FFXIV Anime based lore

lore-based anime

Vote Yes or No

I want to see it ..
I want to...
I want...

Nah..... like most animes, i guess it will end with a lot of chapters full of naked miqo'tes in hot springs...
...
...
Ok, i'm in :3

While a FFXIV anime could be good (anything would be better than Final Fantasy: Unlimited or whatever it was called). I fear it would either be annoyingly melodramatic, or it would try to be comedic, and like most comedic fantasy/action animes, about mid way through will have a bizarre and sudden tonal shift to somber and melodramatic and wallows in it till the inevitable "upbeat" sequel bait ending where they introduce "the next generation of adventurers/Heros/magical sky pirates or whatever that never actually comes to fruition or ever shown outside Japan"

I don't think the OP is asking for an 'anime based off FFXIV', but rather wants to see references from anime in FFXIV. In which case, given the fact there's already tons of pop-culture references in the game from everything from The Simpsons to the music of Bob Dylan, a few anime references would seem almost understated.

Besides, one might think the SCH AF being very much Japanese school uniform-inspired ('sailorfuku') and the miqo'te race as generic anime references which are already in the game.

I think you mean "lore-based anime?"

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Merle

Nah..... like most animes, i guess it will end with a lot of chapters full of naked miqo'tes in hot springs...
...
...
Ok, i'm in :3

---

LOL SO TRUE!

"Gun Dam Magitech"
"Beleve it!"
"Steiner's Gate"
"Attack on Titan (Impossible)"
"Code Grease: A Gentleman's guide to Strawberry Rubber Fruit?!"

Vote: [Yes] / No

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

I don't think the OP is asking for an 'anime based off FFXIV', but rather wants to see references from anime in FFXIV. In which case, given the fact there's already tons of pop-culture references in the game from everything from The Simpsons to the music of Bob Dylan, a few anime references would seem almost understated.

Besides, one might think the SCH AF being very much Japanese school uniform-inspired ('sailorfuku') and the miqo'te race as generic anime references which are already in the game.

---

To be honest, I bet in the Japanese client, many of the references ARE to animes, song lyrics, etc . That are popular in Japan, what you're talking about is a localization issue. To the vast majority of English speaking players, a reference to the Rolling Stones, or "Back to the Future" will be more readily understood than a referance to Polysics or "Maken-Ki! Battling Venus" ( which I just looked up and it looks baffling)

A XIV based anime? Nah, it'd probably end up a ~12 episode series and not be that interesting. At least judging from how the actual XIV is >.> Only a few months, don't remember half of it.

Now! I'd get behind an XI based anime. I could see that being great, with as amazing as the storylines were. 9 years and I still remember all of it.





Also, incoming hate from people who have never played XI / quit because they had to put time/effort into something lol >.>

I think the derplander and party from the cgi would make a good anime a La monster hunter manga style. Adventurers doing quest and killing epic things, but no main hero or op main character it's all within the games lore and the players only have powers the player can access. So yeah more like monster hunter manga and less ff unlimited which is the worst anime I've ever seen.

Final Fantasy XIV : The Rise of the White Raven
This as an anime would be good ^^

http://oi50.tinypic.com/207n86c.jpg

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zaviermhigo

I think the derplander and party from the cgi would make a good anime a La monster hunter manga style. Adventurers doing quest and killing epic things, but no main hero or op main character it's all within the games lore and the players only have powers the player can access. So yeah more like monster hunter manga and less ff unlimited which is the worst anime I've ever seen.

---

That or they slap this guy as the main character. Give him funny personality, along with references to us FFXIV player and make it a comedy ?
http://cdn1-www.playstationlifestyle...-Image-203.jpg

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Steffie

That or they slap this guy as the main character. Give him funny personality, along with references to us FFXIV player and make it a comedy ?

---

In a comedy Hildibrand should be the main character. Or the main side character.

Nah. I don't really like most anime.

Any anime based on FFXIV would already capture a sense of the game as it would air once every week (bada-bing).

Jokes aside, Record of Lodoss War has the feeling of level progression while adding party members to it. Essentially, put your character in Parn's place.

Square does make good animes, you have to give them that.

So long as Square pay careful mind not to pull a Blizzard, and introduce characters from that outside medium into the game and expect the playerbase who don't watch to care or know about them.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Steffie

That or they slap this guy as the main character. Give him funny personality, along with references to us FFXIV player and make it a comedy ?
http://cdn1-www.playstationlifestyle...-Image-203.jpg

---

Can you say Ixion Saga DT. It did wonders in PR for that crappy capcom game.

But SE is also a big content publisher so they can make an anime if they want to, to promote the game. The biggest problem is the Anime industry is very very tight, both in scheduling and studio.

Right now even if they wanted to make ff14:anime they would be somewhere like 2016 with how many titles are fighting for good slots...and I mean a lot. Then you have to find a studio that's half decent to pick up the title. There is no lack of "please pick up this title, [insert studio here]"

Kyoani studio for instance has a rabid follow such that anything, no matter how shitty it is, becomes an instant hit.

If it doesn't end like Ragnarok the Animation, then I guess it's ok.

People hate on "Final Fantasy: Unlimited", and I'll admit that it's bizarre and hard to get into. I watched it through to the end, though (not that it really had much of an ending, since it lost funding), and found that it really had some depth to it. I also thought that their take on the "Summoner" class was wholely unique - sort of a Gunner/Summoner/Alchemist hybrid, that combines different elemental bullets to summon different summoned monsters.

After it was over, I looked up information on the series, and found that it was actually intended to last another two seasons, during which a lot of the more inexplicable things in the anime would have been more-or-less explained. Made me kind of sad they weren't able to see it through to the end.

All that (over?)generous support aside, given SE's track record with animated adeptations of the Final Fantasy franchise, I'd be just as happy if they don't bother to try again.

- Final Fantasy V: Barely connected with the original game at all, and introduced buglike alien invaders for no apparenent reason. At four episodes, was too short to tell anything resembling a deep story.

- Final Fantasy Unlimited: WAY too ambitious an undertaking, with a ridiculously convoluted storyline that only doled out tiny, rare tidbits of what was going on. In the end, no one could really follow along, and there weren't enough Final Fantasy references to keep the hardcore FF fans interested (pretty much just Chocobos and summoned monsters).

- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: Barely had anything resembling Final Fantasy in it at all for the FF fans. For non-fans, it was kind of a boring Sci-fi flop that doled out cliche after cliche. Real pretty, though.

- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Probably the closest thing SE has to a successful animated adaptation, it only thrived because it was a check-yer-brain-at-the-door action fest solely targeting FFVII fans that gave them what they'd been asking for for years: closure. Of sorts. Or at least reassurance that someone survived Holy besides Red XIII. Unfortunately, it catered way too thoroughly to the fans, bringing back popular characters who were implied to be dead (Rufus and Tseng???) and turning the Turks (who'd done some pretty monstrous things) into lovable comic relief villains. Honestly, the script read a lot like a bad fanfic. It, too, was real pretty, though.

So, yeah - enough animes, SE. Stick to what you're good at!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LineageRazor

So, yeah - enough animes, SE. Stick to what you're good at!

---

Well, SE does publish / produce a lot of good anime (just not good ff anime)

Honestly? I'd love an anime based on the main story of 1.0. I think that'd be pretty awesome, especially since no one can really play through that part of the story anymore.

Im only in if they dont forget to mention one thing.

That Lalas were originally allowed to live safely in Eorzea at one condition. They had to offer, each and every year, one of their childs to Miq'ote tribes.
The tributes were used as baits for the Ash drake hunt, but it was mainly a way to control the expanding lala population.

If, one year, a lala family was not "paying" the tribute, the whole lala family was then roasted alive, cooked, and served as dinner to each of the Leading members of the great F tribe.

Unfortunately this tradition that did live for four eras is long gone, and what my ancestors were fearing the most is now happening:
The lalas are trying to take the world over and will likely sell Eorzea to the Garleans for a pinch of salt... And then poop in their shoes.