i've just realized that nobody ever asks for remakes of books

like, nobody asks for a remake of hamlet so that it's in modern english. actually idk they do try to make hamlet movies in different bizarro settings

but that's different. yes, nobody wants to see books be remade. that was my original point

Yeah well book technology isn't really improving all the time

what about popup books, bitch

sure but in terms of jrpgs there's been almost 0 advancement to the genre beyond graphics. the core gameplay is pretty much exactly the same in every single rpg so it would literally just be a graphics update and an inevitable fucking terrible and boring 100 floor dungeon (every square 'remake' seems to contain these, and they all suck)

the original looks dated but other than that it plays alright still.


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also create the character? i don't understand what you mean here. there's no choices or customisations in the game so maybe i am missing something

what if they give it ffxii style battles........

also ffxiii is a basic jrpg, right? does that really play the same ffvii did? note i havent played or even really looked at ffxiii

Cloud was just Shadow recast as the main character. 

Because when FF7 came out he was considered to be new and interesting. For better or worse, Cloud set the template for characters of that type.

When I had FF7, I absolutely loved it. Not to sound like a fanboy, but I don't think it's fair to judge the game using today's standards, as a hell of lot has changed since 1997.  No, it hasn't aged the best, but in my humble opinion, not many RPGs were on the level FF7 was when it debuted. It didn't sell 10 million copies for nothing.

That argument falls apart when you realize that today's standards haven't really even changed. I am perfectly fine with judging a particular game from 1997 by today's standards. But I would only do it with this specific game though, because that game is the primary reason our "standards" haven't changed in over 10 years. You don't even need proof to know this is true, because who here can honestly argue that if they actually did re-make FF7 today it wouldn't sell even more than 10 million copies in pre-release purchases alone?

You can't deny that people like this shit. All the more reason more people should be viewing with a critical eye what so many pass off as simply "something they enjoy playing". They may not need a reason to think that, but that doesn't stop me from viewing it as a sickeningly curious phenomena that simply begs for an explanation beyond "Everything about this game is shitty, which must be why some people still like it more than anything else."

I want to marry Cloud, Tidus, Zidane and Vaan and have them as my wives.

You've got quite a torso today, jamie.

Enough torso for many wives.

i've just realized that nobody ever asks for remakes of books

like, nobody asks for a remake of hamlet so that it's in modern english. actually idk they do try to make hamlet movies in different bizarro settings

but that's different. yes, nobody wants to see books be remade. that was my original point

loll

also they do this all the time it's just not big right now

and some movies are essentially Hamlet right? they just don't come out and say it, and do it with completely different names and settings



isn't there some reworded version of the bible for stupid people like 'satan was a bad man who wanted to create a bad world full of evil'

I want to marry Cloud, Tidus, Zidane and Vaan and have them as my wives.

RULE 63 BITCH!


on another note, oh well. and your right standards haven't changed much, but that's becuase they keep spewing out the same shit over and over, worse still is that people BUY it (i'm one of theese people... no wait i haven't bought an Jrpg in... a long time).

also Avatar = Dances With Wolves

I do not get it Swordfish, why are you posting pictures of men from Final Fantasy?