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Hisiru on 30 December 2009

No gameplay in the commercial? Why?



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Riachu on 30 December 2009
Hisiru said:

No gameplay in the commercial? Why?

S-E probably figured that the gameplay wasn't proven enough to show it.  FF commercials never really showed gameplay anyway, only CGI and cutscenes.



 

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SaviorX on 30 December 2009

^^^He's right. Final Fantasy 7,8,9,10,11,12 ad no gamplay in their commercials



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NeoStar9 on 31 December 2009

Final Fantasy ads have always been weird like that. It's really annoying as well as I caught one when I was younger and I had no clue as to what I was actually watching until the name flashed on the screen. Now as a huge Final Fantasy fan then I could only imagine what a person that had never played a Final Fantasy game thought. FF is a series that counts on past players coming back and back over and over again. Square doesn't look like it even tries to bring in new players to the series.



Riachu on 31 December 2009
NeoStar9 said:
Final Fantasy ads have always been weird like that. It's really annoying as well as I caught one when I was younger and I had no clue as to what I was actually watching until the name flashed on the screen. Now as a huge Final Fantasy fan then I could only imagine what a person that had never played a Final Fantasy game thought. FF is a series that counts on past players coming back and back over and over again. Square doesn't look like it even tries to bring in new players to the series.

It brings in new players every generation.  FFVII brought in new players,  FFX brought in new fans and FFXIII will probably bring in some new fans as well.  S-E seems to feel that gamers would be turned off by turn based combat.  Heavily advertising turn based combat in an American commersial of FF would be like heavily advertising the RTS-like stage battles in Brutal Legend.  It would just turn off potential players.  Game ads in general don't seem to include much if any gameplay.



 

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Metallicube on 31 December 2009

I saw a commercial for it after south park too. I have a feeling it's going to be a flop in sales though. Conduit and Madworld had pretty good advertising but failed to sell a significant amount.



sc94597 on 31 December 2009
Metallicube said:
I saw a commercial for it after south park too. I have a feeling it's going to be a flop in sales though. Conduit and Madworld had pretty good advertising but failed to sell a significant amount.

The Conduit and Madworld are new IPs the latter being fairly niche.



woopah on 01 January 2010

these commercials would have been so much more effective before christmas I feel.



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KungKras on 01 January 2010
Riachu said:
NeoStar9 said:
Final Fantasy ads have always been weird like that. It's really annoying as well as I caught one when I was younger and I had no clue as to what I was actually watching until the name flashed on the screen. Now as a huge Final Fantasy fan then I could only imagine what a person that had never played a Final Fantasy game thought. FF is a series that counts on past players coming back and back over and over again. Square doesn't look like it even tries to bring in new players to the series.

It brings in new players every generation.  FFVII brought in new players,  FFX brought in new fans and FFXIII will probably bring in some new fans as well.  S-E seems to feel that gamers would be turned off by turn based combat.  Heavily advertising turn based combat in an American commersial of FF would be like heavily advertising the RTS-like stage battles in Brutal Legend.  It would just turn off potential players.  Game ads in general don't seem to include much if any gameplay.

Final Fantasy wouldn't be a series in decline if it brought in new fans every generation.



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Riachu on 01 January 2010
KungKras said:
Riachu said:
NeoStar9 said:
Final Fantasy ads have always been weird like that. It's really annoying as well as I caught one when I was younger and I had no clue as to what I was actually watching until the name flashed on the screen. Now as a huge Final Fantasy fan then I could only imagine what a person that had never played a Final Fantasy game thought. FF is a series that counts on past players coming back and back over and over again. Square doesn't look like it even tries to bring in new players to the series.

It brings in new players every generation.  FFVII brought in new players,  FFX brought in new fans and FFXIII will probably bring in some new fans as well.  S-E seems to feel that gamers would be turned off by turn based combat.  Heavily advertising turn based combat in an American commersial of FF would be like heavily advertising the RTS-like stage battles in Brutal Legend.  It would just turn off potential players.  Game ads in general don't seem to include much if any gameplay.

Final Fantasy wouldn't be a series in decline if it brought in new fans every generation.

It does bring in new fans every generation.  I don't think this decline is a result of the game mechanic changing every game.  It is not like keeping game mechanics the same would change anything.  This is what caused Ratchet and Clank to decline in popularity.  The decline is caused by ever first FF every generation selling the best since FFVII and I don't think that will change now.



 

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