Final Fantasy IV The After Years

[Malacite]

Okay well I downloaded this yesterday and I beat the main story in just a few hours...


What the hell SE? 800 points for an incomplete game. I also got Rydia's Story (had left over points and I did this before starting the main game) and all I have to say is I really feel cheated here.

For the price of an SNES game I was expecting a full on RPG, or at least more than 4 hours of game play what the fuck.


It's not that the game's bad by any means, I was enjoying it. It's just way the hell too short and ends on a rather stupid cliff hanger. I strongly recommend avoiding this title until more of the DLC is out to flesh out the story.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Final Fantasy IV The After Years

Malacite, this was a cell phone game.

Issued in chapters.

Those chapters require LOCALIZATION, meaning, people who are well-versed in English and Japanese to translate it. IT COSTS MONEY TO TRANSLATE THINGS. People. do. not. work. for. free.

There are a lot or RPGs we're not getting the west on Virtual Console that wouldn't cut a profit if they were translated and sold for $8. RPGs tend to have a lot of shit to translate and translating the game costs money. Be thankful SE was nice enough to spend the money on translation at all. We didn't get Before Crisis: FFVII because of the expense it would have taken to come out here.

Game development and translation is not a charity. So cork it.

I'm downloading this game to my Wii within seconds of hooking it up when I have the time and spare cash to pick one up.

[Feba]

Re: Final Fantasy IV The After Years

And this is exactly why you read about any game you could possibly be disappointed in before you buy it.

Team ICO games. Metal Gear Solid. These are games that you can close your eyes, plug your ears, and put money in without regret.

Square Enix sequels and spinoffs. Not so much.

If you really bought this without having any idea that it was episodic, and that the episodes aren't that long, you *really* need to learn how to read reviews and information about games. That's about the first thing you'll read about this game pretty much anywhere.

[Malacite]

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There were no reviews >.< believe me I looked.

And fuck that, either translate it in full or don't bother. Releasing a half-assed product is worse than not doing so at all. It's not as though either Nintendo or SE is hurting for money these days.

[Feba]

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There were no reviews >.< believe me I looked.

Hm.

Google: "Final Fantasy IV the After Years"
Second result after official site, Wikipedia: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_IV_The_After_Tsuki_no_Kikan]Final Fantasy IV: The After Years - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Second sentence on Wikipedia: "The first two chapters of the game were released in Japan in February 2008..."
Last sentence in Wikipedia's introduction: "The first chapter was released in North America on June 1, 2009 and in the PAL regions on June 5, 2009."



Malacite, if you want to bitch, bitch about how nobody taught you to learn about things before you spend money on them, or bitch about how you were lazy and burned 800 points because of it. You know Nintendo had nothing to do with the decision to DLC it, and SE has given more than ample warning about this. Everything about this is your own damned fault. Look on the bright side, there are far more expensive things you could've bought to learn this lesson.

[Malacite]

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Didn't check the wiki, I looked for it over at IGN, GameFAQS, etc so thank you anyway! ^^/

[Raydeus]

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Speaking of episodic content, where the heck is HL2: Episode 3?

I blame SE.




PS > Episodic content is like that, almost always overpriced when compared to full releases. Of course, there's Episodic Content and then there is Episodic Content.

And SE seems to be working on building up a bad reputation when it comes to that. So after ACP (and now this) I will probably never prorder/buy their EC unless I hear very good reviews about it.

[Spazz]

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As someone who has been in the game industry and understands the process, seriously.. its not as easy as "Do a good job or dont do it at all."

When the company makes a contract with a publisher to have a game released, they are given so much money and so much time to do everything they need. If they do not release the game within their contracted time, they are in breach of contract and can lead to massive financial loss. The money they get from their publisher isn't even that substantial. When things start taking longer than expected, companies rush the game out the door to meet deadlines. This is not an unheard of process and unfortunately, sometimes some very key elements do tend to slip past.

Every little stupid "Slap Stamp" title that a big company comes out with tends to be somewhat shit. There are few exceptions obviously.

[Feba]

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Didn't check the wiki, I looked for it over at IGN, GameFAQS, etc

1- This is why you don't get your information from IGN and GameFAQs.
2- If you had read the threads on either of their forums, you would've found information on the chapters, or at least questions from which you could infer that.
3- Reading the user reviews, both of the ones on GameFAQs and one of the ones from IGN mention downloadable content. The other one from IGN is clearly written by an idiot.
4- Still your own fault. Learn. To research things. Before. You buy them. Important lesson to learn. Do it before you're an adult and have to spend real money. Complaining will only hurt you in the long run.

[Tickmeoff]

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There were no reviews >.< believe me I looked.

And fuck that, either translate it in full or don't bother. Releasing a half-assed product is worse than not doing so at all. It's not as though either Nintendo or SE is hurting for money these days.

I feel that I should inform you that every chapter actually is translated already.


So you can bitch at Square-Enix for not releasing them all at once even though they're all finished.

[Kailea]

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when its all finally released, and bought.....

Main game (made up from)
-Prologue: Return of the Moon
-Ceodore's Tale: Last of the Red Wings
-Kain's Tale: Return of the Dragoon

Other seperate episodes
-Rydia's Tale: The Eidolons Shackled
-Yang's Tale: The Master of Fabul
-Palom's Tale: The Mage's Voyage
-Edge's Tale: The Pulse of Babil
-Porom's Tale: The Vanished Lunar Whale
-Edward's Tale: Star-Crossed Damcyan
-Lunarian's Tale: The Blue Planet That Was
-Gathering's Tale: The Moon's Gravity
-Final Tale, Part One: True Moon
-Final Tale, Part Two: Planet Eater


So if you look at it this way, 800 for the main game, and 300 for each episode....

800+(300x10)=3800


so for the full FFIV:AY game, we will be paying $38

I say that's not bad for a game of like this, to me the story is great (so far) and since FFIV was my favorite FF to start off with.... I fell in love with it lol

[Malacite]

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Still feels like a rip off, especially for the low production values.

Had they released on DS or even still on Wii but as a full product and with packaging & everything then I could understand the higher price. But digital distribution is much cheaper (and hell it's on the VC, and with so many ppl owning a Wii...)

which reminds me, does the DSi just connect to a similar market or is it the same store the way PS3 and PSP have?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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DSiWare is its own store. Good content was slow to start but in the last month its started to see a good game or two each week.

Few weeks back was PiCTOBiTs, a really good and unique puzzling game with NES-themed levels.

Gameloft released a port of their 2009 soccer title the week before that and American Popstar the week after Pictobits, both are the full versions of the games with DSi features.

Last week was the release of Mighty Flip Champs, 2D platform puzzlers by WayForward, the guys that will also be remaking A Boy and His Blob for WiiWare. So far its fun and pretty challenging. You navigate levels by flipping the area you see on the bottom screen up to the top screen, as though you were turning the page of a book, but in this case the other page is another part of the level.

Monday, Nintendo will release the game they just announced last week at E3 - Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: The Minis March Again! It will come with a feature that allows you to create your own levels and share them with friends.

Its stuff that comes out at the same rate as WiiWare or Virtual Console content, but the quality is much better than the DSiWare was at launch.

[Feba]

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It's actually pretty ironic; for as much shit as people give Nintendo about their online operation,, it's quite possible to make a very good argument for their digital distribution being stronger than their retail effort.

Also, WarioWare: DIY (Made in Ore). That's coming NA soon, and if the community is anywhere near as brilliant as some of the stuff I've seen from Japan (or hell, if we're just good at copying them)

[Malacite]

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It's actually pretty ironic; for as much shit as people give Nintendo about their online operation,, it's quite possible to make a very good argument for their digital distribution being stronger than their retail effort.

Which is ironic because in public they say they're not all that into Digital Distribution. Umm... wut?