his in-battle sprite is pretty clowny, but Kefka as Tim Roth in Rob Roy would actually be sweet

You have to remember that after a certain point, Square just made a company-wise decision to completely fuck up anything that was ever remotely cool about their characters or games. His portrayal as a preening, ridiculous, Liberace-on-steroids was the result of that awful PSX remake of FF4 that used CGI cutscenes and it sort of stuck from there.

I think John Simm as The Master in new Doctor Who is what Kefka should be like. A psychopath with a sense of humor, not just wacky wacky wacky.

YEAH I'M TALKING ABOUT FINAL FANTASY AND DOCTOR WHO WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?

I saw Rob Roy in theaters when I was about 9, and was probably playing FF3 shortly thereafter, and I gotta say thats about 100% dead on

Actually, he originally looked like this. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/FF6_Kefkaart.png

The only difference between early 90s and late 90s Square character design was the graphics finally catching up to their "vision".

Nomura and the old guy (name escapes me) are about as different as you can get. The ostentatious ribbons-and-bibbons-on-everything style suits more abstract art like the old guy's, and even then he only did it for characters where it made sense ie. ludicrously egomaniacal, insane villains ... and women/obvious homosexuals (like Setzer).

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Nomura just sticks that shit on everybody regardless. And almost all the characters are the same age as their audience of teens/twenty-something retards now.

wtf setzer was a mack daddy pussyhound

Silent Hill.

Every WWII game ever.

Castlevania is just fine. Better than just fine, actually. Few series have the embarrassment of riches that is two solid gold gameplay formulas. They just need to quit trying to make shit that isn't a 2D action platformer or Metroid style adventure game.

They need to murder all the people who insist that the more straightforward, NES-style platformers were actually good games in any way. Symphony and the other similar titles have their problems - some of them serious - but even the worst is better than the 'best' old-style CV. Some of them have cool music tho.

I have to agree with the Castlevania comments to a certain point. I do wish they did tried harder than just "let's clone symphony of the night until the sun freezes". A healthy mix of old school and metroidvania style sounds good to me.

So, i change castlevania, and put Silent Hill in it. The thing is, Konami doesn't seem to care about their old franchises anymore. They just want Kojima to milk MGS until the end of times.