The official games, the ones with the numbers at the end. Not the small games, like FF Tactics, and Crystal Chronicles.Theo Samaritan said:
Poll: When do you think Final Fantasy will stop?
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Within one or two generations, when our species gets to the point at which its attention span is next to none, when THAT happens all RPGs are gonna go under to be replaced by First Person Shooters and other instant gratification games. Just like what happened with Adventure games.
This guy put it better than I ever could have.Onmi said:
Each Final Fantasy game shares some similar traits, but overall are all based in different world, and have different forms of turn based RPG gameplay. This is the genre Square specialize in, and they choose to stick with calling each of them Final Fantasy merely as a marketing ploy. If they stopped releasing games named Final Fantasy, they still will be releasing RPGs, just under new names. Final Fantasy is a well recognized brand name. It's simple marketing folks.
Indeed. If they called The Last Remnant Final Fantasy XIII I'm sure someone would've actually bought it. But a lot of them are in the same world and most of them revolve around a huge thread to global security squashed by a group of say 4 teenagers and an older mentor.Onmi said:
That would be a terrible idea and I hope they never do it.About To Crash said:
People who play and love Final Fantasy games are in it for the stories and who like the turn-based battle system. Having detailed and intricate plots is counter to exploratory games (and personally, I'm not fond of exploratory games because I want to know where I'm supposed to go and what I'm supposed to do--I play JPRGs for a reason, after all), and not everyone likes real time. You basically want FF to...not be FF anymore.
If FF turned into what you wanted, I would never touch FF again, and I love FF.
When people stop buying them. Since Final Fantasy continues to evolve, people will probably not stop buying them.
Final Fantasy is similar to the Mythos. There is no real setting but rather a number of common elements that form a pseudo-mythology of sorts that can be inserted into a lot of places.
The general fantasy motif with magic, swords, and funky retro-seeming devices (like airships) and maybe tech depending on the game, all meshing together is one with universal appeal and as such I don't think the series is likely to die unless someone intentionally decides to murder/end it as I see interest remaining high in all of those elements for a
very long time if not eternally.
The death of Final Fantasy is likely to occur only if Square-Enix dies, or is bought out entirely by someone else that has little interest in the property (for example how D&D wound up struggling when WoTC was bought out over Pokemon).
The Lovecraft referance is because of the sheer numbers of people who have written things with his ideas. The idea being that you can drop "The Necronomicon" names like Professor John Dee (I think I have it right), Yog Sothoth, or whatever elese into a story and have it come along with a bunch of implications. Even when he was writing the mythos was developed by a lot of people, some of whom he was ultimatly the editor for.
By the same token you can take things like Fira, Firaga, etc.. and use them universally between games and people know what they do. Ditto for a lot of the summons and recurring chracters (like Alexander representing a Holy power, or Shiva ice).
The general fantasy motif with magic, swords, and funky retro-seeming devices (like airships) and maybe tech depending on the game, all meshing together is one with universal appeal and as such I don't think the series is likely to die unless someone intentionally decides to murder/end it as I see interest remaining high in all of those elements for a
very long time if not eternally.
The death of Final Fantasy is likely to occur only if Square-Enix dies, or is bought out entirely by someone else that has little interest in the property (for example how D&D wound up struggling when WoTC was bought out over Pokemon).
The Lovecraft referance is because of the sheer numbers of people who have written things with his ideas. The idea being that you can drop "The Necronomicon" names like Professor John Dee (I think I have it right), Yog Sothoth, or whatever elese into a story and have it come along with a bunch of implications. Even when he was writing the mythos was developed by a lot of people, some of whom he was ultimatly the editor for.
By the same token you can take things like Fira, Firaga, etc.. and use them universally between games and people know what they do. Ditto for a lot of the summons and recurring chracters (like Alexander representing a Holy power, or Shiva ice).
Final Fantasy will never stop unless the US finishes the job it began with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. XD
Actually, I was more thinking it would be something more like Final Fantasy XXX: [Insert Female Lead's Name] Finally Takes Her Top Off For No Adequately Explained Reason but that's where my immature mind goes. And if it IS named that, I shall still play it, but I'll start swearing at the TV every time I see said female lead. Being female, gratuitous boobage just irks me.LimaBravo said:
I realize that there are reasons people do play Final Fantasy games and will for what I estimate is a long time. See, I have this wild notion that, if you're making a series of games so successful that it's lasted through most consoles, then there should be some sort of obligation to mix it up. And yeah, it might fail horribly if Final Fantasy XVIII was what I asked for, but something tells me SquareEnix can afford it.yeah_so_no said:
And there will always be JRPGs.
Or, to quote Yahtzee about Adventure games: "I think it's cause most of them were shit. For every good adventure game, there were five other adventure games driven by moon logic." I seriously don't think that shooting someone virtually and watching the blood on the wall decreases your appreciation of a good story. It's mostly the developers in that case that are stupid. Also, Lucasarts were the best when it came to adventure games, but they had to dump that genre. And RPG's won't die out, cause people will always have the dream about being a bug hero with a sword, or saving the world, just like some dream of shooting aliens in the bum.alcherion said:
