deadt0m said:
Rei said:
badgenome said:
Oh, good. I'm perfectly normal, then.
But why do I still like the old Final Fantasies?
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Nostalgia. I still enjoy playing old Sonic games for the same reason, whilst there is no chance I'd touch a new one. However children do like them.
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Certainly nostalgia is part of it, but I find it EXTREMELY difficult to believe that if someone handed me a copy of FFIV, and I had never played it before, that I would be anything short of blown away, even today.
Honestly, I think it has more to do with technology and the story arcs. The pre-CD run of the games didn't have cutting edge technology as a crutch, and so to make successful games they had to be fun, immersive, whimsical, challenging and engaging. Starting with VII though, they just removed whimsy from the series completely and replaced it with awful, overwrought emo cutscenes. The original Final Fantasy games conveyed emotion through good writing and relatable characters, and then seven replaced good writing with too-long cutscenes of effeminate men crying about things.
Put simply, I think they used to make good video games, now they make playable interludes between horrible cutscenes.
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