Would PC versions (steam) of future Final Fanatasy titles be worth it for S-E?

[I'm a Puppy!]

Skyrim combat garbage? Yeah, you're right there.
Skyrim garbage? Aw shit's on now. Of course, he does have a FFXIII avatar sooo...

[Himu]

Sure. You could make that argument about FF7. And you'd probably be right. but gaming as a whole didn't reflect FF7 after release at all in the psx or ps2 era. Games like that would huge and popular when released, but they were never the norm. Hence why they remained popular. Last gen, gaming chased it to make it the norm. Do you at least agree with that? E3 is a good example or this. Most of the games shown are all about experiences and cinematics and trying to be some artistic vision. That doesn't mean those games didn't exist before, but are you trying to argue that western games last gen DIDN'T try to normalize it?

[Himu]

You're talking about blockbusters. I'm not talking about that at all. Blockbuster != experience game, nor were they marketed as experience games.

My original post was a general retort to your "it's over" post. You're trying to chew on Rah for his preferences when a fat load of good western gaming being in charge of consoles did. You say Japan was bad last gen, when most of the biggest disappointing games last gen were western. I never said Japanese games like MGS didn't play their part. But let's call a spade a spade. You said yourself that western games lead the charge last gen, but refuse to acknowledge they lead the charge in everything else you just listed. We have established that Japan retreated to a smaller space in handheld games. So blaming Japan is silly.

You said that it's over for Japanese games, but refuse to acknowledge what happened to console gaming under western gamings watch. Look at this gen. More bloated titles with 500 million dollar budgets and trying to be some dumb game experience. Who's leading the charge there? More western studios. Same shit we got last gen.

[thisismyusername]

Yeah, you LITERALLY have to run an HDMI cable to your fucking tv these days, oh the horror!

It's ok though, in 10 years you won't be playing anything new since you're so fucking stubborn.

Not playing any new games in 10 years? How is that different from right now

Actually my PC is in a different room than the TV so that makes things a bit more difficult with the hdmi cable.

Steam in-home Streaming, breh. IIRC you can use even a Pentium 3 and get away with it if the connection is in-house with barely any lag.

SPLINTER CELL

Splinter Cell: Blacklist wasn't bad.

Now Conviction, yeah, that was bad. Especially after the delay(s) it had.

[Stoney Mason]

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[chronovore]

I mean why not. Didn't Dark Souls 1&2 benefit from steam sales?

Yeah, absolutely there is a lot of life for DS1 on Steam, if the forum is anything to go by.

The larger point is that From Software is not Square-Enix, by which I mean S-E appears to be more mired in its existing structure than a smaller company with less history of hits, like From, which is still trying new stuff.

Even with S-E's purchase (founding? funding?) of Shin-Ra, the cloud gaming service, I'll bet many ¥ens that it is not going to have any integration with FF, ever. If I had to guess, and this is PURELY a guess, the western studio S-E owns, Crystal Dynamics, the Montreal (or is it Toronto) studio, will be using Shin-Ra before Tokyo.

[tiesto]

Yeah, the only reason i'm saying FF7 is because it was the only one to sell 10+ million copies or however much it has since it came out. There were obviously games with lots FMV before it on PC.

And don't forget Sega CD! And stuff like Wing Commander, PC adventure games, "siliwood" stuff.

I actually prefer when cutscenes and gameplay are separate, since at least you can skip the cutscenes if you wish. You can't usually skip the barely-interactive "walk in slow mo while someone talks to you" gameplay.

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I liked the Mass Effect comment from Himu... reminded me of this classic:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8077623/1/Introduction-to-Asari-for-Humans

Both sides have their

[Joe Molotov]

lots of feelposting ITT

[Take My Breh Away]

Everyone shut the fuck up

Dragonball Xenoverse will be also coming to steam day and date with the console versions

Namco realizing consoles are dead and putting animu on steam. Only a matter of time before Tekken and Tales Of follow.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I'm legitimately surprised that they're putting this stuff on Steam.  SE seems like the kind of feggits who would set up their own thing.

[SantaC]

japanese market finally realized to put their games on steam