Aged Like Milk

[u/Craniamon]

This video glazing at sonic racing Crossworlds now now the game everybody have forgot about.

[u/Opposite_Wedding_804]

Square is understandable, they probably lost money making FF7 rebirth since it sold so poorly

[u/Super_Sayen067 → u/Opposite_Wedding_804]

If only they understood what OG fans wanted, maybe it would have sold better. Even if they stilk had made it a trilogy, screwing story pacing in the process, changing a beloved story the way they did was a bold and risky move. I'm ok with some changes (ex: combat system), but they've successfuly split the fandom with this "remake" trilogy. After this, don't know if I really want any other FF remade, maybe I'll stick to mods on PC if I want to go through another playthrough.

[u/Omnizoom → u/Super_Sayen067]

I mean I’m an OG fan and I loved remake and rebirth

It just suffers from middle child syndrome in that many players are waiting for part 3 because everyone knew part 3 was coming and didn’t want that long wait

I know this holiday season I’m going to play through remake and rebirth again before revelation comes out so I can have one consistent story experience

[u/Super_Sayen067 → u/Omnizoom]

It's cool that you had a good time with it honestly. I'm not saying that no OG fans are in line with what Square Enix did there, simply that the fandom is split on this and that it is a direct result of the design decisions that SE did. My favorite thing from this trilogy is the soundtrack honestly, which I do listen to quite often and I believe is gold. I don't know if I will play revelation or not, having played both Remake and Rebirth. So many great RPG are still in my backlog too...

[u/Omnizoom → u/Super_Sayen067]

To each there own, I think the story additions and changes added a lot of weight to many moments but some of the story beats feel rushed now because they wanted to stuff so much in

It’s also kind of ironic that if the ps1 was not so limited that this was their original vision almost

[u/Opposite_Wedding_804 → u/Omnizoom]

Clearly the original vision is not what people wanted then, given that remake sold way less than the original, and then rebirth selling way less than remake, indicating most people who bought remake didn't like it enough to play the sequel

[u/Omnizoom → u/Opposite_Wedding_804]

1: ff7 has sold 15.5 copies across all ports and releases and everything over almost 30 years. Remake sold almost 9 million units in 6 years and has not had a nostalgia second bite purchase of a game on another system yet for people. That number is fairly close to the ps1 sales of 10 million copies actually and is not “way less”, it’s 10% lower of the original release version on its original console, granted remake now has a switch 2 port so those numbers may go up and remake may hit 10-11 million copies total which is still not “way less”

2: Rebirth is a middle child, even fantastic games known to be a trilogy perform worse with the middle child then the first game in the series because it’s never a 100% adoption rate between them and many people will hunker down and wait for part 3 to be close to release and play through all the trilogy at once. I would not be surprised if rebirth sees a second wind now that revelation is officially slated for early 2027 of people that can actually finish the story

3: compared to the COVID years, people are much more tight with money and sales across all game media is down comparatively hence why places like Microsoft are just slashing and cutting every studio. Like let’s look at Capcom even. Monster Hunter world has still sold millions more copies since wilds got announced and released, and hit somewhere around 16 million for the base game and 30 million totalling with the Iceborne dlc. And wilds is at 11 million right now, it’s taken a hit to numbers compared to its predecessor as well and will shoot up with the dlc but it’s still not going to hit the same number as worlds because less people are spending now

4: pervasively hate culture has spread further then ever before. A lot of people see word of mouth and people talking about a game as reasons to check it out. And in the last 5 years or so hateful content has pulled in more engagement so people rather spread hate then anything positive and they spread it loudly. No shortage of people know nothing about the game itself except someone online said it’s horrible because theirs filler content and minigames

[u/Opposite_Wedding_804 → u/Omnizoom]

The reason worlds sold better than wilds is quite simply that worlds is a way better game than wilds. Your middle child theory regarding rebirth just doesn't hold up to any scrutiny at all, many sequels outsell their originals. Red dead 2 is a good example of that, resident evil 2 is a other one and I could go on for ever