Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn a reboot of the Final Fantasy series

[Akiza]

Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn was a reboot to the Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy XV while people are waiting for has lost a lot of steam and its missing the open world online multiplayer that is a must have for modern rpgs. Final Fantasy XIV fits in this era becasue of the multplayer always online element. Players create there own character pick there job and do the main scenario. With this model developers can extend the scenario through patchs and do another main scenario with a big dlc while players run dungeons, craft and do rp content like chocobo raising, chocobo racing and golden saucer.

Look at Destiny on what they did with the firsts person shooter both Call of Duty Black Ops III and Rainbow Six Seige are open world online multiplayer with single player campaign and scenarios to compete or GTA Online which another multoplayer online with missions.

The only genre with a single player narative will be survival horrors while others will strugle to recoup their investment. Game like Final Fantasy XV will be lucky break 2 million.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

ummm... what?

most people don't play online games lol.... especially rpgs.

[Gilthas]

Sorry, but I really don't subscribe to your view that offline RPGs are a dieing breed.

I'm admitedly not very excited about FFXV, but that's because of it's battle system.

[Colorful]

Game like Final Fantasy XV will be lucky break 2 million.

Yes, that's why Witcher 3 sold 6 million copies. That's why a niche game locked to one platform, Bloodborne, sold over a million copies. That's why Dragon Age: Inquisition is the best launch for any game Bioware has made ever. RPGs and gaming in general is on the rise, the singleplayer is never going to die out unless gaming does.

PS. Destiny is trash.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Sorry, but I really don't subscribe to your view that offline RPGs are a dieing breed.

I'm admitedly not very excited about FFXV, but that's because of it's battle system.

90% of the games I'm interested in for the next year are offline RPGs lol.

HDN V2, FFXV, SO5(thank god its happening) the 7 remake whenever that happens.

[Ayuhra]

If anything I'd say roleplaying games are going through a renaissance.

[Iagainsti]

Xenoblade Chronicles X

[Gilraen]

I'd have to say it's second or third Renaissance. It's first was back on the NES when all games had was the writing, and was it ever good writing. I remember purposely dieing to the last boss of Dragon Quest IV just to see if there was another ending (there wasn't), you were just that invested in their story as you were your own. I want to say there was another wave of great writing during the Great Console Wars of the 80s-90s as Sega and Nintendo tried to one-up eachother with first-party and third party exclusives. Game companies are beginning to realize that the FPS style game isn't the be-all-end-all genre... not that it ever was.

[Andevom]

Online multiplayer, for many games, almost seems to stem from insecurity on the developer's part. Think of how many games have a tacked-on multiplayer mode, something that has a very short shelf-life because it wasn't the main reason why people bought the game. It exists as a bullet point to justify the purchase, to extend gameplay past the core game, but many times it ends up being the weakest component. That's all you'd get by putting it in Final Fantasy XV.

These games are built as an offline experience that people would rather not rely on other people to enjoy. We have MMORPGs for that; we don't need it everywhere.

[Lexia]

Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn was a reboot to the Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy XV while people are waiting for has lost a lot of steam and its missing the open world online multiplayer that is a must have for modern rpgs. Final Fantasy XIV fits in this era becasue of the multplayer always online element. Players create there own character pick there job and do the main scenario. With this model developers can extend the scenario through patchs and do another main scenario with a big dlc while players run dungeons, craft and do rp content like chocobo raising, chocobo racing and golden saucer.

Look at Destiny on what they did with the firsts person shooter both Call of Duty Black Ops III and Rainbow Six Seige are open world online multiplayer with single player campaign and scenarios to compete or GTA Online which another multoplayer online with missions.

The only genre with a single player narative will be survival horrors while others will strugle to recoup their investment. Game like Final Fantasy XV will be lucky break 2 million.

Why do people think that everything has to have online attached to it, not everything needs to have online attached to it.