Originally posted by witeasprinwow

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What I am really trying to say is that there has never really been a "Golden Age" for this kind of game. There was a period where the FF / DQ-style RPG was much more popular, but I wouldn't say that means the quality of the games were better. Sorta like how sprioth is talking about how everyone knocks off Half Life or Halo nowadays, and most of the games don't turn out any good; I think the same thing was going on with RPGs back around the SNES/PS1 era.

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Originally posted by witeasprinwow

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Originally posted by tunabot

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Because, truthfully, it's mostly about the graphics anymore. Though the Wii could, possibly, help change that..

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I don't really see this as a new development, though. The grapics race has been on ever since SNES / Genesis, in my opinion.

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Originally posted by drjayphd

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Besides, this probably belongs in General Emulation. Anyone with the POWAR feel like moving?

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Originally posted by Cara Zeltina

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(I find it a terrible arguement when someone thinks the handheld is good for its homebrew capabilities.. that's like breaking a fine glass bottle and saying its great because it makes an excellent weapon, in spite of the fact it is shattered and useless for its original purpose.)

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Originally posted by Rydain

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FF1 stuff.

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Originally posted by Adamant

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Origins has pretty faithful remakes. There were some differences, mostly fixing the extreme amount of bugs the original FF1 had, but in general, they were the same games.

Not so with DoS, however. In an attempt to appeal to the kids of today, Square tweaked the games a lot.

FF1:
*Pretty much every single battle in the game can be won by holding down the A button.
*Unless you run from a LOT of battles, you WILL be overlevelled, and greatly so.
*Death is not a factor anymore, since you'll be carrying around a dozen revivification items that never existed in the original. Originally you had to visit a church, or use a spell (which you didn't get until halfway through the game, and wouldn't be able to cast many times during a dungeon before having to recover MP at an inn.
*Speaking of the above, you can now recover MP by using certain items. Not expensive ones either.
*The original game didn't even HAVE MP, but spell levels, where each spell was assigned to a certain spell level, and each level would have a certain amount of charges depending on your experience level. So instead of your mages having to resort to their weak physical attack a lot of the time in order to preserve these spell charges for when they're needed, the new MP system allows them to throw highly damaging spells at everything. And if they run out, a simple potion puts them right back in the game.

FF2:
*Not as many changes here, but the characters gain higher stats constantly, and seemingly at random, making them overpowered all the time.

Of course, Square forgot that the kids need complex storylines and flashy FMVs in their games, none of which FF1 and 2 have, but that didn't stop them from ripping the gameplay out of these classics, leaving us with a package that really shouldn't appeal to anyone. Unless you're the kind of guy who likes holding A while watching your characters walking around dungeons as a plot less complex than Quake's unfolds somewhere in the background.

If you want to play these games like they really were, in a time when gameplay was the main focus, get Origins (or the NES/famicom originals). If you want a flashy new-style RPG, get one that was actually produced recently, not a collection of old games Square "hipped up".

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