Really? I feel like they're posted somewhat regularly.

Remember the good old days when new numbered FF titles released almost yearly? IIRC FF7, 8 and 9 were all only a year apart from each other. Just imagine if they could still do that. But nope, now they're like once a decade instead

Edit: It was 8 (Oct '99), 9(Feb '01) & 10 (May '02) that were all close together. Crazy. IMO the 3 best games of all time too, and they released in the span of 2 years & 7 months.

One of my biggest things I've been talking about to my friends recently is just simply this. I'm not playing FF games anymore. I'm not spending my money and time on them. From 97 to the start of the PS3 gen (I a HD TV for FF13) all I basically did was play FF games. Even into the 2010s I replayed them, purchased the remasters of X, 12 and recently 8.

Since the 'press x to play' game that was 13, I've not purchased a new FF game in now over a decade (13 came out in March 2010... and there was only 1 to choose from :P). I've got more disposable income now than ever before and they aren't making my favourite game series for me to give them my money. I had no interest in button masher FF15 with 4 characters and no colour and I lost interest in this "remake" as soon as they said no ATB, it had stagger and the narrative of the first mission was different.

Alas, holding on to them making a game in the vein of their heyday I think is done now. I've got big hopes for FF16 but then, how long will we wait for what might just be another button masher?

Two things changed.  1) Sakaguchi left (the FF creator), and 2) Squaresoft became Square-Enix.  I believe development on FF X started before either of these things happened which is why it is such a good game.  The games haven't been the same since.  I even like, to varying degrees, some of the FF games that came later, but they definitely aren't the same, and there is no going back.  All I can say is that I haven't played the Lost Odyssey yet, so I still have that to look forward to, but after that I won't be seeing the old FF magic anymore.

Also, just want to say that this is the best review I've seen so far of FF7 Remake.

I was so tempted to click on the dunkview when I first saw it, but I'm still stuck in lockdown limbo awaiting my pre-order, and it's been almost a week since I emailed EB Games for no response.

Could you share the general sentiments of what he says, and how serious he is? Some of his dunkviews are more sarcastic than not, and some (usually bigger titles) are practically dead-serious the entire way.