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dunno001 said:
Sorry, but it's not wrong. The best story in any FF game to me is 6. Note how the wording is opinional- an opinion can not be wrong. As for battle systems, the core system from 4-10 are all the same to me, it's the little things that differenciate them. 9 wasn't a bad system, though I would still prefer 6.
Nostalgia, duh. (In other words, don't get condescending.) What's my favorite JRPG? Persona 4; and that has nothing to do with FF. Restricting my self to the FF series, it's 5, followed by 6. 5's story isn't the greatest, but it's the gameplay that makes me addicted to it. And not every FF fan even prefers only the 3D ones, as you suggest. Note how many people are pleased at FF6 being out 7 in the IGN ranking thread.
FF6, yes, because, just like I said, it is the only 2D FF with a story worth mentioning, and over the time, the game's popularity have grown (while the popularity of earlier games didn't grow by much), and FF6 can't be used as an example of "2D FF triumphs over 3D" because the story and character s are so much better than the games before it.
Technically, it shouldn't. But it does, because of where the resources are devoted. When you are spending more of the budget on graphics, you either have to blindly increase the budget, or, to keep costs in check, cut from another area. Blindly letting games budgets spiral is not a good way to run a business, so cuts happen. These cuts were in gameplay and story. Sure, the new ideas still come out, but they're not properly fleshed out the way they are in the older ones.
You think that how SE works, I think other wise, we really can't argue for each of our opinions since none of us really have the fact to back it up, you think that graphics detracts from gameplay, I think it doesn't.
For me it seems like you fault the games' story lacking solely on the company investing in graphics, but there can be a multitude of reasons.
Then you are also off-topic for this thread, which is about Famitsu Japanese sales. I'm looking at the Japanese sales for the FF series, and trying to surmise why they've been trending downward.
If you didn't notice, this entire argument is off topic, since this is a thread abut the Famitsu sales for week... something :P
A desire to westernize games isn't the only thing that causes games to go downhill. While it's a smaller and less vocal group, there are some people who prefer the 2-D Zelda games. My personal reason for this is the move to 3-D made the games too easy. But that is derails from the topic.
But Zelda gameplay is real time, and by moving from 2D to 3D they needed to change the core of the gameplay, it isn't like in FF.
Again, nope. The ones who were doing FF, sure, I'll agree with you on. But the downfall of that has made me realize that not everyone else had done so. The Tales series has been fairly stable, the Persona games have been amazing, and a few new games have had interesting ideas, even S-E themselves with TWEWY. So it's possible to keep going...
Well, Persona 3 bored me to tears and i've quit before the middle point, and i've spoilerd myself the story for Persona 4, I don't know how can anyone compare it to a game like Xenogears, but once again, this an opinion.
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