| Angelus said: This thread is an interesting study in the duality of a fandom. Core structure vs. mythology. One group is more than satisfied to play any story that in some way touches upon familiar beats, just so long as there's still a grand adventure with the characters they love, in a setting they remember fondly, with a combat system that feels natural to the FF lineage. For them, it's the moment to moment experience that defines the game. The other, is much more invested in overarching elements that bind it all together. What's the exact plot? What's the nature of the conflict? How is it resolved? Is established lore respected? If these elements don't match up with their expectations, or established framework of the source material, the moment to moment experience is diminished significantly, and in some cases, made wholly irrelevant. Neither group is wrong to feel how they feel. You just consume the material differently. |
I think how the company handled it may be playing into things more than the changes here tbh I have the impression had they said it's a reboot or a re-envisioning which is between a reboot and remake expectations would have been significantly altered and the changes more accepted, for me personally I've been viewing and saying the remake is a reboot due to my definition of the word so expected some changes but even with my expectations the changes said to have been made are wild as to me a remake largely retains the original's story.
Because of this I can see where the fans who are unhappy are coming from because lets look at it this way the story in VII can be heavily expanded on with some examples as follows, more direct back story on on certain events and lore such as the player can get more in depth insight on the ancients and the arrival of Jenova as well as the latter disrupting the former and corrupting people. Elements from the expanded VII story from before could be implemented to flesh things out more and such the's a lot that can still be done with the original story that I'm sure others could add to as well how ever the changes made imply everything from before is now scrapped for what ever the team feels like.
Sure this would have been controversial in the scenario of different expectations as well but it would have been more accepted that's the impression I'm getting anyway.
