Geostigma
Pro Adventurer
- AKA
- gabe
While I disagree with most of your prevailing pessimism, the chapter releases are hugely risky. If you disappoint people with one release, it's going to be a LOT harder to make those sales up on the next part. Just look at the status of the FFXIII series, the other games were ostensibly better than XIII, but didn't do nearly as well.
As for your comment about Cloud ducking through the stuff being an indication that it will be hallways like XIII. You're the second person I've heard say that and I think it's absurd. Did you not watch the whole trailer, the streets of Midgar look a HELL of a lot more open. That hallway Cloud is manuevering through isThat trailer covered probably the most linear section in the entire game. A game whose openness people seriously overrate.
Though I don't think the trailer is indicative of a hallway-athon, I don't think its that absurd to have worries that SE might make FF7 one.
FF14, a MMORPG, let me repeat , a MMORPG, aka those giant open world games, the majority of its zones are just pretty hallways obscured by bushes etc. with small open areas in between each hallway.
SE does have a track record here and it doesn't take a giant leap to get to a point where you might worry yet another one of their games might have the same old problem.
Though again I will say I don't think the trailer displayed that at all.