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[PATV] Monday, August 13, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 15: Final Fantasy Apology
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It's refreshing when a company admits it's screwed up. Really, badly screwed up.
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I did wonder what SW was for until I realized that Square wanted to prove they could put together a movie without having to rely on the franchise. No Chocobos, Mogs, or super magic needed to be present.
So in my eyes SW was better thant AC.
It's either incredibly lazy marketing for a final product they didn't think could stand on its own merits, or it's an attempt to start up a FF film franchise by ditching the chocobos, mogs, magic, etc only to faceplant out of the gate and ditch the sequels. Not sure which.
Graham even said "That Agnis Philosophy Tech Demo, it was super pretty".
@LordFizzlebeef
Just because the name is in the title, doesn't make it a movie that either fits the game or is even about the game. The Resident Evil movies have the name of the game, almost all the major characters, the major villains, and still manages to be completely not a "Resident Evil movie" in any way shape or form. Same goes for the Uwe Boll movies, but invoking those unleashes horrible things that crawl in the dark recesses of the mind.
Well put. TSW was an excellent example of computer animation. It just wasn't much of a movie.
Here's something else that's been bugging about the FF14 remake: Apart from the cinematics, has anyone seen anything else about it? Like gameplay or environment? You know, the stuff that people complained enough that forced them to actually remake the game in the first place?
That aside, I couldn't possibly see anything they are talking about here as anything other than misinformed and useless. At least I know to avoid this show from now on.
BTW, what was misinformed? Asides from FF7 having some pretty badass cutscenes, too. But 8 really did kick it up a notch.
@LordFizzlebeef ; "an attempt to start up a FF film franchise by ditching the chocobos, mogs, magic, etc only to faceplant out of the gate and ditch the sequels." is what I took away from it. FF7: Advent Children is what they should have made. FF7:AC was beautiful and did a much better job capitalizing on the series' identity.
I think the problem with Spirits Within is that they wanted it to be accessible to a general audience that may not know what FF is about. Still, they should have made it more in the vein of FF6, where it's high magic and lots of steampunk. I think that would have gained a lot of traction. I believe that it didn't really matter whether the audience knew the world of Final Fantasy or not. If you make it cool, interesting and have a decent story, people will like it. SW was slow, plodding, too much drama, and kind of confusing. Chocobo chases and gigantic airships would have been much cooler.
BTW, how do you quote? Use blockquote?
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Well except for the fact that you have the sllloooowwwest servers ever.
I have a 6Mb pipe and I had to let half the show download before I started to watch and it still ended up not being enough.
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I'll check out gameplay when it comes out just in case they've actually done something right for once, but I have no hopes for it at all.
...are you a hardcore Hasbro fan or something? What could possibly have enraged you enough that you felt like this was an appropriate response?
Spirits Within was horrible story wise. looked great but it simply wasn't final fantasy aside from Gaia theory. What they really should have done was taken 7 or 8 and cut it up into movie sized bits. both games had definite "chapters" in the story that they could have ended movies at and it couldn't have done any worse in the theatres than spirits within did.
I'm so sad... oh wait Pikmin 3