What are we taken for?
polycounter lvl 18
Is it just me, or does anyone think that Sony is shaflting the US/Canadien people? I'm sure a some of you have been waiting for the FF:AC cg movie from SqaureEnix, but the North-American relase has been delayed to in sometime November...
The movie will have been ready for a while, but to have better sales they will give the middle finger to the fans.
So I have one question: Will you still be buying the movie?
Etienne
The movie will have been ready for a while, but to have better sales they will give the middle finger to the fans.
So I have one question: Will you still be buying the movie?
Etienne
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Be patient.
You can't blame anyone for wanting to put themselves in a better position to make profit. No one invests in anything to end up empty handed. If there's an opportunity to increase revenue on a given product, everyone is going to capitalise on it.
BTW, I voted no. Don't take that as indicative of your view, I was never planning on buying FFAC. Thanks but I can live without watching a movie based on the ridiculous clicheed plotlines the japanese cram inside of every single of their RPGs.
is Advent Children still PSP only? if so then i don't care one whit about it.
kdr: i'll take a well crafted cliched plotline in a japanese rpg over a poorly crafted cliched plotline in most american games anytime.
The movie will be coming out on DVD and on UMV. I'm sure the UMV will cost the same as the DVD version... Why? who knows... it's not like you can plug your PSP on your TV and watch the movie on a bigger screen.
Also, unlike The Movies, FFCA will have been completed.
As for Europeans... I fell sorry for you. You always get the $hit end of the stick.
SouL: Yes, I can. I can blame any capitalistic company to put themselves before the public. But Hey, I live in a democratic capitalistic world.
KDR_11k: LOL, I like your last comment. Sometimes, they do get a cool story. I don't remember playing a good american RPG. Yes... even the SquareUSA rpgs SUCKed.
ElysiumGX: Well, Japan also get late movies showing. SW:EP3 just came out last month in Japan. Madagascar came out 2 weeks ago there. So... sucks to being UKer, N-Aers and Japanese people I guess...
Movie system has to change...
Etienne
It never was though Sony likes to make you think that.
I don't remember playing a good american RPG.
Try one of the D&D ones, Planescape: Torment is held in high regard. Outside of D&D Fallout is very popular.
Asherr: The problem is, with japanese RPGs you can predict plot turns before they happen by spotting the signs. The thing is, the signs aren't related, you just remember that they've been used in that context before. A mention of 8 amulets somewhere? You'll have to find them at some point. Got to find them before the evil guys do to prevent some ancient evil from being revived? You can be sure the evil guys will get their hands on them, usually by taking one of your characters ransom. The game asks you whether to hand over the amulets? Forget it, they'll get them even if you say "no". Some great utopia? Don't worry, they've got their shadow sides and you have to join the rebels to destroy it. Your male swordfighter finds a shy female magic user? Well, there's a 99.9% chance she's the key to saving and/or destroying the world. Oh and the evil guys will have laid vast regions of your homeworld to waste (or, in rare cases, annihilated it completely) before you manage to destroy them but with their destruction suddently the hordes of monsters roaming the world disappear and everybody is happy.
Read the clichees, you'll be able to see any plot turn in a japanese RPG half an hour before it happens minimum. Even without reading them you should have acquired a sense for a few of them just by playing more than one japanese RPG.