Darth Anarcus
02-12-2007, 06:18 PM
I love the pre-PS2 Final Fantasy games. And while I did like FFX and FF12 (FFX-2 being just a waste of time and an embarrassment), I find that they are lacking that certain thing that the older platform games had. FFX had pretty decent characters for the most part whom we cared about, but the story premise--while well-carried out and made interresting, in my opinion--was quite weak. FF12 was asthetically pleasing, having an okay story, but the plot is hard to follow and the characters are bland, uninterresting and flat. We do not care about them one bit. In fact, the main character--Vaan--is the most boring, bland and flat character out of them all, which isn't good. Baltheir, Basch and Ashe were okay, but the character developement was still limited.
And then we have the FF7 Compilation, which is being handled entirely wrong. Advent Children lacked any substance, and Dirge of Cerberus was a weak attempt at expanding upon one character's past (though I did enjoy it, if nothing else than for the gameplay's sake). I've never played Before Crisis as I don't have a Japanese phone, and I have a feeling that Crisis Core isn't going to be any better.
And although I've not played it, I've heard that Crystal Chronicles is wank, too.
I'd say it started when they merged with Enix, but FFX--where it started, in my opinion--was before the merger. It seems that Square is losing its touch. For the sake of preserving the integrity of this once great series, I sincerely hope that Square will one day (hopefully soon) sell the franchise to someone else, someone who will handle it better. Although I know this will never happen, since FF is their baby and they are more concerned with raking in the cash rather than preserving the glory of their greatest creation's name. However, I hope someone in the higher ranks one day realises it and selects integrity over profit, and either hires new and better writers (and ones from places other than just Japan), or turns the series over to another company. Personally, I think that the writers of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic would be more than able to make the series great again, or any other RPG-producing company with still-successful titles coming out to this day.
I don't know. What do you guys think?
And then we have the FF7 Compilation, which is being handled entirely wrong. Advent Children lacked any substance, and Dirge of Cerberus was a weak attempt at expanding upon one character's past (though I did enjoy it, if nothing else than for the gameplay's sake). I've never played Before Crisis as I don't have a Japanese phone, and I have a feeling that Crisis Core isn't going to be any better.
And although I've not played it, I've heard that Crystal Chronicles is wank, too.
I'd say it started when they merged with Enix, but FFX--where it started, in my opinion--was before the merger. It seems that Square is losing its touch. For the sake of preserving the integrity of this once great series, I sincerely hope that Square will one day (hopefully soon) sell the franchise to someone else, someone who will handle it better. Although I know this will never happen, since FF is their baby and they are more concerned with raking in the cash rather than preserving the glory of their greatest creation's name. However, I hope someone in the higher ranks one day realises it and selects integrity over profit, and either hires new and better writers (and ones from places other than just Japan), or turns the series over to another company. Personally, I think that the writers of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic would be more than able to make the series great again, or any other RPG-producing company with still-successful titles coming out to this day.
I don't know. What do you guys think?