Fox12 said:
Arqus_Zed said:
I don't mind re-releases either, but you could at least have some time pass in between releases. And, let's be honest here, you know damn well why the games are so expensive. *did somebody say moneeeeeey?*
That said, even though you have the right to like and dislike whatever you want, I find it kind of sad you hate all FFs except VII.
You know, I used to be a huge fan when I was a teenager. For some reason they just haven't aged so well for me. I think I just find the first six a little shallow, while the ones after seven were a little silly for my taste. Somehow 7 just hit the sweet spot for me, as far as morally complex characters go. To be fair, I liked 12 okay, and KH and Chrono Trigger are still charming.
I'm not hating on the series and its fans, though. I'm legitimately happy that younger gamers can catch up on a series they never got to experiance. Some of my favorite games came out before I was born, or when I was a wee lad with no taste in games. Now others can experiance those titles as well. Heck, I just gave my sister Ocarina of Time and FF7. She's about to see aerith die, and I'm looking forward to her reaction.
Now that's interesting.
See, my chronological experience with the first three FF games I ever played were reversed: first IX, then VIII and finally VII (and then some of the old ones were re-released on PSOne, then FF X came out on PS2... I don't really remember in what order I played them).
Now, FF IX still holds a special place in my heart and is, to me, personally, the best of the series. And I won't deny nostalgia having anything to do with that. I just loved the world, the backdrops, the music, the characters, the story... The way they took the most cliché setup ever, but thrusted it into such a vibrant world, creating a story that goes much deeper than you would anticipate and finally shattering all the clichés it had first established - with just the right balance of humour and seriousness.
As for VII... I find it kind of strange that you would say the ones coming
after VII are 'a little silly' and not include VII itself. Hojo's attempted beastiality experiment with Red XIII and Aeris? Vincent Valentine sleeping in a coffin? The cross-dressing sequence? The whole thing were the headless body of a female alien that crashed on earth ages ago transforms itself to look like a guy - the same guy that was infused with the alien's cells at an embryonic stage - who goes around killing people/monsters and leaving behind bits and pieces that become monsters in and of itself? Yeah, kind of silly. Not bad, no, not by any means, but definitely silly.
That said, I also still enjoy Chrono Trigger. I thought FF XII was... decent. I liked the world and the lore, but I thought the story (and its pacing) were a bit weak and, well, I didn't care about any of the characters (also, the queueing system of the combat mechanic was broken as hell). I never got into Kingdom Hearts though, I bought the first two, I've played them, I've tried to like them, but they just felt like bad fan fiction to me.
