by Kikki » Jan 06, 2020 6:00 am
The Marv team did claim, shortly after the news about SoS: FoMT was released, that they are also working on the next new game in the series, so we should be guaranteed to have the next game be a new one...but I've never felt confident that that was anything more than PR talk. I certainly hope it's true, though.
I'm extremely happy about Rune Factory 5, and love RF enough that if Bokumono stopped being something I enjoy, I might be able to shift my allegiance to it, but as things are, I care more about the main series, and it's super important to me that they get on with the next NEW game. Honestly when they first announced SoS: FoMT, I was leaning more toward 'devastated' than happy. I wasn't even a tiny bit happy, if I'm to be totally honest. Cuz I knew that, no matter what they say, it meant that the next new game was even further off than we'd thought, and remakes can be cute little fill-ins, but I'd rather not have them. (I haven't had any desire to play these games at all, including FoMT. Being remade fresh with smoother mechanics and refreshed graphics makes them more appealing to me, but not nearly to the point of them simply continuing the series with new entries.)
If it makes the fandom happy, then I'm okay with some remakes working their way in, and there're a few games (which I mentioned previously) that I'd actually like to be able to play, spiffed up to modern console levels. But honestly for myself, if Marvelous left the decision up to me (lol), I'd say no. No remakes, thanks...not if it takes the dev team away from making new games. Not even if the remakes are to be of the games I find most promising out of the existing Bokumono catalogue.
Everything is already known about these remakes. A new game has all-new characters and events and goals to discover, and possibly new mechanics and so on. That's a crucial and exciting part, for me, that no remake can ever provide. Plus I've never been a fan of the older Bokumono games anyway...I'm very much a fan of the most recent games, from ANB on. I'm hoping I'll like SoS: FoMT, but I think there's a good chance I won't care for it, since the original never interested me.
I'm just not the target market for remakes, lol. It's not fans like me they're aiming to please, with this. I'm happy for those who this DOES aim to please, but for me...next!
The Marv team did claim, shortly after the news about SoS: FoMT was released, that they are also working on the next new game in the series, so we should be guaranteed to have the next game be a new one...but I've never felt confident that that was anything more than PR talk. I certainly hope it's true, though.
I'm extremely happy about Rune Factory 5, and love RF enough that if Bokumono stopped being something I enjoy, I might be able to shift my allegiance to it, but as things are, I care more about the main series, and it's super important to me that they get on with the next NEW game. Honestly when they first announced SoS: FoMT, I was leaning more toward 'devastated' than happy. I wasn't even a tiny bit happy, if I'm to be totally honest. Cuz I knew that, no matter what they say, it meant that the next new game was even further off than we'd thought, and remakes can be cute little fill-ins, but I'd rather not have them. (I haven't had any desire to play these games at all, including FoMT. Being remade fresh with smoother mechanics and refreshed graphics makes them more appealing to me, but not nearly to the point of them simply continuing the series with new entries.)
If it makes the fandom happy, then I'm okay with some remakes working their way in, and there're a few games (which I mentioned previously) that I'd actually like to be able to play, spiffed up to modern console levels. But honestly for myself, if Marvelous left the decision up to me (lol), I'd say no. No remakes, thanks...not if it takes the dev team away from making new games. Not even if the remakes are to be of the games I find most promising out of the existing Bokumono catalogue.
Everything is already known about these remakes. A new game has all-new characters and events and goals to discover, and possibly new mechanics and so on. That's a crucial and exciting part, for me, that no remake can ever provide. Plus I've never been a fan of the older Bokumono games anyway...I'm very much a fan of the most recent games, from ANB on. I'm hoping I'll like SoS: FoMT, but I think there's a good chance I won't care for it, since the original never interested me.
I'm just not the target market for remakes, lol. It's not fans like me they're aiming to please, with this. I'm happy for those who this DOES aim to please, but for me...[i]next[/i]!