FFXIV story? Yoshi P what are you thoughts?

[auritribe]

I really liked how the game was shaping up towards the end -version 1.0 that is- and I hope when they fix the lag and stress issues this turns out to be the FF game we want it to be and not just a wow clone with a nice FF skin,

Oh no, it's very very much going to be a WoW clone with a FF skin. But you'll play it anyway because Final Fantasy.

[Azurus]

Screw a book after that end of an era trailer i want a feature length CGI movie lol

[Vilhem]

Screw a book after that end of an era trailer i want a feature length CGI movie lol

Yeah doubt they'd go there again after the massive fail that was Final Fantasy Spirits Within

[Azurus]

Yeah doubt they'd go there again after the massive fail that was Final Fantasy Spirits Within

shhhhh we do not speak of that name >.>

[auritribe]

Yeah doubt they'd go there again after the massive fail that was Final Fantasy Spirits Within

Yeah, they'd never do something like Advent Children. Nah, that'd be silly.

[Vilhem]

Yeah, they'd never do something like Advent Children. Nah, that'd be silly.

Advent Children was a success because it had all the characters people loved, and for many FF7 was an intro to the Final Fantasy series itself. So it was more about "Hey I finally get to see these awesome characters look more realistic instead of like Popeye!" Storyline itself, for me, wasn't all that strong, but character familiarity, action sequences, and a Sephiroth comeback made up for it

With XIV it'd be a bit more difficult to adapt, because it is an MMO therefore there is no set protagonist (unless you want to use the Midlander's party which people already on this board have said they don't care about)

I'd love to see a fully rendered movie myself, but not getting my hopes up >_>

[Aenarion]

please explain what you meant

it's pretty simple, you said:

lets look bad on some books that a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it.. LOTR, Narnia, Jurassic Park, and the list can continue forever. my point with this reply is that once these particular books were made into movies the books sold like hot cakes all over again bringing in yet more and more revenue. I would be willing to bet that SE may actually increase their fan base if they did release a book that invoked the imagination, brought excitement to the readers mind and completely engulfed the reader in an adventure they may not have ever experienced before.

You've just labeled two of the most well-known, popular, and arguably the most important fantasy novel series of the 20th century as something that nobody's heard of 'til the movies.

Let's put it this way, while the movies have been a nice boost to the sales of the books, especially LOTR, they were already beyond the 100 million copies milestone before that, not exactly something that "the great majority of people have never heard of".

[MalayaDrake]

You've just labeled two of the most well-known, popular, and arguably the most important fantasy novel series of the 20th century as something that nobody's heard of 'til the movies.

Let's put it this way, while the movies have been a nice boost to the sales of the books, especially LOTR, they were already beyond the 100 million copies milestone before that, not exactly something that "the great majority of people have never heard of".

Actually i never said nobody, i did say " a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it" and I am correct in saying that. if you feel so inclined go online and do some of your own research into the subject. Just because they have sold 120 million copies (in 41 different languages if i'm not mistaken [Narnia]) around the world does not mean that the 120 million copies were sold before the movies were made. Point in fact (you can check pretty much any news source [NY Times, cough cough]) and find that book sales skyrocketed when word of a movie was being produced. This goes for Jurassic Park as well. Any time they make a movie from a book the book sales skyrocket, (wouldn't 50 shades of grey be an interesting movie for the ladies )

[Aenarion]

Don't start backpedaling now and try to argue semantics, when you say something like "lets look bad on some books that a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it", you're implying that it's an obscure book that nobody knows about.

It doesn't take more than a minute or two to find out that indeed both LOTR and Narnia sold more than 100 million copies each before the movies came out, indeed the majority of them before the movies. The movies were made BECAUSE the books were such valuable IP and had a huge following through DECADES, not the other way around. You go ahead and try to make a FF14 movie now, and the only thing you'd be doing is counting how much money you'd lose.

Also, little fun fact - 50 shades of grey has sold less than 1/2 as many copies as Narnia, and just a bit more than 1/3 of LOTR, so I guess that makes 50 shades of grey a completely unknown right?

[hrdndv]

As a writer, I can assure you it could be done. The best approach would be to find a popular author and hire them to write the book series. Someone like Brandon Sanderson could do it and it would sell like hotcakes. JK Rowling could do it. You need a really top notch author if you want quality work. If you go for an unknown author it is hard to market a good book. SE tried their hand at cartoons of FF and it was only a moderate success. FF movies have been a bit too disjointed to pull in the viewers. Still, FF could be treated as a story similar to a cross between Harry Potter and Matrix. It has definite potential as a Holywood Blockbuster. But SE has to realize that they could not produce a movie or book full of the same flaws as the last FF movie. That's why they need the story rewritten by a really top-notch author.