Final Fantasy: Officialy burnt out?

[Conegamer]

snfr said:

Conegamer said:

snfr said:

No, simply no.

I don't see how Final Fantasy is burnt out. When we talk about sales then it's far away from being burnt out.
When we talk about quality then it isn't either, simply because quality is subjective. Seriously, if someone says that he didn't like FF XII or FF XIII or if someone prefers the older FFs, that's absolutely fine. But many let it sound like it's a fact that FF is "shit" now and this is just nonsense.

Every Final Fantasy has its' "haters" and "lovers", at least since FF VII, because that was the point when FF became popular worldwide. The reason for that is pretty simple: every Final Fantasy is different. Many probably don't like recent FFs, but that doesn't mean that they are burnt out.

Is that not the issue though? 

Quality is subjective, and, as you say, since FF7, the series hasn't hit the same heights. Sales-wise it's stronger than ever, but the quality is far more debatable than it has been before.

Uproar has never been higher since FF13, and unless they pull it out of the bag (CERTAINLY NOT FF14) then they'll lose a lot of fans. It isn't dead yet, but, in my opinion, it's only a matter of time. 

Do a metroid. Give it a break, and give them what the fans want...

The quality has always been debatable, even in the 2D era. It's just that less people played it and there wasn't the internet to talk about such things. Franchises which get popular will also get more haters and more lovers at the same time.

The uproar was also pretty big after FF VIII, FF X-2 and FF XII. Some people probably thought the exact same way that you do, but it's still there and there are still many people who love the series, who loved FF XIII (that's where I belong to).

"Give the fans what they want"..... this is impossible. The FF fanbase is so split up that you can't please the whole fanbase or even the bigger part of it. It doesn't matter what SE is doing, they can only try do develope a completely different FF every time so that they are able to please different parts of the fanbase.

Also, I have to say, it's funny. There are a lot of people who complain about Japanese games being stuck in the past and not doing anything new, whatever. And then, if there's a series like FF which does different things with every game people still complain. So it doesn't matter what's happening with JRPGs, you will always see a lot of people who aren't satisfied.

That's true I suppose. Giving fans what they want is like trying to please someone with split-personality disorder

But, the fans didn't want FF11, yet they still did FF14? 

FF is moving the series forward, but they need to admit when they've gone wrong. They needed towns, and NPC's. And side-quests. More side-quests. And an open world. And a better levelling up system. And more magic. If that was done it could well be the best game ever...but isn't that just FF12 anyway?