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If you ask Yoshi-P, kids don't care about Final Fantasy anymore because they're taking too long to come out
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ff6 to 9 released when i was in primary school. even though i didnt play later installment on release day i still go back to the franchise because it shaped my childhood and i have a lot of memories hanging out with friends, banging our brain trying to beat the game and finding secrets (none of us understand english). it took them 7 years from 13 to 15 (excluding 14 because its online only) and another 7 for 15 to 16.
@wopalopa @GamingBot they abandoned the fun battle mechanics and deep storytelling a while back, it's all graphics now. Graphics is a lot of work, a lot. I remember zero from FF15, except the up and down with the damn car, I remember even less from FF13 and have skipped FF16 entirely
I wrote more about it in my other comment, but yeah FF 15 driving and running in empty fields killed me. And that was literally my first FF game ever. The audacity to say "Great for new and old fans" at the start was funny, since my mom who's an FF veteran hated it too when she watched me play. I think the main party was fine, but the plot basically goes nowhere until we arrive at the water town and Levithan shows up. The the rest of the game is "ride a train and fight bad guys."
I can appreciate games with a more "realistic" look, but I still love more cartoony 3D and pixel graphics, so I would gladly take that over these blockbuster billion dollar movie-games they keep making. Octopath is absolutely stunning imo, and I had a wonderful time playing the second game. The new mechanics were simple, but a definite improvement from the first.
And that's kinda just JRPGs in general. I think Tales of Arise looked fine, but my mom is adamant about the monsters getting uglier. She really just loves cutesy things, so she feels upset when JRPGs with a legacy start to turn more "western" or "manly." But I do feel like there's a growing lack of actual discovery and whimsy in RPGs and just, "this world is big" and "Woah the graphics look so good the water is super realistic"
I keep joking that I don't need to see a close up of every pore on Cloud's face to buy the game. Just make the characters loveable, the story engaging, and the soundtrack good and you've got me.
@Naho_Zako and btw fuck this stuff that in order for something to be cool and "manly" it has to conform to the Hollywood style or else it's childish or gay or both. It's nothing but propaganda and marketing
@Naho_Zako by the sound of it I agree with your mother then! FF15 was impressive technically, the way camera simulated exposure when moving from a dark place to a bright one for example. However FF7 with its pencil-sharpner-shaped hands and pre-rendered backgrounds was still more expressive, had more atmosphere than the technologically stunning new stuff
@wopalopa @GamingBot when the demo of FF15 came out I was so excited about it I bought the spinoff FF game just to get the demo. The spinoff game was supposed to be good but imho it was another mess of weird royals, gunmen, chocobos that didn't fit and a story so convoluted and names so weird I was forgetting them 3 seconds after reading the dialogues