Kimberley Wallace of GameInformer writes, "We just entered a new console generation and are anxiously awaiting new games from our favorite genres. All genres have places they can improve and RPGs are no different. These are some areas where RPGs could use some refining and take bigger leaps in innovation."
Here are the games that will be leaving the Extra and Premium tiers of the PS Plus subscription service in the month of May, 2024.
Absolver Downfall
Abzu
Adrift
Ashen
Elex
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X | X-2
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
How To Survive 2
I Am Dead
Jotun
Last Stop
Minit
Moster Jam Steel Titans 2
My Friend Pedro
Observation
Sundered Eldritch Edition
The Artful Escape
The Messenger
This Is The Police
This Is The Police 2
World of Final Fantasy
Gary Green said: With my fondness for (most) Final Fantasy games and my side goal of finishing off games in my collection with loose ends, a return to Final Fantasy XV seemed inevitable. It also serves as my third Final Fantasy platinum trophy after VII and VIII, a reasonable substitute since Final Fantasy IX is nigh on impossible to master.
Final Fantasy 15's director has revealed why he left Square Enix back in 2018.
Hajime Tabata famously resigned from Square Enix two years after Final Fantasy 15 shipped in 2016. In a special livestream at the time, Tabata announced his decision to resign from the company, cancelling three of four new story-focused DLC episodes for Final Fantasy 15 in the process.
Man inherited a train wreck and was expected to release this game in under two years after it spent a better part of a decade in development hell. At one point there was even plans to make FFXIII Versus a musical. He did what he could.
Whatever the behind-the-scenes went on over the many years, at the end of the day it was a radical change in direction that I could not go along with. Also why I never bought 16.
For me, it's all about customization.
The more I'm able to customize my characters and UI, a large selection of crafting choices, huge skill trees, and a gigantic, open, non-linear world, make a RPG worth coming back to.
Guess that's why I'll still install Morrowind and Oblivion from time to time.
Games that offer 60%, or less, of their content on a playthough, on any one-time playthough, yet have solid stories? Have involving stories which either aren't about saving the world or make saving it trivial.
To be honest, I think that too many people are trying to link the idea of "steps forward" in both game genres and particular series', with the new consoles.
Technology doesn't intrinsically force changes in game design.
We're still going to be seeing the same stuff, even in new IP's, that we've been used to seeing in the genres we're familiar with, for a very long time.
And given how successful some of those games are despite the age of the formulas used in their making, I don't think that's as bad a thing as people make it out to be.
People need to stop caring about what's "new" and start caring about what's GOOD, even if it's familiar, aka, "rehashed".