Why the Dragon Quest games never became as big as Pokémon?

>>11842131 (OP)
Basically, a lot of shitty localization decisions that cost it valuable time to establish itself.
>First game only becomes known to U.S. because of Nintendo Power giving out free copies (they produced too much and didn't want to give them the Atari E.T. burial)
>By the time DQ2 comes to the U.S., Final Fantasy has already made a bigger impact
>DQ3 and 4 come out on NES in the U.S. after most have already moved to the SNES; Final Fantasy wisely skips to IV to keep their fanbase invested
>DQ5 and 6 are totally skipped as FF takes more attention in the U.S.; DQ7 somehow makes it over but leaves no impact beyond "it's huge"

We've had this thread.

>>11842131 (OP)
Im playing DQ5 right now and theres a pink slime enemy that copies your monsters and becomes them. Reminds me of something else but I cant remember what.

>>11842131 (OP)
because it's basically a dumbed down mix of wizardry and ultima (first game was anyway) and didn't have cool mons or a big advertising blitz behind it.

there was an anime that had like 13 episodes translated and aired at like 7 AM Saturdays in some markets in the USA.

>>11842131 (OP)
Why OP never learned to use English?

For all that is holy stop spamming pokemon threads

>>11842131 (OP)
because Pokemon appeals to horny children and adults alike with delicious sexy cunny loved by everyone, from Misty to Marnie Pokemon is filled with top tier little girls
meanwhile in DQ there is barely any lolis and what's even worse is all females have the exact same 2 or 3 faces from Dragon Balls

>>11842131 (OP)
Because no game has ever been as big as pokeman

>>11842131 (OP)
toriyama doing mons is gold on paper, but when you actually see the mons... they are quite uninspired; I guess that will always be my gripe with DQ, the games are cool but I hate the mobs, having such great source material achieving so little

>>11842365
are you from devox? damn

Pokemon designers (before Gen 2 dropped) watched early Dragon Ball (Pilaf to Cell) and found it cool design wise, same for many other shonen, kodomo, and shojo shows and a bit of seinen.
Toriyama just wanted to draw scat jokes and be done.

That's why he immediately fell off after GT ended and DQ6 came out with people like Nakatsuru trying to honor his peak eras since the dark ages.
>Toriyama's dying last breath on the left

>>11842775
>they are quite uninspired
Because they're just parodied Wizardry/D&D monsters

>>11842365
>because Pokemon appeals to horny children and adults
Not saying you're wrong but

>>11842131 (OP)
Pokemon is a monster catcher with rock paper scissor elements and is fun.

Dragon Warrior/Quest is just another boring/lame turn based game. I wish it wasn't boring (jrpgs are by default) because it's so cool, but damn it's boring. Even DQM was more fun but ultimately worse than Pokemon iirc because you had less control over your monsters.

>>11844628
yeah I really enjoy the non turn based pokemon games

>>11844719
I didn't say that Pokemon wasn't turn based, but that it is bearable and that other jrpgs with turn based combat are lame.

>>11844628
>>11844936
genuinely filtered god damn

>>11844954
No just trust me on this, DW is boring.

>>11843663
tfw Toriyama forgot how to draw like Toriyama.

>>11845041
Toriyama hadn't "drawn like Toriyama" since 1998. His art style became a hybrid of the more rounded Dragon Ball style and the "everyone is a collection of right angles" late-DBZ style. You can already tell he was making the transition in DQ7.

I imagine when you're drawing your country's most popular comic AND doing art design for its most popular video game at the same time, you basically have to draw everything the same.