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"Why didn't Skies sell well? :("

I've just completed it and my god what a game, you may remember me moaning about the random battles they are annoying but get past that and you have SUCH a bloody gem of a game I LOVED IT.
It stands alongside Final Fantasy 7 and Zelda in my ALL TIME favourite games,to think I actually sold it the first time I bought it and decided recently to buy it again second hand off ebay to see if I can tolerate it better!
Anyway as I've said I've been reading how this game hasn't sold so well because it's "unknown" unlike the Final Fantasy series and what a DAMN shame cos the likelihood of a sequel is slim because it didn't sell so well :(
Crap seems part of the overworks team is in the Sonic team producing other games.. DAMN YOU SEGA DAMN YOU.

Skies of Arcadia > Wind Waker

Rickoss wrote:
> Skies of Arcadia > *

The random battles are pretty infrequent for an RPG anyways - and when you get a White Map you're laughing. As for the graphics - Skies has the most expressive characters in any game ever, so is instantly >

Probably the only game when totally 100%-ing it didn't seem like a chore - not even a little bit. Too good.

Skies is a massive RPG that I just don't have time to play.

If a game is very long it has to keep me gripped for the full 20-30-40-50 etc... hours...

Zelda is the only long game that has managed to do that.

Skies failed.

In every respect other than technically, the visuals are mind blowing. If that makes sense.

I really should go back and try to complete it 100%.

My copy is still sealed.

I bought it in january.

Whitestripes DX wrote:
> Player incompetance.

The game should have had it covered.

Possibly cos it was a rehash of a game that had already been released years before? Why buy the same thing twice? Especially when the music has been screwed up completely.

Rickoss wrote:
> In every respect other than technically, the visuals are mind blowing.
> If that makes sense.

No it doesn't, the visuals were quite good when it was a Dreamcast game, but they haven't moved on at all for the GC version... and that looks badly dated now. Like PS one and a half graphics.

Darwock wrote:
> Possibly cos it was a rehash of a game that had already been released
> years before? Why buy the same thing twice? Especially when the music
> has been screwed up completely.

Well there's probably a ton of people who didn't buy it first time round it would appeal to.

And yeh, the music isn't as good as the original, but it's not a reason to not buy the game.