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etking on 14 March 2015

Xenoblade X is much more classic Final Fantasy than FFXV. If you love classic Squaresoft games like Chrono Trigger, FF1-9 or Dragons Quest you will enjoy Xenoblade and Xenoblade X much more than FF XIII or XV.



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Jumpin on 14 March 2015

The last good Final Fantasy was FFX, everything after has been trash. squaresoft lost their magical touch a long time ago. This game looks like crap too.



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Naum on 14 March 2015

If the battlesystem is as easy and boring as FFXIII I'm going to be pissed off.

And I'm most definitely going to be pissed off if I die and then start over right next to the battle wich in FFXIII destroyed any exitement.



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VXIII on 14 March 2015
Naum said:

If the battlesystem is as easy and boring as FFXIII I'm going to be pissed off.

And I'm most definitely going to be pissed off if I die and then start over right next to the battle wich in FFXIII destroyed any exitement.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFIgqrjwnWY&feature=youtu.be

There is a lot of combat footage there, you can make an educated judgment based on it. I recommend the Behemoth fight (10:00)



JMDez on 26 August 2015
KilleyMc said:
Ka-pi96 said:
KilleyMc said:

Understandable, but then what is it that makes people care about FF XV when it seems so similar to them? It's not even the first Final Fantasy that will be available for new gen consoles...

It's a mainline Final Fantasy game. Not a spinoff. When it was announced as XIII Vs it wasn't so bad since having a spinoff go a different direction is a nice idea, that's the whole point of spinoffs, no? But having a mainline game be so different is just odd.

I'm with you on this, the only reason why people are trying to pass it as a "Classic FF" is because Square decided to give the game its own number, making it a mainline game, no matter how good the game looks this discussion wouldn't even exist if the name still had the "Versus".

I'm stilly shitty they did that. I can't even articulate why I am as it's just a number at the end of the day. I just feel like the numbered games of the franchise are a special thing and that a clear spin off should not be given a number just to prop up it's sales numbers. If you read a rumour before this game was announced saying "Square-Enix rumoured to be working on an Action-RPG set in the world of Final Fantasy XIII." You wouldn't read that thinking it was going to be Final Fantasy 15, and yet it is.



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JMDez on 26 August 2015
LMU Uncle Alfred said:
outlawauron said:

FF7 was unlike previous FFs in nearly every way. The story, characters, and setting are unlike any previous game in the series. They wanted to make a game for the world and succeeded. Square got its success by trying new things, so that's what they do.

For reference, the only FF that I would say goes back to the series roots post FF7 is FF9. 


FF7 was also marketed very well and was the first step for mainstream gamers to get into FF.  However, FF7 has ATB just like the previous 6 but with smoother control.  FF7 has elements of steam punk just like FF6 did.  The game progression is only slightly different but only at the beginning when the world seems confined by Midgar.  You have control over the full party and if the main character gets knocked out it's not game over.  The setting is the world full of different places and cultures just like the other FF games: Cosmo Canyon, Corel Mine, Midgar, Mideel, and Fort Condor all have different outlooks on life; just like the places in FF4.


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-02-final-fantasy-7-retrospective

To reiterate on that point, I remember reading this a few years ago. It says there that FF7 had production costs of $45 million and advertising costs of $100 million. So fair to say that no previous game in the series had ever received such an advertising budget. The fact that FF7 also released on the highest selling console up to that time also would've aided it in outselling it's predecessors. That and it was one of the very best games ever made.