what about The Witcher 3...?

i think both of their battle system kind of similar are they?

You'll get FF XV-2 in 2019, Noctis Strikes Back: FF XV in 2022, and perhaps FF XVI around 2025 or so.

And then KH3.

Honestly it would be a pleasant suprise if instead of making the characters just LOOK gay that one of them really WAS gay lol.

Gay Characters in FF Series

Vaan-Never explicitly stated, jsut alluded to with outfit. The fact that Panello was always throwing her cat at him and he never gave her the time of day. He also hero worships both Balthier and Basch(what a MAN!) with lustful eyes imo.

Barret-not only the first black character but first gay one. On several occasions the game allows you to flirt or alude to being in a relationship with Barret, something that is seen as funny because Barrett is so hyper masculine so he has to be over compensating. Then there is the whole thing of taking care of the love child of his "friend" Dyne who he harps on quite a lot.

Fang and Vanille- come on, the has been the most obvious one in years. The Fal'Cie basically blackmailed them both into doing what they wanted because they knew their love for one another would make them do anything to save the other. Similar to how it used Sahz's fatherly love against him.

really? So Fang didn't give butch lezzy vibes to you like....at all? 0_o

their love seemed far deeper than sisterly to me. Lightning and Sarah had sisterly love(where it is mostly uneven and in dif ways). Vanille and Fang felt far more romantic to me.

Typically and always mean two very different things though. Also, Diablo (I, II, and III) are hack and slash games. They have skill trees, stat based gear, leveling system, and crafting system. By your definition Diablo (released in December of 1996), which is known to be a hack and slash game, is not a hack and slash game. This "Action RPG" nonsense came around well after "Hack and Slash" (aka Hack'N'Slash). Stop telling people that it's an Action RPG when that term is pseudo-replacing Hack and Slash.

An unknown force of evil has swept across the land, plunging it into civil war and terrorizing the populace. A mad king, his missing son, and a mysterious archbishop are all pieces to the puzzle that faces you. You have journeyed to the source of the evil. The town of Tristram, now inhabited by only a handful of survivors. The cathedral there is built over the ruins of an ancient monastery, and now eerie lights and sounds are heard echoing through its abandoned halls.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/legacy/

They're still popular in the west, they just aren't on consoles for the most part.

They haven't been popular in the west because Japan all of a sudden stopped making them on consoles in favor of handhelds; but really only because the DS was doing so well and at the end of the PS2's life cycle, but also because the PS3 had a bad start while the 360 lured Sakaguchi in and out to pasture (seriously, I hope he learned his lesson on making exclusive JRPGs on a western system this time around).  They weren't even on decline in the grand scheme of things (in gamer minds) for consoles; the sales of FFXIII show this in 2010. 2010 being a year well after it seemed like we wouldn't see a AAA produced turn based RPG.

Japan could have kept the magic rolling, but only after SE would make a dent as they usually did to convince more JRPG developers to release turn based games.

Now though, after the polarizing effect FF13 had it's difficult to say.  But I believe they could definitely come back popular in the west on consoles if pokemon is any indication.

They just have to actually get made and for the right audience this time.

No two FF games have had the same Battle system...in fact all of them are rather significantly different.

Also its been 9 god damned years that we have KNOWN this was an action +  traditional hybrid battle system type game.  Get over it for christs sake. 

Also arent you the same jackass thats whining all over Gamefaqs about this game?

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Finally a final fantasy game for me. I hate turn based RPG.