"Weishenme Sega can't even make an RPG game? Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy are selling so well, haven't you guys thought about this category in advance? Even if you can't get the copyright, haven't you even tried to be your own? ”

Yang Yun was a little displeased, in front of outsiders, Sega was in a harmonious mood, showing a thriving appearance, unanimously external and ambitious, but after closing the door, he was not so easy to speak.

Especially in the RPG genre, he doesn't believe that Hayabusa Nakayama is so blind that he can't see the millions of sales of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, so he doesn't blush?

Until now, there is not a single RPG game on the Sega MD platform!

Hayabusa Nakayama looked embarrassed, and in the face of Yang Yun's questioning, he was even a little difficult to answer.

Before Sega was acquired by Longteng, he was the decision-maker, but he personally was not optimistic about this kind of RPG and SLG, he preferred side-scrolling games, so the vast majority of Sega's games were gunfights, shooting, and passing, and the game was difficult.

This makes it appear that Sega's games are professional and challenging, which is very much in line with Sega's style and has been praised by many professional players.

To be precise, this is very much in line with the style of Hayao Nakayama himself, fighting, fighting, fighting!

As for RPG games, after borrowing FF7 and porting it to the PS platform, Nintendo's president Pu Yamauchi said in 1999: "Those players who like to play role-playing games like Final Fantasy are gloomy otaku who like to sit in a dim room and play this slow-paced game!" ”

This kind of words that are easy to irritate players can be said casually, and even the president of Nintendo, who released the first six generations of Final Fantasy, said it himself. On the one hand, you can hear the shame and anger of Pu Yamauchi after Square Enix switched to the Sony camp, and on the other hand, it is explained. There are many people who hold this view in the Japanese game manufacturing industry.

Hayabusa Nakayama must have this attitude as well!

Yang Yun saw something. He doesn't care who has a personal hobby! He will do whatever game is classic, so he doesn't have to pay attention to Hayakuo Nakayama's little selfishness!

Yang Yun said lightly: "President Zhongshan, I said before that I will not easily interfere with your business decisions, but I will provide various games." If you don't like RPGs, I don't force it, then I'll let Dragon HQ make RPG games, and then put them on the MD platform and sell them. ”

Hayabusa Nakayama hurriedly replied, "Yang." It's not that I don't like RPGs, I contacted Masayuki Kato of Pharaoh Control half a year ago, and now we have already cooperated with them. In addition, I have been in contact with another company, and I am sure you will be interested! ”

The person Hayao Nakayama said was called Hiroshi Naito, and his company was called Climax, and this person was an excellent designer who participated in the creation of Dragon Quest, and later left the Enix company and started his own business.

Yang Yun didn't let Hayabusa Nakayama call to summon him. Instead, he personally visited this small company, in Yang Yun's words, Corporal Lixian, eager to seek talent.

The designer who developed Dragon Quest and the one who knows the Enix company well. It's worth Yang Yun to do.

Naito Kuan was flattered and received the two distinguished guests with the highest standard, but Yang Yun stopped him with a smile. Get straight to the point.

"President Naito, we're here today. Just wanted to ask, are you interested in developing RPG games on the MD platform? ”

Hiroshi Naito sat down. He looked at Hayao Nakayama and said sincerely, "Of course I'm interested." It has always been my dream to independently develop and produce a good RPG game, and President Nakayama knows this very well, and we have been working it. ”

Hayao Nakayama explained with a smile, "I didn't tell you about it because of the peculiarity of Climax, but I raised it with President Naito last year, and Climax has already started working on it after getting the game development kit for the MD platform. ”

Leaving Enix and founding Climax independently, or doing the same type of games as his old club, this kind of thing is not impossible, but it is not so nice to say.

Against the national game RPG masterpiece DQ, Naito Hiroshi himself must have felt that this was an impossible act of death, so his contact with Hayabusa Nakayama has always been private, and they are not so high-profile with Pharaoh Control, Pharaoh Control is a PC game supplier, and has nothing to do with Enix.

Since this is the case, then Yang Yun is relieved: "President Naito, welcome to join the Sega camp, maybe the first RPG game on the MD platform is from your company, and Sega will definitely promote it!" ”

Naito Kuan was very happy and excited to get Yang Yun's promise: "Even if the two presidents don't come, I will take the initiative to find them after a while." Follow me and let's take a look at what Climax is doing so far, the classic RPG masterpiece, Light and Dark! ”

In addition to Hiroshi Naito, the main designers of Climax are two brothers, Hiroyuki Takahashi and Shugo Takahashi, plus ordinary designers, the number of people is eight, which is about the same size as an ordinary Chinese game production company.

But looking at the closed beta version of "Light and Darkness", Yang Yun could only sigh secretly, this is the gap......

"Light and Darkness" Yang Yun has a little impression, this RPG game, is a typical Sega style, dungeon exploration maze game, I can't say how good it is, I can't say where it is insufficient, its follow-up version of the "Light Liliang" series, has only sold millions of cumulative sales, but compared with Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, which often sell 5 million copies of a version, I can only be ashamed of myself.

Some people say that whether the game makes money or not, we must pay attention to the marketing platform.

The best example of this is FF7, where Final Fantasy didn't perform well on SFC, but once it was added to Sony's PS platform, it became an epoch-making product, and suddenly it became a monster game with millions of sales.

In the case of Final Fantasy, the success of PS is partly due, but the game itself must also be classic and fun, and Final Fantasy can be called a national RPG, which must have a lot to do with its high playability.

Green vegetables and radishes have their own loves, Final Fantasy has millions of fans, and there are more than thousands of people who fall in love with the light trilogy? If anyone dares to evaluate the quality of the game by sales, fans dare to go up and fight each other!

Yang Yun is interested in this, if Naito Hiroshi and Takahashi brothers can do a good job of light and darkness, coupled with Sega, which is becoming more and more haode platform, it is not impossible to make it a Japanese national RPG game!

Compared with the flamboyant president of Naito Kuan, the Takahashi brothers are more like the traditional jishu otaku, which Yang Yun can easily see.

When explaining the game, Brother Takahashi, you will explain the advantages of light and darkness, the disadvantages, innovation, shortcomings, the difficulties encountered now, and what improvements will be made in the future.

Of course, the characteristic of Jishu man is what he thinks of and what he says, and many of them are when he demos the game, and he sees where he says it, and there is no clear and complete main line.

On the other hand, Naito Kuan, although he is also a jishu member from Enix, his thinking turns very fast, and he reports good news but not bad news, exaggerating the prospect of Yujian, and skipping his own flaws, it is obvious that his scheming is very heavy!

This game is still being tested, so he dares to boast that Haikou is a classic RPG masterpiece, Yang Yun can only sneer!

If it weren't for the experience of later generations, Yang Yun would probably have been deceived by this person, just look at Hayabusa Nakayama's expression, after Hiroshi Naito took over the demonstration and explanation, Hayao Nakayama even thought that this bright series of games could be on par with Final Fantasy, and even have a fight with Dragon Quest!

Idiot!

This kind of person, like SNK's Takado Yoshihiko, should be the kind of person who is unwilling to be subservient, has ambitions, attaches importance to power struggles, but does not pay much attention to the game itself!

Yang Yun knew in his heart that Climax could be used as a sword to stab at Enix and Square Enix, and it was also a sword that was easy to hurt his hands, so he had to use it carefully!

Returning from Climax, Yang Yun was silent all the way.

Hayao Nakayama didn't know what he was thinking, thinking that he was still dissatisfied, so he thought for a while and asked, "Is it because Climax is not strong enough?" ”

Yang Yun nodded: "How much is the cumulative sales of Dragon Quest, have you calculated?" Can we really rely on this company to compete with Enix? ”

Hayashio Nakayama knows very well that since the DQ4 was launched on the FC last year, the cumulative sales of the four versions have exceeded 7 million copies, and the number continues to increase.

It is conceivable that in the future, on other platforms such as SFC, GameBoy, PC, etc., these games will still remain active for a long time and will still be sought after by game lovers.

It's just that now, the cards in Sega's hand are almost played, and what other way is there to fight with the Nintendo camp?

Hayao Nakayama said, "The backbone of Jishu that became independent from Enix was not only the brothers Hiroshi Naito and Takahashi, but also Koichi Nakamura and ......."

"No need!" Yang Yun interrupted Hayakuo Nakayama's introduction, and said unhappily: "These are useless, these small companies are all jishu backbones betrayed from Enix, can they still regain their past glory?" Without Enix's team, this game of loose sand can make a national RPG game at the level of Dragon Quest? Can we only count on these people to defeat Enix? ”

"Defeat Enix?" Hayao Nakayama was a little puzzled: "You just want to defeat them?" ”

Yang Yun sighed, I really don't know how to communicate, in fact, his ultimate goal is to unify the RPG market, if it doesn't work to grab DQ, then develop it independently, or think of something else, defeating Enix is just a by-product result!

…… (To be continued......)