The Big Final Fantasy Question

Kotaku: ''Is Final Fantasy dead? Should we stop getting excited about the series? Is it time to abandon all hope?''

[SexyGamerDude]

No, it's not dead. We still have XIV and XV look forward to.

And if they increase the jiggle physics and breast size a little more and add in bikini DLC, I might buy Lightning Returns.

[adorie]

Once "jiggle" decides game sales, I will contemplate dropping out of this hobby.

I would rather a game sold by it's merits, and not several pairs of anti-gravity tits, throwing two sheets to the wind.

[Hicken]

They're not even trying to sell it based on that. It's simply the answer to a question, and now it's become a huge deal.

For my part, I've enjoyed every FF I've played since VII, and I've played EVERY FF since VII. And I simply can't understand why some FF fans slam certain games: they all have their good points, they all have their flaws.

[EXVirtual]

No. I find it funny that everyone was craving Versus but it turned into XV, everyone says Final Fantasy is dead. Well I've got news for ya FFVII fanboys. Turned based RPGs on consoles are the past. The tech was too slow to handle something like FFXV. Move on guys. FFXV will surpass VII. I'll tell ya that for nothing.

[EdoubleD]

Exactly, the conclusions some of these so-called 'hardcore/traditional' fanboys really stagger me. So one of the mainline entries was bad, turns out every new entry will be 'crap'. It sucks that some people have this way of thinking. Both ARR and XV look promising, yet because they aren't turn-based they're not a 'True FF', whatever the fuck that means.

[helghast102]

"So one of the mainline entries was bad"

Come on, FF2 wasn't terrible.

[Lovable]

Yawn...another article about FF being dead.

It's not dead. How many FFs are coming out again? Yeah that's dead alright.

[ThisJarContainsTHC]

The Lightning saga was dead on arrival

FF as a whole is still very much alive. XV is coming and looks quite incredible, like a throwback to the golden age of FF.

Did you forget about Type-0? even though it wasn't localized, surely it must count for something. It's one of the better FF games according to anyone who knows Japanese.

But how do you tell when a franchise is "dead" anyway? Lack of sales? lack of spotlight? company goes under? What determines the so called "death" of a video game franchise. I think it'd be chalked up to word of mouth and pretty much everyone has nothing but praise for XV. That game's been hyped to hell since it was prematurely shown at E3 2006.

How could anything "dead" generate any sort of hype?

[greyhaven33]

Exactly

[greyhaven33]

For some it is, for others it is not. The fact that ARR and XV are coming out and many are excited for them is proof that it is far from dead imo

[I_am_Batman]

I don't even see a reason to discuss that. You don't like FF? Don't buy it. If you are asking whether or not to get excited for a game you're doing something wrong. You either get excited or not.

[EdoubleD]

As I've mentioned before, I believe FF is in a coma. It's not dead, it just hasn't been transitioned well into HD. Hopefully next gen is when they can shine again.

EDIT: Also, I can't get over the fact that they keep comparing the new entry to Devil May Cry, as if to shrug DMC as a useless series for kids or something, that really irks me.

[Slade23]

XIV is right now the 2nd top selling PC game right now on amazon and some of you are saying that final fantasy is dead... Funny how all the CE edition is sold out.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-...

@EDoubleD I do agree with you that FF is in a coma right now and we don't know much about the upcoming games yet except for XIV which I know will do great.

@edit yea I do hate that when someone compares DMC to FFXV. Really!!... DMC is not a RPG action game lol.

[MrTrololo]

They should have stopped making FF after X and FFXV doesn't look like a FF game at all

[CLOUD1983]

Yep FF die after FFX every FF who have the logo of SE on it is more or less garbage compare to the old ones, I must admit that I was very excited for Versus & I couldn't w8 to get it in my hands, when I learn they decide to rename it to FFXV I felt so disappointed... Versus could only work for me as a spin-off although it was one of my most anticipated game I was more excited to hear how the next main FF title would be, I speak for FFXV before Versus become that one, I was w8ing to see if they plan to go back to turn-based/ATB battle system after all those fail experiments they did, & now FFXV a button-mashing action game ala-KH become a main FF title, that's tragic.

The past years we become guinea-pigs for SE, they test on us every horrible idea they have we get games that play on their own, games who we just assign roles & leave the characters to some-kind of auto-pilot while we just observe how things going & now we will get a game that go against what FF is all about, battles in the old FF always required thinking, to put your brain to work, to make a plan in your head & find the weakness of the enemy after FFX all that was thrown away.

Some people can't understand why old fans can't accept that but it's the same thing with Resident Evil 6, old fans can't accept that their favorite survival horror series go full action & throw the survival part & all the scares out of the window, same way we old FF fans can't accept that our favorite JRPG series turn to DMC & Bayonetta this is not FF some of u might like the direction SE go the series but that's not FF & we will never accept it or satisfied until they decide to return to their roots.

[wishingW3L]

maybe in a coma. lol