So, I'm looking through my frequently checked websites, and I'm checking the escapist.
I see Final Fantasy 7's going to be on the Unreal Engine. I have no idea what that means, but I'm otherwise always hype for Final Fantasy 7 news.
I check the link, and I see a note that Final Fantasy 7 is going to be multi-part.
And my FF7 boner goes from Ultima Weapon to Wendy's Plastic Spoon.
The only thing that has ever turned me away from them as hard (and definitely not in as few words) was all the bullshit Microsoft was letting their employees say, revealing just how little respect they had for their customers, along side all the threats made about how the Xbone was going to run, before they pulled a 180.
I'll admit, I might be over-reacting a bit due to shock, but for some reason this news reminded me that the remake is currently in the hands of the same company that gave us the Lightning Saga, and every bit of faith I had in the project just shattered.
Now, this thread isn't to talk about specifically the FF7 remake, though if anyone else wants to weigh in, they can. I wanted to ask about whether or not anyone else has suffered from this sort of phenomena.
To explain what I mean, I'll use another game series: Smash Bros. I've had friends who were just as excited for it as me... until they saw the amiibo, and expected them to have a massive presence in content as far as the game is concerned, at which point he ended up getting a WiiU late after he'd played my copy. Just the idea of the figure buy in was enough to immediately take him against the idea of the game.
Another one I'd heard about back in the day was that the idea of Metroid going 3D made one dude decide to not play the Prime series (or rather, the first one, since back in the day it wasn't a series) at all. (Never knew what happened to that bloke; he was a family member's friend. Probably joined up with the other people boycotting Federation Force.)
The L4D2 outcry was another big one I heard about. Just the idea of it existing so soon after the first game rubbed a few jimmies raw (though I suppose depending on how soon you buy them, I don't blame people too much for that way back when; I had the same thought when I learned that Capcom took all the dlc from MvC3 and made a new version of the game with it instead).
What are some other ones I've heard that super-rustled people's jimmies? DMC Dante's appearance, Wind Waker's art design, and Minecraft being bought by Microsoft are a few more I can remember.
I guess I just felt like sharing my thoughts and wanting to hear others thoughts. Anyone else ever get immediately turned off by a project due to one piece of news or information about it?
Off Tangent: For the record, even though my inital post in another thread had mentioned a childhood love of it and nostalgia glasses, I'd actually never played Final Fantasy 7 until after I'd played Kingdom Hearts 2. Heck, it was the (at the time) brutality of the Sephiroth Bonus Boss that made me want to learn about the world that he came from (that and trying to figure out that epic outfit Cloud had, and how he could somehow duel Sephiroth after he kicked my ass 20 times over). Is it nostalgia if you only played it 8 or 9 years ago and you're currently in your mid 20s? I'd have thought nostalgia would have been playing it back when it came out if anything. Heh, I wasn't even 10 years old when FF7 first came out. God how time flies...
I see Final Fantasy 7's going to be on the Unreal Engine. I have no idea what that means, but I'm otherwise always hype for Final Fantasy 7 news.
I check the link, and I see a note that Final Fantasy 7 is going to be multi-part.
And my FF7 boner goes from Ultima Weapon to Wendy's Plastic Spoon.
The only thing that has ever turned me away from them as hard (and definitely not in as few words) was all the bullshit Microsoft was letting their employees say, revealing just how little respect they had for their customers, along side all the threats made about how the Xbone was going to run, before they pulled a 180.
I'll admit, I might be over-reacting a bit due to shock, but for some reason this news reminded me that the remake is currently in the hands of the same company that gave us the Lightning Saga, and every bit of faith I had in the project just shattered.
Now, this thread isn't to talk about specifically the FF7 remake, though if anyone else wants to weigh in, they can. I wanted to ask about whether or not anyone else has suffered from this sort of phenomena.
To explain what I mean, I'll use another game series: Smash Bros. I've had friends who were just as excited for it as me... until they saw the amiibo, and expected them to have a massive presence in content as far as the game is concerned, at which point he ended up getting a WiiU late after he'd played my copy. Just the idea of the figure buy in was enough to immediately take him against the idea of the game.
Another one I'd heard about back in the day was that the idea of Metroid going 3D made one dude decide to not play the Prime series (or rather, the first one, since back in the day it wasn't a series) at all. (Never knew what happened to that bloke; he was a family member's friend. Probably joined up with the other people boycotting Federation Force.)
The L4D2 outcry was another big one I heard about. Just the idea of it existing so soon after the first game rubbed a few jimmies raw (though I suppose depending on how soon you buy them, I don't blame people too much for that way back when; I had the same thought when I learned that Capcom took all the dlc from MvC3 and made a new version of the game with it instead).
What are some other ones I've heard that super-rustled people's jimmies? DMC Dante's appearance, Wind Waker's art design, and Minecraft being bought by Microsoft are a few more I can remember.
I guess I just felt like sharing my thoughts and wanting to hear others thoughts. Anyone else ever get immediately turned off by a project due to one piece of news or information about it?
Off Tangent: For the record, even though my inital post in another thread had mentioned a childhood love of it and nostalgia glasses, I'd actually never played Final Fantasy 7 until after I'd played Kingdom Hearts 2. Heck, it was the (at the time) brutality of the Sephiroth Bonus Boss that made me want to learn about the world that he came from (that and trying to figure out that epic outfit Cloud had, and how he could somehow duel Sephiroth after he kicked my ass 20 times over). Is it nostalgia if you only played it 8 or 9 years ago and you're currently in your mid 20s? I'd have thought nostalgia would have been playing it back when it came out if anything. Heh, I wasn't even 10 years old when FF7 first came out. God how time flies...