Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorCirno  The genre isn't decidedly niche, unless you mean "American game publishers have no business sense, and have decided to make the genre niche, because of their allergy to money." I suppose that makes it "decidedly" niche as well ;p |
*LOL* Doood, I'm with you there.
But honestly, ho many gamers know about Disgaea and La Pucelle Tactics? When people started calling
4e a MMORPG, there were only a few of us that said,
"Um, no. Closest videogame analogy is Disgaea and FFT" and I got responses like "You idiot, just because you think you're niche MMORPG is so cool doesn't mean it iisn't a WoW-clone"
Most people in Europe or North America have little exposure to this genre (especially given how turnbased games in both RPGs AND Strategy get mocked these days. Didn't help that games like ToEE was so bloody buggy)
I mean, X-com was 97, Jagged Alliance was '99 and Fallout Tactics was '01. (Has it really been 8 years since a great turnbased RPG?) I truly wish American companies would take up this genre but I think turn-based rpgs is firmly going to remain japanese primarily...
And yet another word from our sponsors
