Final Fantasy Series

[Nocturnal__Gamer]

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Illuvial wrote:

Vague memory of a single screenshot does not add up to a very good argument. Did Square ever say that they scaled back?

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Seeing as the 360 could have never handled what was being made for the PS3, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the game was dumbed down drastically.

[DivinePaladin27]

XIII sold less than VII. VII is around 9 million; XIII on both PS3 and 360 combined is 7 million.

[DivinePaladin27]

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Nocturnal__Gamer wrote:

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Illuvial wrote:

Vague memory of a single screenshot does not add up to a very good argument. Did Square ever say that they scaled back?

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Seeing as the 360 could have never handled what was being made for the PS3, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the game was dumbed down drastically.

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Yes, specifically for 360.  Square claimed they had to rework the engine on 360 for it to work, but it's never been claimed that XIII overall changed more than a very tiny bit when the port was added into the mix, so I'm not seeing where you're really getting that the addition of a port that didn't change anything on the initial version somehow ruined it.

[firkbardic8]

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Illuvial wrote:

Here is some unrelated food for thought.

Square said that they would release a remake of FF VII if new Final Fantasy games sold as well as past iterations. FF XIII sold better then any other game in the series. Yet no remake has been announced.

Well F*** you two Square. -_-

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Well, they're making FFX HD for PS3 & Vita- Does that count?

[Illuvial]

HELL YEA IT DOES!!! THAT IS MY FAVOURITE ONE!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!! CAPS CAUSE I AM LITERALLY ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!!!!!!

AND SUDDENLY LIFE IS GREAT AGAIN!

[Nocturnal__Gamer]

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DivinePaladin27 wrote:

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Nocturnal__Gamer wrote:

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Illuvial wrote:

Vague memory of a single screenshot does not add up to a very good argument. Did Square ever say that they scaled back?

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Seeing as the 360 could have never handled what was being made for the PS3, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the game was dumbed down drastically.

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Yes, specifically for 360.  Square claimed they had to rework the engine on 360 for it to work, but it's never been claimed that XIII overall changed more than a very tiny bit when the port was added into the mix, so I'm not seeing where you're really getting that the addition of a port that didn't change anything on the initial version somehow ruined it.

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Well even if that is true that the port didn't ruin the game as a whole.  Good Final Fantasy games never really have good written stories to begin with.

[Illuvial]

What. The. Actual. **bleep** did you just say?

FFX and FFVI has great stories that kept me engaged, I fell in love with the characters and the universe as a whole.

[DivinePaladin27]

I can agree with that last part, assuming you wrote that correctly (I'm not sure, because you pretty much only agreed with my point). FFXIII couldn't've really been ruined when the only thing that changed was the addition of one logo on the advertisements. I prefer to believe that development ruined XIII's chance if anything, because they overembraced the next-gen hardware and tried making every character too well-detailed and put so much effort into graphics that it took away from the gameplay. I mean, there aren't a lot of the facets of usual FF games present in XIII because of graphical issues (like actual towns and a lot of open-world gameplay).

[Nocturnal__Gamer]

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Illuvial wrote:

What. The. Actual. **bleep** did you just say?

FFX and FFVI has great stories that kept me engaged, I fell in love with the characters and the universe as a whole.

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I was never in my life hooked to Final Fantasy for the storyline until 13 anyway.  Although the story for 13 could have been a lot better.

[S-o-h-a-i-l]

I really hated the gameplay of 13, it was far less turn based and far more automatic if you get what I mean. I loved the style of the older games - Final Fantasy VIII is personally my absolute favourite.