Define Final Fantasy!Follow

Pretty much all of the above, plus:

That curving power scale where you start out hitting for 10 damage and have paltry fizzle spells, and end up dealing humongous proportions of damage and spells/abilities that take 30 minutes to complete their animation of world crunching magnitude.

Pure fun.
Chocos
Dia
Effeminate male leads
Same story for 14+ releases more or less..but somehow doesn't become dry..
Ans best of all, black mages

Start with sewer rats
Quest to help the community
Slay the ancient Gods

Little country kid
Handed a giant sword, told
To go save the world

All the bases have pretty much been covered so far. There is a line from a movie that always make me think of FF games:

"Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

I own The Last Remnant and I happen to really like the battle system it had. I don't feel as if the story is as rich as a Final Fantasy title is, but I can definatly agree it has that sort of Atmosphere you're referring to.

It's exactly that reason why I don't give it as much of a praise.

FFVI in particular was very good in flushing out story in both side stories and the main plot. A deep exploration of what the world was like continued to flourish even beyond the main plot-line in multiple Final Fantasy games, yet, you never really felt unsatisfied with the story just following the main plot.

The Last Remnant is the opposite. Not only were you left a bit out of sorts if you didn't do the side quest, but the side quests themselves weren't as flushed out and as enriching as say, Gau's or Realm's/Shadow's stories. Though there were some golden moments in there, I won't deny. They didn't feel followed through on well.

The entire thing felt a little too impersonal to me, even though I enjoyed the game thoroughly.

Actually I totally understand what he is saying. It's not against the thread or talking about titles "deserving" the name. It's more that there are entries people feel are weak. I personally detest FFVIII, and I really did not give two @#%^s to even play more than an hour or so into XII.

However, that is the nature of a franchise. It will wax and wane, and at some point, you need finality to simply move onward. It would be awesome if each game could have been simply branded as its own, unique title, but that's not how it works. Look at Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. These games are, thematically, in the same series. Yet, they are not a series, and SotC is not Ico's sequel. That's what Gaxey is on about. Let's say they called VII Dirge of the Planet or The Reunion, and VIII Time Fracture or something approximating the theme. Then there would be no "weakest of the series" talk, and each game could be judged as its own game. There would be less pressure to make a game be "Final Fantasy" oriented.


Edited, Jun 4th 2013 7:04pm by Pawkeshup

Oh how I want to make a xenogear thread but my body cannot contain the exquisite pleasure.
Hmmmm.
http://ffxvhome.com/index.php
Including the concept planning and pre-production phase, the game has already been in development for over 4 years.
It entered full production in January 2010, a month after FFXIII was released in Japan. Since then it has had a development team of just over 200 people.
The director is the same person who directed FFVI, FFIX and FFXII. [Hiroyuki Ito]
The co-director led a small part of the development team to make Tactics Ogre for the PSP in parallel with FFXV. He's currently multi-tasking as lead UI designer of FFXIV 2.0 and co-director of FFXV. [Hiroshi Minagawa]
The game design and battle system will be a major evolution of FFXII.
The game will be open world and have sprawling, crowd-filled cities on par with Assassin's Creed.
The battle system now allows you to target different parts of an enemy's body like in Vagrant Story.
Yoichi Wada (president of Square Enix) wants the game to have a world scale and volume of content that surpasses The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. He also wants the game to surpass FFVII in worldwide sales and critical reception.

Two of the FFXII heads are leading FFXV. But if Yoshida is doing ARR. Who is doing the art for FFXV? Who is doing the writing with Matsuno gone?

Edited, Jun 4th 2013 7:56pm by sandpark

Well the title is not FFXII-2. People didn't hate XII or the battle system. It was like 50-50 because it was such a huge departure from previous FF. What people either loved or hated was the drawn out story pacing and kudos to the star wars IP.

Many years have passed since XII. And now many other games have prepped gamers for this type of experience. Xenoblade, Dark Souls, XI, Vesperia, Skyrim, White Witch, GTA, Red Dead, etc. Open world, real time to semi real time battles is the big thing right now in the industry.

It references scale and content to Skyrim but it doesn't say seamless world without zones. Corridor dungeons would not fit in a third person rpg imo. People often ask for a FFVII remake. Well this isn't a remake but it is taking elements from XII, a spiritual successor if you will. Will gambits be in this entry? How could the adb combat be improved? Will they get the pacing a little tighter this time around?

I am very excited for this since Ito is heading it. Sakaguchi may have been the heart/engine of Final Fantasy. But I think Ito was the Mind/Engineer of Final Fantasy. The games he took a big part in were the most critically acclaimed.