Bored devs make the best stuffFollow

Why isn't this real?

I know, right?

They make one awesome, awesome game... and they... don't make a sequel.

A game that was loved by quite a few people, and they only make 1. Then they do a bunch of spin-offs in the same universe, and they finally, years later, make another game along that line, but they add stupid rules that detract from the fun that was in the first one.

They had a formula that worked, all they had to do was come up with another awesome plotline, keep to the formula, perhaps add a little more, but keep the formula intact and they would have had another awesome game.

But nooo, they had to go changing everything around. I understand innovation, but there's no need to re-invent the wheel every time you release a new game, either.

There was honestly nothing wrong with After Years but I never played the 3D one or western ports, so maybe it was terrible then.

I quite enjoyed the FFTA games. My only gripe with them was that some of the laws were complete bs.

Picture:

Knockbacks are forbidden
You have a monk in your group, but because knockbacks are forbidden, you're being careful and just using his abilities to attack with
Rando jerk from opposing team walks up and clocks the monk in the side of the head
The monk turns, punches the guy square in the face
The monk crits
Dude gets knocked back
You get a penalty

Sometimes this penalty removes your monk from the battle entirely. This part of the game I could've done without and been perfectly happy.

I didn't get to play a lot of it, but I didn't see anything wrong with After Years either?

Maybe someone can enlighten me as to what was wrong with it?



This is the exact reason I hated the abomination that was FFTA.

The whole idea of getting penalties for stuff you can't control (and from what I've been told, the penalties are either always, or sometimes, random and you don't know before you go into battle) is just plain ridiculous.

That is what I meant by the above -- they had something awesome going with FFT -- it was one of the best of the Final Fantasy series, even though they took a bold move and shifted the game's genre. It was a nice little gaiden game to the FF series. Then, FFTA comes, and they take basically the same formula, but add some stupid mechanic on top of it to try to tie it in with FF12 or something with the whole "judges" thing (even though there were no mention of said judges in FFT) and now you got people telling you how you can or can't fight a war. Seriously? lol. The whole thing just sounds so ridiculous. I can't count the number of game franchises that have one or two entries in the franchise that were utterly ruined because of some unwanted game mechanic that nobody asked for, and nobody likes.

How many people hate FF8 because of that stupid magic siphon/junction grindwall, for example? Can't say it is fun doing MMO-style grind in a singleplayer RPG... Draw Draw Draw Draw Draw Draw Draw Draw kill it, refine, get into another battle Draw Draw Draw Draw Draw for the first 3+ hours of the game isn't fun. Especially when at the beginning of the game, since only 1 GF even has Junction Spirit (IIRC that's what it was called), only 1 person can draw more than 1-2 at a time. So yay, that's fun. You gotta do all that drawing 3 times, because it takes forever to get 99 of something doing 1-2 at a time, lol.

I don't get where they thought that system was a good idea...

Edited, Apr 27th 2015 8:35am by Lyrailis

LOL Thancred is awesome xD