Final Fantasy general

Yeah, I agree. I stopped caring about the series more or less around the time of BBS and don't find the newer plot threads or characters remotely interesting, but I'm not obligated to purchase any of the newer games so I'm content to just ignore them and let the people who enjoy them, well, enjoy them.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Jun 10th 2020 at 11:56:53 AM

Tetsuya Nomura is still alive and kicking, though. And the games are great action games.

So no, its not like Dune.

I decided not to buy KHIII as I knew I had too many expectations going in and it was never going to live up to them. It's fine, I was never a big KH fan to begin with.

Then every story spoiler made it worse.

It made it great for me. Especially Re:Mind.

I love stupid as fuck batshit insane stories.

I am pretty casual/neutral about the whole thing.

I mean, any expectations I might have had were lost by the time I read the spoilers for KH 3 D and found out what a mess the story was turning into. It was hard to expect much from KH 3 given those conditions.

Honestly, as long as the gameplay is fine, I don't care if a story goes batshit insane.

It didn't help that you had to be familiar with Kingdom Hearts χ, a web game, to make sense of the ending of KH III.

At least with the main line FF games, you don't need to be familiar with tons of other material to be able to enjoy the games on their own merits. Now the side games based on the main games are a different matter.

Edited by M84 on Jun 11th 2020 at 12:07:59 AM

Some FF games are sequels to others so you'll be a bit lost if you play them first, but at least that's fairly self-explanatory, no different from most other narrative-based series.

Well thats a major problem.

I hate majorly involving mobile games.

TBF, most FF games don't even have sequels. FF X-2 and the games with Lightning in them are the exceptions.

...Okay so maybe FF XII is more enjoyable if you're more familiar with the rest of the Ivalice based games too. But TBF, FF XII is so far the only main line FF game set in Ivalice.

Edited by M84 on Jun 11th 2020 at 12:09:58 AM

Yeah but usually they're just one-off sequels. Final Fantasy X-2 came out two years after X and that was it until that novella nobody will ever acknowledge again.

Kingdom Hearts told a single narrative for 17 years and it's still not done.

FFIV has a sequel too. FFVII has multiple sequels (well Dirge is more of a spin-off I guess, but it still continues off from where VII ended).

Yeah, but I don't really consider most of those to be actual numbered entries in the FF series in their own right. Admittedly, part of it is also due to me thinking most of those games, frankly, aren't very good.

Edited by M84 on Jun 11th 2020 at 12:11:09 AM

You could argue that for VIIR if this is your first entry in the VII mythos and you’ve somehow avoided every story beat of the original that has been mercilessly spoiled by pop culture osmosis, the big revelations and twists aren’t gonna land for you.

So yeah, no XVI reveal just yet. But we did finally get to see Luminous Productions game!

Looks very much like Agni's Philosophy back from the dead.

It's gorgeous, too.

Resetera insiders have said they were told it was going to be there. Maybe it was a last minute decision?

Does really look like Agni's Philosophy? What does it have in common other than a lone female protagonist?

Agni's Philosophy had four main things: Female Protagonist, a desert, Monstrous canines and a dragon.

So does that.

While they certainly look like different things, it's easy to draw a line from one to the other.

Even if its not Agni's philosophy itself turned into a game, designs can still be derived from it.

On that note, when FFXXVII is made two centuries from now, I will be right pissed if Squeenix doesn't have the integrity to stick with the female MC teased in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Wait, what?

This gag from Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Huh thats a good design.

I dunno, looks an Asian woman who triedcosplaying as a Victorian maid but gave up halfway through.