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deadt0m on 04 May 2009

Square is so deluded. FFIV and VI are still two of the greatest games ever, but they pretty much went down a road I couldn't follow when they switched to CD. They reminded me why I liked the series with 9, and to a lesser degree ten, and then spent the next few years destroying all the capital those games had built up with me.

I wish they would go ahead and outgrow Final Fantasy and put Bushido Blade on XBLA. :P



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S.T.A.G.E. on 04 May 2009

This FF better be good or I'm never buying another JRPG again. The only FF I can actually say I liked was ten and seven and I was much younger when I played those. At least SE helped me understand why I am growing tired of JRPG's and moving on to WRPG's.



Rei on 04 May 2009
badgenome said:

Oh, good. I'm perfectly normal, then.

But why do I still like the old Final Fantasies?

   Nostalgia. I still enjoy playing old Sonic games for the same reason, whilst there is no chance I'd touch a new one. However children do like them.

 



Mummelmann on 04 May 2009

I refuse to grow out of Final Fantasy!



S.T.A.G.E. on 04 May 2009
Rei said:
badgenome said:

Oh, good. I'm perfectly normal, then.

But why do I still like the old Final Fantasies?

   Nostalgia. I still enjoy playing old Sonic games for the same reason, whilst there is no chance I'd touch a new one. However children do like them.

 

 

 

Nostalgia is the truth. I fell more in love with the FF stories than playing the actual games, because technically thats the concept of JRPG's.



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deadt0m on 04 May 2009
Rei said:
badgenome said:

Oh, good. I'm perfectly normal, then.

But why do I still like the old Final Fantasies?

   Nostalgia. I still enjoy playing old Sonic games for the same reason, whilst there is no chance I'd touch a new one. However children do like them.

 

 

Certainly nostalgia is part of it, but I find it EXTREMELY difficult to believe that if someone handed me a copy of FFIV, and I had never played it before, that I would be anything short of blown away, even today.

Honestly, I think it has more to do with technology and the story arcs.  The pre-CD run of the games didn't have cutting edge technology as a crutch, and so to make successful games they had to be fun, immersive, whimsical, challenging and engaging.  Starting with VII though, they just removed whimsy from the series completely and replaced it with awful, overwrought emo cutscenes.  The original Final Fantasy games conveyed emotion through good writing and relatable characters, and then seven replaced good writing with too-long cutscenes of effeminate men crying about things.

Put simply, I think they used to make good video games, now they make playable interludes between horrible cutscenes.



griffinA on 04 May 2009

^^^^I think the difference is the tone. The pre-FFVII Final Fantasy games took themselves less seriously while telling a story. These days they play like a cliched series movie.



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Dgc1808 on 04 May 2009
ctk495 said:
I´ve never played a FF game I am about to get IV for my DS though.

 

Great place to start.



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SaviorX on 04 May 2009

I haven't been satisied with modern RPGS (haven't a single current-gen one), but I had A LOT of time spent with FF7 and Legend of Dragoon. Older games just look more appealing.



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Christhor on 04 May 2009
badgenome said:

Oh, good. I'm perfectly normal, then.

But why do I still like the old Final Fantasies?

 

There are two possible explanations, the first is nostaliga. The other reason might be that the teens have diffrent taste than you? So Square might have changed it according to their taste, because they're targeting them? I myself think that the FFs have been getting worse, but what ever.