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oniyide on 08 November 2014
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bigtakilla said:
oniyide said:
bigtakilla said:
oniyide said:

You answered your own question. JRPGs are not as popular as they were so common sense would state that ALL JRPGS would suffer, so thats just making Xenoblade; especially Xenoblade X job that much harder. Whats keeping from being the next IT JRPG? The fact that is isnt teh IT JRPG. That honor goes to FF no matter what happens to that series it will spank others for the forseeable future. Hell I would say Kingdom Hearts would do better. 3 mil is insane. I am willing ot bet it wont reach that lifetime, especially not with Wii U numbers.

Which is sad, because that series over time has just become absolute garbage IMO. 


That is not an opinion shared by most. Yes i thought 13 sucked. But that is one dud out of how many games they have released since NES days. So they kind of earned a the benefit of the doubt. Xenoblade has a LONG way to go to even get within spitting distance of that kind of acclaim and popularity

But XIII wasn't a singular event, it spanned over 3 games and nearly an entire gen of dissappointment. Not to mention the XIV disaster where the game had to be redone entirely and shipped out a second time, with free versions given to the people who originally bought it to finish up the gen. (Oh people were fired over it. When higher ups had to be removed, it isn't a sign you're doing things right.) XII seems to be Final Fantasies Wndwaker with everyone absolutely loving it or hating it, XI I can't really comment on, but it never seemed to create an uproar of popularity, so the last one that had any real universal acclaim was X.

Now with XV in development, Nomura has been removed from the head of that project. Final Fantasy has lost a lot of that acclaim, and it seems the majority of people who keep coming back are waiting for that moment they can recreate that magic from VII. 

Oh the last gen did suck for the series. But again that is ONE gen versus damn near every other gen that was fine. 14 is fixed. The newer version is much improved and they are making money on it. 12 is def not Windwaker. Not even close. More people liked it than hated it. ANd it was still a well crafted game. IMHO you are focusing on the very few negatives and ignoring the positives. You brought up 10 and that is a game that just had a rerelease that sold more than a million copies. A rerelease thats more than Xenoblade did, which just proves how much relevant FF series STILL is. Just because the director left doesnt mean 15 will suck. Im going ot assume that most of the game is done at least the real important stuff and he went on to continue KH3. That tells me that SE is doing proper time management. People keep coming back because for the most part the series had done wll. ANd Type 0 is coming out very soon and that is actually a good game. SO the series seems to be back on track.