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This is the first in a series of blog articles I intend to write. In this series I hope to examine a curious aspect of my own gaming habits: playing old games and loving them much more than new ones. Is it because I don't want to shell out cash for new games? No, although I'm not going to lie that my current economic status makes it a lot more tempting to pick up a great classic off my shelf than spending lots of money for gas to drive to the store to then spend $60, or equally expensive digital downloads. The main reason I'm going back to old games is simply put: they are more enjoyable. To start off the series I'm going to examine one of my top favorites: Final Fantasy VII. FF7 has impacted nbmishini and inspired many game developers other than myself and it remains as a huge landmark in gaming history. The current title that I am developing at my company, Matreya Studios, is strongly inspired by FF7. I have finished another play-through of FF7 since its re-release to the PSN store where I bought it to play on my PSP. I still own a working original CD copy of the game and PS1 and PS2 that will play it. The moment the game was released for PSN I had to buy it again, download and play it. Why is a game this old still so exciting to me? I think one of the key reasons is the same as it was over a decade ago when the game was first released: the cinematic appeal. There has been a change in what excites me though. Back in '97 so many people ogled over the pre-rendered cutscenes that made the game only fit on three discs. FF7 set the de-facto standard that console JPRGs must have multiple discs or else no one bought them because they were assumed to be bad. Maybe the game really was good, but no game consumer would believe it unless you had 2-4 discs. But these things don't excite me as much today. I can't say that they aren't high quality and I don't enjoy Squaresoft's masterfully rendered story, but there's something else about it that didn't continue beyond the PS1 era like canned cut-scenes did. The cinematic appeal of the game during gameplay.
They could build a portal, independent from wow gold Facebook, or even a competing wow gold social network to become their own platform. Alternatively they could invest in larger, better games or more complex and complete virtual worlds. They could broaden wow gold out to smaller, more indie and creatively-oriented developers and become an aggregator or partner network. Such a strategy would result in better and more diverse content.
Realistically though, I think they plan to do none of those things. I think what they will actually do is spend the $180m on trying to replicate wow gold their previous viral success through increased advertising spend. Maybe Zynga can figure out a way to leverage Facebook’s own ads to target to players as reminders. That would be much more in-character for a company as competitive and in-the-now as Zynga has proven itself to be.
Zynga’s coffers are deep, as are Playdom and Playfish’s, but at the heart of their model are some deep weaknesses that are going to let a lot of wow gold the air out of their Fast Food business models. The audience expectations are going to shift, the key factors enabling the business model likewise, and while it’s been a great short term success this year, viral gaming doesn’t seem to have any more easy wins left.
Now comes the hard part. Diversification, experimentation and deep design wow gold breeding interesting ideas do not grow on trees and companies need to commit to them to see them through. Right now that’s not the Zynga way.
Twelve months from now it will be the companies that have managed to diversify, build strong followings and create real value that will be the new wow gold darlings of the scene. Those that do not adapt will still be there but their story will be one of difficulty. As social games come to the end of their beginning, Zynga is increasingly look like an Atari-era publisher leading the charge but unlikely to capitalise in the longer term because they’re too busy thinking they’re in the burger business.
I am attempting to put my finger on the “Je ne sais quoi” that makes FF7 so enjoyable and so revolutionary for so many people. Technological limitation and artistic visions merged in a way that would only allow environments as flat sprites, with a little animation from time to time. What was then a restraint should be brought back now as a conscious game-design decision. For reference here, I'm referring specially to navigating through a town or dungeon in the game. What you will see here is real cinematic appeal in a realtime game situation. Let me explain. Let's say you are exploring Midgar, a large and central city in the world of FF7. When you move your character to the edge of the screen it switches to a new screen that is a different camera shot. What you get is a fluid navigation of cuts from shot to shot that vary like they do in cinema and create a better understanding (or intentional mystery) of the scene without making the player think or care about the camera. If I have to move the camera myself as a player, the game is not cinematic. A good director will show you visually what you need to see a lot better and easier than you ever could on your own. Getting back to how masterfully FF7 executes this, we see a variety of shots fluidly while retaining control of the gameplay. The player will see wide establishing shots, closeups, mid range, bird's eye view, worm's eye view, various angles. Together when directed correctly they make a cinematographic experience.





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