Haha finding out about this, this is pretty interesting if it isn't bogus on EA's part. It's interesting because it goes to show just how much gamers hate Anitia Sarkeesian among the myriad of reasons and how time has proven.IceForce said:
That's not how one cites a source.Sung-Hwan said:
Well, remember that the notion of what its the consumers who have the real standards, not a reduced group of journalists. Some people prefer to have a button that makes the protagonist kick the monster ass in their games, instead off going trough the menu screens and selection in mid-combat, the same way there is people who love that kind of thing.Sung-Hwan said:
Of course the issue with the spike is that investors want it to KEEP spiking. Their profits are supposed to go up instead of down, the cosmetic industries are... Looks over at that gaming ad in glamour again.. it just seems so out of place there. LOLHubblignush said:
It's not necessarily the amount of time that matters, but the observations made along the way. I've personally always had the thought of how gaming seems so different and soulless in recent years compared to the early 2000s to late 1990s. Trying to express it through writing nowadays, like now; specifically, the problems I blame on my archenemy that is the intangible force known as mainstream influence.Teoes said:
It should be noted most of these "people" are the vocal FF7 fanboys that speak for FF's mainstream status. The series is too diverse across fourteen games and it's impossible to actually generalize; there are even fans of FF13 in sizable numbers across the West and JP.erttheking said:
The glass-canon aspect of SMT IV really only bothered me at the beginning of my first playthrough. When I got used to the fast pace of the fights it got a lot more fun. All the other criticisms are fair thougherttheking said:
Oh really? REALLY? People who criticize the overall quality of a game series are just fanboys? It's funny how you talk about how you can't generalize the quality of 13 games, but you seem to have no problem generalizing hundreds of thousands of people. And there are people who like FF 13? Yeah, and there are also people that don't, a LOT of people that don't. Your point? Someone saying "I don't like this game" is not canceled out when someone else says "Well I do." You enjoy the game? Good for you. Doesn't stop someone else from having problems with it.Sung-Hwan said:
Wasn't FF13 directly a product of Square Enix thinking casual gamers wanted less complexity in their game due to mainstream fan backlash for FF12's massive and intricate design? That's what I mean by creative freedom being chained down.CutesySiren said:
You know, this just comes across like ol' fogies complainin' about them youngins ruining everything! LOLSung-Hwan said:
I absolutely hate throwing around this poisonous term spawned by mainstream influence, but I can't even deny Final Fantasy 13 was an extremely "linear" game centered around combat and set pieces with almost nothing else. It's why Square Enix realized that casual gamers aren't that brain dead and made 13-2 a lot more open, and then LR being absolutely massive.CutesySiren said:
Could you be more descriptive with that? Final Fantasy 13 was linear in that it had nothing but its combat going for it. No open world exploration or anything creative; even the post-game content in Gran Pulse is a long series of fights and nothing else.CutesySiren said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The existence of people who like the game don't negate the existence of those who don't and the problems that they had with it.CutesySiren said:
Final Fantasy X. Please try to tell me with a straight face that FFX wasn't linear. In fact, the fact that FFX was Yoshinori Kitase's previous main Final Fantasy entry (FFXI-FFXII were different directors) has more a reason for FFXIII's linearity than anything else.Sung-Hwan said:
