Hi, after ten years of development i was thinking giving square-enix a chance and buy the game. Played about 5 hours and wtf, the fighting system ,camera cant belive thats FF now. Open world driving in a car from quest to quest shit. At no time i feel this is a J-RPG at all. I stop playing it and sell my deluxe edition again.. How you think about the new FF? regards Chris
To be fair, I've felt the series has been in a death spiral since FFX. ;-P It's a good thing you didn't play it until the end. The latter portion of the game and conclusion make little to no sense. It just feels rush and on top of that, isn't my cup of tea. I really don't know who the target audience for this game is, Japanese metrosexuals or people that want to see some weird crossover between Eastern and Western aesthetics? Best of luck in getting a decent return if you sell it.
I've been playing for 1hr 30mins and am enjoying it greatly at the moment! I wasn't a fan of XIII so this is a nice return to form of sorts. It won't be for everyone and certainly isn't a shade on any of the classic games but i'm very pleased so far! I've just caught a fish and fed it to a cat. Riveting stuff. The only thing that is pissing me off is the press X (on PS4) to collect items/accept quests/talk to people is also bound to the jump button and it makes for very awkward jumping like an idiot when trying to accept quests etc when you don't hit the trigger for it exactly.
The problem is that the series didn't need a new direction. It needed to go back and be a good FF game, not a KH wannabe.
Amusingly, as someone who was into FF since the first, this is how I've felt about the series since VII came out.
Problem is the fusion from square and enix. It feels like this square-enix thing has nothing left from each company. Shame, but thats how fusions go on..
A classic Final Fantasy probably wouldn't sell well today. Times have changed and turn based battles have gotten a little long in the tooth. Also I assume people have less attention span to a singe activity / game nowadays, so can't do the slowly unfolding epic storyline either. It simply wouldn't sell. Unless it's the FF7 remake
I would have started from FF7 as the beginning of the death spiral had it not been for FFIX. It at least was a minor return to form. Then that was the last chance to ever see any FF game carry the soul of the originals. :/
I still think FF VII is far from a terrible game, it was a fresh take on the universe, and the gameplay mechanics are in line with the series. VIII sucked but IX was awesome. X is where they lost me, with that dumb sports game and the aweful voice acting. It was also seemed really awkward to play for me.
um... in my point of view, it seems the best Final Fantasy is just like the best Zelda, that one a person played in his/her teenage years. I know people who says every number is better than the other, so...
Going to have to look it up But a Final Fantasy has to do *really well*, since it's so expensive to make.
Bravely Default is what FF should have morphed into after VI (I would say V since that would make more sense (BD is practically a sequel to FFIII/FFV), but VI is an outright masterpiece... maybe the Bravely games (or something similar) should have been the ensuing odd number games and Lost Odyssey should have been VIII (following the pattern anyways)).
I don't think anyone was talking about 'the best' game. More so the start of the decline. But yes, as with most things, it's all about personal preference (and nostalgia). Nothing wrong with friendly discussion though.
Personally I like it. I can definitely see where the others are coming from, though. Still, it's fun to beat the shit out of enemies in it - especially at night
