[:plant:] Final Fantasy IV: The After

Originally Posted by Miho

Thanks for the sarcasm. Next time be direct with what you want to say, good sir. In a 16-bit game's case, there isn't going to be much of a difference between all three platforms, aside for the preference of the controller.

Look, is this a gang-up on me or something, I detect this being a classic case of regulars ganging up on a newb, or someone who doesn't post as much. It bothers me that you can't respect each other in a civilized manner without resorting to mud slinging. It's juvenile.

I have my preferences, and I have my views on this particular topic. Am I more wrong than you, or are you more wrong than me? No one is really saying anything factual. It's all going by "what I think" or "what you think."

And, that, seems to be, at large, a bigger problem at GamingForce, but that's a topic for another day, and sorry that I derailed the topic, but people kept pecking at my posts.

Hey there.

Actually, there is no element of ganging up on the new guy going on here at all. What's happening is people are ganging up on the guy who's talking nonsense and you'll find that happens a lot, whether the guy talking nonsense joined yesterday or years ago (See Dopefish for example).

It is a simple fact that writing Final Fantasy on a game guarantees reasonable if not good sales.

It is also a fact that Microsoft have been throwing money at Square to secure exclusives of late, just look at The Last Remnant and getting access to Final Fantasy XIII can't have been cheap.

It's fairly undeniable that Square have suggested that they'll be chucking out some of their old stuff on the XBLA in the future.

It's pretty common knowledge that the XBLA generates much higher sales than Wiiware.

Taking all these undeniable facts into consideration, do you not see how you might be viewed as a bit simple to think that Square and Microsoft wouldn't between them come to some mutually beneficial arrangement regarding the release of some Square IP's over XBLA, at the exclusion of their rivals?

On a more subjective level, I'm struggling to see how the controller really makes a blind bit of difference to a traditional jrpg, given it'll spend most of the time held limply in your grasp while you endlessly select the same four options from a battle menu. I mean, it's not like they require precision inputs is it? Unless of course you have tiny and feeble hands that can't cope with anything bigger or heavier than a GameCube controller in which case I meant no offence and I can see why you might prefer to play games on the Wii.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

One would imagine that during the negotiations Square would estimate how much money they'd make releasing multi-platform and then ask Microsoft to pay something approaching what they're missing out on to secure exclusivity.

I mean, that's the way I'd do it and one would hope the deal makers at a company like Square have at least as much business sense as I do.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Andrew Evenstar

So anyways I am probably the biggest FFIV fan along with another member named BORG on here...

...I would have rather them not made a sequel

I don't really get this. If you're one of the biggest fans of the game ever, why would you not want a company to produce a sequel? I'm probably one of the more outspoken fans of Too Human here and I'd be stoked if a sequel was ever made (It won't be but I can dream) as I'd get to experience the game again only with a fresh story and enhancements. Likewise, I'm rather childishly excited about the announcement of Crackdown 2, having really enjoyed the first one and wanting to play something the same but with a new city and weapons and stuff. I really enjoyed FFXII and I'd love it if SE released another FF with the same battle system.

I can't understand why if you liked something you'd rather there wasn't more of it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I've never really understood that stance either to be honest. I appreciate that perhaps in the case of rpgs, it's the story and characters that people are into more than the game system itself (Although as I'm currently playing through FFIV, unless it suddenly throws a curve-ball storywise towards the end it's pretty fucking predictable fare, the story can't have taken more than a morning to write so how badly could they possibly rape the memory of the characters?) but I've just never been of the opinion that releasing a sequel to something lessens the original.

It might not improve on it but in that case, you just don't play it. The very presence of a sequel can't possibly make me enjoy something less. The same applies to films and books and anything there's likely to be a sequel of. Does the existence of Return of the Jedi make Empire Strikes Back a worse film? Does Godfather 3 getting made make the first two parts worse films? No, of course not, no more than the hundreds of shitty Sonic games to have come out recently make the first couple worse or the horrific open-world gameplay of Burnout Paradise makes Burnout Revenge worse (Actually in that case it does because everyone stopped playing it online to play Paradise but that doesn't count as FF isn't online).

I think saying you're a fan of something then saying you'd rather they'd not made more of them is a little melodramatic is all.

How ya doing, buddy?