Sony Announces Live-Action Final Fantasy XIV TV Series

[Reap00]

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

[Edax]

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.

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.

[linay]

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.

[Oberdan]

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? ^_^

[Eli85]

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.

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.

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.-

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?

[Shirosama]

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!!!

[DumdogsWorld]

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

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.

[Eli85]

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.

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.

[DumdogsWorld]

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.

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.

[SoulEchelon]

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.