[News] The "I too liked Xenogears' second disc" Club

Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

The safe bet would be the world collectively groaning at the announcement of FFX-3.

FF-X2 was easily twice as god as FF-X so another sequel, if twice as good again might almost be a decent game.

I would hope that if they did remake FFVI they coudl somehow make it not be incredibly tedious, then I might actually make it to the end of the game.

What they should do is a sequel to Vagrant Story, remaking Final Fantasy games over and over is just gay. Unless you inherently change the gameplay, thereby making the game not a remake, the older FF games will always be essentially boring, no matter how pretty the graphics they bolt on.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Gechmir

Yeah, FFXII was gonna be good because they had a number of Vagrant Story goons working on it. Then they said "wait, we can't have this cool Bosch dude be the main character. Let's introduce a few fourteen year olds! "

Given, I practically turned off the game when they repeatedly mispronounced "marquis".

I played most of FFXII with the sound off so I missed that. The pronounced it properly in Last Remnant though, perhaps they're learning (Or perhaps they used more British voice actors). To give them a touch of credit, Vaan and Penelo are only ever secondary characters throughout the game. One of the things I liked about FFXII was that you weren't playing as the "main" character. Obviously it would have been better without the teenagers shoehorned in but it was nice to see the grownups saving the world while the teenagers just went along for the ride for once.

How ya doing, buddy?

I think in Europe at least, Tomb Raider and Tekken 2 were both far more popular than Final Fantasy VII; also FIFA and ISS.

Literally everyone I know had Tomb Raider and Tekken 2 and one of the football games. Most had Micro Machines V3, one of the Ridge Racers, Gran Turismo and Worms. Final Fantasy VII sold well but was always something of a niche game.

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

Originally Posted by Knighthawk

Well that is the problem right there. What sells in Japan doesn't always sell well in North America or Europe. You see alot of RPG titles sell well in Japan but over here they do god awful (Tales series comes to mind). I'm not saying turn base is bad but its been overdone and for the most part people are sick of it.

Square are a Japanese company who make games for Japan, primarily. Their first foray into making rpgs for a global market was Last Remnant which, whilst being pretty awesome, hardly won any sales volume awards. Final Fantasy XIII was made for Japan and you can bet that if they remake FFVII, they'll remake it the way Jap gamers want it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Leknaat

Because I get to beat people up without having to go to jail as a result.

I think I have issues.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, it's rare for jrpgs to let you indiscriminatly beat up people. Random monsters sure but if a shop keeper fucks you off, you pretty much have to live with it whereas since the days of Ultima VI and probably before, western style rpgs have often allowed you to kill literally everyone in the game.

I was speaking idiomatically.