| bigtakilla said: I'm not entirely sure an established franchise like Final Fantasy succeeding will entice any sort of willingness to experiment... Would be nice though. |
It's more about the fact that because FFXV is both from an established franchise and it is pushing so many limits from the norm of its series. It could influence so many different genres and even just the look of a game. You have to admit that we've never seen 4 main characters like this together as one unit (the boy band look), much less as the full main party of an open world AAA RPG. It's very jarring and takes you out of your comfort zone for a standard RPG.
And all this being done for probably the most hyped up game of this generation. Aside of Destiny maybe, hard to say. Still, Destiny wasn't announced 10 years ago.
Edit: To reiterate on the fact that FF is an established franchise, what I mean is that franchises that already have a foothold as a household name for the most part tend to cruise on the same formula. FFXV being the game that it is and as hyped as it is coming off as a huge success may very well swade some of these developers. Maybe not, but it's going to influence them back to just staying comfortable if FFXV ends up a failure or only good; telling them what they may have already expected.
AAA Games in some ways have been getting better, but only cleaner. There are few that defy expectations. Exceed sometimes, but almost never defy and succeed by bringing in new ideas to the general public and revolutionizing how people want to play games. FPS, Third person shooter mechanics and RPG looting mechanics have largely dominated last and this gens high production valued games.
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