SE to churn out a FF title/year?!

[grandm]

this thread had a topic? who knew!

[Firon]

FF 4 is my favorite i always felt that chars in that game felt human, loved FF 13 too. This is the part where people hate me WRPG's are nice that they are big and have lots to do and is open world it just feels like GTA to me, an OK story with multiple outcomes, and lots of side quest.

An rpg done right for me was Xenoblade this gen Good story 50+ hrs over 200 hrs of side quest and over 200 + named monster's to fight thru out the game, an materia like system, and the world was pretty much open for you to travel as much as you want.

[Ruisu]

I'm confused, FFVI with Terra, Sabin, Locke, and Edgar? Or FFVII with Cloud and Sephiroth *the orchestra starts playing One-Winged Angel* "Stop it!!!" *orchestra stops*

Final Fantasy 6. Not 7. FFVII has a pretty terribad fanbase when it comes to Advent Children and all of the other spinoffs, but the main game has an...okay fanbase.

[Firon]

Final Fantasy 6. Not 7. FFVII has a pretty terribad fanbase when it comes to Advent Children and all of the other spinoffs, but the main game has an...okay fanbase.

I agree i did not fawn over FF 7 and 6 like everyone else did cause my first FF i beat when i was 5 which was FF1 for NES, and FF 4 is still my all time favorite. Cecil X Rosa FTW

[Nuru]

This means the long awaited Final Fantasy XXX is well on its way!

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

This means the long awaited Final Fantasy XXX is well on its way!

This sounds like a game that involves demonic molbols and lots of costume changing.

I can't imagine they would stick with the FF name that long without trying a renumber/rebranding.

I think what would sooner happen is a massive merge that will make the game companies sound like law firms: Squenix-Tecmoei-Capkonamco-Bandai-and Co.

With release titles such as: FFXXIV-X2-Triamere Decatetrahedron Master
consumer: Can I abbreviate that?
future: That is the abbreviation.
future: and you now have to solve for X to pronounce this title and those are minus signs

[XxOstiaxX]

My Opinion > your opinion

Also FFXIII is pretty damn similar to FFVI in the sense that you don't have as much control over your party compared to, say, FFX. FFVI fanboys are by far the most delusional in the franchise. I thought FFXIII and FFVI were both equally fun. Deal with it.

You did not play FFVI, because that statement is the stupidest thing i have read on this forums(And there is plenty of those around.) How in gods name, do you not have "Much" control over your party ? when even before the first part of the game, you can switch your team around, and the game has the largest cast of characters out of any FF ?

Please do tell how they are similar in that regards, when one game has your team set in stone for the 60% of the game, while the other does not for the 80% of the game :/

[Vanguard319]

I think this sums up my fave:

[Zeref]

FFXIII is as linear as pretty much every other FF game, or almost every JRPG for that matter, it just didn't bother hiding it that much. Heck, FFX is regarded as one of the best in the series by some people (not me, mind you) and doesn't even has a Gran Pulseish area to break up the corridors that make up the rest of the game and not many seem to complain about that

Correction, There is a difference between linear story and linear gameplay, FF1-FF12 (excluding x and x-2) did have a linear story, but they were non-linear because you could travel around the world, discover random things, get sidetracked, enjoy sub-story arcs, mini-games and side-quests, FFXIII is literally just walking straight, even x and x2 had more exploration, as for X being regarded as the best, I don't know where you picked that up, but 7/8/9 were regarded as the best, 10 was generally regarded as a flop by the majority of FF community for linear levels, lack of content and an obnoxious whiny emo brat MC.

There is nothing wrong with a linear story, every story should have a beginning, middle, and an end, if they don't branch out its perfectly fine if the world seems somewhat real, on the other hand a linear game is one that does not allow you any (or barely any) degree of exploration and simply forces and channels you from point A to point B simple as a mean of traveling cutscene to cutscene.

[northernsky]

That's because you play the "Back in My Day VII".

In my language there is a different word for experience and experience. It is, ironically, much like of a drug in that you can make it occur once but you can't simply reproduce it by experiencing the same thing again and again.

SE's games are much like it, in that they give you an experience and anything after that will not be the same. As far as being games, they don't do that well, but you are mistaken if you think that I don't keep the experience in a higher regard. However, unlike some of you I understand that it is not so simple as to play a similar game to get back the feeling (or as you would say, atmosphere) to return. Right now what makes me play their newer games is only the fact that I think they are more entertaining as games as they were before. When previously you would have been hard-pressed to play an FF title if the story, music or characters were not compelling to you, today it is possible to like the entries for being games alone. I don't have to like the story or characters for it to be entertaining.

I had my experience back then with FFX and to some degree FFXI. I still think that playing those games were the best entertainment I've had in my short life, but that shouldn't stop me from looking at them objectively and with the eyes of now 21-year-old me. When somebody criticizes FFX, I think the complaints are legit. That still doesn't take away what I got out of said game long time ago.

I was not referring to VII (more like VI, IV, or chrono trigger, which is about the order I played them, I may be a old older than you put me on), but I get your point.

But now that you mention it, I played VII a lot later and found the same addicting FF atmosphere. I played FFXII maybe 5 years ago, found it bland and boring, then actually played X after, and found it addicting with a very nice FF atmosphere.

Point is, I don't think it's just a question of "back in my days" since I did not play them in the chronological order and played some of them quite recently, plus I found some very different experiences from game to game. So I'm not looking for new games to repeat what I liked from previous ones.

I also think that those games I like the most (FFVI, VII, X, chrono trigger) had fundamental game play, storyline progression and character development divergences, yet they recreated, to me, this very unique atmosphere that makes me want to play them again today.