Final Fantasy Thread

@Hayabusiness Indeed they should. See here's the thing, this applies to all games in a general mass. Might be similar to what Rikuto wrote awhile back but it's not entirely wrong on his part. "Graphics engine is not a major factor into a well selling game. If the gameplay or story is shit, then the game is shit no matter how much colors or crayons you put into it." Course, that's besides the film, the issue is that Square Enix is in general a gaming company that simply has better chances making a game than a film.

Which is why I also said in the past that graphics isn't a necessity to make a good game. It's merely the blanket to warm itself up or to keep up with the time on current technology. One does not need to go back in time to stick to old graphics, dear god no. However implementing hard graphics can become an excuse to modern day gaming on what it is to truly feel like you play the game for what you enjoy. Quite a number of people become naive to it and oblivious. It's like seeing a young one who would rather read the book with pictures and colors on it, rather than the book of just words that defined an interesting story. A picture book has the potential to become a good book if it draws an audience, but putting too much colors will make it a shell of impending problems that uses graphics to draw attention from the eyes to make money rather than the core element.

FFXV has done really well with the gameplay and I have some hopes for the story, but it isn't necessarily something of grand exposure. Grand exposure is similar to FFVII's first release via PS1 that not only brought up enhanced graphics from leaving early builds of FF, but provided a story that came out extremely good somehow. That's the stuff you give props to (though I do think FFVII is highly overrated and far too much talked about, people can't exactly hate on the game for the accomplishment it did within that particular era.)

@Tyaren Yes, I've watched it on VUDU for $14.99. If I had a dollar stuck on a vending machine it would make me feel far less disappointing in eating up money.

Awesmic said:

Who said anything about the gods being playable? All we know is that we're getting strictly calendar-based faction battles, and Spiritus and Materia are just there as placeholder central characters to flesh out what I hope will be a story for the console version.


With the direction the gameplay is going now, a handful of characters will have trouble transitioning to the new gameplay system anyway, especially those who lived and died by the meter like Gabranth or Prishe because they lacked certain standard variations of attacks. Others like Mateus, Kuja (who I'm surprised isn't in the roster by now because his playstyle is practically the base of the new metagame), and especially Ultimecia may have to be toned down significantly.

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There were silhouette image scans of those characters that you seen within that video, however I did not expect them to be new characters. I assumed one of them was Jecht based on the outline+posture and another FF character they wanted to reveal. Ace was the only character by far that was by complete surprise for me. As for the gods being playable (via twitter JPN rumors mind you), one would think they would still be in the game as arcade bosses but not in actuality playable. Even if they could they'd have to find a way to incorporate moves to fit against the cast in balance sense, though that would be moved aside since Dissidia arcade is completely new even in story eventually. Basically these two characters are the answer to them.

I was rather surprised for Kuja as well. I still think he'll show up eventually even in vanilla arcade type within Dissidia. Ultimecia sounds like a problem, though shouldn't really be impossible. She may take some elements directly from FFVIII (which isn't a lot considering she isn't revealed until end-game portion back in VIII.)