Critical Miss: #6

[duchaked]

nice one =]

and as for no FF7 remake, ah poo

 

[EBHughsThe1st]

I really want to like this.
But I just can't.

 

[OmegaXIII]

I conclude that somebody at Square is allergic to money

 

[Tharticus]

I can see that Square has a missed opportunity.

 

[The Wooster]

Would this topic just die already? I think they've made it pretty clear that it's just not happening.

I'm all for dropping the subject. I will when Square execs stop cock teasing the fans about it.

And lets be honest here, when the money dries up, when they've driven the last disney character out of Kingdom Hearts and when fans finally wise up that the Final Fantasy series is never going to get the magic back, then we'll see the remake. And it will be horrible.

I for one adore the game but for the wrong reasons apparently. The story and characters are mostly garbage and the gameplay melts away into nothingness when you get 'big guard' but the melancholic atmosphere (particularly in and around Midgar) has been matched by very few games. A remake wouldn't be about the atmosphere though. It'd be about people with spikey hair flying around and shouting at each other.

 

[Dreyfuss]

I don't understand how anyone can say the translations of the new games and the remakes are improvements. Those old poorly translated games had WAY more enjoyable scripts than the weeaboo angstfests Square is famous for now. Every remake Square has ever released in the US has come out inferior to its original release, with the exception of FF4DS and only because the original FF2's script on SNES was a disaster. FF6 Advance, Chrono Trigger DS, FFT: War of the Lions, Star Ocean: Second Evolution, all the other Square remakes I've played have been insults to the source material.

If this is what the Japanese games have been like from the beginning, then I'd say their early translations were improvements.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Ha! Keep these coming!

My newest favorite comic on the Escapist. =D

 

[irishdude]

first you get the power, then you get the money, the you get the chocobos.

i like

 

[Kojiro ftt]

lol!

 

[flightofeternity]

Sadly its true, Square has with soooooo much wait raised the expectations to such an enormous and nearly impossible to reach level that no matter how good the FFVII remake is it will still be a disappointment to many. What Square will end up getting is enormous backlash from the gamer community... Oh and also money.

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

Definitely better than your last one. Keep up the good work.

 

[Firia]

Yup, pretty funny.
Although the tagline is a bit misleading. Imo, even the horrors of "realizing your own descending into mediocrity" can't compare to "money".

As a creator of creative content myself, you are sorely mistaken.

 

[Firia]

Would this topic just die already? I think they've made it pretty clear that it's just not happening.

I'm all for dropping the subject. I will when Square execs stop cock teasing the fans about it.

And lets be honest here, when the money dries up, when they've driven the last disney character out of Kingdom Hearts and when fans finally wise up that the Final Fantasy series is never going to get the magic back, then we'll see the remake. And it will be horrible.

I for one adore the game but for the wrong reasons apparently. The story and characters are mostly garbage and the gameplay melts away into nothingness when you get 'big guard' but the melancholic atmosphere (particularly in and around Midgar) has been matched by very few games. A remake wouldn't be about the atmosphere though. It'd be about people with spikey hair flying around and shouting at each other.

Aye, that first area really sold me. The atmosphere in the entire Midgar area of the game was something I often wanted the game to return to. When I left Midgar, I even tried to get back in. The guy outside talking about a gate key lead me on an hour long journey for nothing. Wasn't until I got to the digging event that I was infinitely elated. The game had atmosphereic events throughout, but Midgar was the one that sold me.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Yup, pretty funny.
Although the tagline is a bit misleading. Imo, even the horrors of "realizing your own descending into mediocrity" can't compare to "money".

As a creator of creative content myself, you are sorely mistaken.

Ahh, different priorities, I guess.
Don't take that I'm a money whore, it's just that I sincerely doubt SE care at this point.

 

[Firia]

Yup, pretty funny.
Although the tagline is a bit misleading. Imo, even the horrors of "realizing your own descending into mediocrity" can't compare to "money".

As a creator of creative content myself, you are sorely mistaken.

Ahh, different priorities, I guess.
Don't take that I'm a money whore, it's just that I sincerely doubt SE care at this point.

It's okay. For Square-Enix, money is the bottom line. For any successful business, it's the bottom line. That's why Squaresoft and Enix merged. For the mountains of cash that each one was sure they could spoon feed each other.

But on the individual level... that's a whole 'nother bag. To say you made something loved and remembered as strongly as Final Fantasy 7 is a moment of pride I only hope to be able to experience one day. To have it both loved, and financially successful, means you're a king among men in the business world. And the realization that you've hit your peek 10 years ago, and nothing you've done, can do, or will ever do again can ever match that one star in the sky... well, it's sort of a depressing thought.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Yup, pretty funny.
Although the tagline is a bit misleading. Imo, even the horrors of "realizing your own descending into mediocrity" can't compare to "money".

As a creator of creative content myself, you are sorely mistaken.

Ahh, different priorities, I guess.
Don't take that I'm a money whore, it's just that I sincerely doubt SE care at this point.

It's okay. For Square-Enix, money is the bottom line. For any successful business, it's the bottom line. That's why Squaresoft and Enix merged. For the mountains of cash that each one was sure they could spoon feed each other.

But on the individual level... that's a whole 'nother bag. To say you made something loved and remembered as strongly as Final Fantasy 7 is a moment of pride I only hope to be able to experience one day. To have it both loved, and financially successful, means you're a king among men in the business world. And the realization that you've hit your peek 10 years ago, and nothing you've done, can do, or will ever do again can ever match that one star in the sky... well, it's sort of a depressing thought.

But not for everyone that realization is so depressing.
I mean, sure, he might have hit his peak a long time ago but he can still make quality product and isn't that the most important part of all?