Ashilyn said: Serious question. because I've been curious for a while: Why are people so hung up on world maps? What do they actually add to the game besides a sense of nostalgia? I honeslty don't understand it. It was a convention borne of hardware limitations, and I definitely don't mind not having boring, zoomed out traditional maps. I like walking form place to place, and getting a sense of the world, seeing cool vistas, and getting to better see it's inhabitants. A map for stuff like quick travel or something would be fine, but I'd rather not revert to the 32/16 bit era style world maps, personally. That's not to say I want everything to be FFXII, because the size of some of those maps was just stupid, but I think it and FFX are a step in a better direction than old school world maps. So, I'm serious, what is it people like about them? What do they add to the game that I'm missing? Why, when we rally against things like random encounters and save points, are world maps the old, outdated design convention that we're holding sacred?
shooter_mcgavin said: I guess what frustrates me about the franchise now is how they had a pot of gold in the previous generation and turned it into dirt. Now I know game development is a tough job but how hard is it for the company and developers to really f*** up the development of FFXIII and make boneheaded decisions
amaron said: It takes S-E YEARS to get a modern FF game out. It would probably add a year for them to make a world map.
shooter_mcgavin said: The developers of FFXIII said it took them a week to render a rock.
Seelas said: What's the source on this? It's either total bullshit or completely out of context.
Soul Hunter said: ... are you still excited in seeing a brand new Final Fantasy (that isn't FFXIII-whatever)?
Crusader said: Issue is Square Enix's current psychosexual obsession with FFVII. Everything either needs to be it or surpass or do whatever with it but it all comes back down to fucking FFVII. Maybe, just MAYBE, we can get a genuinely good game if they bother to yank their heads out of 1997's ass.