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Neodegenerate on 07 April 2016
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konnichiwa said:
Neodegenerate said:

The weird thing to me is that this is what FF is known for.  As far back as I can recall the FF series generally sets the standard for what the graphical and performance output for a machine can be.  The race has certainly gotten tighter in more recent gens, but the fact that people are taking a hastily thrown together demo and declaring it as the be all end all of their expectation for the game is quite silly.

People expected that FFXIII would be great especially after a long dev time and people disliked it or even hated it same with it's spinoffs (liked XIII-2 though), then they released FFXIV that was a fecking mess, even so bad they had to release it again. At that point you would expect they learned a lesson and would release a demo that would make people believe in them again....then it ended up with issues.  Their are a lot of people out their who grown up with Final Fantasy in their life and call those games one of their best gaming moments and buy every game new FF game but get dissapointed over and over and just want confirmation that SE comes back with the magic.  I felt I have been so burned by them that I don't care about FFXV anymore.  As a teen I spended my student job money for a trip to france so I could buy FFX early + walktrough + music cd + figurines I loved so FF that much... And now I don't even pop up in FFXV threads anymore except for this one.....

Felt pretty sad with the FFXV demo I went out and bought FFX again for PS4.

I am right there with you in the passion for the franchise.  Hell, I have a tatoo of Vivi and another one of a moogle on a chocobo on my body.  I also feel though that people like us who have that passion for the franchise would recognize when they are putting together a hasty demo in an effort to show the evolution of the combat of the game.  Which, essentially, is what they did with this platinum demo.  I agree that it was a poorly put together display, and if they had the chance to do it over again they might have done it differently.  However, to allow that demo to paint a picture of the full game when they expressly said that the demo was thrown together in a 2 month span with one specific purpose is a bit short-sighted imo.