Sony Announces Live-Action Final Fantasy XIV TV Series

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Peter Dinklage as Papalymo rumored?

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And Nanamo would be ..??
Raubahn as Terry Crews ❤

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Originally Posted by Eli85

I really don't get why people are so repulsed to a live action adaptation. The technology and budget is there to handle all of the effects, creatures, and magitek faithfully. There is a much larger audience reach for live action versus anime (there are a sizable number of people who just won't watch anime, no matter how good it is). Video games by and large—including Final Fantasy—have moved towards more and more realism, so the marriage is there. Lastly, to see places like Gridania becoming fully realized in live action would be breathtaking (and just simply meh present in anime).

So, personally, I'm excited by the prospect of live action. Very excited.

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It's reasons like this that got us that horrible sonic design... but sure... anime/cartoons need to be in live action now. :c - Not agreed.-

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It's reasons like this that got us that horrible sonic design... but sure... anime/cartoons need to be in live action now. :c - Not agreed.-

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We'll have to see how things play out with Sonic. They said that he would be redesigned due to the backlash they received. I still feel that Jim Carrey will carry the whole film but it will probably end up in the bargain bin at Wal Mart pretty quickly. But hopefully it'll be a fun watch even if it's terrible. Detective Pikachu was probably the most successful game to movie live action adaptation in recent memory and I felt like it earned it. So it can happen, but it's rare and extremely difficult to pull off.

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Raubahn as Terry Crews ❤

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He can't hold a sword and an Old Spice bodywash bottle at the same time.

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We'll have to see how things play out with Sonic. They said that he would be redesigned due to the backlash they received. I still feel that Jim Carrey will carry the whole film but it will probably end up in the bargain bin at Wal Mart pretty quickly. But hopefully it'll be a fun watch even if it's terrible. Detective Pikachu was probably the most successful game to movie live action adaptation in recent memory and I felt like it earned it. So it can happen, but it's rare and extremely difficult to pull off.

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While what you say is true... it should've never happened to begin with. Which is my point ingeneral. They don't get points for changing the design in my opinion cause they shouldn't have gotten it wrong in the first place. And you can BET your raid food this -live action- XIV is going gets ALOT of things wrong too. Should've just been an anime.

A well animated FF anime, would be so awesome - like the ninja war at the end of Naruto.
A live action can tecnically be great, just like Avengers, GoT, LotR, it's just that it would take a huge budget, and great CGI team, producer, director, and actors.
There's certainly enough drama and action to make it as popular as GoT.
I mean People were sceptical about LotR, cause of Peter Jackson, but it turned out quite well lol, so it could be good, it could be bad.
I'm a bit sceptical though.

Leaked image of Guy Fieri as a male Viera named Guy Vieri

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Originally Posted by Radacci

A well animated FF anime, would be so awesome - like the ninja war at the end of Naruto.
A live action can tecnically be great, just like Avengers, GoT, LotR, it's just that it would take a huge budget, and great CGI team, producer, director, and actors.
There's certainly enough drama and action to make it as popular as GoT.
I mean People were sceptical about LotR, cause of Peter Jackson, but it turned out quite well lol, so it could be good, it could be bad.
I'm a bit sceptical though.

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For some reason, I just don't think a video game movie is going to get the same scale of production as the live-action Lord of the Rings.

I remember at E3, Bethesda maybe? But there was some presentation on a TV series. Some men in suits who dont care about what fans want likely saw XIVs numbers and went "... Lets do this"

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Originally Posted by Radacci

A well animated FF anime, would be so awesome - like the ninja war at the end of Naruto.
A live action can tecnically be great, just like Avengers, GoT, LotR, it's just that it would take a huge budget, and great CGI team, producer, director, and actors.
There's certainly enough drama and action to make it as popular as GoT.
I mean People were sceptical about LotR, cause of Peter Jackson, but it turned out quite well lol, so it could be good, it could be bad.
I'm a bit sceptical though.

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Animation is expensive and time consuming. Redline? S e v e n years hand drawn. On a reasonable budget, youre looking at loads of CG and not ufotable quality either. The mass market matters. Will all XIV players buy anime blu rays? No. They wont. But you know who migh? People looking for fresh but familiar entertainment.

I have a CRAZY idea. What if we wait to see it before complaining? What am I thinking. That would require logic. Continue flaming.

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Animation is expensive and time consuming. Redline? S e v e n years hand drawn. On a reasonable budget, youre looking at loads of CG and not ufotable quality either. The mass market matters. Will all XIV players buy anime blu rays? No. They wont. But you know who migh? People looking for fresh but familiar entertainment.

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Yes, animation is expensive and time consuming, but it looks better and is cheaper when the alternative is CGI-ing non-human races in fantastical landscapes.

A Slice-Of-Life Anime: Would be cheaper to film in Live Action but perhaps easier to animate due to child labor laws.
Dragon Ball Z: Either way more expensive to film live action or it'd be absolute garbage. And the Live-Action movie turned out to be cheap garbage.

All I can say is I hope they make the characters look good, because I'm easily turned off by live action nonhuman characters if I already have a reference in mind.

If done right, it can be a cool thing. It didn't turn out too bad for Defiance. While the TV series came to an end, and they actually developed an ending for it, not just stop production in the middle of a season while looking away, the actual game is still running, with an updated version called Defiance 2050, and both are still plugging along with a dedicated player base.

I'm okay with real, living actors. If they use the same sense of humor as they do for some of the game side stories, it'll be worth watching. Of course, there's always the chance that some writer out there may mess it up. It's a chance worth taking, imo. What does Netflix have to lose anyway, besides money? ^_^

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Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld

One look. ONE LOOK...at The Avengers. I'll admit that Marvel movies are fun to watch, but I would be lying if I said I thought they look good. They don't. They look like they're trying to be real and failed miserably at it. It would be better to just not try to be realistic in the first place.

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Ah, right. All four Avengers movies are so visually terrible that they are four of the top ten grossing movies of all time. Come on, man. If you don't think Marvel Studios CGI looks good, there will be no pleasing you.

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Originally Posted by Insertcoins

It's reasons like this that got us that horrible sonic design... but sure... anime/cartoons need to be in live action now. :c - Not agreed.-

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This reasoning is so problematic. Exceptions do not make the rule. Following your logic, the existence of one bad live action movie means the entire industry should be scrapped. Actually, I can extend this reasoning to this game: FF XIV 1.0 was so terrible, S-E should have just canned FF XIV and never made another online game ever again. Because XIV 1.0 was so terrible.

Yeah, that logic is real fun, isn't it?

Dunno how to feel about this one square... I hope to god they at least have people that actually play as part of the cast or at least directing.... HEY SQUARE FILMMAKER AVALIBLE HERE!!!

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Come on, man. If you don't think Marvel Studios CGI looks good, there will be no pleasing you.

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Using CGI in live action is just asking for garbage. The concept itself is flawed - you're mixing real, actual imagery with stuff rendered via a computer. No matter how hard they try, the stuff they generate will never look the same as how it would look if those scenes were actually real.

Either make it real or make it CGI, but don't mix them. Mixing them looks terrible. It would make way more sense to just take that art style for the menu videos and use that. It looks good, isn't overly anime-ish, and the quality levels are consistent.

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Originally Posted by DumdogsWorld

Using CGI in live action is just asking for garbage. The concept itself is flawed - you're mixing real, actual imagery with stuff rendered via a computer. No matter how hard they try, the stuff they generate will never look the same as how it would look if those scenes were actually real.

Either make it real or make it CGI, but don't mix them. Mixing them looks terrible. It would make way more sense to just take that art style for the menu videos and use that. It looks good, isn't overly anime-ish, and the quality levels are consistent.

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Well that explains why you have a problem with it. You are working off a premise of, "real world and CGI will never look good." Which means you have already judged the work before you see it in the first place. Most of us do not work off that premise, and those of us that don't, we see how far CGI has come and how good Marvel's take on it is.

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Well that explains why you have a problem with it. You are working off a premise of, "real world and CGI will never look good." Which means you have already judged the work before you see it in the first place. Most of us do not work off that premise, and those of us that don't, we see how far CGI has come and how good Marvel's take on it is.

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I've seen my fair share of movies with CGI. The visuals are always the parts of the movies I like the least. The first scene that comes to my mind is when I was watching Infinity War. They went to some kind of mining city, and I almost puked at the background. It was totally green-screened.

You people are so damned negative. I mean it's fine to be skeptical and doubtful sure, but outright condemning the thing before it's even fully conceptualized just because it doesn't fit your personal ideal is a bit much don't you think?

Yeah I'd rather have an anime as well. But if this does come out then I'll still give it a try. My philosophy has always been not to give a kneejerk reaction to everything - especially when that reaction could be potentially negative. And that philosophy has served me very well.

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Well that explains why you have a problem with it. You are working off a premise of, "real world and CGI will never look good." Which means you have already judged the work before you see it in the first place.

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We've already seen the real world and CGI mixing. $25 million dollars it cost to CGI an upper lip and this was the result.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...pg?imwidth=450

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/u...h-superman.jpg

At a Sony Exec meeting:

Sony: We should make a FFXIV TV series!

Rational Person: Oh! Hey, thatd be pretty cool! There are a few great anima-

Stupid Person: LETS MAKE IT LIVE ACTION!

Sony: YES! AND THE MC WILL BE THAT INVENTOR GUY! THIS PLAN WILL MAKE US ALL THE MONIES!



Rational person then proceeds to voluntarily leap out the window.

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I have a CRAZY idea. What if we wait to see it before complaining? What am I thinking. That would require logic. Continue flaming.

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Weebs gonna weeb.

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You people are so damned negative. I mean it's fine to be skeptical and doubtful sure, but outright condemning the thing before it's even fully conceptualized just because it doesn't fit your personal ideal is a bit much don't you think?

Yeah I'd rather have an anime as well. But if this does come out then I'll still give it a try. My philosophy has always been not to give a kneejerk reaction to everything - especially when that reaction could be potentially negative. And that philosophy has served me very well.

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We're voicing what we expect. If I get some kind of masterpiece with CGI technology that doesn't even exist - where it can produce visuals that are indistinguishable from the real thing to the human eye - then I'll be the first to give it a 10/10 on critic sites and what not.

But I'm not getting my hopes up.

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Why live action...
Live action never ends well for video games

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Sure it does... Super Mario... err Double Dragon uhm.... wait wait ... Dead or Alive... Mortal Kombat! Fuuuuuu... Street fighter :D No no no...In the name of the King?

You're right... dang.


*Goes to start a go fund me page for Square Enix in case they hire Uwe Boll to direct. Or do Spirits Within part deaux.*

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We're voicing what we expect. If I get some kind of masterpiece with CGI technology that doesn't even exist - where it can produce visuals that are indistinguishable from the real thing to the human eye - then I'll be the first to give it a 10/10 on critic sites and what not.

But I'm not getting my hopes up.

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All I'm saying is give it a chance. There are so many things out there that people are immediately negative about. And while you may be simply voicing what you expect, there are quite a few others who are instantly bashing what could be a great series and a new gateway for a larger fanbase of a game we all should be rooting for.

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We've already seen the real world and CGI mixing. $25 million dollars it cost to CGI an upper lip and this was the result.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...pg?imwidth=450

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/u...h-superman.jpg

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Did you see the infinitely better work a college kid did on that for fun as a side project?

Tho with the fact that square has been releasing anime clips for FFXIV as advertising for shadowbringers I don't understand why they would go live action over anime

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Tho with the fact that square has been releasing anime clips for FFXIV as advertising for shadowbringers I don't understand why they would go live action over anime

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Its like advertising Berserk with Black Clover. Big hueg sword story but the theming and tone were all wrong.

I think people outta just wait and see how it turns out and not just complain. It may turn out alright.

Would need to be anime for a chance at being okay.

Or better yet, y'know, scrap the idea because it's just a bad one o_o

Also I'd personally stay away from Kotaku if I were you. I prefer to get my news from sources that don't hate gamers.

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Also I'd personally stay away from Kotaku if I were you. I prefer to get my news from sources that don't hate gamers.

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It's been posted on numerous sites fyi.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/06...?sf104679058=1

The fact that they advertise the live-action debut of Cid as one of the main points is really weird, but if he's the main character and it focuses on his time at the academy up to his eventual defection, I think it'd at least be doable with live-action. Chocobos, beastmen, and any moving magitek would need to be CG, but you don't risk the uncanny valley with those and they could probably reuse the models made for the 1.0 and 2.0 cinematics. Everything else would be super easy practical effects, which would make it boil down to set design/costume design/acting/writing.

This is my last post before a pause from lodestone forums of 1 year as for my last request:

For FFXIV Live Action tv series make ❤Bruce Willis❤ Cid thank you! < :cool: >

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Sure it does... Super Mario... err Double Dragon uhm.... wait wait ... Dead or Alive... Mortal Kombat! Fuuuuuu... Street fighter :D No no no...In the name of the King?

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Honestly, I remembered enjoying Super Mario, Mortal Kombat (both movies and the TV series), and Street Fighter. Just a fun part of my childhood.

WHY FINAL FANTASY XIV DESERVES A LIVE-ACTION TV SERIES

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/06...es-a-tv-series

When was the last time a video game live action turned out well?

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Originally Posted by Eli85

Ah, right. All four Avengers movies are so visually terrible that they are four of the top ten grossing movies of all time. Come on, man. If you don't think Marvel Studios CGI looks good, there will be no pleasing you.



This reasoning is so problematic. Exceptions do not make the rule. Following your logic, the existence of one bad live action movie means the entire industry should be scrapped. Actually, I can extend this reasoning to this game: FF XIV 1.0 was so terrible, S-E should have just canned FF XIV and never made another online game ever again. Because XIV 1.0 was so terrible.

Yeah, that logic is real fun, isn't it?

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Actually mine example is the norm... what they did to sonic is what companies do ALL the time.. that's why noone has any hope it'll be good off the bat. Pikachu is the one that broke the rule.... And it doesn't look like XIV will do that. It looks like more of the same.. which is bad. :C

Ooh, I forgot my favorite live action movie series based on video game: Resident Evil! (Though maybe that's because I don't really play the games, so I'm just enjoying the movies independently from the game franchise.)