mistermotto

Love is for the weak, guys. Remember that.

A few things: 1)As much as i'm looking forward to Final Fantasy 3, I can't say I hold much love for the porting of the Crystal Chronicles character over to the game; it ruins the feeling of it being a whole new game, in a way. I also hope they've upgraded the story to modernise it, as I can't help but feel that a modern game with an ancient script designed for very limited hardware would be a recipe for disaster. 2) Final Fantasy 9 is NOT the worst in the series. In fact, I think I had the most fun with 9 than any other in the series. My only criticism is that it's perhaps too easy. 3)Although I loved Final Fantasy 8 at the time for the emotional drama, it feels too moody-teenagery for me to comfortably play it any more. Although I happen to be playing through it now, so it's not SO bad. 4) If ever there was a demonstration of why Nintendo machines are seen as kiddy, it's those Final Fantasy 64 shots (or should that be Final Fantasy LXIV?). LOOK AT THEM! Where are the textures on the characters? Why are they so chunky? What's with the super-cute art style? Not the direction Final Fantasy would have been comfortable in going in, and i'm glad it got canned and the series moved over to PlayStation 5) Can't wait for Final Fantasy 6.

Whilst Nintendo's online service for DS is sufficient, for a home console it's just simply not good enough. If they can successfully build a community-based interface much like L!VE then we're onto something. In any case I will never, ever pay to play games online. Even though I appreciate the fact that servers cost money, paying for a top Broadband connection, then paying for the game, and then paying for the subscription fees to play that game is just way too much money, especially since we've just seen game prices breach the £50 thresh-hold. With regards to the Retro comment; this guy is just a trash-talking, company-cheerleading nonce, much like Phil Harrison and Reginald Fils-Aime. Sure, there are some games that age badly (mostly pre-16Bit and 32/64Bit in some cases), but there are a massive wealth of classics out there, and anyone criticising the likes of Super Mario World shouldn't be working in the games industry.

It has to be the SNES for the sheer wealth of great games spanning all genres. N64 loses out due to being a barren wasteland as far as third-party support goes.