Quote Originally Posted by Dreddz View Post
Vannilaware are good at what they do so why must they limit there abilities to a genre that has no juice left. The side scrolling genre cant go in anymore interesting directions so it makes sense for developers to leave it behind, along with all the other dying conventions.
Even if they didn't entirely succeed for various reasons, there where some pretty interesting concepts in Odin Sphere (fruit farming is awesome). If anything, it wasn't ENOUGH like a 2D side scroller, since the format for the environments was boring as all hell. Hopefully this new game will do more to make them a little more interactive by adding a few platforming elements.
Quote Originally Posted by Dreddz View Post
I mean, how excited would you be to hear of someone making another turn based RPG with random encounters and other old RPG conventions. Not alot I'd assume.
The amount of hype in Japan each time a new Dragon Quest game comes out is unbelievable. I don't really care too much for the series myself but there is definitely still a market for ridiculously traditional JRPGs.