Creative freedom, bravery, and risk in games development/publishing

[Leynos]

GoOnKid said:

Leynos said:

I'm ok without FF turn-based gameplay. Fans who want the classic FF games get Bravely Default and Octopath. My issue with modern FF is that they just suck. The stories are bad and incomplete. Character designs are flat-out boring. They no longer feel like they push the genre forward. FF used to experiment and was head and shoulders above the rest. Now they feel like big-budget mediocrity. Now imagine a more fantasy-based FF game with a massive explorable world in Amano's style and rich visuals like El Shaddai but Amano art. So a watercolor style of rich detail. Get the composer of Octopath to do the music. It can still be an ARPG. A well-written story with Nomura not within 1000 miles of it. Get whoever is in charge of FF14. You could have FF feel special again. FF has not felt special in 20 years.

Fun fact, Naoki Yoshida was in charge of FF14 (since the reboot) and he is now leading the development of FF16.

Yeah I might get it but the character designs are still dull as dirt.