Is 1.18 the final straw?

[Xenor]

They are kicking a dead horse putting dev time into this game. They should scap it, and sell the rights to Final Fantasy to a better game developer. The only thing that SE has done to the Final Fantasy franchise's goodwill is destroy it. Every year that they hold on to it, the worse it becomes.

I couldn't disagree more. The FF series has been getting better over the past five years or so with the exception of XIV. I was worried XII would be my last FF game after playing the awful game that was X some years prior but SE surprised me and put out a game that was almost on par with FFVII. Then they went and did the same with XIII. The next FF game should take the best from XII and XIII and produce the best FF game ever. I have high hopes for XV, let's see if they can deliver.

[Bled]

I couldn't disagree more. The FF series has been getting better over the past five years or so with the exception of XIV. I was worried XII would be my last FF game after playing the awful game that was X some years prior but SE surprised me and put out a game that was almost on par with FFVII. Then they went and did the same with XIII. The next FF game should take the best from XII and XIII and produce the best FF game ever. I have high hopes for XV, let's see if they can deliver.

I don't know about you but i have heard nothing about a Final Fantasy XV, keep in mind the two new FF's are FF XIII-2 and FF XIII Versus.

There seems to be a pretty consistent correlation between old school FF player and the newer FF player's when it comes to the quality of FF games.

What i have heard:

Old School: FF6, FF7, and FF10 being best; FF12, FF13 very poor.

New School: FF12 and FF13 are done right; FF7 and FF10 are immortalized as best but are actually poorly done.

Personally being a old school FF fan and growing up on FFIV, id say FF XII and FF XIII are absolute gaming diarrhea.

EDIT: none of these above opinions are backed by actual statistics of known facts this is just from my experiences.

[Mack]

Personally being a old school FF fan and growing up on FFIV, id say FF XII and FF XIII are absolute gaming diarrhea.

Then I enjoy diarrhea quite a bit...in fact I take colonoscopy pills just to get my bowel movements rollings because I love diarrhea that much.

[Bled]

Then I enjoy diarrhea quite a bit...in fact I take colonoscopy pills just to get my bowel movements rollings because I love diarrhea that much.

Like i stated my opinion and only the correlation i have seen, keep in mind there is always an outlier in any data set. However if you enjoy diarrhea more power to you, if you like Colonoscopy you should look into Sigmoidoscopy too.

[Mack]

Lol Its all good I didn't mean anything by what I said, I understand people like different games but to me personally I joined the FF roller coaster at FFX and absolutely loved it and FFXIV is the first game in the series since then (including VII, VIII and IX) that I've had ill feelings towards. I don't think SE is slipping here, I do think however that they need to stop expanding horizontally and start expanding vertically...instead of working on a 100 projects at a time, work on a few and make them amazing.

[Bled]

Lol Its all good I didn't mean anything by what I said, I understand people like different games but to me personally I joined the FF roller coaster at FFX and absolutely loved it and FFXIV is the first game in the series since then (including VII, VIII and IX) that I've had ill feelings towards. I don't think SE is slipping here, I do think however that they need to stop expanding horizontally and start expanding vertically...instead of working on a 100 projects at a time, work on a few and make them amazing.

Yeah it would be nice to see another AAA Final Fantasy title, but again it all comes down to the fact that people enjoy different games like you all ready stated.

[Xenor]

I don't know about you but i have heard nothing about a Final Fantasy XV, keep in mind the two new FF's are FF XIII-2 and FF XIII Versus.

There seems to be a pretty consistent correlation between old school FF player and the newer FF player's when it comes to the quality of FF games.

What i have heard:

Old School: FF6, FF7, and FF10 being best; FF12, FF13 very poor.

New School: FF12 and FF13 are done right; FF7 and FF10 are immortalized as best but are actually poorly done.

Personally being a old school FF fan and growing up on FFIV, id say FF XII and FF XIII are absolute gaming diarrhea.

EDIT: none of these above opinions are backed by actual statistics of known facts this is just from my experiences.

I grew up with FFVII, it was the first FF released in the UK and I'm the biggest Sephy fanboy ever. I believe VII and VIII were very well done with the former being the better of the two, then the series took a dive with IX and X. Then along comes XII. I finished XII before X and I bought them both on release day, despite there being a five year gap between them. When I can't even be bothered to finish a game in a reasonable time there's something wrong.

I don't even compare the spinoffs (Tactics was awesome however), sequels (X-2 looked so awful I didn't purchase it) or online games with the rest so XV will be the next title I'll use for comparison. Sure it hasn't been announced but we all know it will come with about 99.9% certainty.