| selnor said: Anyone here old enough to remember the nes and she's original releases and reviews will remember no awesome CGI. In fact for the first 6 iterations final fantasy was never known for uber visuals. Plenty of games at that time looked better. Back then final fantasy was known solely for a huge playable story and fantastic turnbased combat with great exploration. At the turn of the ps1 era, moving into 3d square wowed us with the uncanny ability to show us visuals that weren't possible on those consoles in game. They were fantastic rewards for progressing throgh the game. But more importantly in that transitional ps1 time, square kept all the gameplay elements that made ff the series it was. Great battles, diverse level system, exploration, towns, discovery. You wanted to check every corner of a house. This held TRUE to the last iteration of the ps1 era. As time went on through the ps2 Gen, the CGI remained. And to an extent still wowed. But the effect was less. Why? Because ingame visuals were starting to look great.This proposed an issue. The series started to show signs on the gameplay front that hinted to streamlining. Ff10 still retained most of the tidbits from previous iterations. But take a closer look and you will see things changing. Going in houses was less apparant. Searching them even less so. Leveling system much more streamed and set. Move on to today and final fantasy is almost unrecognisable in gameplay. People are much less impressed about CGI these days than the ps1 era. Because ingame visuals have taken such a high turn. But think of this a moment. What is the first house you enter in final fantasy 13? .......... Disc 2! What is the first draws or pot or cat or dog or bookshelf you interact with or search? What's the first shop keeper you have an unusual conversation with? In fact until the end of disc 2 you are Laays entirely on a street with no doors houses, sell nothing or some pathway through some area again with no life. final fantasy used to connect you to the world it created. You could interact with people. Go through their wardrobes. Go back and play any final fantasy game on ps1. See the difference in gameplay. Even the battle system is easy as pie now. You can complete ff13 by simply not thinking. Just level up along a line. Always have a healer as was one of the options and press a. yes ff still has guys called cid, moogles and a horrible excuse for gfs. But it doesn't have anything remotely close to the gameplay the series is known for. Tales, eternal sonata and especially lost odyssey have more in common with final fantasy than final fantasy of today. Rant over. |
I agree with some of what you said, but then some i dont lol. Also whats with people always wantng to explore peoples houses in rpgs i mean thats fun but its not exactly an evolution. A lot of you guys want stuff similar to the old final fantasy well i want a huge advancement of those features. Like instead of characters just walking into peoples houses,maybe theirs a different way of going about it like picking the lock or waiting til the person leaves their house and then sneakng in. Why should an entire town have their doors unlocked and why are there treasure chest laying about in a house?Idk just seems weird to me.Interacting with with bookshelves is fun? .You say tales, eternal sonata and lost odyssey have more in common with old final fantasy's and your kinda right and in a sense its a good thing, but then again its not. The rpg genre is my favorite but if youre gonna shit on ff 13 for being to linear shit on lost odyssey(which i love) for not really doing much different than what was done 15 years ago. if lost odyssey was ff13 it would have been a great typical final fantasy in how certain things were done. Not the story and characters of course more the system. I just want a change more than rpgs acting like they did in the 90's. yes i want open worlds and towns, but i want it done in new ways not replications of the same designs. Hopefully 13-2, versus,tales, star ocean etc and some other jrpgs can evolve instead of living up to peoples snes fantasies though istill love the series lol. Pew pew.
