SE to churn out a FF title/year?!

[AdvancedWind]

Actually, it's

FFXIII-2
FFType0 (if it's ever released here)
FFXHD
FFXV
FFXVI
FFVII Remake
FFXVII Online
Vagrant Story 2
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FFvsXIII

[Atoli]

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FFvsXIII

This makes me cry.

About FFXIII:
At first, I didn't like it either.
It was so..different from my beloved old FF games.
But I came to like it, because the story is nice, the battle system is interesting and the graphics are breathtaking..and yes, I'm a graphics whore
In that aspect it reminds me a lot of FFX, which I didn't like at all in the beginning either because it was so..not FF-like.
But I came to notice that "Final Fantasy" is something everchanging with only a few aspects staying the same, and both FFX and FFXIII had these aspects.
So yeah. XIII was sucessful in my opinion, because they sold about 6,5 million copies, and not "just because the fans thought it would be a FF game".
Look around on some websites on which you can preorder FFXIII -2.
There's a really huge number of people who already preordered it.
Would anybody preorder the sequel to a game he was totally disappointed in because he expected something the game did not deliver?

Btw, since we are in the FFXIV forum, I wished somebody would disagree with me saying FFXIV is a failure T_T
Where are the fanboys when you need them?

[Lucifer]

I am appalled at the fact SE mentioned the CoD franchise. They recycle so much content and innovate very little.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy modern warfare for what it is, but a final fantasy title? BIG money is all these companies see. I don't blame them. They are there to make money after all, but it seems that the people who were actually INTERESTED in video games, are no longer making the decisions.
Modern Warfare 3 made 400 million dollars the same day it was released. It was a sixty dollar map pack.

[Picoman]

Yea Type-0 needs localised or internationalised.
FFXHD won't count as a new release.
FFVII isn't getting a remake as of now, they said it would take 10 years!
Now that Type-0 development is done that team is now in full development mode for Versus.
Thats all i know. ^^

[Betelgeuzah]

So...
FFXIII-2 (2012)
FFvsXIII (2013)
FFXIII-3 (2014)
FFXV (2015) (PS4)
how about that?

That sounds feasible to me.

I don't think the FNC mythology is exhausted yet, nor that they can't keep evolving the XIII's combat system. I think it would be a great waste to have to make a wholly new combat system for every game they make. There's still a lot to improve and which will make the gameplay more interesting. A trilogy with the same combat system is not that much of a stretch at all, and we still get games like Versus XIII and Type-0 in the same universe with a different gameplay.

[grandm]

to the OP, i think your looking at this all wrong, going to take FF10 as my example, the reason they could release 10-2 so soon after 10, is becasue alot of the game already existed, characters zones, lore, the graphics engine.

no spin offs ever has as much work go into it as an actual number game, but from what i have seen of 13-2 it looks pretty good, and i hated 13

and lastly do you have any idea how big SE is? you don't think they can work on more than one project at a time? well news flash. the created 7 and 8 at the same time but staggered release dates, they created 9 and 10 at the same time but staggered release dates, they created 11 and 12 at the same time but staggered release dates, are you seeing a pattern here? oh yeah 13 and 14 created at the same time, this is easy to see if you look at the 2 games at the same time just take 7 and 8, you can see 2 very different styles, so they are not low on resources

anyway 13-2 is a stop gap game to keep us happy while they create there next numbered game. and its us that crave it thats why we are getting it

[ChiefCurrahee]

I wonder what this means to the resources available for XIV's development?

I don't think it means anything for XIV development. Or any other SE game for that matter.
SquareEnix is a HUGE compnay. Like Electronic Arts huge. SE just puts "SquareEnix" on all their titles that they publish, sans Eidos, or games they publish in japan made by western devs.

You can't put SE as a dev in the same boat as you do Bioware, or Bethesda. As SE is a publisher that houses many dev teams. People have come to recognize the name Square and Enix for their quality in previous generations. So the SquareEnix names sticks to their games. Not the dev team that created the game.

SO if they push out FF at the rate of once a year, that means they will have 3 to 4 different dev teams working on each game so by the time team 2 is releasing thier game team 3 has a year of dev time left, team 4 has two years and team 1 is ayear into development with three years to go.

[PrettyPrincess]

uh, I dont recall XIII flopping

[Onidemon]

http://www.gamesthirst.com/2011/11/2...t-square-enix/

I don't know even where to begin to understand this logic.

Past 2 FF titles have damaged the brand equity and to make more money let's make more FF games at a faster rate!!!

Yes because we all know XIII and XIV would be much greater games with even less content.

I wonder what this means to the resources available for XIV's development?

What i don't get is how they can compare an FPS and an Action game to a massive RPG like Final Fantasy. They don't even take into consideration that a FF title has a LOT of content and detail and takes a lot of time to do for that reason. So what now they just gonna ditch all of the quality that made FF what it is just so they can come up with a new title every year?

If EA has proven anything it's that quality always wins over quantity. EA has always been king of let's mass produce garbage titles to make quick money.

[Betelgeuzah]

What i don't get is how they can compare an FPS and an Action game to a massive RPG like Final Fantasy.

Well, first you could ask what the difference between an Action game and an RPG like Final Fantasy even is.

I could compare FF to MGS or DMC better than I could compare it to a WRPG. That's how close the franchise is to being "an RPG".

It's an action game, sometimes a strategy game, and in both cases a bad one at that.