FFXIV Anime based lore

[Felis]

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

[Steffie]

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 ?

[Felis]

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.

[Gramul]

Nah. I don't really like most anime.

[Daenerys_Sedai]

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.

[ErikMynhier]

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

[Fooly]

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.

[kukurumei]

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 ?

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.

[Arkghyom]

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

[LineageRazor]

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!