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The Fury on 17 March 2024
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haxxiy said:

You'd be surprised to learn that yes, they are. Anecdotal evidence, but I've seen people refusing to play FF16 not because they think it's a sort of Marvel shared universe and they need to play the others to get the full experience, and others being confused by FF7 Remake flashbacks and thinking it's stuff from FF6.

(Not to mention just having a 16 in the name screams "boomer game" and the market demographics are there to prove.)

Except for KoF - which is a fighting game and even then doesn't consist entirely of numbered titles - no one else in the market has been doing that as long as SE and most series let go of numbered entries after 3-6 of them (Mario, Sonic, Halo, Resident Evil, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, etc.) which suggests this sort of naming practice doesn't fare well in marketing tests.

I guess basic comprehension isn't something I should expect from the Fortnite generation of gamers. :P

5 seconds of thinking for themselves would know it's they aren't a direct sequel but I just don't think renaming them to like Final Fantasy *insert something to do with the game* will help either. You've mentioned the idea that Final Fantasy has one of the oldest fanbases but it's hard for it to gain a newer younger fanbase with trying to appease old fanbase with a remake (which missed the mark) or taking so long between entries. In the PS1 era, FF7 was released in 1997, then FF8 in 1999, FF9 in 2000 and FFX in 2001. That's 4 of the most critically acclaimed games in general in 5 years. FF11 followed a year after.

Square seemed to be doing all they could to give gamers and the market what they wanted, they spent a lot as well at the time and it paid off... then the Enix merger took over and this seemed to slow right down. We had FF12 on PS2 then we've had 1 mainline FF title per gen (so far) since. They havent' even announced FF17 yet. This isn't good enough and as many have rightly said this is all just badly mismanaged. I'd take regular good games over graphical masterpieces that don't offer anything special or different to the sea of action RPGs we get nowadays and I really don't think superficial things like the games names will help.

But I can completely understand the points.



Hmm, pie.