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Xxain on 07 June 2020
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Ka-pi96 said:
Xxain said:

First off it was Souls combined with FFXV.

 Final Fantasy will not, and should not, ever go back to a turn based battle system. It is the anti to current design focus of entire AAA industry. Final Fantasy is a franchise that has always taken pride in the fact that it is not just setting the bar for RPG's, but for the entire industry. That is what makes Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy! The minute Square Enix moves alway from that is when Final Fantasy will truly die. Turn Based system lost their appeal when western developers took control of the industry and for the first time set that standard in regards to genres.  Japanese focus genres (platformers, turnbased, fighters) except for popular ones went dormant. Every gen has its popular genres and this is simulated open world games .. turn based clashes with that

Final Fantasy hasn't set the bar for RPGs, let alone the entire industry, for a very long time. So why are they taking pride in something that's not true?

Turn based games never lost their appeal either. You don't like them, fine. But they still appeal to a huge number of people.

Does that mean they stop trying? It is not whether they succeed in creating that impact or not but they go in with attitude that they want too. I enjoy all forms of RPG's, not particularly biased towards any one (My favorite Battle systems are Grandia and Valkryie Profile 2). In regards to Final Fantasy, I have stated multiple time I would like to see a return back Final Fantasy 12's battle system. So much more can be done with it, but It is ridiculous to expect Final Fantasy to return to anything resembling Final Fantasy X and under. It is just not going to happen. You are delirious if you don't think that turn based has not lost its appeal. We would not be discussing it if it were not the case.