WildCardCorsair writes: I'm sure you all are quite aware of what world we're living in. The new generation of children are so used to technology that they need constant entertainment. You think this would not really affect the game industry in a negative way, being that games are a form of entertainment, but you'd be wrong.
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
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Sales ranking announced by Famitsu. This time, we bring you a summary of estimated weekly game software and hardware sales from March 25th to March 31st, 2024.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch OLED Model – 42,957 (6,958,780)
PlayStation 5 – 18,272 (4,713,002)
Switch Lite – 8,302 (5,793,705)
Switch – 6,274 (19,755,912)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,574 (746,561)
Xbox Series X – 938 (252,674)
PlayStation 4 – 679 (7,925,339)
Xbox Series S – 438 (306,446)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) -6 (1,192,906)
Rise of the ronin sold twice as much as Dragons Dogma 2 this week...but no articles about that. It's only news if a PS exclusive is being outsold.
Obviously Dark Sniper is of the popular opinion that Final Fantasy VII should be remade. But this article delves deeper into another issue that definitely warrants discussion.
Gamers around Dark Sniper's age bracket will likely be able to identify with what he's saying. Once upon a time, there was an age where 100% of all gaming was done offline. Younger gamers these days should be appreciative of the fact that all of their gaming news can be found through the ease of the internet. Back then, Dark Sniper had to wait for his monthly issue of EGM Magazine in order to stay up to date on the latest games and information. Compared from then to now, is a gigantic difference.
That isn't the real issue, the issue is that multiplayer gaming has completely shifted the way we play video games to this day, excluding the more popular genre of JRPG's that dominated during the SNES,PS1,PS2, and Sega Saturn eras of gaming.
Dark Sniper has been gaming since the Atari 2600, so it's very easy to view this from a jaded, one-sided point of view. But he can at least identify the fact that younger gamers wouldn't waste their time on long, epic journey adventure titles with outdated graphics when they could be taking their time leveling up their K/D ratio on Call of Duty. Not that Dark Sniper agrees with any of this, but that's just how gaming is these days.
As gamers, we're a society divided, we're at a time where gaming back then was more underground than it is mainstream. There's old-school gamers and there's new school gamers. Many would agree that if you were born in the 1990's, you missed out on an ENTIRE epidemic of great games that will never be duplicated again.
Thankfully, digital distribution has been great in preserving a lot of classics from that time period. But it will never be able to re-create the magic that gaming had during that timeframe.
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By the way, most gamers are adults so the demographic is not children/teenagers. They're playing CoD. There have been studies confirming it. Just google it if you're interested. I think I heard about it on an IGN podcast.
Anyway, I was born in the ninties and I was a kid when Final Fantasy came out on PS1. I never tried it. Now I want a remake so I can see what all the fuss is about. I do not want to play the current version because at that time, people saw it differently. I want to see it uprezzed so I can see it in your eyes.
SE would just fuck FF7 so i dont want any FF7 remake.
"Kids don't want a Final Fantasy VII remake"
Kids aren't the target audience, and they probably don't have the money to buy the game anyway. Who cares what they want?
Oh look, it's the boxart that I made. Regardless of that, I'd say I wouldn't want an FF7 remake either. Or should I say.. rather than having those resources go to an FF7 remake, I'd rather see them go towards a new game/project.