I don’t think I’m capable of trusting someone who hates blathers.

I mean, the Museum is his house...

That’s cause it’s a moth. And as we should all know by now, moths are better than butterflies. They’re adorable, cute, and love lamps.

lovely summary of my beef with storytelling holes i thought they should fill, I kept pausing at particular scenes and thinking would a new player have any idea what was going on here?

Are you kidding that boss was fun as hell, they’d just done an unbelievable job of bringing Midgar to life in 3d it was fantastic like my imagination got animated. They could have stopped at the end of the bridge and said what now? we’ve gotta leave and i’d have been happy. (I thought they might actually do the Kalm…

I mean, the same two guys who crafted Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade created Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Sometimes older guys lose the creative thread of their past work.

The problem with what the way they executed this IMO is that the mandate to do things differently came at the expense of a well told story. Good storytelling should always be the first priority.

95% of the game is a very well told story, but they made a fanwanky hash out of the ending that doesn’t make much sense…

All three of the people you just listed had their story telling abilities slowly go off the rails after Sakaguchi left the company. That’s the real reason you can’t make Final Fantasy VII in 2020. The technological achievement was never what made people love it for all these years.

It’s kinda like a basketball player having an open lane on a breakaway for a layup. Pretty much guaranteed two points.

I think the problem here is that you’re arguing about expectations no one had.

For players of the original game the ending is, for the moment, both good and bad until SE lifts up the lid and lets us see how the rest of the story plays out. Unlike this terrible attempt to make it analogous to the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, we can’t yet clearly see if it’s truly bad or not.

I don’t disagree that it will be new and interesting, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be “good”.

Indeed. It’s 50/50 at this point. I don’t let nostalgia rule me but I can be nitpicky as hell. Still, this retelling is done by those behind some of the worst written Square games in ages, and that tells me a lot. The fact they imported the weapon upgrade system(improvised at that, thankfully)from FF13, corridors(in…

The fact time travel(or as the game puts it: “changing fate/destiny” nice FF13 logic) is involved means Toriyama and Nomura are walking on hot coals. This also implies the most memorable moments that come at a later time are given free reign to be changed - by the player or the writers.

Retronauts also covered this a while back

It should be noted that most people who shit on game-stop(or publishers like EA) are a completely different than the average consumer.

I’d hate to say that the “woke” gamers are a minority, but they definitely do not define the whole market. Gamestop knows this. EA knows this. The reason we see such little change in…

Just letting you guys know that I’ve got an adblocker turned on and didn’t actually read any of this

They can’t, though - that’s the problem.  

How is gamestop someone’s ONLY option? You can order online from Bestbuy, Targetand a host of other sites. The ISSUE with them opening back up is the chance for spread. What is rarely talked about is just how damn good SARS-Cov2 is at sticking to humans, it basically uses our body’s Furin and without going into…

Nobody’s “only option” is Gamestop. Video games are not worth dying for.