What consumers expect of a FF-title

[wiremeshi]

Final Fantasy art work is one the best in my humble opinion. I've enjoyed the series as whole. Not one fan or follower of the series tend to see eye to eye e.g (some love FF9 while others hate it) its kind of funny in that sense, even some my friends that like the series have very different likes and dislikes. That being said I've always like the risks it takes not many game franchises do that. This is a bit obvious and big generalization in all in all but worth a mention.

I have to say I'm a Chrono trigger and Vagrant story kind of guy

[Seif]

I think it's worth mentioning the obvious. XIII-2 has had more marketing than XIII which itself had marketing campaign budget unheard of in SE's history of FF titles.

I think this helps to clear up what can be seen from the sales of these 2 games. I honestly wonder though if SE sees it at all as they we're pretty frank about the fact that they don't want to do regular towns and exploration in FF games anymore:

"The game’s linearity was just because depicting towns and so on like we did before was impossible to do on an “HD” console – it was too much work."

Guess what there will only ever be HD consoles in the future.

[KiriA500]

Whaaaaaaaaaat? A sequel nobody asked for didn't sell as well as people had hoped, the same weekend the new Sony handheld was released?

DAMN YOU TORIYAMA!!!!

[Xoo]

It's a sequel to a spinoff! ~.~

[Xoo]

Jesus Christ himself couldn't save Final Fantasy.

[Scherwiz]

So you all have played XIII-2?

[Malakhim]

So you all have played XIII-2?

I hear it's a competent gameplay experience...

Implying the series needs saving? Lulz

That's what the internet tells me.

A bunch of cynical misanthropes can't possibly be wrong, CAN THEY!?

[KiriA500]

So you all have played XIII-2?

Um...no, this is the internet, where the blind hate and entitlement flow like wine!

[AdvancedWind]

So you all have played XIII-2?

Didn't you know? Everyone says FFXIII sucked because all Final Fantasies past (insert roman numerals here) sucks and since XIII-2 is a sequel to XIII, it also obviously sucks too and I don't need to play, read several reviews or anything like that to determine that the game, indeed, also sucks.

Now, where's my FFVII remake?

[Scherwiz]

Didn't you know? Everyone says FFXIII sucked because all Final Fantasies past (insert roman numerals here) sucks and since XIII-2 is a sequel to XIII, it also obviously sucks too and I don't need to play, read several reviews or anything like that to determine that the game, indeed, also sucks.

Now, where's my FFVII remake?

Oh! I get it, so they didn't do everything XIII had to offer, I see.

FFVII remake feels almost impossible at this point. Instead, how about they just beg Hironobu Sakaguchi to come back?