Is Final Fantasy important anymore?

[Paul_Warren]

"All your comment about Mass Effect and FFXII proves is that "gaming journalists" don't know how to critically analyze the games they review. But then, we already knew that.




Oh no, Heather Smith and Eric Patterson both knew exactly what they were talking about when they wrote their reviews of Final Fantasy XII and Mass Effect respectively.


"Also, you've obviously never played either HL2 or P:T."

Yes and you are obviously highly intelligent but in this case, you seem to be putting too much of a premium upon your own ideas about the matter rather than what other people have to think which is a weakness.

Your explanation from your creative writing course is a prime example of that. I will illustrate with three examples.


One example you say that people prefer to be shown what occurs in a story rather than to be told simply that a man was shot and died. Well, that is true to a point. However, it is also a fact that when watching a movie or listening to a story, children and most people for that matter don't want all of the details that you provide in your second example. That type of stuff is nice window dressing that can appeal to one in a sentimental mode of thought; however, what children really want to know when watching movie or listening to a story is who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. They really want one to cut out all that window dressing and tell them someone really died or not. The most important part of any joke is the punchline. The most important part of a sonnet is the resolution.

Again, dialogue trees and the like only serve to complicate the matter and to take away from the core story.

For some reason you don't like Final Fantasy but many other people do. And the fact that you prefer one thing one way and they prefer it another doesn't mean that you have more intelligence or talent.

Faulkner liked to add a lot of window dressing to his stories, yet the best American writer of the early half of the twentieth century was H. P. Lovecraft. And Kerouac also liked to embellish things and complicate things, yet the best American writer of the last half of the twentieth century was Charles Bukowski even though his writing style, like Lovecraft's, was much less complex than either Faulkner or Kerouac's.