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9 out of 10 Dentists recomend UNDERBOOB!
Yes, because it's not like his revival was foreshadowed after the credits...
Anyhoo, Aeris sort of has to stay dead, because Zach is her true love interest, and when she dies, she and Zach are reunited. They are together protecting the planet from within the life stream. Thematically, it's just meant to be. She's meant to be gone forever.
9 out of 10 Dentists recomend UNDERBOOB!
Please... please no low poly models.
Well, this is what happens when you build a company around nostalgia. I'll give Square this much, though, aside from the Compilation, they haven't exactly been milking the 7 legacy as hard. In that, they deserve more sympathy than Nintendo or Sega.
"What the f--- is a Shakespeare?"
-Rico Valasquez, showing off why no one likes him.
At least I refuse to acknowledge it as nostalgic! I'm not THAT old yet!
Fans are picky and hard to please. If you just follow the UT series, you see a lot of the same complaints leveraged each game, and UT has been effectively remade twice now and each iteration gets a worse reception from the base.
When you break it down, fan demands are conflicting to the point of being hypocrtical. We say we want new experiences, yet annual iterations of the same franchises routinely top the charts. We say graphics don't matter, but most of the marketing panders to us with screenshots showing of how the new engine renders metal surfaces 5% shinier than the last. We say we want mature stories where the player is treated like an adult, yet the industry still thinks "mature" and "adult" are synonymous with "boobs" and curse words. The list goes on.
Or Microsoft.
Oh god, I am the living mummy.
You are not...unless you remember the day Pac-Man came out.
As for the topic at hand, I'd still rather see an HD version of VII that's not full 3D or a 16-bit demake. Most importantly, I just want an improved translation.
FFX no doubt.
Sorry, I was off by a digit
Not even 2003. Call of Duty's FF7 moment was in 2007 with MW1. And Activision is, if nothing else, more than willing to cut stuff that isn't working and move on to the next thing when needed.
Well, to be fair, it's not like the fandom was banging down the door to have Halo 1 remade. Honestly, I'm surprised it's not Halo 2 getting the treatment, as that was basically the game that put XBL on the map. Hell, while I'm glad to see Anniversary come out, I can't remember anyone asking for it, and certainly not going up into nerdgasmic frenzy at the thought of such a remake the way the FF7 people do.
"What the f--- is a Shakespeare?"
-Rico Valasquez, showing off why no one likes him.
Considering the lengths people were going to keep the original Live system running so they could keep playing Halo 2? I wouldn't doubt it at all.
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Well that's how I feel about most of Nintendo's remakes. The difference is that Nintendo has a much larger body of work than MS, so I guess the perception is a lot more pronounced?
Well, there's also the nature of the fanbase. People on the Xbox'll buy them a ton of games outside of what MS makes, whereas the prevailing perception of Nintendo's fanbase is that they're very reluctant to go outside of the mascot wheelhouse. It's a much more conservative group that way.
Yeah, I don't get it. There's plenty of new stuff going on, both in and out of the FF series. A 1996 RPG can't be the only thing desired by that many friggin' people.
That said, Square Enix was more than willing to exploit these people for a while with the Compilation. You can't rely on nostalgia one moment without prepping for nostalgia to bite you in the *** the next. Look at Nintendo and Sega, milking nostalgia left and right and then surprised when they can't sell anything new...
"What the f--- is a Shakespeare?"
-Rico Valasquez, showing off why no one likes him.
Everyone remembers their first.
Even the Compilation was actual NEW content that fleshed out the universe - it wasn't just FF7 with shiny graphics.
My friggin' first was Dragon Warrior, as it was for lots of people my age, and there's never been that much of a clamor for a full-on remake of that one... Granted the Dragon Quest crowd is more... Resistant to change of any sort, but still...
"What the f--- is a Shakespeare?"
-Rico Valasquez, showing off why no one likes him.
Dragon Quest has also been remade a number of times. Not as a fully-fledged HD power remake, but it's certainly gotten its fair share of fresh coats of paint.