playing as the bad guy - Page 2

April 10, 2008, 9:23 AM

I think it would be great. But only if you were alone as a bad guy so instead of having a party of 7 you are a single villain who is alone in his quest to destroy the world.This would be good to see how the villains feel when a party of heroes come to stop them. It would have to be an extremely cool villain though ,in fact, it would have to surpass all previous villains except ; Sephiroth, Seifer and maybe Kuja [although he is really camp] in terms of design, personality.
I dont know it would be great though =]

April 20, 2008, 4:07 AM

Even if Square-Enix made the game where the main character was a villain, they'd probably ruining it by having him turn good in the end. But if they were to have a game where you're the villain, I'd still want a bit of the love story mushy stuff. Just to show that villains are people, too!

April 20, 2008, 7:30 AM

I think it's an idea that can go over well...

Or...

I'd rather they just focus on making something GOOD than try out loads of different gimmicks...but w/e works, I guess...*shrugs*

April 20, 2008, 2:57 PM

I think maybe if you played so far into the game as a party of 6 or 7, then there is a split about 2/3 of the way through maybe. This kind of thing might kill the replay value though, as experienced players may avoid levelling the characters they know they want to dispense with. I know I am guilty of avoiding using a certain character in a certain FF game because they don't go the distance.

April 20, 2008, 4:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Star Beast

I think it would be good to have a Final fantasy game where you play the whole game as the villain, maybe not realising til the end or maybe knowing all along that you are bringing depression to the world. what do you think?

Oh, I played a game similar to that concept. I know I was shocked when I found out I was actually playing the bad guy (although I think he was just a little corrupted and not really that bad, but turned good in the end...not sure, I didn't finish the game) because it's not your normal and typical game plot that you are actually used to. (You playing as the good guy/girl).

So yes, it would be interesting to see this in a Final Fantasy game. (But I doubt that would happen.) Of course, there'd be twists here and there, and a major one in the end where the main villain actually turns good.

Like Iago said, we probably will get a big disappointment for defeating all the heroes and conquering the world...that is to say, considering that the person playing is good-hearted in general. xD Because otherwise, it may actually bring satisfaction to those who do want to bring destruction to others...

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O.O What the fuck am I saying? Ignore that.

April 20, 2008, 9:36 PM

If they make a game where you play as the bad guy.

They shouldn't make it realistic cuz some persons are easily taking it the wrong way thinking about doing the bad stuff. If they make a game with a bad character they should focus on making it look like the things he is doing is really bad like you don't make friends when doing that kinda stuff.

Parents would not react in a good way they would try to ban the game and crush the company not that they would make much progress with that but I mean you don't feel well bad things happens to someone.

April 20, 2008, 11:13 PM

Games DO have ratings, y'know? I mean, the GTA series gets away w/loads of violence w/o really having to paint much of a negative image over it...Stupid parents are going to find something to bitch about regardless...no one should go out of their way to try to appease them.

April 21, 2008, 2:24 AM

thatd be really interesting good idea

April 21, 2008, 8:57 AM

Yeah but this is Final Fantasy not Grand Theft Auto.

Final Fantasy is not meant to be a game where you can turn the insides out.

It's good as it is! They shouldn't change that. Some other company can make a rpg game that is similar to Final Fantasy. But has a bad character that play's the leading role.

April 21, 2008, 4:37 PM

It's a good idea, but they kinda touched on it already in X when Yuna and Auron got separated from the party in Operation Mi'hen and you could temperarly control Seymour for the battle. It was only 30 seconds (or 15 minutes if you wanted to see his overdrive), but it has been done...