Final fantasy XI the movie

I'd pay to see it. I think FFXI's story is pretty cool. :)

I had actually debated animating a storyline, but man...animating takes forever, yo.

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Originally Posted by Dale

Well I respect the fact you liked Spirit's Within, but I thought it was horrible. The characters were dull, the plot made no sense. I deffinitely wasted a few hours of my life watching it.

I've never seen advent children, so maybe it was better. It would be hard not to be.

Movie making is a whole different thing than video game making. It's not an easy leap to make, and I do believe if Square Enix is to have any success at it they would need to get some outside talent.

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If you had watched it, you would not have said that.

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Originally Posted by Dale

Well I respect the fact you liked Spirit's Within, but I thought it was horrible. The characters were dull, the plot made no sense. I deffinitely wasted a few hours of my life watching it.

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Yeah, no movie is absolute, nor should they be I just like it thats all I said.

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Originally Posted by Zyeriis

If you had watched it, you would not have said that.

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Maybe Zyeriis, but I doubt it - least from my perspective.

CGI may look cool, but they are still, in the end - just graphics to me. I think they have their place in movies, but not as main characters. They seem hollow and void of life to me. I've always felt it is very important to have something that is actually real if you want to portray real emotions, which is what makes any good movie good.

In Video Games you can get away with it because you are actually interacting in the story by role-playing as the main character. You are more involved so you will feel more like part of the story. In a movie you are just watching it, so it is very important to have good actors and actresses portraying realistic emotions to draw me in.

This is just my opinion though. There have been a lot of animated movies and cartoons that have done well at the box office, so it is possible to be successful doing it. I just won't be one of the ones buying the ticket.

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Originally Posted by Flunklesnarkin

Video games rarely do well when made into movies.. and if they do well its not because of storyline

look at resident evil.. it has a horrible storyline.. but people don't go for that..

they just like the explosions and fight scenes.. and who can hate on smashing zombies >:U

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I see your nonsense and raise you MK1+MK2.

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Originally Posted by Dale

Maybe Zyeriis, but I doubt it - least from my perspective.

CGI may look cool, but they are still, in the end - just graphics to me. I think they have their place in movies, but not as main characters. They seem hollow and void of life to me. I've always felt it is very important to have something that is actually real if you want to portray real emotions, which is what makes any good movie good.

In Video Games you can get away with it because you are actually interacting in the story by role-playing as the main character. You are more involved so you will feel more like part of the story. In a movie you are just watching it, so it is very important to have good actors and actresses portraying realistic emotions to draw me in.

This is just my opinion though. There have been a lot of animated movies and cartoons that have done well at the box office, so it is possible to be successful doing it. I just won't be one of the ones buying the ticket.

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I was stating the Advent Children was more devoid of story and character then any movie I've ever seen. Advent Children was all CGI and fight scenes, those were it's only draws.

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Originally Posted by Zyeriis

I was stating the Advent Children was more devoid of story and character then any movie I've ever seen. Advent Children was all CGI and fight scenes, those were it's only draws.

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OH i see what you was saying now...

I thought you meant I would not have been talking down Square's ability to make movies had i seen Advent Children.

So you were basically agreeing with me. Cool :)

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Originally Posted by Zyeriis

I was stating the Advent Children was more devoid of story and character then any movie I've ever seen.

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Wow, ecatly like the game itself.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji

Wow, ecatly like the game itself.

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Wasn't Advent Children based off Final Fantasy 7?

If so i'm going to have to disagree with you there. FF7 had a very cool story and interesting characters. It's only flaw was a lack of challenging gameplay.

As I said before, CGI can work on video games because you are actually intereacting in the storyline yourself - which helps bring the characters to life, so it works. With movies it's a bit different.

Final Fantasy 7 actually had a mentally unstable hero with multiple personality disorder. The villain was genetically altered from the cells of some alien that landed on earth. How can you say it was devoid of story and character lol

7 was some of Square's finest work as far as story telling goes. Easily.

Now if it wasn't, and advent children was based off some other game - then just ignore this post lol

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Originally Posted by Dale

If so i'm going to have to disagree with you there. FF7 had a very cool story and interesting characters.

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Try this perspective. Hack the game and walk through it. You'll see that there's no character devopement and next to no story.
FVIII actualy had a better story, they just stretched it too thin.