.Hack Shows You The World In Your Hands
May 30, 2006 4:49 AM | Simon Carless
The ever-trusty Edge Online has posted an interview with Bandai producer Uchiyama Daisuke on the new phase of the .hack PlayStation 2 'network RPG' series, and some interesting points are raised.
Daisuke comments of the 'relative' U.S. success of the game: "I always thought that, in the US, people liked simple stories like in Hollywood movies. The American hero wins at the end after a fight and save the beautiful woman or the world. I was sure that the first .hack would fail, that people in the US would find it too difficult or disorienting."
Yet he concludes: "People understood what we wanted to deliver. And in the end it sold more than 700,000 copies in the US." Of course, this was over quite a few titles, but hey, for iterations using the same engine, it really _is_ quite impressive - a sign of episodic success to come?
Categories: PlayStation 2
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No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
People can easily be persuaded to accept the most inferior ideas or useless products; attributed to H. L. Mencken.
Corey H | May 29, 2006 8:37 PM