>oh wow they made a movie based on final fantasy! I loved that game , this is gonna be so cool
>>214421248Reminder that this movie killed Final Fantasy going forward. Everything post-Sakaguchi is where it went downhill.
>>214421270nah, it's kino
>>214421248i'll never believe that white people in English speaking countries played those games. I think it became a meme in the 2010s and people are pretending Final Fantasy was known in the West in the 90s the same way they pretend that the 80s (woodgrain era) was neon
>>214421379You sound barely legal and no one asked for your dumbass zoomzoom beliefs about the past
>>214421403no i was around but only went to school in one city so i can't prove there were no kids anywhere playing it. i know there weren't at mine, but then, there were no weebs at my school.
>>214421379Final Fantasy has never seemed like that big of a thing. The games might sell millions of copies, but people just play the game and end it there. They don't discuss it with people outside in everyday life. https://youtu.be/ZEqkBcj5qlA?si=9RiLMhaQhoM1lLLC
>>214421270Both Square and Enix went to shit when they merged
>>214421454Back then it was pertinent to hide your autismalness if you wanted a shot at pussy. Now high school girls are into e-culture like vidya and anime. I remember cringing at the kids who would openly read manga at the high school lunch tables. The only girls there would be deviantart types. Now there are actually hot girls pretending to have nerdy interests, it's more acceptable. And at the same time, Final Fantasy sucks now. You're more likely to hear those types talking about Persona these days. FF fell off a long time ago.
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>>214421379you must be under 20
>>214421248Should have made a Phantasy Star movie instead
>>214421248https://youtube.com/shorts/lHRculWGB3A
>>214421379FF7 was huge for a whole generation, I was playing shit like Rayman before it came out
Final Fantasy was always just "Brainlet Golden Age Ghibli Knock Off" anyways. If you want to watch a "real final fantasy" movie, just watch Nausicaa or Mononoke.
>>214421741Nah
Final Fantasy is already a movie, why do they feel the need to continue trying to get people to pay for a $8-15 ticket rather than a $50-$90 digital license?
>>214421454Kids weren't playing it. They aren't really made for kids. I played a couple of them but only cause my mom did, I didn't know anybody at school who played them either, but I did know plenty of older relatives who did and saw them in magazines and stuff as well.
>>214421487>Could have made a high fantasy feature with ancient tech sprinkled around.>lolno.>"Let's make Starship Troopers but with space ghosts, environmentalist preaching and a love plot no one gives a shit about"Square deserved to burn, not to get bailed out by Enix.
>>214421379It was the big game on SNES and PS1 with magazine coverage on every stand in America
>>214421379Only ff7 was really ever popular internationally. Outside of that nobody gave a shit about the franchise
Max Caulfield is the only person in existence to think the Spirits Within was a good movie
>>214421248I liked it.
>>214421248>>214421379>oh wow they made a sequel to the game i like-Dad walks in
>>214424396SOMEBODY GET THIS HOT HEAD OUTTA HERE!
I like it too, it the only movie I keep a bluray remux of it.
>>214421379Extremely underage post.
>>214421270Pretty much. There's stuff that was in development that turned out good. Like FFX and Kingdom Hearts and some remakes. That was it though. This movie cost Square so much money they had to start milking resources and assets. Idk wtf they were thinking. I don't hate Spirits Within, but damn if it isn't an approachable bankable movie and it sure as hell doesn't resemble any Final Fantasy.
>>214421248>hated the game because its some gay fantasy weeb shit>the movie was cool sci-fi tech so I liked itanyone else?
>>214425114Yep. The movie was fun post-apocalyptic scifi with neat space marines, jets and cars. It had the weird japanese horror of ghosts stealing souls. Very entertaining. Didn't care about the game at all. I watched the FF7 movie and it was dumb as shit
>>214421248>that game>singularsays it all
>>214421487the ghosts were pretty spooky ngl. literally ripping off your soul from your body.
>>214421487cant believe those laser guns dont have rapid firelameand the fact that theyre just standing around...wha
>>214421666Based
>>214425804animation is expensive. prease understand.
>>214426144they shouldve had a ship hoovering above themjust in case they needed a carpet bombing, which they did need it
>>214426176If I remember correctly this sequence happens after their ship crashed because it was wiped off by the ghosts.
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>>214421248BLUE
>>214426232oh okaynevermind
>>214421248One of the biggest disappointments of my adolescence. I think the only thing that was more disappointing to me were the Matrix sequels. I was a huge Squaresoft fan, would buy games I knew nothing about just because their logo was on the box and I had never been let down, until then.
>>214421379I genuinely hate zoomers with a burning passion. They just make shit up, like a pathological sociopathic liar if they haven’t experienced something firsthand.
>>214421454LARPwe can tell how old you are by the way you write btw
>>214426144It was expensive. This shit was groundbreaking and took forever. It screwed the company over that hutthurt gamers slandered the movie after they spent so much effort on it
>>214421454>there were no weebs at my schoolI went to school in a small town in North Dakota in the mid-1990s and there were plenty of anime nerds.
>>214421379>he's never played the original FF games on NES and SNESyou're missing out on kino of the highest magnitude. but you sound like a fag, so i don't want you to enjoy the kino.
>>214426234https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5wbF6bNqcM
>>214421454video games have never been associated with "weebs", unless they're niche video games that have an excessive japanese cultural influence. nobody thought you were a "weeb" for playing street fighter or final fantasy. that was just standard nerd shit.
>>214421248I saw this in the theater and don't remember a single thing about it.
>>214421248I saw this in the theater and remember every single thing about it.
>>214421379Final Fantasy got to America much earlier than Europe. The first one on NES is conisdered a NES classic like Duck Hunt, Mario, Megaman and Castlevania. It's included in that emubox thing Ninttendo made a few years ago.Final Fantasy III (6) on the SNES was the largest game made up to that point and is a classic in it's own right, also included in many best ofs and that SNES emulator thing Nintendo did, along side Super Metroid and Link to the Past. These three are some of the most influential games ever made.By the time FF7 was rolling around, the hype levels were insane in America and Japan, but the ball was only just getting started in Europe as that was their first game.I'm guessing you lived in Europe at the time.
>>214421270There was an internal culture shift after this movie to start milking each game in the franchise over again which is what really killed it. FFX-2, FFIV After Years, all of the FFVII spin off stuff, was all bad and low quality, and actively damaged the brand is took creative talent away from just making original games and regearing the entire mindset of Final Fantasy to "Remember this?" which continues on to this day in the stinky mmo FFXIV.
>>214427533Not really a culture shift, just that the actual human being behind the company was ousted and replaced with a bunch of wrinkly old business suits who proceeded to do generic soulless corporate things with the company thereafter.
>>214421557I remember back in grade school, tons of girls were into Sailor Moon and that my first harem show, and all the athletic guys were into Dragon Ball Z. This was pretty much when Toonami was starting.
>>214421248I remember being confused as to why they didn't just make a movie based on an existing final fantasy game instead of whatever the hell this was
>>214421741Nobody cared about Ghibli until at least after 2000. FF was way popular before Ghibli was. And they are completely dissimilar anyways, that generic solarpunk look wasn't in any of the games.
>>214421248saw this in theater with my dad when i was like 12, nobody else was there, and the movie was boring as shit but taught me a lesson: i like video games and i don't like anime
>>214427697FF isn't dragon quest, Nausica received rave reviews, same for Castle of cagliostro meanwhile FF7 is held as the best in a lot of peoples' viewpoint which came out in 97
>>214421248Should have made a movie out of an rpg that normal white people enjoy
>>214421666Satan-checked and agreed.
