Wired: Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I think I’m gonna call it: Final Fantasy is dead.
It’s hard to pinpoint an exact time of death on this one, but at some point during the last decade the world’s foremost Japanese role-playing game series keeled over and kicked the bucket, and now Square Enix is pretty much just defiling the corpse.
Chirag Pattni talks about the prominence of the RPG genre in gaming. The different types of RPGs available and how the genre is influencing many games.
Now a days many role playing games don't have that much role playing in them
I don't consider every game that has experience points and a skill tree an RPG. Borderlands 3 is not an RPG, stop trying to shoehorn it into that category. It is as much an RPG as Diablo 3 is an RPG -- news flash, Diablo 3 is NOT an RPG and I wouldn't even call it an Action RPG. It's a hack and slash random loot game, and Borderlands 3 is a first person shooter/looter game.
Always been my favorite genre. I think that really sparked way back when with Planescape:Torment, then Morrowind, Kotor, New Vegas, etc.
Now we're in the sort of Renaissance of classical crpgs with games like Pillars, Tyranny, Wasteland, and the coming Baldur's Gate.
Good times.
Twinfinite Writes: Final Fantasy games have always been known for having both memorable stories and characters. But some character archetypes seem to be a mold used many times.
Summons are some of the most powerful and impressive attacks in Final Fantasy games. Which ones from the series are the best though?
Writer obviously didn't get into the beta of FFXIV:Reborn.
FAR from it.
FFXV says hi!
Far, far, far from it. Sonic or Resident Evil maybe. But not Final Fantasy.
Writer obviously didn't get into FFType-0 or even FFXIII. It's not a bad Final Fantasy. Managing to sell 10 millions of copies and getting high critical scores (8+) from both critics and players doesn't make it a failure, even if you like to think so. It can be divisive yet it doesn't mean it's dead. Sorry.
With the recent restructuring I highly doubt it.
I never liked 13, didn't play 13-2 but I have a interest in 13-3 for some reason.