Why wasn't FF6 as popular as FF7?
Why wasn't FF6 as popular as FF7?
Aiden Roberts
Mason Butler
You clearly haven't played them.
Play through FF4, FF5, FF6 and FF7 after that and you WILL understand. The jump in quality, story and music was insane. 3D world with seemless integraded rendered cutscenes into ingame graphics with same rendered background from the cutscene. The risk Square took in development from 6 to 7 was enormous and yet executed almost perfectly.
Josiah Wright
Cause 7 8 9
Aiden Brown
This except I would look at it from the reverse perspective and say that VII succeeded entirely on "muh 3D rendering, muh cutting edge Square grafix" hype and using pre-rendered scenes in advertising. Then once all the normies had been baited the rest of the VII franchise relied on nostalgia.
Landon Morris
It still have a cult following.
Unrelated, but you know how to piss off a FF "fans" ?
Remake 6 (or any sprite era FF), but base the chara design on the sprite rather than Amano's artwork.
Cooper Gray
7 was in 3D. Fucking 8, as bad as it was, is more recognizable among normies than the first 6 games.
Ian Evans
this.
ff7 was the first fully 3d rendered ff entry and had an excellent story and a much more in depth player build system and interface.
ready for a playthrough right now.
William Gonzalez
fuck huge advertising campaign and ff7 also got a pc release.
Adrian Lee
>amano terra
As much as I appreciate and love Amano, not canon. Post Terra in her leotard as per her true design, please.
Ethan Howard
>tina with blonde hair
fuck you
Nolan Young
Mostly the graphics. It's not simply the switch to 3D. FF7 has far more interesting and varied environments (pic related). Additionally, FF7 has a more ambitious story with more memorable characters.
Aiden Kelly
The visuals in FF6 are...extremely shitty. It looked like a fan project.
But more importantly, FF7 was the first 3D game in the series, on the new system. FF6 was popular, just not that popular.
Cameron Ortiz
You may laugh all you want at lego people from FF7, but even as low poly blocky approximations, they still had all those little animations, like stretching arms, shrugs, wavings, hugs, shit like that.
It adds A LOT to the perception of the characters.
FF6's sprites had none of those. It was all text. And if you played SNES version, it was nothing but text.
Nolan Jackson
Because less people around the world got to play it and it wasn't nearly as groundbreaking at the time for tech. FFVII was many people's first Final Fantasy.
Blake Miller
>and ff7 also got a pc release.
lol about 10,000 people bought that port tops.
Chase Jones
square managed to release games on retarted timeslot
Ayden Fisher
What are you on about? FF6 is still remembered incredibly fondly and tops best FF lists constantly
Evan Moore
Because even when it came out people thought FF6fags were obnoxious when in reality it was a general downgrade to 5.
Brayden Diaz
majority of the world didn't know 5 existed you fucking moron
No one cares about japs
Ryder Hall
it didnt have a 100 million dollar ad campaign
Lucas Jones
>xenogears got butchered and Takahashi's vision destroyed because the stupid CUNTS at Square pissed away almost the entire net worth of their company away on that fucking final fantasy movie
Hope Alec Baldwin was worth it you stupid bastards.
Jayden Anderson
Because it wasn't a heavily marketed release of a brand new and exciting platform with 3D capabilities.
Because it didn't release in Europe.