Playing FF6 was so incredibly refreshing after putting FF7 Rebirth on pause Things just get going! The story moves, im not stuck exploring every nook and cranny with tons of side quests I like shorter/smaller games. I think at this point in my life, I dislike open world. My life is big enough!! - ThreadSky

nehapolitan.bsky.social • 91 days ago

Playing FF6 was so incredibly refreshing after putting FF7 Rebirth on pause

Things just get going! The story moves, im not stuck exploring every nook and cranny with tons of side quests

I like shorter/smaller games. I think at this point in my life, I dislike open world. My life is big enough!!

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donutshop.bsky.social•91 days ago

I watched my friend play through the FF7 reimagining I just can’t do it.

Which version of ff6 are you playing?

nehapolitan.bsky.social•91 days ago

Pixel remaster!

lys86.bsky.social•91 days ago

It’s so interesting to have lived long enough to see FF6 held up as a shorter/smaller game… it was considered absolutely massive back in the day! You’re not wrong at all, it’s just funny.

buddyacker.bsky.social•91 days ago

Rebirth is just an incredibly exhausting game. I liked FF VII Remake a lot, but found myself weary of Rebirth not even halfway through it. It starts to feel like busywork and it’s much, much too long.

thelordbaeron.bsky.social•90 days ago

Omg thank you. I have heavy open world fatigue with games. I just want something more compact, well paced, and quality.

brenthoven.bsky.social•91 days ago

Kefka makes for an entertaining villain. Good choice!

stevieboy93.bsky.social•90 days ago

Honestly, this is valid! Not every game has to be an endeavor that you have to pour hours into! Sometimes, it’s nice just playing a game that’s straight to the point/short & sweet!

wizball50.bsky.social•91 days ago

Been saying this for years (or at least since my first daughter was born): shorter, tighter, more focussed games give you more enjoyment for the time you spend with them. And they don't take massive teams of people working 60 hour weeks to create!

yeona-sage.bsky.social•91 days ago

Length, "tightness" or "focus" has no relation to team size or scheduling. Both of those can be controlled regardless of genre or design emphasis.

Also, just as a sidenote, even in a world where it DID result in smaller studios, that just means publishers cut people's job. That's worse.

arskapoika.bsky.social•91 days ago

For me it comes in waves. I'll have a period where I'm exploring every single inch of a massive open world. Then the idea of that disgusts me and I'm playing these three hour indie games with flawless pacing and focus.

czulu.bsky.social•90 days ago

My favorite by a mile

serduncan.bsky.social•90 days ago

This is such a funny take for me because I found FF6 to be super overwhelming with all the side quests and different character mechanics XD

oobleedooblee.bsky.social•91 days ago

I like open world games, I just think Rebirth is a particularly bloated one. It's open world stuff is bad, imo.

soylentorange.bsky.social•91 days ago

FF6... a "Shorter game"??

digitalphox.bsky.social•91 days ago

I need to get back to rebirth, but he’s the same issue. FF6 is my fav final fantasy though ❤️

ckpresent.bsky.social•90 days ago

True that , I can usually only handle one maybe two longer open world games a year now. I have to be really selective about which ones I commit to

spursyknight.bsky.social•91 days ago

Love that game. All the characters and their stories and how you can build them out how you want them to be.

kbernst30.bsky.social•91 days ago

I’ve been feeling the same recently. I loved Rebirth but I wanted it to keep moving. There is so much content, that open world, hundred-hour games are just becoming exhausting. I felt this way with Horizon Forbidden West recently. Give me 20-30 hour RPGs. Dragon Quest III HD-2D was on point.

noblewrot.bsky.social•91 days ago

VI is my favorite, and it really clicked for me at the halfway point. It has my favorite FF villain. One of the best plot twists in any game. You are probably new to the experience, so I will leave it at that, but believe the hype.

foffsky.bsky.social•91 days ago

Then you will probably hate FF15. The need to play tons of other things at various times takes away from the story completely.

jeanschyso.bsky.social•91 days ago

I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding.

artcade-hamhandz.bsky.social•90 days ago

you should check out Skald: Against the Black Priory on steam!

jeanschyso.bsky.social•90 days ago

A colleague told me about it earlier this year. I was convinced it was on my wishlist, but apparently I am not very good at maintaining that thing. Will look at it again tonight

artcade-hamhandz.bsky.social•90 days ago

my brother bought it for me a few days ago as an early Christmas present. impeccably dark aura

thegdmatman.bsky.social•91 days ago

I was 16 when I played FF6 for the first time. It has and will always be my favorite game of all time. Exceptional!

dr2k.bsky.social•91 days ago

You don’t have to explore every nook and cranny of 7. You can just go from main checkpoint to main checkpoint.

anarys.bsky.social•91 days ago

FF6 is an incredible experience. It's my all-time favourite game. The epic story, likable characters, fun combat, menacing villains, etc. are top tier!

gymbrat.bsky.social•90 days ago

I am extremely fond of 4 and 6, and love hearing people get new joy of of them these days 😊

drake92.bsky.social•91 days ago

Not a big fan of FF6 but agree I prefer shorter games where the story just keeps going instead of being divided by filler

oysterboyz.bsky.social•91 days ago

I replayed it back in 2007. I had finished the game with my friends in the mid 90s because you had a 2 player option. Weekend sleepover to play the whole game.

robotnikholmes.bsky.social•91 days ago

FF6 is one of the best! vuv Hope you enjoy the classic FF game ✨

lostsigil.bsky.social•90 days ago

Ff4, 5 and 6 are my favourites of the series...don't get me wrong, There are other great games in the series, but those 3 are where I felt the series really came together!

serrassi.bsky.social•91 days ago

The bloat in rebirth was hard to get through. Also FF6 is amazing!

jaketylenol.bsky.social•91 days ago

Someone who UNDERSTANDS the true POWER of Final Fantasy 6

ceciastri.bsky.social•91 days ago

I have the same problem. Veilguard has been super refreshing after Inquisition for exactly that reason. A little more tightly focused experience isn’t a bad thing

itslikeyaknow.bsky.social•91 days ago

I used to think I liked open world games and then I tried Assassin's Creed Origins and it drove me crazy with it's vagueness. I think I just like linear stuff where I can goof off.

dewelsh.bsky.social•91 days ago

Have you played FF5? It’s my favorite of that era. It also moves so quickly, but I love fiddling with the job system. The story is less complex, but the characterization is wonderful for the small party.

nehapolitan.bsky.social•91 days ago

not yet!

chudapatow.bsky.social•90 days ago

The MMO style fetch quests ruined my FF7 remake playthrough so fast. I just wanted to fight against the evils of capitalism with pretty graphics 😭

fightstrife.bsky.social•91 days ago

I became completely deflated with Rebirth. I thought they did such a great job with pacing/combat etc in Remake, that Rebirth felt like a huge fumble to me. I lost all desire to keep going once I hit Gold Saucer.

Though I know I am in the minority.

fightstrife.bsky.social•91 days ago

I was completely stupefied by how archaic and anachronistic all the open world seemed to be pulling all it's notes from original Assassin's Creed monotonous drivel.

I thought we as an industry had moved past that level of open world tedium!

lydiakresnik.bsky.social•90 days ago

I feel that. I willingly did everything in 16... twice... because I love that game but not every game can or should be so big. It's tiring! Open world games just burn you the fuck out. Why can't we just have like the 10-30 hour experiences anymore

ezikem.bsky.social•91 days ago

Completely agree that tbr exploration feels really tedious. This game more than any other has felt like a slog to get through.

bullsbarry.bsky.social•90 days ago

What are we even expecting from games these days if FF6 is considered a small game?

pinko-slime.bsky.social•91 days ago

The first game I played after I beat rebirth was ff8 so yeah I get it. Rebirth is fun but it's just too much and for too long

kierdecordova.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is me, I really disliked FF7 Rebirth because of the bloat. So much pointless side quests…that doesn’t add anything to the core experience of the game.

yeona-sage.bsky.social•91 days ago

They're optional content.

axelnomad.bsky.social•91 days ago

Honestly I love the side content of Rebirth. However I feel like it is easy for people to become ensnared in the content for completion sake when they aren't necessarily feeling it. Like if it was slogging down the main story I could understand but since it is side content I felt okay with it

kierdecordova.bsky.social•91 days ago

Fair enough, for completionist sake I feel like a lot of the side content was unnecessary, the overworld Assasins creed like side quests is what really disappointed me, felt lazy and generic tbh. Queens blood was cool.

ciabattagenie.bsky.social•91 days ago

You control the buttons you press! The cool thing about side quests is they aren’t required

oobleedooblee.bsky.social•91 days ago

I don't think "don't play it" is great when like... 70% of the games content sucks.

ciabattagenie.bsky.social•91 days ago

I think thats a massive overstatement but you do you

kierdecordova.bsky.social•91 days ago

They aren’t, but why as a developer add unnecessary bloat, why not put focus on something else, like having a stronger more addicting and unique gameplay loop. 🤷🏿‍♂️

yeona-sage.bsky.social•91 days ago

I don't want to be rude here, but your stance is basically, "I do not have the capacity to understand that "liking" certain types of content is subjective, so I am under the impression that the things that I personally prefer would have translated into an objectively better design decision".

kierdecordova.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yes, I am aware of “subjectivity” I am also aware that this is social media full of people’s yucks and yums. I can also critique and throw questions at a game from a series I like and broadcast it to the……internet.

ciabattagenie.bsky.social•91 days ago

No one here is yucking your yum, I just said that if you get tired of side quests then don't do them. It's pretty simple, its the benefit of a game like rebirth over ff6. I don't like ff6 because there's a TON of unskippable bloat in that game and I find it boring to play

ciabattagenie.bsky.social•91 days ago

I don’t think any of it was unnecessary, it had a great amount of content and let you explore the world you’re supposed to care about in a perfect amount of detail

gegetv89.bsky.social•90 days ago

Have you tried FF9? Its the best one ^^

phillipgcox.bsky.social•91 days ago

I think we’re starting to reach a point where older games are starting to feel like they have better pacing because modern games are just getting so bloated.

therelationalnerd.bsky.social•90 days ago

Older I get the harder it is to make time for really long games, especially it complicated game dynamics are involved. Gotta love a turn based rpg

camgood.bsky.social•91 days ago

6 is pretty good. 9 is my favorite. Never was a fan of the more brooding protagonists

casualt52.bsky.social•91 days ago

Everything being an open world adventure would've been amazing to teenage me. Thirty year old me hates it though. I don't have the time or attention span to put 100+ hours into a game's narrative like that anymore.

I wish more games felt like games these days, and not "cinematic masterpieces"

pixelsandpages.bsky.social•91 days ago

I can completely relate to this - having something more contained and with a greater sense of direction than a lot of more open games offer these days really has a place.
I loved FFVII Rebirth, but afterwards it was nice to switch to something that offered... Conciseness 🤣

thewritehidalgo.bsky.social•91 days ago

I adore VI. The story is heartbreaking at times and the cast is fantastic. I don’t mind its openness because the world feels large without being overbearingly big.

aligned3.bsky.social•90 days ago

I've been ignoring side quests in games for a while now, it's a game changer, literally. I'm finally finishing single player games again.

omnigear.bsky.social•91 days ago

Playing FF6 as a kid, it felt about as big as Rebirth feels now as an adult. Makes me appreciate both older and newer games to be honest. Sometimes I want the garish bloat and all the things in my game too.

bohagrius.bsky.social•91 days ago

Final Fantasy 1, especially the pixel remaster, is excellent for this.

Its an adventure! Kill a bad guy! Go get em!

jonnygdj.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is EXACTLY how I feel. Grip me straight away, stop padding out games with fetch quests, collect this, go back on yourself side quests.

I want devs to value my time, not long out my time for a number on a report.

ultracast.bsky.social•90 days ago

Thanks for reminding me to play VI all the way through. The VII remakes don’t appeal to me from everything I’ve seen and her. Time to go back to the old school.

jonnyesports.bsky.social•90 days ago

To me, open world has become an excuse to not streamline an experience. It's an illusion of choice that actively harms telling a games narrative. Publishers have just been obsessed with making developers make open worlds for a couple of decades now and I'm tired of it.

heinzhartz.bsky.social•90 days ago

"shorter/smaller"... back in the days it was released it was huge 😭 but very good choice though :D

luminozero.bsky.social•90 days ago

I think what OP meant is 'More Condensed'. Everything you are doing in FF6 is basically tied to the central narrative. That makes for a more focused experience.

armoredchocobo.bsky.social•91 days ago

The more I think about FF7 Rebirth the more I dislike it.

Just lemme play the Red XIII parts and the Chocobo that plays Queen’s Blood now.

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