Change that to X-2 and I would agree. yeah the story is a little eh but I love X-2 so much.
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Change that to X-2 and I would agree. yeah the story is a little eh but I love X-2 so much.
Every time I played FFI I started falling asleep like 20 minutes in. I think I made it to 3 hours before I called it quits lol
Square: The legacy of the crystals has shaped our history for long enough.
Also Square: *remakes FF1*
Also Square: *remakes FF1*
Dude yes. I wrote a whole article about this back when I used to be a "games writer" that went horrifically unnoticed because everyone hated 13 at launch (and also because lol @ me being a games writer).
I still suspect that some of the reception is because of how women-focused the game was, but that's obviously not a conversation for this thread.
For sure, about 2006. If we look at the development time for most of Square's releases over the last few years, every game's had reasonable cycles (not to mention decent critical reception overall). It's the meme of Square-Enix games taking 15 years to develop that just keeps rearing its head imo.
Yeah...just like Left Alive is made up off Armored Core staff and Balan Wonderland is made up of Sonic staff. Nothing can go wrong there.
Yeah, it's the same composer. Dissidia NT and Kingdom Hearts 3 aren't his best work.
Final Fantasy I was my favorite for a long time, so I'm overjoyed to be seemingly returning to that world
XIII didn't feel girl powered to me at all - or if it is, it's very shallow about it. Outside of maybe Fang and Vanille, none of the female characters really have any depth to their relationships with each other. Lightning's relationship with her own sister is a glaring example of that imo.
No. X-2 has a dumb "Charlie's Angels" vibe. With XIII we have Fang and Vanille as the most important characters in the story, and both Lightning and Fang as independent female lead characters.
but I know Era has a hate boner for FFXIII
Oh for sure they can expand on the "girl power" aspect but I appreciate how all the most important main characters in the story are female.
The polygonal 3D version on the 3DS is the best version. Sadly it's Japanese-exclusive.
Just announcements. Who knows when this stuff will actually release.
1997-2001 was a far greater time to be a FF fan seeing as how we got FF7, 8, 9, 10, AND Tactics.
PSP version is "press X to win" levels of difficult, but it does look nice and has a bunch of bonus dungeons featuring bosses from FF3-6 plus a very tough superboss.
PSX version has that oldschool feel to it, both in difficulty and visuals.
Eh. I think 13 was ok. The main problem for me is its characters in general, so no matter how important Fang, Vanille, and Lightening were, I only really cared for Fang. I do understand that X-2's vibes aren't for everyone tho.
I feel like Lightning being a pale imitation of what people misremember Cloud to be like is what doomed that. She's so horribly bad at interacting with other people that all of her interactions come off as either robotic or vitriolic. And while there's nothing wrong with writing a female character whose primary emotion is anger, it does make character interactions pretty difficult. Anger is a bad emotion to mainline for any character, lol.
That being said, in the modern era, I feel like there are lots of RPGs about primarily or exclusively female casts, especially in the JRPG sphere. A lot of that is in the gacha sphere, of course, but even outside of that there are a lot of RPGs with female casts to the point at which I was kind of shocked that FFXV went for the all-boy party because that basically hasn't been done unless you count the largely uncharacterized NES-FFI and NES-FFIII casts as all-male.
Agreed. Blowhard Vegeta was such a great voice call for Garland.
this year, next year, and the year after. There you go.
Also, game development these days takes more time than 25 years ago, shocker!
WTF? I never knew about this. I just looked it up and it looks cool! It's basically the PSP version but in 3D. I want it... :(
The vibe of X-2 is great, if not admittedly stupid sometimes. >.>
Yeah, that's fair. I've noticed that whenever there are prominent female characters in the cast, they don't really develop their relationships with one another and they kind of just...exist around each other. They did a good job with Tifa and Aerith's relationship with VIIR so hopefully that's a sign SE is learning and we see more of this with female characters in the future.
PS1. The PSP looks and sounds nicer, but it's completely brain-dead gameplay-wise. Zero challenge whatsoever.
The PS1 remaster still looks great, and has a really great challenge to it. It also has some quality of life stuff that the NES game didn't.
Go for the PS1 release.
I agree with this, but I don't think it's quite that simple. Fang and Vanille have plenty of screentime in the XIII trilogy (and not solely sexualized), FFXIV has multiple female characters with full narrative arcs that aren't there just to be sexy or empower/rely on men (Lyse, Ryne, Gaia, Y'shtola, off the top of my head), and VII Remake spent some time giving Tifa and Aerith a friendship and getting to be characters that weren't there solely for sex appeal. I'm just a gay dude, so I could certainly have a skewed view of things, but I think it could easily go either way with any female characters we get in XVI or this spin-off.
(God, I'm still mad about what they pulled with Luna. And like... everything about Cindy. Oof.)
Aside from FF7R-2, 16 doesn't seem too far away, and given TN's track record, the game usually comes out about more or less a year after their alpha demos.
It's part of the leak. Seemingly some kind of collection, or collections, that are of better quality than previous re-releases.
It's not even been announced or given a date yet funny enough.
because i'm old: FF1 was the first game i bought with my own money. at launch. felt like a massive leap forward from DQ1 with classes and a party-based system, multiple continents, river traversal, airship (DQ 2 released after FF1 in NA)
it may not feel like it now but it was quite innovative for its time
it may not feel like it now but it was quite innovative for its time
At least with "Origin", we can assume we'll actually see this puppy release by next year. The article already is talking about repeating Nioh's pattern with an alpha demo this summer.
Lol we didn't even get the real first Crystal Chronicles the Crystal Bearers
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