God of War shows original final fantasy-esque games are not dead, take THAT, Square Enix!

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shikamaru317 said:

I'm confused. When most people talk about a return to classic Final Fantasy style, they are referring to a return to turn based combat, but God of War is not turn based, it's a pure action game, closer to the action-RPG FFXV than any other FF game in that regard.

So I assume you're referring to the setting, and are unhappy that FFXIII and FFXV both had modern or futuristic settings. So you want a return to more historical settings, with a level of technology that is far behind the modern day real world. Thing is, I don't think that FFXIII and FFXV were futuristic/modern because Square doesn't think historic fantasy games can sell well, I think they are modern/futuristic because that is the story that the wanted to tell. If they were worried about historic fantasy games being unable to sell, Skyrim and Witcher 3 would have dispelled any doubt they had years ago, considering Skyrim sold over 30m and Witcher 3 is most likely over 15m now.

Obviously I am not talking about combat or else GoW wouldn't be a part of this discussion.

Turn based or not. It doesn't matter. What pissed me off with the new FF is how unimmersive the new games are because of how the setting is. It is like they've thrown a bunch of ideas and put them together cause why not?

 

Atleast with the previous FF games. It was more cohesive even FFXIII was better as there's no discourse from the era and I love that there's two worlds of different culture which is actually a theme similar from other games. Stuffs like Mako energy, soul steam as fuel, magicite etc and basically the economy of the times were more sensible which makes it's harder to criticize the previous games than the new ones etc.

 

I am using GoW as a recent example. I agree that Skyrim and Witcher 3 should've shown square enix that before but they are stubborn.