Final Fantasy: Officialy burnt out?

[Boutros]

Conegamer said:

Boutros said:

People have always had the wrong expectations for the franchise.

Final Fantasy is for Square-Enix what Mario is for Nintendo.

It's not because I've played (so-so) games like Mario Party 8, Super Paper Mario or Mario Strikers that I'm going to doom the franchise to die.

Final Fantasy is just a name. Just a tag to help sell the game.

Every new Final Fantasy is a new game, a new experience. They aren't related one another.

I like the way you're thinking here. However, due to posting twice in a row before, I shall wait before I post this comment. So here's a video of FF13-2 in case you haven't seen it:

So yeah. Looks pretty awesome. But your point about Final Fantasy to Mario is one I never really thought of before. However, there hasn't been a "mainline" Mario game which has disappointed me yet, but FF11, 13 and 9 did just that. I haven't played FF14 enough yet to make my opinion about it

I've sure seen it LOL

 

Super Mario Sunshine supposedly disappointed many (not me though as I loved that game). Next thing you know they come up with Galaxy which is rated the second best game of all time.

That's the thing with huge franchises. Developers allow themselves to take more risks as they know the franchise is well implanted and it would take more than a couple of fails to change its status.

That's why I'm not even worried a bit about Final Fantasy. I trust they know what they're doing and the future looks bright for the series so all's cool.