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oh yes.... I just beat FF6A not to long ago. I would love that, take all my moneys

This is how it started for me. After two disappointing experiences with 7 and 8 I started becoming wary at 9. It just got worse and worse as time went on. I have nothing left for the franchise but contempt now and can't even look at the games I actually enjoyed without my skin crawling.

So yeah, to no surprise on my part XV looks horrible. Male escorts take a road trip vacation past Genbu, most characters controlled by a basic AI. Even zombies show more signs of life than this. I'm sure there will be an element or two that will make the game tolerable for people that still see Final Fantasy as something other than a cruel joke but I gave up long ago. Well, the flu is better than necrotizing fasciitis but I'd still rather not get either.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/292120/

I was expecting a bigger price tag.

I'd like to think that I wouldn't buy it. But I know I will.

This.

The head director for most of the project's lifespan was the guy behind the Kingdom Hearts series. It's looking to be much closer to that than to FFXIII's system.

I had something like... 7 dollars in card sales sitting on my account so I purchased it on Steam.

Also, this article.

FFXV will feel like a group of guys going on a road trip.

Shotgun!

“With Final Fantasy XV, I do want to make it more casual,” Tabata said. “Of course the depth of the game is going to be there, but I want to make it so players can easily experience the satisfaction of the depth of the game.”

That article got some hate from the comments. But I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do to keep the "depth" as they put it, but make it easier to play. I really don't have time to play games for hours and hours every day like I did with the Playstation FF games and earlier as a kid.

Yeah, this is sounding more and more bad.

You forget FFXI, where levels didn't mean **** in the long run and strategy was the name of the game.

Bean, and I mean this is the nicest way possible, was it possible anything was going to sound good to you if it wasn't them saying it was going to use old, traditional JRPG systems? You seem pretty hard-line here.



There wasn't. Essentially every fight I can think of was a case of knowing the gimmick or a straight heal-n-spank. Most bosses were even immune to most debuffs, unless that WAS the strategy, so it's not like you even made decisions about weakening the boss vs. attacking.

Every so often small strat things would appear. But those usually seemed like really unintentional possibilities, not strategies they intended to be possible.

Games that involve movement generally have way more strategy, because damage avoidance vs. damage mechanisms come into play. But they're also usually skill-based, not just purely strategic, which people who like traditional JRPGs don't like.

I personally like the happy medium that games like Dragon Age found, where movement was a factor, but you also had pausing and isometric views so you could play more strategically. Not that they executed it perfectly, but I'd like to see more games in that arena. Mostly because I suck at most skill-based games (but menus are just way too boring).


Anyway, I'm not particularly worried by what he said about one-button. Indie games have really proved simple input mechanisms can be a lot of fun. It's all going to come down to implementation.

I'm guessing the control system will be around jumping/teleporting, dodging, and attacking. Melee range = melee, out of melee = magic. So you'll need to avoid damage while negotiating range to cause the kind of damage you want to cause on your target.

If done well, sounds decently fun. If done poorly, it'll be awful. Just like anything else.

Actually I'm not all hardline about just traditional, I do like innovation, but I would like to see where you actually feel like your in control of the party. FF12 was different but still was decent in my eyes and it wasn't traditional. FF13 on the other hand I didnt feel like I was ever really in control of the party, I felt my choices in battle were pretty insubstantial and that I could just hold X to win.

Even then I could have looked past it if the story had been better but I barely remember anything from FF13. The story was convoluted and every like 2 lines you had to pause and look at the encyclopedia just to get a grasp of kind of what was going on. Being a corridor the entire way didnt help in the slightest.

Final Fantasy games have never had Pulitzer prize winning stories but at least they were memorable at most part (FF6 Opera scene, FF5 Deaths, FF4 paladin scene, FF8 Emo angst, FF9 Summons destroying scenes, FF10 Blitzball, FF12 weird equip system)

Edited, Sep 27th 2014 3:51pm by BeanX

FFXIII preload... 59GB.

Jumping into this conversation waaaaay late, but I'd like to mention... I played Fire Emblem: Awakening recently, and gosh did it make me miss Final Fantasy Tactics. I feel like if the job system from Tactics was combined with the relationship system from Fire Emblem, then it would be a masterpiece.

When it comes to the core games, the last one I enjoyed was 10 (and X-2 had some good parts...), the last one I bought was Dirge of Cerberus, and the last one I played was XIII (at a friend's house). FFXII wasn't bad gameplay-wise compared to previous entries, but the story was horrible... especially since it was set in the Tactics universe. But after that I bought Dirge of Cerberus and was pretty certain Squeenix would never get my money again.