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Xen on 17 March 2014
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Welp... at least she wasn't the choice of the editor or something.

Not the most dreadful character in that horrid "saga", but not worth of being first in anything (or, deserves to be first in being a bitch, perhaps )


You are just said that Hope didn't win!

Eh.... I guess you mean something from LR... or XIII-2 maybe I only played the demos of those two so far... though I love being punished and tormented, so I will get to both games in due time!

For the record, I hate Hope Sazh! Sazh! Sazh!



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outlawauron on 17 March 2014
Carl2291 said:
outlawauron said:

I don't divide everything up quite that way. I see 3 games for XIII (and even then, all of them were full on with content and had their gameplay systems changed with each entry) and I see 5 games for FF7, a movie, two OVAs, and a novel. I suppose we have different definitions of constant milking as you could argue for Mario or Call of Duty (or other games with yearly releases). Even with reused assets, surely you understand why they had to. Company was essentially forced to after their mishandling of the FF13 dev cycle.


The difference between XIII and VII would be popularity with the mass market.

VII sold over 10 Million copies and continues to be a best seller on PSN to this day. Crisis Core, the prequel on a completely different platform (rife with piracy), sold over 3 Million copies. Dirge of Cerberus, a TPS spinoff sold 1.5 Million copies. Final Fantasy VII videos on YouTube are the most popular Final Fantasy videos. Last Order sold out Months before it was even released in Japan. At the time of release, Before Crisis was the best selling mobile phone game in the world with 200,000 registered players.

Advent Children actually boosted the PS3 by 289% in Japan when it released on Blu-ray. Over 60,000 PS3s were sold that Week. Lightning Returns launch week saw a 3% boost while XIII-2 saw a 39% boost to 64,000 in the middle of the holiday season. Furthermore, way back in 2009 Advent Children had aleady sold over 4.1 Million copies on DVD and UMD alone, not counting the eventual Blu-ray sales.

People want Final Fantasy VII, which is why anything Final Fantasy VII generally does exceptionally well. Im not sure the same can be said of XIII.

I don't disagree with a lot you say, but you know why Advent Children boosted sales and it was directly tied to FF13. It included a long demo of the game and even I imported it to play the demo. Not to mention there was a limited edition PS3 that looked fantastic. If the movie released on its own, it has zero effect on anything.



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Wright on 17 March 2014

Someone said it back there.

 

Sazh FTW.



Acevil on 17 March 2014
Xen said:
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Welp... at least she wasn't the choice of the editor or something.

Not the most dreadful character in that horrid "saga", but not worth of being first in anything (or, deserves to be first in being a bitch, perhaps )


You are just said that Hope didn't win!

Eh.... I guess you mean something from LR... or XIII-2 maybe I only played the demos of those two so far... though I love being punished and tormented, so I will get to both games in due time!

For the record, I hate Hope Sazh! Sazh! Sazh!


I meant sad, and I know you hate Hope. 



 

Xen on 17 March 2014
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Welp... at least she wasn't the choice of the editor or something.

Not the most dreadful character in that horrid "saga", but not worth of being first in anything (or, deserves to be first in being a bitch, perhaps )


You are just said that Hope didn't win!

Eh.... I guess you mean something from LR... or XIII-2 maybe I only played the demos of those two so far... though I love being punished and tormented, so I will get to both games in due time!

For the record, I hate Hope Sazh! Sazh! Sazh!


I meant sad, and I know you hate Hope. 

Sorry, had to repeat it

What didn't he win, though ? :O



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Acevil on 17 March 2014
Xen said:
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Welp... at least she wasn't the choice of the editor or something.

Not the most dreadful character in that horrid "saga", but not worth of being first in anything (or, deserves to be first in being a bitch, perhaps )


You are just said that Hope didn't win!

Eh.... I guess you mean something from LR... or XIII-2 maybe I only played the demos of those two so far... though I love being punished and tormented, so I will get to both games in due time!

For the record, I hate Hope Sazh! Sazh! Sazh!


I meant sad, and I know you hate Hope. 

Sorry, had to repeat it

What didn't he win, though ? :O

I was being a bit sarcastic. I think I was saying that "You are sad that Hope didn't win the best character of 2013."  Given I could have easily picked Snow as well. 



 

Xen on 17 March 2014
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Acevil said:
Xen said:
Welp... at least she wasn't the choice of the editor or something.

Not the most dreadful character in that horrid "saga", but not worth of being first in anything (or, deserves to be first in being a bitch, perhaps )


You are just said that Hope didn't win!

Eh.... I guess you mean something from LR... or XIII-2 maybe I only played the demos of those two so far... though I love being punished and tormented, so I will get to both games in due time!

For the record, I hate Hope Sazh! Sazh! Sazh!


I meant sad, and I know you hate Hope. 

Sorry, had to repeat it

What didn't he win, though ? :O

I was being a bit sarcastic. I think I was saying that "You are sad that Hope didn't win the best character of 2013."  Given I could have easily picked Snow as well. 

Then my hat is off to you, sir. You know what I hate well.



Mirson on 17 March 2014

In regards of milking, I don't consider XIII milked. Is the character Lightning overused? Yes, but the XIII saga isn't.  There's one game every two years, and they're all different from each other especially the last one.

If you want a JRPG series that's milked, look at the Tales of series. ..and Persona 4. There's a tales game every 9 months with similar battle systems, and Tales of Xillia 2 is coming out in which the original is barely a few months old.



brendude13 on 17 March 2014
Mirson said:

In regards of milking, I don't consider XIII milked. Is the character Lightning overused? Yes, but the XIII saga isn't.  There's one game every two years, and they're all different from each other especially the last one.

If you want a JRPG series that's milked, look at the Tales of series. ..and Persona 4. There's a tales game every 9 months with similar battle systems, and Tales of Xillia 2 is coming out in which the original is barely a few months old.



MentalAlliance on 17 March 2014

Haha, that's great! I love hoe Lightning keeps resurfacing in some way or another, thusly pissing off the haters more and more! SO great! Btw, I hope everyone realizes that Lightning is basically a lock for Kingdom Hearts III, eh? Just thought I'd mention it to soften the blow when such information is finally revealed.