Did anyone ever wonder?

[Ghaiel]

I registered to post just this one post. I hope it incites discussion, but its more my opinion than anything else. First, I'd like to say that i played the original FFI/FFII/FFIV/FFVI on NES->SNES and I've followed this awesome story called 8-bit from about episode 9 or so. I've been lurking around here for awhile watching people "make predictions" and whatnot and I've been wondering:

Does anyone respect 8-bit as a work of art? Or are we all using it to further our own ego-centric, pompous forum-gameresque ids?

Think about it. This comic is really, really good. I haven't seen anyone else take anything to do with a Squaresoft game and rehash it into anything RESEMBLING good. Hell, even SQUARE-ENIX can't do anything good with their past games except re-release them on GBA/DS/DSi for 3 times the original amount of money they cost to play the first time. And here is Brian, turning a very memorable game with an extremely hardcore fanbase into a MORE than acceptable comic.

I mean...there are vast amounts of people on this forum that sit and make predictions update after update after update after update and critique the HELL out of Brian, call him names and such. Are we forgetting that he is the CREATOR of this storyline? This is HIS story, HIS almost decade long labor! There is nothing for you to do but READ IT. Critique when it's DONE. Just because you are vested in the storyline doesn't mean that you own part of it. Just because you are a big fan doesn't mean that you now get to superimpose your will onto the writing. This is not a group effort. I feel like in the past month, a large group of superegos have risen up to try to be able to say "OMGZ, I WAZ IN UR COMIC, PREDICTIN UR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENTZ" (yes, thats a reference). I personally very strongly feel that all these critics are really starting to affect the storyline, as someone is BOUND to "predict" whats going to happen based on PURE LUCK. Then Brian has to say to himself "well...that's spoiled now...what can I do to fix this?". Its the biggest problem with making a work public before its done. I mean, think about what would have happened if Shakespeare had made Macbeth pubic throughout its writing? There would be no incest, and no murder spree at the end. And then it wouldn't be my favorite Shakespearian play.

Then we have "filler" (maybe its not a filler, maybe it would've been like that ANYWAY and it only LOOKS like filler because there are a bunch of people who can't shut UP, and they are indirectly AFFECTING THE STORYLINE) comics like this last one and everyone is upset. I'm almost sure that update would not have been unsatisfactory to nearly as many people if everyone would just "shut the goddamn hell UP" and let Brian write it. Just let the man write the story, please! Let the artist/writer develop the characters without being harried by an endless parade of armchair webcomic wannabes. You want a better plot? Chrono Trigger doesn't have a comic yet, why don't some of you get together and go take one of the greatest games of all time and make something substantial about it. Brian already has. Please stop ruining it