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Riachu on 27 August 2008
DTG said:
How can people claim the SNES Square games to be their golden age when the storylines of the SNES FF games don't even hold a candle to the more developed, polished and complex storylines of Square in the PS1 and 2 era? (Not that it means much consider outside Xenogears Square storylines have always been mediocre, but the SNES narratives were just...childish,)

bullist thing I ever heard concerning Square's games

 



 

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zexen_lowe on 27 August 2008
DTG said:
How can people claim the SNES Square games to be their golden age when the storylines of the SNES FF games don't even hold a candle to the more developed, polished and complex storylines of Square in the PS1 and 2 era? (Not that it means much consider outside Xenogears Square storylines have always been mediocre, but the SNES narratives were just...childish,)

Please

 

Chrono Cross

Final Fantasy Tactics (seriously can you call FFT's story mediocre???????)

Final Fantasy VII

Vagrant Story

the list goes on and on...




DTG on 27 August 2008
zexen_lowe said:
DTG said:
How can people claim the SNES Square games to be their golden age when the storylines of the SNES FF games don't even hold a candle to the more developed, polished and complex storylines of Square in the PS1 and 2 era? (Not that it means much consider outside Xenogears Square storylines have always been mediocre, but the SNES narratives were just...childish,)

Please

 

Chrono Cross

Final Fantasy Tactics (seriously can you call FFT's story mediocre???????)

Final Fantasy VII

Vagrant Story

the list goes on and on...

Yes, because the storylines of those games can really compete with the best of movies and books...

 



zexen_lowe on 27 August 2008
DTG said:
zexen_lowe said:
DTG said:
How can people claim the SNES Square games to be their golden age when the storylines of the SNES FF games don't even hold a candle to the more developed, polished and complex storylines of Square in the PS1 and 2 era? (Not that it means much consider outside Xenogears Square storylines have always been mediocre, but the SNES narratives were just...childish,)

Please

 

Chrono Cross

Final Fantasy Tactics (seriously can you call FFT's story mediocre???????)

Final Fantasy VII

Vagrant Story

the list goes on and on...

Yes, because the storylines of those games can really compete with the best of movies and books...

 

Final Fantasy Tactics can, and would beat a lot of them, but anyways, if you want to put it that way, how many games do you think can compete, apart from Xenogears?

 




Riachu on 27 August 2008
DTG said:
zexen_lowe said:
DTG said:
How can people claim the SNES Square games to be their golden age when the storylines of the SNES FF games don't even hold a candle to the more developed, polished and complex storylines of Square in the PS1 and 2 era? (Not that it means much consider outside Xenogears Square storylines have always been mediocre, but the SNES narratives were just...childish,)

Please

 

Chrono Cross

Final Fantasy Tactics (seriously can you call FFT's story mediocre???????)

Final Fantasy VII

Vagrant Story

the list goes on and on...

Yes, because the storylines of those games can really compete with the best of movies and books...

 

Movies and Books are a passive medium and video games aren't so you have to lower the standards for the story in video games.  Also, how do the story in those games not compete with the best of movies and books

 



 

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321tttrini4everz on 27 August 2008

YES



Riachu on 27 August 2008
Soriku said:

lol at SE game storylines being bad. If it's not made by Kojima or doesn't have tons and tons of philosophy it must be bad according to DTG.

As for KH1 mature...ummm OK. I'll agree then. KH1 had its dark moments though. KH: CoM is the darkest though.

Don't get me wrong, I think the MGS series has a awesome story.  However,  back in the SNES and PS1 era, Squaresoft were considered to be some of the best storytellers in the game industry

 



 

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Godot on 27 August 2008
Riachu said:
DTG said:
zexen_lowe said:
DTG said:
How can people claim the SNES Square games to be their golden age when the storylines of the SNES FF games don't even hold a candle to the more developed, polished and complex storylines of Square in the PS1 and 2 era? (Not that it means much consider outside Xenogears Square storylines have always been mediocre, but the SNES narratives were just...childish,)

Please

 

Chrono Cross

Final Fantasy Tactics (seriously can you call FFT's story mediocre???????)

Final Fantasy VII

Vagrant Story

the list goes on and on...

Yes, because the storylines of those games can really compete with the best of movies and books...

 

Movies and Books are a passive medium and video games aren't so you have to lower the standards for the story in video games.  Also, how do the story in those games not compete with the best of movies and books

 

Ignore him. Books will always be much better storywise than all of entertainment. As for movies, it helps that the medium has been here for 100 years.

As for Kingdom Hearts, I think that the sequel has really improved the game. The story, the graphics, the music, the characters, the gameplay,etc.



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Dgc1808 on 28 August 2008

Square: Yes
Enix : Don't give a damn....



4 ≈ One

FinalEvangelion on 28 August 2008

I think they are slowly coming back around again that there is stiffer competition from others like BN, Nintendo, etc. Crisis Core was very well done and the FF4 remake was absolutely amazing (I actually think it's better than the original as a huge fan of FF4).

During the time of FF X-2 and Dirge of Cerberus, more was needed.



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