Comments on: The Neverending Story http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/ Ramblings and musings of John Zeitler. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:57:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Avenger http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2980 Avenger Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:33:46 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2980 Just because you don't think they differed too much in quality doesn't mean people who preferred one over the other are fanboys. Fanboys of what? I liked one game and not the other, and I am far from understanding how that could make me a "fanboy." This is how descriptive terms lose meaning through over-misuse. Just because you don’t think they differed too much in quality doesn’t mean people who preferred one over the other are fanboys. Fanboys of what? I liked one game and not the other, and I am far from understanding how that could make me a “fanboy.”

This is how descriptive terms lose meaning through over-misuse.

]]> By: Grey http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2965 Grey Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:27:30 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2965 Don't be too surprised at the lingering interest in the GBA. The console's sales figures are stil on part with the DS and the PS2. It's also easier to program for than the DS in that you don't feel forced into adding touchscreen functionality when it's really not needed. Don’t be too surprised at the lingering interest in the GBA. The console’s sales figures are stil on part with the DS and the PS2. It’s also easier to program for than the DS in that you don’t feel forced into adding touchscreen functionality when it’s really not needed.

]]> By: Ramen Junkie http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2937 Ramen Junkie Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:00:38 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2937 Meh, The DS playes GBA games. If you don't need to make a game that uses both screens why not just make a GBA game. I'm also thinking that DS games and GBA games can interact if they are designed to so maybe there is some substance behind that and Revenant Wings. Third, if they are going to reuse the TTFA1 "engine" it would kind of make sense for it to be on the same platform. Meh, The DS playes GBA games. If you don’t need to make a game that uses both screens why not just make a GBA game.

I’m also thinking that DS games and GBA games can interact if they are designed to so maybe there is some substance behind that and Revenant Wings.

Third, if they are going to reuse the TTFA1 “engine” it would kind of make sense for it to be on the same platform.

]]> By: John http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2934 John Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:52:24 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2934 Not exactly. I probably should have put the word "purist" in quotes, as that's a word I lifted directly from a few of the nastier 'Stiq comments. Myself, I happen to like the original over the new one as well (marginally), but I can see the merits of both. The "purist"/fanboy crack was aimed at folks who can't; and more at those who were, in that thread, saying "FFTA2 sucks, don't buy it" before anything seriously concrete is released about it. Liking one over the other is fine. Saying: "By using the FFT name, one would expect it to be as good as the original, even if it was different. Unfortunately it was complete ass. [insert fifteen various repeats of 'FFTA was ass' here]" is a complete other thing. I'd rather not go into the whole FFT/FFTA debate again, as basically we've done that before; but the thing is that I don't particularly agree with folks who say that the games had that much of a difference in quality. Not exactly. I probably should have put the word “purist” in quotes, as that’s a word I lifted directly from a few of the nastier ‘Stiq comments. Myself, I happen to like the original over the new one as well (marginally), but I can see the merits of both. The “purist”/fanboy crack was aimed at folks who can’t; and more at those who were, in that thread, saying “FFTA2 sucks, don’t buy it” before anything seriously concrete is released about it.

Liking one over the other is fine. Saying: “By using the FFT name, one would expect it to be as good as the original, even if it was different. Unfortunately it was complete ass. [insert fifteen various repeats of 'FFTA was ass' here]” is a complete other thing.

I’d rather not go into the whole FFT/FFTA debate again, as basically we’ve done that before; but the thing is that I don’t particularly agree with folks who say that the games had that much of a difference in quality.

]]> By: Ismail Saeed http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2932 Ismail Saeed Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:18:42 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/2006/12/14/the-neverending-story/#comment-2932 So, someone who liked FF Tactics but didn't like what they did with Tactics Advance is a series purist? Considering the "series" is two games as of this writing, it strikes me as pretty legit to like one more than the other. It's like people who preferred Zelda 1 when Zelda 2 came out being called purists or fanboys. :) I have no real voucher in either one (though the judges would annoy me, I think) but this just struck me as odd. So, someone who liked FF Tactics but didn’t like what they did with Tactics Advance is a series purist?

Considering the “series” is two games as of this writing, it strikes me as pretty legit to like one more than the other.

It’s like people who preferred Zelda 1 when Zelda 2 came out being called purists or fanboys. :)

I have no real voucher in either one (though the judges would annoy me, I think) but this just struck me as odd.

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