Japanese gamers on X discuss why classic titles like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quests are less popular among the country's young people.
It’s honestly kinda crazy how long some games spend in development. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is a perfect example of something that should’ve been quick but ended up being so bloated and took forever to make.
FF7Remake was announced in 2015, got stuck in development hell for a bit, released 2020. The sequel released 2024. The third one still hasn’t been teased yet. How many people are attached to a franchise if it takes 10 years to get the full story? I loved the first remake but dropped the second one, I just didn’t care about the story as much as I did ~5 years ago.
Not only that, many gaming memories, including console ones, and even for ancient people like me, are tied to modern online experiences.
Just one example, that you all share and know and i believe this, is minecraft.
But how much of that is multiplayer servers over single player worlds?
Some of my finest memories are chrono trigger, popolocrois monogatari, final fantasy, earthbound.
And i still like them.
But playing for the fun of it, i can probably tell that some simple multiplayer is still fine.
But many young (and adult) people are probably playing gacha, and these are highly manipulative games.
Dopamine and serotonine driven.
I find my enjoyment of a game dropping down to zero when I have a mandatory gacha system in the way.
I will probably attempt to finish earthbound, I never got past the giant animated pile of puke.
Sometimes later i found out that I needed to bring some fly honey for that*, or that i need to wait three real life minutes for a waterfall to open the path.
This last example is comical in lisa: the paniful, where you are required to wait 30 real life minutes in a test of patience.
30. Minutes.
And it’s still the most normal thing in the game.
I need to finish lisa the painful too, come to think of it.
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Not sure why they’d think kids are the target audience for a remake of a 29 year old game.
Surely all the kids are playing the latest mobile slop pocket money sink?
Not only that, many gaming memories, including console ones, and even for ancient people like me, are tied to modern online experiences. Just one example, that you all share and know and i believe this, is minecraft. But how much of that is multiplayer servers over single player worlds? Some of my finest memories are chrono trigger, popolocrois monogatari, final fantasy, earthbound. And i still like them. But playing for the fun of it, i can probably tell that some simple multiplayer is still fine. But many young (and adult) people are probably playing gacha, and these are highly manipulative games. Dopamine and serotonine driven. I find my enjoyment of a game dropping down to zero when I have a mandatory gacha system in the way.
I will probably attempt to finish earthbound, I never got past the giant animated pile of puke. Sometimes later i found out that I needed to bring some fly honey for that*, or that i need to wait three real life minutes for a waterfall to open the path.
This last example is comical in lisa: the paniful, where you are required to wait 30 real life minutes in a test of patience. 30. Minutes. And it’s still the most normal thing in the game.
I need to finish lisa the painful too, come to think of it.
Being Japan, I suspect all the kids are sinking money into Gacha Impact or Honkai Gacha Rail or whatever else