| twesterm said:
Sorry, by content I meant story. I generally don't expect a lot from RPG's gameplay wise (which isn't a bad thing, FFVI had terrible gameplay and it's my favorite game of all time). And sure, we can say 30-40 hours instead of 100+ (I was using FFXII here as the benchmark and people love to say how they easily spend 120 hours on it) but even that is still really hard. It takes A LOT of effort to make even an 8 hour game, why do you think a game five times longer wouldn't take more effort? And I'm mainly talking about the console RPG's because we are talking about the main Final Fantasy games. I was actually using those points to say that more RPG's should go to hand helds because there can actually have a budget based in reality. Console RPG's constantly either get bashed or praised for every little thing they show as does every other console game. If it isn't the best or even near the best, it's crap according to most fanboys. |
My problem is that people are using Final Fantasy as the standard for RPGs. It's not. It's the high-profile, high-budget outlier RPG. It's not representative of the genre IMO yet a lot of people treat it as such.
