| Egann said:
True, and I confess, I haven't been playing Final Fantasy since the beginning--nor care to--but Final Fantasy also started out when turn-based combat was almost a necessity out of hardware limitations, and as XIII proves, the gaming industry has grown up around it. I must have been one of three people who liked paradigmed combat. So the real question is what do you expect them to do? They tried the conservative thing with XIII and failed, and with Gen 8 coming on another conservatively designed RPG will look outright archaic. Branching out into another genre is exactly what I would expect, and I have no complaints, seeing they've done action-RPG hybrids well in the past. |
I'll be fair, I don't blame them, they're doing what they can to survive, but in the process whatever link I had to Final Fantasy is gone.
As for bold, you might want to take a look at Secret of Mana. It was a great game on the Super NES made by Squaresoft that was an RPG that was not turn-based. Here's a gameplay video.
Also, the failure of XIII may not be around it being conservative. I've never played it but something tells me that there was something about XIII that was unlike those prior and people started to give up on FF already. FFXV seems to be where I personally disconnect.
