Square Enix: Final Fantasy may become an action-RPG franchise

[The Fury]

Mad55 said:

enditall727 said:

Mad55 said:

I mean it seems likea natural progression if done right. Look at tales it does real time in a unique way and theres alot of strategy involved. Versus should further prove to people that only want turnbased that real time can be just as good.
I always get confused when people say they want the same battle system from ff4-9. You want the developer to make the same system their entire careers? Thats boring and developers shouldnt have to limit themselves for nostalgia.

didn't tales basically have the same battle system their entire career?

has the tales series system gotten boring yet?

Do you play tales games? They modifty their battle systems every game just like final fantasy, but the pure old school turnbased is a bit archaic and in my opinion 13 had a better battle system than 4-9 it just needed more work and versus will have a great real time system.

Final Fantasy modify their magic system (and sometimes their leveling), not the battle system. The main reason to play any game is good gameplay and that came from the ATB, which was a part of FF between 4-9 and X-2 and worked fine. If it's action based then I presume there is no ATB so other then in some names there's nothing left of Final Fantasy in it. Infact the X-2 had one of the best version of it, adding unique battle structure and magic system to the ATB.