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YH
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This article need spoiler alert! I'm so annoyed! Aerith death?!
I stoped reading it. I'm only at chapter 11 of remake and didn't play the original game. Please add it!
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Northlander
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:17 am
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| YH wrote: | | This article need spoiler alert! I'm so annoyed! Aerith death?!
I stoped reading it. I'm only at chapter 11 of remake and didn't play the original game. Please add it! |
Immediately after I read this, I was all "Are you serious? How could you NOT know about this?!"
But then I realized how old the original game is, and now I'm sad.
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Nordhmmer
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 5:21 pm
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| Northlander wrote: |
| YH wrote: | | This article need spoiler alert! I'm so annoyed! Aerith death?!
I stoped reading it. I'm only at chapter 11 of remake and didn't play the original game. Please add it! |
Immediately after I read this, I was all "Are you serious? How could you NOT know about this?!"
But then I realized how old the original game is, and now I'm sad. |
Sad about how back in the day (or the fact you can now say "back in my day") you paid $ for a game and received and entire game plus all sorts of goodies...
Or sad that somehow someway they did not know Aerith dies... I'll spoil something else.. the Titanic sinks.
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AiddonValentine
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 5:35 pm
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| Northlander wrote: |
| YH wrote: | | This article need spoiler alert! I'm so annoyed! Aerith death?!
I stoped reading it. I'm only at chapter 11 of remake and didn't play the original game. Please add it! |
Immediately after I read this, I was all "Are you serious? How could you NOT know about this?!"
But then I realized how old the original game is, and now I'm sad. |
No kidding, I'm suddenly realizing there are adults who weren't even born when the game came out. The limits of pop culture osmosis; same reason I wouldn't spoil Murder on the Orient Express despite it being so damned old
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Charred Knight
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:59 pm
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| Nordhmmer wrote: |
| Northlander wrote: |
| YH wrote: | | This article need spoiler alert! I'm so annoyed! Aerith death?!
I stoped reading it. I'm only at chapter 11 of remake and didn't play the original game. Please add it! |
Immediately after I read this, I was all "Are you serious? How could you NOT know about this?!"
But then I realized how old the original game is, and now I'm sad. |
Sad about how back in the day (or the fact you can now say "back in my day") you paid $ for a game and received and entire game plus all sorts of goodies...
Or sad that somehow someway they did not know Aerith dies... I'll spoil something else.. the Titanic sinks. |
The game is 23 years old and you're shocked that people in their early 20's don't know plot points from it. The only plot points from the 80's Scarface I know about is the very ending itself. I know about Apocalypse Now, and 2001: A Space Odyssey because I watched it in a film class.
If you got into gaming through Kingdom Hearts, then chances are you don't know the actual plot because the Final Fantasy Cameos are not about the actual games themselves.
It's entirely possible that people bought the game because they saw other older fans really excited about it.
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Northlander
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 4:43 am
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| Nordhmmer wrote: | | Or sad that somehow someway they did not know Aerith dies... I'll spoil something else.. the Titanic sinks. |
This. I was actually gonna make that joke too, but let's face it: important events in real life are always going to trump game ones, even as big as this one. Not that younger generations might necessarily have heard about the Titanic and what happened to it, but they'll be more likely to hear about that -- or the Hindenburg, if you will -- than the fact that Aeris dies. Or that Darth Vader really is Luke's father... well, except we have newer movies now to remind us of that.
But yes, my comment is an "oh God, I'm old" kind of a joke. I can actually believe that people today would not necessarily know about it.
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YH
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:15 am
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| Nordhmmer wrote: |
| Northlander wrote: |
| YH wrote: | | This article need spoiler alert! I'm so annoyed! Aerith death?!
I stoped reading it. I'm only at chapter 11 of remake and didn't play the original game. Please add it! |
Immediately after I read this, I was all "Are you serious? How could you NOT know about this?!"
But then I realized how old the original game is, and now I'm sad. |
Sad about how back in the day (or the fact you can now say "back in my day") you paid $ for a game and received and entire game plus all sorts of goodies...
Or sad that somehow someway they did not know Aerith dies... I'll spoil something else.. the Titanic sinks. |
Actually I'm 29, but didn't have playstation back in the days, and only recently got back into games after playing Nier Automata. This kind of games is on point with my taste, so I feel at home. You can't wrong me for wanting spoiler free experience. And no, it's not like the Titanic. Games from Japan where nich of the nich.
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Nordhmmer
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:45 am
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| YH wrote: | |
Actually I'm 29, but didn't have playstation back in the days, and only recently got back into games after playing Nier Automata. This kind of games is on point with my taste, so I feel at home. You can't wrong me for wanting spoiler free experience. And no, it's not like the Titanic. Games from Japan where nich of the nich. |
FF7 wasn't such a nich game...Part of Squaresoft's FF7 media blitz was running primetime TV spots -"If he succeeds...you survive.If he fails,you can always press the reset button"- across North America.
I was hooked into buying a Playstation because of the "A love that can never be " spot-where Cloud release's Aerith into the Lifestream.
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DavetheUsher
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:12 pm
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| Charred Knight wrote: | | The game is 23 years old and you're shocked that people in their early 20's don't know plot points from it. The only plot points from the 80's Scarface I know about is the very ending itself. I know about Apocalypse Now, and 2001: A Space Odyssey because I watched it in a film class.
If you got into gaming through Kingdom Hearts, then chances are you don't know the actual plot because the Final Fantasy Cameos are not about the actual games themselves.
It's entirely possible that people bought the game because they saw other older fans really excited about it. |
My girlfriend is 22 and she's never played the original FF7 prior to the remake. She's just now getting around to playing to see what happens next. She doesn't know the big spoiler, or anything else about it aside from the characters being in the Kingdom Hearts games.
Older folks like to think the media they grew up with is universal, and that everyone from all future generations will just somehow automatically know it and have seen/played it, but it's not. My first exposure to Star Wars was the prequels, just like I'm sure kids today will be the sequels. I eventually went back and saw the original trilogy at a later date.
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