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Originally Posted by Jerry Falwell
Stop antagonizing me because you don't think FFVII Is one of the best Final Fantasy games ever made. Aside from VI, VII marked one of the best storylines ever interpolated into a RPG.
It surprises me that you don't even know about the mass cult following FFVII has. Go to any gaming forum, mention FFVII and you'll get a mass amount of people from each forum that will accomodate you, Albeit GT considering it used to be a Nintendo forum and VII seperated marked a new relationship from Nintendo and on Playstation..
Nintendoids pay money all the time to see Mario in everything else, and they pay money for Zelda after Zelda game....... Now.... to pay $50 for a remake of a game thats only been done once....isn't going to hurt the franchise as much as you would hope it would. All FF games have been original, except for X-2 being a sequel. And you cannot count Advent Children considering it's a friggin movie.
So to have a VII remake? You act as if this is the millionth time they've remade a game. Honestly the only 'whoring' I've seen from Square is FFX-2.
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You know, I think it's really cute how you keep posting as if you think somebody is going to seriously pay attention. But just to accommodate you, let me point out a very simple distinction:
The internet does not equal the world.
Got that? Ok, good. Now, how many people will I find on any particular message board who reply "yes" when I ask the question, "Do you want a graphical update of Final Fantasy VII?" A hundred? A thousand?
Now how many copies does a Final Fantasy game have to sell in order to be considered a success? 500,000? A million?
You see my point, I hope. I'm never going to find enough people simply by combing through internet message boards to conclude one way or another. I might find that there's a rabid fanbase, but that says nothing at all about the real world out there where people spend real money. Metroid Prime was hailed by many as the possibly the greatest game made in this generation, but that didn't help sales of Metroid Prime: Echoes very much. The news that Resident Evil was coming to the GameCube sparked so much furor that countless petitions were started up asking Capcom to bring the franchise back so the PS2. You'd think that it was one of the biggest deals of the decade from all the hype that was started up at the time, but the truth is Resident Evil: Remake didn't do all that fantastically well either.
So why don't you tell me again: what proof do you have to offer me that a graphical update of Final Fantasy VII is in demand and will do well in sales? Internet message boards don't count. The most you could prove to me with that is that maybe 10,000 people would buy it. That's a bit of a far cry from hundreds of thousands, don't you think? Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because there are a bundh of rabic fanboys on the internet that the world at large will care at all about Final Fantasy VII. Using that same logic, I could also conclude that a Catherine Zeta-Jones videogame is also going to be a huge hit. In all likelihood, there are more people who know her name than there are people who have heard of Final Fantasy VII.
Incidentally, if you think that the only whoring Square Enix has done is FF X-2, then I guess you haven't heard of Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus or Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis. Add these to Final Fantasy VII: Remake (or whatever they call it) and you get three games in the Final Fantasy VII world within a year and a half or so. At least when a new Mario or Zelda game is made, it takes place in a substantially different world. And besides that, it's been three years since either a Zelda or Mario game has come out on consoles. It's funny how people trying to criticize Nintendo always seem to miss little details like that.