Has Square killed the Final Fantasy franchise??

[scottie]

the_bloodwalker said:

scottie said:

FFXIII may have been an incredible game, but it is targeted at too wide an audience, and it left many hardcore RPG fans feeling left out.

 

I think that it is way too early to call one of the biggest franchises in existence dead. FFXIII expanded the franchise, albeit at the cost of some existing fans. FFXIV sounds shit from reviews, but no-one ever likes the MMO FFs. FFXV will have a tough task to keep the new fans and apologise to those who didn't like XIII, but far from an impossible task

FFXIII didn't really expanded the franchise. It was released on two consoles. Multiplatform release is not considered expanding, but having a larger market increasing the chances of success of the game.

Expansion would mean that SquareEnix did the homework to answer two questions:

- Why there are gamers that have never played a FF game before

- Why are there fans feeling left out?

I don't think FF XIII and XIV have an answer of these questions, and I'm afraid XV will not either.

 

PS2 has outsold the PS360 combined, this is not a userbase issue - FFXIII expanded the franchise.

 

FFXIII is aimed (more so that earlier FFs) at those who feel that RPGs are generally too slow paced, and require the use of complicated guides in order to produce the best party, and that is why more people are willing to play FF

 

I can't speak for everyone, but the main criticisms levelled at FFXIII from fans of either FF or RPGs in general are that  the game is too linear, and the combat system leaves you without enough control.

 

As I already said, this doesn't make it a bad game. It's just not aimed at me as much as I would like