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Comment on Square Enix Back in the Red: “Expect Even More Remakes!” by Anonymous:

Should have I added “” to my comment? It appears not to have been clear enough to some.

It was meant to showcase just how hollow, baseless and useless the “westernizing” comment was, since RPGs are a western born idea that dates back to 1780.

What is really needed is not fancy graphics nor a complex battle engine… But a good story to identify yourself with so you enjoy partaking in it development, linear or not.

Examples?
Chrono Trigger. Basic menu-driven battle engine. Nice (for its time) graphics and basic visual effects. But packing a whole lotta story, multiple paths and party configurations, a “secret” character, killer (still) music and a cast anyone can relate to.
Chrono cross tried too hard to envelop those ideas into 3D and fell short even though it had many times more characters and endings.

Final fantasy 7. Had comedy, tragedy (Aerith… Sniff) a basic fighting system but a complex magic/materia system, etc.

If Square/Enix wants our attention back, then lets ask them to re-do Chrono Trigger from the ground up and give it Darksiders’ or Tales of Symphony’s combat system just to keep with current trends (while making your buddies control Robo, Marle, etc over the net). THAT would sell like crazy.

Anonymous made other comments on this post:

• Square Enix Back in the Red: “Expect Even More Remakes!”:
  

  This must be a part of their ingenious plan to loose so much money that the fabric of space time is warped and they become rich.

• Square Enix Back in the Red: “Expect Even More Remakes!”:
  

  since 2000? kingdom hearts 1&2 dragon quest 8 crisis core did good and was popular and somehow FF 12 and 13 are both in their top 5 all time sales games

• Square Enix Back in the Red: “Expect Even More Remakes!”:
  

  Lol Squartle Penix pls, stop to maked more garbage FFs inspired in the shitt FF13, go back to the good rpgs like chrono, DQ, Valkyrie, and left die that mtf visual “mmo” called FF13.

• Square Enix Back in the Red: “Expect Even More Remakes!”:
  

  Eh. I honestly cared more about Sazh than I did about anyone in the FF7 cast other than Aeris. FF7′s cast wasn’t that great, and FF13′s wasn’t that bad. What I do miss is caring whether I care. The Final Fantasy series name has long since stopped meaning anything other than “high budget game with pretty graphics” – that is literally the ONLY THING IT MEANS and that kind of makes me sad. I’ve spent eight years running a text-based MMORPG based on FF5/FF6/FF7/FFT/Chrono Trigger/Secret of Mana. I …

• Square Enix Back in the Red: “Expect Even More Remakes!”:
  

  They have a long, long history of constantly finding new and exciting ways to disappoint fans’ expectations. Every Final Fantasy game ever made was, at the time, “a radical and total departure from the series which shouldn’t really be called Final Fantasy” except for FF9 and FF14.

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