It should be interesting to see if the North American release of Dragon Quest IX, designed with
Western gamers in mind, comes anywhere close to generating the sales and buzz that it did in Japan.
Not exact matches
The Timbavati Private Nature Reserve was formed
in the 1950's, when a group of conservation
minded private
game park owners, on the
western boundary of the Kruger National Park, decided to pool their resources for mutual benefit and to benefit the wildlife
in the area.
In my opinion, the
Western AAA philosophy is slowly killing the video
game universe, and unless someone like a Nintendo takes a stand against the status quo, I fear that more mid-tier publishers will continue to be casualties by a marketplace that has quickly become too narrow -
minded for its own good.
Hoerdt also said the
game's location will be key to attracting as broad an audience as possible around the globe: «It will be located
in a fictional place
in the US because we think that today, to establish a new brand with a
western audience, it helps to win with the US market, so part of the choice [
in setting] is having this global worldwide audience
in mind.
Keep
in mind that this review is coming from the standpoint of a
western gamer whose experience
in RPGs stemmed from Final Fantasy, and has a mild interest
in some westernized anime.
It follows Zynga's previous card
game, Ayakashi: Ghost Guild, but is developed specifically with
western markets
in mind.
Opper chose to paint as if art history was a long
game, which calls to
mind an idea Jacques Barzun floated
in his summary volume, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of
Western Cultural Life.
Obviously, the first question that rose
in everyone's
minds was whether it is even viable to release a
Western game so close to the release of something as major as Red Dead Redemption 2, but there are a few things going
in WWO's favor.