I like the crazy story direction that the FF series is going through.

Not like its the first time.

The last FF game I disliked was X-2.

I haven't played Ragnarok yet either. I don't know why I do it. I love Sony exclusives but I also love just letting them sit there for as long as I can and then playing them. I played GOT just last year and thought it was amazing. The ending: You have no Honor” - Uncle Shimura “And you’re a slave to it” - Jin Sakai. Is probably the best lines I've ever hear in a video game. Gave me chills when they said that.

I'm holding out on Ragnarok for as long as I can also. Horizon was really the only one I hopped on "quickly".  Which shows how amazing my luck is that they added to PS+ like two months later. 

*SPOILERS*

I wouldn't mind the timeline thing if it turns out well written and impactful. But I'm not getting the sense that it's going to end well. Imagine if they're doing all of that just for Aerith to suffer the same fate, thus defying expectations and replicating the impact of the original death. That'd be cool if done intelligently, but I don't see it.

I'd agree that a 1 to 1 remake would be boring. But adding side stories, interactions, etc without changing key plot points should have been the way to go in my opinion. For instance.. Yuffie's additions so far have been great (minus Sonon's stretched out "death" scene). And I generally liked what they did to Jessie, Biggs and Wedge (minus their fate).

More importantly... the Remake gave us the precious Betty!

I'm not a fan of Nomura. Kingdom Hearts games never appealed to me, something about them just irks me! But I don't think he's as involved in this project as some people say. And millions of gamers love his work, especially before KH3.

Good writers don't always make good stories anyways. Some of SE's best are working on FF14, but it looks like FF16 (which is penned by Heavensward's writer) ended up disappointing a lot of fans. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a truly consistent writer or director, all of them will suck at some point in time so long as they don't stop writing.

Just my opinion but FF16 > FF8 > FF7.

I'm 99% sure that FF7 Rebirth will be stellar like I said. If you can date Madame M, it could be the best game ever.

Stellar Blade might be coming early next year. 

The titan boss fight in Final Fantasy 16 is mind boggling.

It's easily the best boss fight I've experienced in the last decade, and its up there with some of the best boss fights ever.

Shows what Platinum can do with some horsepower. (they only did the boss fights) I love Bayo and the relationship with Nintendo but I do want to see them make an action game with a legit budget on modern consoles and PC.

Credit to Platinum, but the last console game they put out was Babylon's Fall, an all time low stinker lol. 

It is an outlier from their output in terms of quality though, so I do wonder what kind of development struggles it may of had. 

Babylon Fall was on SE. Remember SE has published a lot of stinkers last few years. SE managed a lot of projects badly. Bab was supposed to be a different game and SE asked for it to be Gaas late in development and the publisher rushed it out. The same SE that gave us Forspoken. The Quiet Man. Avengers. Left Alive. The same company that sold off a studio for 300 million for NFTs then the NFT market died and that studio sold the Tomb Raider IP for 600 million. The same SE that made an exclusive FF16 deal with Sony then complained that FF16 was underperforming at launch.

I don't recall Square Enix being disappointed with FF16's performance, but it is fair to hang the failure of Babylon's Fall on them, if they wanted a live service game midway through development.