@inb4uall said:
@ConanTheStoner said:
FF has told some better stories, but it's rare and has been a while. Zelda is more on the minimal side, but more consistent. I'd rather have minimal story or no story at all than a terrible story.
Still I voted FF. To me, the series offered more memorable stories than Zelda has... though prefer the approach in Zelda since it's highly unlikely that their stories will make me cringe.
lol such a tough question to answer.
Well I'd say it's highly unlikely, even with SE's claim to return to their strong JRP roots, that FF is suddenly going to have a good story again. I'd take no story at all rather than the garbage in lightning returns anyday.
Yeah, I'm thinking their latest realization is probably in regards to gameplay and world design. Which hey I can't complain, any improvements are welcome. I doubt they even understand how bad their stories suck though.
Looking at their story telling history it seems that fun and simple always wins the race. As far back as FFVII they started diverging on this path of being overly melodramatic and convoluted. Trying to give the false illusion of depth and really cheesing on the emotion. It wasn't really too much of a problem at all back then, but it started becoming a bit obvious with FFX and then the bottom completely fell out with the XIII games.
I think every employee at SE should have to play FFIV, FFV, FFVI, FFIX, Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG. Hell even throw Secret of Mana and FFVII in there.
Nothing against FFVII btw, it's actually one of my favs... I could just see the guys at SE taking all the wrong cues from that game and ignoring what made it good.
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