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Geno6662000
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I still dont get, even after all this time, that when you take the company that made Chrono Trigger, the Mana series, the Final Fantasy series, Super Mario RPG, Parasite Eve and published Bushido Blade...and combine it with the company that published the Star Ocean series, the Dragon Warrior seires, and the Valkyrie Profile games...you get this mess.
Does. Not. Compute. |
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Charred Knight
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In terms of graphics FF VII certainly looks better than FF IV-VI so I don't see why you "shouldn't remake any games except FF VII". I played the IV remake for the DS and it looks fine. As for the things like porting games like VI those games dont really take a lot of time so its not like XIII versus is getting delayed because VI is being ported to Android phones. |
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Sleverin
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What I don't get is why the gaming media coverage is so damned butt hurt over FFXIV's launch that they can't report for bollocks on how the game became way better and in fact one of my favorite FF games. Sure, the launch sucked, but guess what, every MMO launch ever has totally sucked, get used to it. They shut down the servers so they can transfer all of the character data from 1.0 to FFXVI 2.0 and are doing a massive overhaul. It looks like it's going to be a great game, but it seems that everyone is just trying really hard to point fingers at SE because of the last few years, when really they should be looking at the new FFXIV and in fact the great storyline and ending to the original FFXIV.
Note, I'm not throwing rocks at any forum goers here with this post, I'm talking about media coverage/journalists, no personal attacks here. |
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littlegreenwolf
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I agree with this quite a bit. I haven't been able to really try out FFXIV, but I remember when XI came out, and the game then is nothing like the game ended up being, and XI is the only MMORPG I've ever loved and go back to constantly. That world stands out to me more than most of the main Final Fantasy games, and it was really fun. Problem is XI is really starting to look dated compared to all the other MMOs out there. |
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ikillchicken
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Because losing 5.7 billion Yen = "better" in the Titanverse. |
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Sleverin
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True, XI has been looking dated for years and it had been the complaint of players for years but to do a graphic overhaul of the game at this point is well beyond the games engine and SE's budgeting. Which is too bad, the game is really great and the Chains of Promathia storyline (with the arc of the main storyline and the Rise of the Zilart expansion) have been some of the best FF has to offer. A lot of people just say "LOL MMO FF give me a real FF game nub", which is pretty weak. I understand that MMOs aren't everyone's cup of tea and that XI is particularly punishing, but it's still a solid game. The FFXIV storyline turned into something great and was, at least in my opinion, was the strongest point for the whole game from the beginning. Sure, they recycled the meter plotline from previous games, in fact it was like FFIV in that the moon held a deadly secret, FFVII in that the moon was floating in the sky as a giant meteor threatening to crash into the planet (totally wicked by the way) and FFVIII in that monster population had a direct correlation to the planets monster population and the end effect was that the meteor does fall causing a pretty amazing ending to the first game. The lore for the game seems to be pretty immense, the dialogue and accents are great...really all the aesthetic tied to the game is fantastic. When 2.0 comes out we'll see if they've tightened up controls and such, since 1.0 had some really horrific limitations that bogged the game down. If those get ironed out, plus all of the planned and being implemented material that's coming up, this is looking to be one damn fine game. It might even recoup some of the losses mentioned in this article. At least, here's to hoping so. Also, if you want to know about the current FFXIV storyline I can link you to one of the various compilations of all the main storyline cutscenes since all the old storyline is inaccesable in 2.0 |
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yuna49
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The article didn't mention the publishing division at all. I wonder how that is doing lately.
Sakaguchi's departure is, I think, the biggest problem for the gaming side. I wish he hadn't decided to throw in his lot with Microsoft or now, it appears, Nintendo. He seems to be on a personal boycott of Sony, which saddens me as a PS3 owner. I actually enjoy the gameplay in XII quite a bit, but the story, and especially the characters other than Balthier and, to a lesser degree, Fran didn't really engage me like some of the earlier games. I suspect Sakaguchi's departure had something to do with that. XIII was so boring, and the characters so annoying (Snow in particular), that I have no interest in playing the sequels. |
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