finally someone sees the light. 

I could give reasons for it, but everyone is talking about Final Fantasy so I see no need too. I guess I'll let people believe that it's a good opening when it's clearly not. After all, Okami is only a port, it's not supposed to sell well, right? Oh wait (looks at RE4).

Eh, it's more of a perception problem than anything.  RE4 isn't the norm, it's the exception.

Well, some people earlier were saying that Wii owners don't mind ports as long as they're good. And then back when Rock Band Wii was announced, people say that it would sell despite being crappy because it's a casual game that Wii owners would love. Perhaps these are all different people saying these things, but I don't like being told two different things. 

Hey Ajax, I'm also an oldschool top-down RPG fan, and hell, I still play roguelikes (Ancient Domains of Mystery 4 life!), and I think the FF series went kinda bland around FF7. Once the games became several discs of FMVs and were interactive movies, I just tuned out. I'm more a fan of the "cutscenes" that were "in-engine" like in FF4 and FF6, when the characters would be walking and talking with the same top-down angle. When a game goes into "cutscene mode," I'm immediately bored and feel like I'm watching TV. I hate TV. I want an interactive gaming experience, and when the movie parts are outside of the game's engine, it's just a big turn-off for me.

Also, FF7 is confusing for some of us oldtimers because it brought nothing new to the gameplay, and it was the game that helped jumpstart the PlayStation generation of 12 year old screaming fanboys who cared only about cutscenes and polygon counts and graphics and how many discs a game was on and stopped giving a shit about gameplay. I'm not saying you're one of these assholes, but if you try to sit one of these turds in front of a classic like FF6 or even Chrono Trigger, they'll act disgusted by the 2-D caveman graphics.

For me, what made FF7 so successful was it was the shiniest RPG seen at that time, which helped bring many more fans to the genre, which is great for gaming, although I could do without the portion of the new fans that are whiny graphics-whore crybabies who never shut up and turn every gaming discussion into a Ocarina vs. FF7 debate, which should obviously be a Link's Awakening vs. FF6 debate.



@Montana, do we have any information on Okami PS2's first week? I still think Okami Wii will double Okami PS2's LTD sales at some point, but it might take a little longer than I expected with this first week.

RE4 Wii had an NA debut of 90k. If Okami Wii continues to sell half as much as RE4 Wii, it will handily outsell the PS2 release.

Edit: And the only way to avoid being told two different things is to only listen to one person.

 Wrong. It's a port of a game that didn't even reach gold sales. As the page for RE4 Wii shows, that game sold just under twice as well as Okami did in its first US week, but that game had gone platinum on two systems before it came to the Wii.

So a game, with mediocre sales on its last system, selling just over half as well as a game that was a hit on its two  previous systems, is a good opening.

From Weebl and Bob:

Bob Presents a Scathing Satire of Final Fantasy 7.

Don't mind a game is not the same thing as thinking a game will sell. Some gamers do mind Mario & Sonic Olympics, but they know the game is a hit.

So you are being told different things, but in the context of different situations, not being told contradictory things.

When did this conversation shift from Okami to the Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger series? 0.o