Nimroc wrote:xVxObliVioNxVx wrote:ffsage wrote:As the years went by, the fighting diminished, and the story took over. eventually, ff games will actuallly be just movies. Is that really what you want? I hope it doesn't end up like this.
I don't think it will, but I do think that the story will be much more important then gameplay. The thing is with video games, it's becomming more and more popular each year and is getting very close to becomming more popular then movies which will lead it to becomming the ultimate entertainment media of the future. Director Peter Jackson said that a story is much better told in a game then it ever could in a movie or book. This is because in a game, the player is given the chance learn more and deeper about the character and even experience their emotional battles.
( FVII spoilers) For example, when Aerith died, most players felt similar pain that Cloud did. Here is this Character that we get to know so well over the course of the game and then she dies, of course we are going to be all emotinal about it but to what extend. I for one, was more emotially sad for Aeith's death then for any character of a book or movie.
I have to admit that I wouldn't mind if Final Fantasy lost the whole gameplay and made it as a long movie instead as long as the story grow up more.
There is still things in even the more complex RPGs that make them too much childish, an example is character death, how often do you see named characters that actually dies exept maybe some villians but that is not very often that either.
RPGs with really great stories shouldn't try to be like movies, rather as books.
Books is in the end the most grown form of story telling
Yeah, I think that RPG games have a higher potential of telling a story then any movie and even a book. But like you said, more video games need to tell stories like books where they are not short and simple like in many movies.
i just think that ff is cool and that it would always be like that
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