Glad the game did well. Aside from the terrible presentation of its story, its quite an enjoyable game.

doesn't change what I am saying...... so what if bravely default is a thowback to FF, or made like some of the older FF games. I don't have to read about it to know what thy are talking about being that I have played every mainline FF game including those that use the job class system you are talking about. Si i Know what you are talking about.

Just saying, that the job class system is not the be all and end all of FF games. I personally love the franchise because of how different most of the mainline games are. And thats what You don't get about FF. If you ask many FF fans, they probably will all have a list of very different FF games as their favorites. For me its FF8, FF12, FF9, FF7, FF15, FF6, FF5.... and in that order. Doesn't mean that any one of them is not FF simply because its not like the one before it or like another one in the series.

I still don't think you have played the game, and though this is a personal thing for me..... I don't usually get into arguments about how good a game is or bad a game is with anyone (because I feel with game preference its all a matter of opinion) but I have a thing against people that talk down games when they haven't even played it. But thats just me though.To each their own.

But the armchair experts on forums said the game was a bomba, that the franchise was done after the sales in Japan...

Despite its shortcomings still one of the best games last year.

The resolution of the games is just a symtom of the actual problem. That being the dedicated handheld platform. I'd have no trouble with the resolution if it was on mobile. There are a lot of great games on the DS and 3DS that I will never enjoy because the barrier of entry is too great even for me.

Let's hope SE doesn't turn this into 'we are so good we need to do more of this open world western rpg stuff'.

Atleast the assets won't be wasted anymore meaning it won't take the next mainline FFs to have a 7 year gap between releases.

The future of FF is IMO cemented.

Mhm? The story may be cut up into slices of greatness, but the gameplay is absolutely fantastic..... Especially the open world exploration and sidequesting around the map is super fun. FF XV gameplay wise is my favorite of the bunch, and the combat is great once you get used to it. 

All this exploration and sidequesting has gotten in the way of a potentially awesome story. The combat didn't feel like that to me, and I have gotten used to it. Let's say it's not my style. Gameplay was smooth, definitely, but that doesn't make the game for me. I found the anime and the movie in anticipation of the game a much better and experience.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great game, i'm just not satisfied with what I got out of it.

Well, I bought it and was totally dissapointed about it, so I hope SE doesn't think this game was in any way up to the franchise standards. Now that I'm playing DQVIII, this is more painful to see.

There's no doubt that Bravely Default games are way more similar to FF old games than FFXV. I think that's obvious tbh. Still, they're not particulary good imo. They screwed some things, because they were trying to improve games' length with some questionable decisions.