deadt0m said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
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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So basically what you're saying is with the coming of more powerful hardware, SE became spoiled trying to give a visual show, rather than focusing on the storyboards and scripts.
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Precisely.
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It makes me wonder though... did they get spoiled. Or did they just decide to not focus on that stuff on purpose.
I mean for example take Matsuno for example. When he made FFT. He intentionally dumbed it down so it would be more popular because "people don't like and aren't interested in complicated stories."
Of course FFT actually was fairly complex... but you know. It's simple by his standards.
Perhaps that was just the design philosphy conferred opon him by the higher ups... specifically Wada. Dumb it down... make it more cliche, more understandable... more "comforting".
When you think about it. FFV is seen as the worst of the SNES three... and it's story is also the most simple... and would seem to fit within the later series. I mean...
Spoilers:
"We've got this guy... who is the hero fabled to save the world. But he doesn't know why. And he's going to meet this princess... and they're going to work together... with this old guy... who is also a legendary hero... but he doesn't remember! And he will remember but he'll die. Also... the princess has a long lost sister. The villian is some guy who's evil... largely just because he's evil." and he hates everyone.
