Thanks for the explanation, guys.
Since we're talking Sonic;
Am I the only one that actually really liked, appreciated and fully enjoyed Sonic Adventure on the DC? Sometimes it gets a lotta stick pretty much universally...
Thief wrote:I had a friend who was really upset that Final Fantasy 11 was an online game and that they shouldn't have called it a numbered Final Fantasy... as if changing the name would really means anything.
Ryudo wrote:I love SA 1-2 even if they are stiff and not aged great. I still get a lot of enjoyment out of them. In a sense the awkwardness makes me enjoy them more. Just exclusive to the time it came out and it's pure rose tinted glasses of nostalgia but so what. Still Sonic Colors for me dethroned SA as my fave 3D sonic. Generations to me was fantastic but some of the boss fights were not great and colors did IMO.
BTW WRC the XBLA version is a port of the Gamecube version same as SA2. SA GCN was a weird port. They changed so much even things they didn't need to be changed like color swaps and textures.
Who Really Cares? wrote:Loved it when it first came out but maybe it was the lazy port? But the XBLA version shows a rather dated game. The camera can be a real pain at times. Still better than Heroes and Sonic 2006
St. Elmo's Fire wrote: Thanks for the explanation, guys.
Since we're talking Sonic;
Am I the only one that actually really liked, appreciated and fully enjoyed Sonic Adventure on the DC? Sometimes it gets a lotta stick pretty much universally...
Segata Sanshiro Jr. wrote:Actually yea it would. The whole idea of continuing Final Fantasy and using numbers is purposely done to keep people buying and playing the game based on previous experiences.
If you make 10 turn based RPGs then suddenly release a mmo people are going to be upset its not the same. Especially if you call it 11 to signify it has stuff in common with 1-10.
Think about it this way, you don't want to call a game about playing hide and seek with the teletubbies in an "E" rated setting "Rapist City: How to sodomize children". Sometimes the name doesn't matter, but when you're dealing with a series its incredibly important.
Thief wrote:Segata Sanshiro Jr. wrote:Actually yea it would. The whole idea of continuing Final Fantasy and using numbers is purposely done to keep people buying and playing the game based on previous experiences.
If you make 10 turn based RPGs then suddenly release a mmo people are going to be upset its not the same. Especially if you call it 11 to signify it has stuff in common with 1-10.
Think about it this way, you don't want to call a game about playing hide and seek with the teletubbies in an "E" rated setting "Rapist City: How to sodomize children". Sometimes the name doesn't matter, but when you're dealing with a series its incredibly important.
Sorry I don't really agree. Regardless of the fact that I think Final Fantasy XI is very similar to the others in the franchise, Final Fantasy has always been about innovation and improvement over the previous installments. Whether or not it's truly innovative or successful is a different matter altogether though. I also don't really understand your example about the teletubbies and why that's relevant. That's such an extreme example and not really what I'm talking about; I'm talking about a number. I just think it's stupid to complain about which one is canonically determined to be number four or eleven or whatever when the games have no chronological relevance. As far as marketing is concerned, that's Square Enix's problem.
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