re: "Final Fantasy XV isn't afraid to innovate to find greatness" & More Previews

I'm really looking forward to this game but I wish SE would go back to a FFIX type game and move away from the action-rpg

That said the gameplay looks pretty damned good.

I'm not sure how I feel about the action rpg yet but I also can't remember if I ever played one.

Only game I've played there is Diablo.

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Maybe this game can restore my faith in ff again. Ff 13 ruined the whole series for me.

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THIS

I was already put off by the online only releases (XI) and the "-2" titles (X-2)XII got a lot of shite, but it was classic final fantasy and I really enjoyed it. There's a map of XIII, the entire game and it's one straight line (which wasn't really the problem so much as that straight line was really boring) with one bloat. That was the section that was supposed to be the calm lands, but unlike the calm lands in X it wasn't full of secrets and cool shite, nor was it important to the history of the world because the surface was a huge unsettled nothing.

XV was planned to be an offshoot of XIII back 10 years ago when announced.

Once XIII got shitted on they wanted to distance from it, so they made XIII-2 and 3 to put distance from XIII while still working on XV which then became it's own game and shifted to next-gen consoles.

It changed directors from the Kingdom Hearts director, Nomura to Hajime Tabata who directed Type-0, FF7: Crisis Core and got tons of praise for it.

Actually, I'm starting to lean your way, this shite is so convoluted I'm getting tired just typing this out.

I have been and still am the biggest FF fan since the 90s.

I'm not off the wagon yet either. But I'll have to wait for the reviews...a first.

I bought X and XII and I didn't know shite about them. That's brand power.

Yea man, I was like...wtf am I doing? This should be easily to explain, it's just one of the best selling gaming franchises of all time.

I hate that it's so fragmented now, I think you have a good point, it's like they are doing too much at once. If they focused energy on just the numbered series, we would get a masterpiece again. That is why I think XV is going to be epic, they aren't really doing any other FF content right now. Type-0 is an old 2011 game just with a fresh coat of paint.

It's very, very violent and graphic (first FF game with an M rating) and this Tabata guy did that one as well. Hopefully this marks a shift in FF to be more mature, thus growing with it's fanbase like me over the years.

I was 11 when I got sucked into FF6, and now I'm 31, its time to mature the story and I think Type-0 and XV will do that.

But back on topic, yea, the shite is very ridiculous and confusing. I'm just very passionate about it bc the FF series is my all time favorites gaming series and I don't want it to die and leave the world to shooters and action games for AAA titles.

but that's what is so perplexing to me: FFXIII reeked of mass consumer appeal. are the type 0, "-2" and online games now reserved for the hardcore and the main titles scaled down for mass appeal?

Like I said, I don't understand FF anymore.

What little I read in the OP and the little I watched, it seems they've learned, but I just don't care. When it drops I'll read the review, but it is good to know that it won't be anything like XIII

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Not really sure what has changed from that other than names.

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They took XV (versus) out of the Fabula Nova universe when they named it XV in 2013, and made it it's own game, own story, own setting, no more part of the FNC universe.