So I'm not sure if there anyone on here is really into gaming really but if someone here is what are your thoughts on the ff7 remake a little background I tried getting into final fantasy before but I had a bad experience in other words I got ff13 and ff14 so I thought the remake would be a good start.
I want to hear from both older fans and fans of the series what they think on the remake and if they would recommend it to a beginner in the series.
I gave FF15 like ten, twenty hours. Discovered that it's pretty much get up, drive around, do a quest, pop a tent, make dinner, take selfies. Then every now and then there's a gigantic dungeon crawl. Then I found myself fishing for cat food in order to get a picture in order to give it to a detective so I could start a treasure hunt and I noped the fuck out hard. I dunno. There's an aspect to Japanese games that I just... can't. If I have to fish in order to move forward? Fuck off with that shit. That made me feel bad until I played Persona 5 at which point I determined that there is something deeply, disturbingly wrong with aspects of Japanese culture and all the weaboos who live for it are making it worse. And I say that having just rescued iron testicles for XP in Witcher 3.
Ok ok I understand your perspective gaming from different regions isn't for everyone I get that really I do But at the same time you just can't say that there's something disturbingly wrong there culture they just doing things differently and people who in enjoy gaming from Japan aren't weaboos they just enjoy something different I understand that your taste is different and I can respect that but please trying as trying say something like there's something wrong with there culture
I said "aspects." There "aspects" wrong with Red Dead Redemption, too. And, as indicated above, there are "aspects" wrong with Witcher 3. All the Chuck E Cheese sex is really cringe-worthy. I doubt you'd call me out for questioning those "aspects." So I will repeat - so that you can be sure that you want to have this battle - that there are aspects of Japanese culture that are abhorrent. Kamoshida's palace makes Lara Croft look like Joan of Arc. I have helped my 7-year-old daughter play through Okami three times. Fortunately, she hasn't really caught on to Issun's obsession with breasts or wondered why Sakuya is wearing an assless kimono. It is, on balance, an incredible game. But let's not for one minute pretend that the Japanese are above criticism simply because they aren't American. And there will never be a compelling reason for me to fish in a video game. Doesn't hurt me in the slightest that the Japanese love it. What does hurt is when it's somehow not PC to call out a culture that devalues women to the point where "rape demon" is one of your power moves.
And that demon up there is from the game persona it should be the that demon is not really from Japanese culture translated the name is incubus an incubus is a demon from European folklore this demon goes by another name too succubus which is the female verson of an incubus They seem to take an inspiration from European mythology an put that into their game And the demon doesn't rape you as the legend goes it tries to seduce or entices you For females the incubus comes an appear's as handsome man for males the succubus comes an appear's as a beautiful female they to trick or deceive you into intimacy once they do they ether suck the life out or you or kill you if the legends correct They seemed to take an inspiration from that and put it into their game
Dude. Persona is like the most insanely Japanese game there is. Yeah - an incubus is a European legend but it's in a Japanese game. In European mythology? Incubi fucked women while they slept. In Persona? They've got a horn coming out of their crotch longer than their goddamn arms. You've already said that you can understand and respect my beef with - again - "aspects" of Japanese culture. I'll reiterate - I accept a lot of weird shit in anime and video games. Less in anime because I saw Urutsukidoji in an arthouse theater in 1992 and had no idea what I was walking into. You get that shown to you as if it's normal and not at all weird and absolutely the thing you feature the weekend after My Neighbor Totoro and you start to question what people find acceptable. Persona 5 was my Urutsukidoji video game experience. There's plenty of stuff that's cool, neat, interesting, admirable and worthy of emulation. But there's some shit that's just straight up not right and arguing about European demonology does not negate that. My receptionist is a gamer. I can't talk to her about Persona because it sails dangerously close to sexual harassment. That, to me, is reason enough to call "aspects" into question.
And you can definitely call that in question really there's nothing wrong with you pointing that out I'm just saying if we're going to call that then we're going to have call anything like not just with Japanese culture with any culture with that issue
I think I'm not interested in playing it, as discussed previously, because FF15 was entirely too Japanese for me. Too many selfies, too much cooking, too much fishing, too many spreadsheets. Again, absolutely no judgment on those who enjoy that sort of thing; I am not one of them. We started this whole endeavor when I said that Weaboos are way too ready to criticize people who don't like fishing in their games because the Japanese are, to them, utterly beyond reproach. and scene
Look I'm not trying to have a battle really I'm not it's just yes there are very controversial things about their culture but that's how they approach things and it's that approach that bleeds into there media and entertainment. I mean could make that same argument about American culture for example GTA and saints row portrayal of of crime and sex and violence or manhunt with it's somewhat sadistic pleasure in murder American media does the same thing to certain extent when comes sexuallizing women I mean all cultures American or Japanese have that sort of thing Which is why I don't think we judge them yeah it screwed up but you have things like that any where
I have played all ff games on snes, psx and ps2. I have playes but dropped ffxiii and never got into the series again, so I can't really comment on the remake. They are the staple jrpg for me: always good games but without really standing out on anything in particular, except perhaps presentation. Final fantasy is not so much a series as a collection of unrelated games that share some themes and iterate on the mechanics. They are games about frienship and saving the world from progressively bigger bads. Mechanically they experiment a lot but you can tell they used the systems of previous entries as a base. Again I don't know if this is still the case for modern entries as they have switch staff quite a bit. In the (offline) mainline games I would recomend you start with the oldest one that does not feel too dated for you. Most of the pre psx entries have remakes too so they are an ok place to start. If you are not really sure you want to dedicate so much time I would at least try ffix and ffx. ffix captures the early nintendo era aesthetic very well and ffx is a fairly well regarded title in general. That is for mainline titles. I would really recommend the tactics sideline too. The original has a very good story more in line with ogre battle than final fantasy, so lots of medieval political intrigue. The portable one are a bit more childish in tome but very good too.