LordTheNightKnight said:
As for your last sentence, that proves the point. Nintendo stopped offering what matches their tastes and spending power. Then Sony stopped doing it and Nintendo started up again. This is also why I'm wary of Final Fantasy XIII, despite owning most of the other games (and thinking Vanille is really hot). It looks like something that doesn't match what I like about the other FF games (or tolerated with X). |
The serious part of my post is not affected by the joke anyway, call the change of taste like you want, "casuals" go with whoever best meets both their tastes and spending power.Yes, it was my point since the beginning.
About your last point, I'm not a fan of FF series, but I can understand, actually I get really mad when a series I like gets crippled in any way, I'm still mad at Myth III despite having paid it very little from a bargain bin, I didn't buy Deus Ex: Invisible Wars when I read in reviews that they dumbed it down both in difficulty and skills system, I stopped buying Tomb Raider games after the second, Hexen II was very far below the first, I buy good but very hyped games in Game of the Year Editions or anything similar because I know that had I bought something simple and short like Half Life: Blue Shift separately I'd have been very disappointed, but instead bought with the main game at a budget price it was acceptable, some more hours of fun for free, etc. Actually I must admit that Nintendo is quite out of the norm managing to keep its franchises (I'm not anymore a fan, but I could never deny a truth so evident, Ninty manages to make its games loved by more people than anybody else) so good for so long, but also SE, despite having disappointed quite a considerable number of FF fans with XIII, has achieved a nice record, there could be a lot worse from what I read from others and what I saw personally.
