What consumers expect of a FF-title

[AdvancedWind]

FFVII remake :lol

Sakaguchi back :LOL

Stop proving my points damn you.

Just to clarify: My "FFVII remake" was sarcasm. Not sure about others.

[Seif]

Funny you brought up skyrim. They certainly didn't pull an "interactive content on a HD-game!! Forget it!"- card like Toryama did...

[Lucifer]

FF7 will never be remade.
The amount of time it would take to replicate the game in HD--impossibru.

Games were made with a different mindset back then. Those were better days.

[Jennestia]

So you all have played XIII-2?

I am currently, I think I shouldn't mention that it scored perfect scores across 2 major magazines, not to mention it's a fair bit too RPG like now which I know won't be recieved well once it hits western shores, since a lot of gamers nowadays doesn't like the classic type of RPG.

All I read was Glitchy and Terrible.

Yeah, it's kind of funny how people will jump on people who enjoy square games, yet will want to kill you if you so much as mention the holy trinity of glitches Bethesda is known for.

[DNO]

XIII-2 is not a spin-off--it's a sequel.
Same with X-2.

Regardless, I agree. People need to simmer down.

This is most definitely a spin-off or it would be called ff15. 13-TWO is a spin-off of 13

[grandm]

i think the biggest problem is, far too much is put into making a game look great with sparkly realistic graphics. now i'm not saying they should tone the graphics down in anyway. but with older titles with not so great graphics it seems alot more thought was put into story and gameplay to make up for this short fall in looks. today's games are like a burnt cake, sure nice icing will hide the crap underneath, but only until you bite into it. don't hide your crap with sparkly graphics, make a good game first then give it good graphics

[Jennestia]

i think the biggest problem is, far too much is put into making a game look great with sparkly realistic graphics. now i'm not saying they should tone the graphics down in anyway. but with older titles with not so great graphics it seems alot more thought was put into story and gameplay to make up for this short fall in looks. today's games are like a burnt cake, sure nice icing will hide the crap underneath, but only until you bite into it. don't hide your crap with sparkly graphics, make a good game first then give it good graphics

This is half-true:

In game development you have to balance everything as much as possible, when something becomes top-heavy in one aspect, almost guaranteed another aspect of the game will be lacking.

This is why "perfect" games will never exist in the sense of the word that there's a perfect balance of everything.

[Zantetsuken]

The Motomu Toriyama and Tetsuya Nomura era for the FF main series should come to an end IMHO.

Even though FFXIII-2 looks amazing by it's own standards, the bad taste that many people got from FFXIII is no doubt hurting their sales.

The sci-fi, hyper-action, glam-character, ultra-linear, cg-movie, approach is not what the core fans want from the Final Fantasy main series.

If that is the direction that Toriyama and Nomura want to go, then SE should really break the franchise into separate series:

• Final Fantasy Worlds (FFI-IX, FFXII...)
• Final Fantasy Dramatic Action (FFVII:CC, FFX, FFXIII, etc..)
• Final Fantasy Online: (FFXI, FFXIV)
• Final Fantasy Tactics: (FFT, FFTA2, FFXII-RW etc..)

[Malakhim]

I've been goofing around with my responses, and I'm not dismissing the fact that Bethesda games are glitchy as all hell(although apparently this is due to their own ambitious designs in the first place) and I haven't even played Skyrim yet so I can't defend it, but being serious for a minute, that doesn't mean Bethesda and Bioware aren't major players in the console arena. With Square-Enix struggling to catch up to the current generation of gaming in terms of design and innovation(Final Fantasy XIII was really just a very pretty PS2 game), it would be suicide for them to go back and remake a game that hasn't been relevant for over a decade no matter how great it may have been at its time.

[grandm]

I've been goofing around with my responses, and I'm not dismissing the fact that Bethesda games are glitchy as all hell(although apparently this is due to their own ambitious designs in the first place) and I haven't even played Skyrim yet so I can't defend it, but being serious for a minute, that doesn't mean Bethesda and Bioware aren't major players in the console arena. With Square-Enix struggling to catch up to the current generation of gaming in terms of design and innovation(Final Fantasy XIII was really just a very pretty PS2 game), it would be suicide for them to go back and remake a game that hasn't been relevant for over a decade no matter how great it may have been at its time.

i'm sorry i have to disagree with this, there is a reason hollywood is looking to the past, kingkong, the A team, planet of the apes, clash of the titans, these are all remakes and all did pretty well. and the games industry can learn something from this. the current generation of gamers is not just made up of youngsters. alot of gamers are in their 30-40s these are the first generation to grow up with computers and consoles. so to make a game in the style of games past or remake a game of old and give it a new shine would appeal to nostalgic old timers

edit:this can be seen with both mario and sonic games of today. the appeal to both me and my 6 year old and we play them together