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A203D on 19 September 2011
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Xen said:
A203D said:
PullusPardon has pretty much said it. Sqaure Enix havent known what their doing since Sakaguchi left. without him FF12 went into development hell, as did FF13. while both games might have merits, neither is considered to be exemplary.

and this is 10 years since FF10. so thats 2 mainline FF installments in the last 10 years. my personal belief is that the people in charge at the moment dont know what their doing. their constant attempts on marketing to the western hemisphere have degraded the series beyond repair.

people can deny it, but no FF is ever going to achieve FF7s success. and thats because of the choices made with FF8 that have spiraled into the development disasters of FF12, 13 and 14. fans keep saying FFVersus will save the series; someone i spoke to even called a prediction out on 8 mil sales. and theres no way FFVersus is going to do anything. we've have one main FF this gen, and without FF15 on the horizion theres no way i see any sense of recovery.

XII can easily be considered exemplary.

I'm not going into it now, since i've said a lot about this issue in the past. but FF12 is only a part exemplary game. the part that is made by the FF Tactics team is easily phenominal. they orignally intended for Basch to be the main character, but instead they were "encouraged" to make Vaan and Penelo central characters to appeal to the Japanese auidence. this is also why these characters dont have much input into the game; because they were never designed to be in it.

the key point is that members of the development team expressed their dissapointment at how the story turned out, and Sakaguchi even expressed his dissapointment that Yasumi Matusno didnt complete directorial duties on FF12.

besides a lot of fans dont like the Gambit system. and i can understand this argument, how can you expect fans of say FF10 who spent maybe 30mins - 1 hour exploring and battling monsters, to spend 2+ hours exploring an enormous expanse, facing up to 200+ (tough) enemies. the game is good, but it has balance issues.

FF13... well i'm not happy about that game, it has its moments, but its certainly not exlemplary. i can see some fans are still in denial. the sales are staggering. FF13 alone has been in the bargain bin for at least one year now. that dosent account for all the other FF spin offs. new fans arnt buying these games. FF7s success is unlikely to EVER happen again. and it will be an achievement if even FF10s sales can happen again. and all the while Mass Effect, Fallout, Dragon Age etc are gaining new ground here in the west.