Square-Enix: "It's..natural to grow out of Final Fantasy."

[pastro243]

Kasz216 said:

pastro243 said:

Darc Requiem said:

Kasz216 said:

Darc Requiem said:

badgenome said:

Oh, good. I'm perfectly normal, then.

But why do I still like the old Final Fantasies?

Couldn' t have said it better myself Badgenome.

 

Well that's the thing too... weren't the SNES protaganists... older?

I mean it seemed that way anyway.

 

Yeah for the most part. In FFIV the whole cast were adults except for three party members and one of those three becomes and adult before the game ends. FFV and FFVI followed similiar trends with it's protagonists as well.

@Deatht0m

I have to send you a friend request after you post.

 

Well, there were no "kids" in FF7 except for yuffie. In FF12 there are young protagonists as penelo and vaan but they even seem young adults or closer to adults than to teens. Also, I cant see the "maturity" behind old FF that the newer ones dont have.

Maybe old gamers feel left out and its the kind of attitude old people have when they say "In my times...blabla", maybe the series has become better and changed and u percieve it as going to hell.

Cloud is like... 18-22 in FF7... as is basically the whole cast outside of Barrett.

Also outside of barrett.  No one in the game has any adult responsibilties or connections what so ever.

If you consider less complicated narritive and a focus on younger, less developed characters a change for the better... all the more power to you.  Your the people square is targeting.

I still think there is no such thing as the mature and complex narrative in pre 7 FF, at least not more than in the latter. Now if you think complex things can only happen to adults in a fantasy game then thats your problem.

 I just responded to someone that said that in FF4 there where "only" 3 not adult party character, and since Cloud is 21 in the game, he is an adult, barret we both have it clear, tifa is the same age as cloud, Vincent is young but still an adult, I dont remember his age though.

 I still stand that its nostalgia that makes you think all those older FF where so much better, after all, I think you werent adults when the first ones came out.

I dont see why the cutscenes are so wrong to some when they added emotional content to the game which many of the older ones lacked. Its like now being more emotional is stupid, when these games are partly art and art is about emotion. I know u will say even with the cutscenes all of the content is shallow, but if u think like that u dont see what I see in these games.

To finish Im gonna say that maybe Im a teen(18 and go to the university and all the things that people my age do) that doesnt make my mind less complicated than an older guy ones and the forms of entertainment I seek may be different to yours(they surely are) and that doesnt make it worse.

FF changed from what it was in the beggining, and thats evolving, Im affraid the thing that would make u think FF1 is better than 12 is nostalgia.