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E3 2015
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Mr. Poopybutthole
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Yeah, it would sell really well. The issue is that it would be a complete graphics overhaul vs. what they did with X-2 and the XIII sequels. They could reuse a lot of assets from the previous game/s for those, but I don't think people will really want them to do triangle-block figures from 7. (Yes, I'm aware there were fan models made for the PC version. Still, that's PS1 quality graphics.) So a re-release would basically be the same game with minor refinements but they would have to re-create every piece of art in the game. A sequel/prequel would be a totally different animal, and with Sakaguchi gone I'm not sure they could maintain the same feeling of the game.
Personally I'd be totally down for it as that world had some really fun stuff in it. It's no FFVI but it's a pretty good third place contender after IV.
Personally I'd be totally down for it as that world had some really fun stuff in it. It's no FFVI but it's a pretty good third place contender after IV.
DoctorSpooge_sl
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I'm just hoping for evidence that Star Ocean 5 will be amazing. I love that series so much I even enjoyed 4.
Kriptini
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It's their failsafe. SE won't make another FF7 because they know how massively successful it will be. They're saving it for a time when their bank account is in the red and they have to make their final stand.
...which doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon.
FF7 doesn't need a sequel, though. What story is left to tell?
DoctorSpooge_sl
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That Tactics sequel on GBA sucked. If I had any confidence they could make a worthy successor to Tactics, I'd be all over that. That game was astounding prescient in its focus on fundamentally addictive microgrinding for massive power gains. Rpg's still haven't caught up to it
eXarc
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That game was not a true sequel in my mind. I don't understand why all dev studios decide to take great titles and make handheld, or worse fucking mobile exclusive titles on the IP and fuck up massively. Blows my mind. In all honesty though, for what it was - it was okay. It was just definitely not something I could consider true 'sequel' material.
Kriptini
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I loved FFTA and FFTA2. Granted, I have yet to play the original, but I'm getting it on my phone soon since it just released for Android.
eXarc
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Wow, I completely forget A2 even existed. How was it?
Anyone want to share their DS with me in exchange for something else? Lol. I gotta play it...
edit; Reviews look amazing and wiki looks good but of course reviews for anything Square Enix are uhh, not entirely representative of general playerbase. (cough)
Anyone want to share their DS with me in exchange for something else? Lol. I gotta play it...
edit; Reviews look amazing and wiki looks good but of course reviews for anything Square Enix are uhh, not entirely representative of general playerbase. (cough)
DoctorSpooge_sl
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It was honestly probably fine, but Nintendo Nintendoized it. They're the hest developers in history, imo, but they used to have a tendency to kiddify games that migrated over to their platforms. Tactics Advance dropped the delightfully incoherent and convoluted plot that oddly endeared me to the original. Plot was some shit about its characters getting sucked into a video game or something.
Kriptini
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I thought Advance was good, but A2 is REALLY GOOD. The way they incorporate both screens so that you can view the battlefield and menus at the same time is definitely a strong point of combat. Plus, laws are way more relaxed, everyone hits more often (with positioning offering damage reduction instead of evasion) and they use a really cool MP system to balance spellcasters. (Everyone starts with 0 MP, but you regenerate 10 per turn.)
That being said, I think Advance had a better story than A2. Advance is about four kids who get sucked into Ivalice and are seaparted. You take control of one of them who is looking for a way out, and you run into your old friends who undergo pretty significant changes. (It gets a bit dark towards the end.) A2 is mostly fanservice. (Vaan and Penelo from FF12 make appearences.)
Spoiler for Advance plot (Abridged):
You play as Marche. You go to your new school where Ritz (the token girl) tells you that you can't be "the new kid" forever but you name yourself "New Kid" out of spite because she's not your mom. The combat tutorial is a snowball fight where someone throws a rock at the nerd kid named Mewt and the teacher has to call off the game. Marche and Ritz befriend Mewt because they feel bad for him and Mewt totally spergs out on them about his obsession with fantasy books. Then everyone goes to Marche's house to look at Mewt's fantasy books with Marche's parapalegic brother, Donny.
They all go to sleep, but then surprise! Marche wakes up in Ivalice. A McGuffin- er, Moogle named Montblanc starts stalking him and they form an adventuring party or whatever. They go on adventures and stuff and Marche eventually runs into Ritz, who has become a cold-blooded mercenary because in Ivalice, she can use magic to beat up bullies. Marche wants to go home, but Ritz doesn't, so they separate.
Then Marche meets Donny who *shocker* isn't a cripple anymore! Donny obviously doesn't want to leave Ivalice because he doesn't want to be committed to a wheelchair for his whole life. Finally, Marche finds Mewt who went crazy and created some kind of creature that's supposed to represent his dead mother who is going to purge anyone that can cause Mewt harm. Naturally, she's crazy too, so that list includes everyone in Ivalice.
So everybody bands together to take down Mewt and his crazy Fake-Dead-Mom. Then they get back to the real world and the Marche x Ritz ship never sails because they're like 12 or something.
They all go to sleep, but then surprise! Marche wakes up in Ivalice. A McGuffin- er, Moogle named Montblanc starts stalking him and they form an adventuring party or whatever. They go on adventures and stuff and Marche eventually runs into Ritz, who has become a cold-blooded mercenary because in Ivalice, she can use magic to beat up bullies. Marche wants to go home, but Ritz doesn't, so they separate.
Then Marche meets Donny who *shocker* isn't a cripple anymore! Donny obviously doesn't want to leave Ivalice because he doesn't want to be committed to a wheelchair for his whole life. Finally, Marche finds Mewt who went crazy and created some kind of creature that's supposed to represent his dead mother who is going to purge anyone that can cause Mewt harm. Naturally, she's crazy too, so that list includes everyone in Ivalice.
So everybody bands together to take down Mewt and his crazy Fake-Dead-Mom. Then they get back to the real world and the Marche x Ritz ship never sails because they're like 12 or something.
eXarc
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Yeah, I just watched a short Let's Play and it is entirely some 3rd grader shit. Not much I won't overlook in favor of Tactics gameplay, but the original Tactics story is still on my top of all time favorites even almost 20 years later. It what it is. That's kind of what I'm talking about though, why can't we just see even a continuation of Tactical RPGs in the FF realm if not a true sequel? Just a REAL fucking game, none of this weird ass offshoot shit. Maybe I'm asking for too much, but a brother can dream.