE can remake that exquisite soundtrack GLORY.