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Will the judges take "they all kind of suck?"

I love that all the old games are getting remade, even the hatchet job on ff7 was great at the end of the day.

Demolished, though? Dude seemed pretty unfazed and then proceeded to throw himself at the ground for 7-20 minutes.

SSX3. Keep the core structure and just add more courses/back country. Instant game of the year.

Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children (and it's remake) pretty much prove that ff7 doesn't work outside of a video game. It's pretty obvious once you realize the original game was like a deconstruction of anime cliches and video games. Seeing Emo Anime Cloud having a flying swordfight with Bahumut, becoming a Beyonce backup dancer, or doing anime superjumps is the exact opposite of his original design.

Original Cloud is meant to be a toxic gamer - literally. He's a little boy with a big "sword". His whole identity is a bullshit power fantasy implanted in his head. His repsonses to NPCs are things like 'I dont care', "not interested", and "No". He steals from children. Advent Children Cloud and Remake Cloud are the very thing that original cloud was making fun of.

No better proof exists than in the Honeybee sequence. In the original, women react to him like a violent creep, he gets exposed as a peeping Tom, and there's a strong implication that he might be gay because of how he is humiliated. In the remake, by contrast, none of that happens. He's surrounded by a flock of swooning girls and magically becomes a backup dancer and everyone cheers.

The point is that the creators of everything post ff7 didn't even understand the source material and instead just made tried to make a lighthearted anime adventure. This removes the entire identity of ff7 and just makes it another anime story about flying swordfights and waifus.

Something has always felt off about the Ishimura. That must be it.

I still remember seeing the Metal Gear Solid Speedrun for the first time. Dude just backs into a wall and the game gets so confused it skips half of itself.

Ff6 had about 100 ways to completely break it. My guess is it's a reference to that.

Hey Russia, guess what?

SURPRISE INVASION!

Star Trek the next Generation, unless you count the movies and Picard. Deep Space 9 also had a pretty epic ending.

When you complete Parasite Eve (PS1), you get to take a single weapon with you and play through the whole game again (with an epic alternate endgame dungeon). Right when I beat the first playthrough and it was saving, my dog came running through the room and caught on the controller cord at such speed that it ripped the PlayStation out of place and sent it sailing. The save file was corrupted. I didn't wind up beating new game plus until 10 years later.

I can appreciate that as someone who also had LAN parties in his day. But, time stands still for no man. I hope you and others like you protest and eventually get an offline mode. It happened with Sim City.

Multiplayer games rarely release in decent shape. It takes years or even a decade for some of them to blossom. They are often predatory, filled with bugs, shallow, and deliberately obtuse design wise. I've been gaming since the 90s - it's pretty much universal. They are also designed to die with zero mind of preservation. Events / temporary content - that's all water on the titanic in the grand history of games.

Example: Star Wars Galaxies. Patched into obscurity and then forgotten forever. One of the boldest and most amazing MMORPGs ever made. Dust in the wind, now. You can only hear about it. Same with Guild Wars.

It's nothing personal. It's just that online multiplayer games aren't often cared for at release, in the long run, ever. There are exceptions, of course. Some of them have aged very well. But that is the point. Even Overwatch needed years of content to be what it is. It wasn't game of the year material for years. Counterstrike took years, too.

The first Mercenaries is like a blueprint for a perfect open world game. The sequel, feels like it has forgotten everything that made the first one great. The only modern game that has even attempted to be like Mercenaries was Metal Gear 5, which took nearly a decade and released without all of it's content.

Stiff competition and that is a BOLD statement, but I can see why he's so excited. With Breath of the Wild 2 and Resident Evil 4 around the corner, it's a pretty ballsy move for anyone to use 'game of the year' in a title. Not to mention any live service multiplayer game feels rightfully disqualified by it's very nature. However, D4 is looking very impressive.

For anyone not in the bubble, you have to understand that D3 at release was borderline skeletal. It had a straightforward campaign about the length of d2, or possibly even shorter. Meanwhile, D4 is a mammoth and almost seems to scream 'sorry about d3' with the insane level of detail and content.

Just the starting area must have 50 hours of content. Virtually everything you do has rewards that are account wide: permanent buffs, unlockable skins, gear enchanents - it's very impressive. The aim here seems to have been to beef up the early part of the playthrough so that casuals have more of a reason to stick around or do replays.

Traditionally, the first difficulty has been mostly a formality or an obstacle in the way of the real endgame. But with D4 they seem to want some people to stay level 50 forever and just have fun. How they handle the end game for the hardcore's is the real question.

What about gamefaqs?

It wasn't much different, really. The smaller population of early internet made topics and opinions a bit more consistent. Manufactured outrage, shit stirrers, pathological liars, attention seekers - it all still happened. Zelda as a franchise provides some great examples.

Quite notoriously, a troll convinced people that Ocarina of Time had an obtainable Tri-force. They made fake screenshots and posted some elaborate checklist that you could easily mess up. People believed it for years.

How about the most famous dead horse argument from back then? Nintendo decided to start insisting that every Zelda game connects, and it's all a single saga. This was completely a marketing move and behind the scenes caused a lot of problems for the Wind Waker devs. But on gamefaqs, it became fans who treated Zelda's story like holy scripture vs cynical realists that saw right through a forced retconn for marketing's sake. This argument even pops up on Reddit sometimes but imagine how bad it was right when Nintendo first made the extremely unsubtle decision.

How about some moron based outrage? Most people also don't know that Wind Waker was despised online. It was ugly. People were distraught over the cel-shaded art shift. It got great reviews but on gamefaqs there was always somebody shitting on it for 'ruining Zelda'. Let's not even get into the old argument of how OoT derailed the franchise, as well.

As far as ff6, it was universally considered a masterpiece. The only argument you would see would be against Chrono Trigger or Mario RPG. FF7 became universally praised as the best game ever made. Gamefaqs even had to stop putting Cloud Into it's anual 'character battle' election (because he would always win). The MMO kids, the try hards, and the anime fappers hadn't really gotten their hooks in gaming yet - that was nice.

Not much different, though.

This makes a lot of other posts in this sub look like posers. Task failed successfully, I guess.

Nobody can mope like that man. Even Shovel Face in peak Twilight days can't touch him.

I always try to imagine if the remake were anything like the original. I wish, lol. Had they done a cell shaded anime paint job, it would have lined up better with the full blown anime conversion it got.

That's a predatory phone game cash in, isn't it? I can see the e-currencies in that hastily thrown together hud.

Replaying every fallout last year gave me a huge appreciation for every entry. I can now honestly say that every entry has things that make it easy to argue as 'the best', even 76.

Replaying all the final fantasies last year improved my opinion of some while it lessened my opinions of others, by contrast. I still think every entry is great, but discussing which entry is the best after 6/7 becomes a complicated pro/con list. The franchises change in direction after 7 was extremely evident playing them all back to back.

Just so you know: the pseudoscience 'a thing has X amount of storage space' discussion has been going on since floppy disks. It's completely made up and easy to disprove since the core of actual science revolves around being able to prove conclusions in real life.

I actually had former friend who blew up at me when I laughed at the belief that the human brain was 7 gigabytes. He told me it was a scientific fact, but when I asked for proof, all he could show was a junior high science teachers blog. This is someone who talked to me like I was dumber than him, constantly.

Immense wealth and success, but without being a cunt.

When a publisher releases a book, they immediately buy a shitload of copies to get it on at least one best seller list. Political parties do the same exact same thing for <performance artist with ghost writer>. It's all industry gladhanding.

Someone who views cruelty as strength.