FF16 is probably my most hyped game that hasn’t been announced right now. After F14, 15, and 7R, I have no idea where they will go and am completely intrigue how they will handle it. I know people complain about games being announced early...but I really hope it is announced soon just so I can get a glimpse into what they are doing

THANK GOD! 

I'm not sure if there is any reason to be concerned. 
-A different FFXV must have been in development before versus XIII took over in 2012
-FFXV was released in 2016 
-FFVIIR is a remake

All in all, it would be troubling if in the last decade they couldn't conceptualise and write an original story. In terms of finance, XV was a success, XIV is a success. VIIR is a success. So don't worry about bankruptcy. The only time that was in in discussion was when they spend 100m on a flop of a film.

Everybody has their pedantic moments. In a thread about Noaki Yoshida and his team, who were in charge of turning 14 around to what it is today, one should assume we mean the reborn version,as he was not in charge of the 1.0.  No need for that distinction.

no gundams is a great concept, i didn't know those japanese devs had it in em to resist their fetish

Yoshida got in charge of the FF14 team after the bad launch. He had the task to fix the issues. While his team patched a few of the many problems, they made a plan to reset the whole game, because they noticed the bad was in a situation where they would not be able to fix all problems within years. So Yoshida told his supervisors his plans, and they agreed. The new FF14 team wrote an apocylyptic scenario for the story and used this events to reset the whole game. When the servers went online again with "Realm Reborn", the game ran without big problems (If I remember right they changed the engine) and became a huge success. 

Yoshida was brave enough to follow an idea with high risk and reboot an expensive project instead of fixing bugs and problems for years. He is very popular within the community, too. 

I guess that makes me a bit more hopeful for XVI. And a really need to make time to play XII. So many people say it is outstanding. Thanks for the recommendation.

I have a few issues with it and would recommend go in with certain expectations.
-combat lacks active involvement. Its 90% pre strategy.
-story is very political and lacks personal investment from main cast. 
-The script although amazingly performed and written, is based on old english and doesn't hold back on how far they go with. Difficult to understand sometimes.

All in all, loved it :)

You mad me want it more :) l

While I very much like active combat, it is not a must have as long as I can spend hours in the menue fine-tuning my strategy. And political and old english sounds really good.

I once tried XII but did not get into it. This was at a time where my english wasn't good enough for such endevours.

Now I wish I had more time for games. Still need to finish so many others. Next gen often starts slow. So perhaps I get lucky on years end and treat myself to XII.

The strategy preparation is basically one general for transversation and regular battle that you'll basically always leave there, and then depending on the boss or event you'll have to completely change your secondary setup;