You are directing Final Fantasy XV. Where do you take the series?
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I don't care that it's not just FF that flunks at matters of execution. They flunk at it hard and therefore it needs to change. As for the characters...sure there are some exceptions but IMHO a lot of them are flat. Cardboard archetypes with cardboard hopes and dreams (like Barret, Zell, Steiner, Kimahri. Oh yeah and Aeris...especially Aeris..with the whole holy virgin act).lordlee said:
As for the looting...again I don't care. Sticking to tradition is easy but not the way forward. Innovation entails taking risks. It's a "dirty" job but somebody has got to do it once in a while.
About the 6 foot sword, what I meant was..cosmetics should largely be in service of story/ gameplay. Cosmetics only for the sake of cosmetics is unnecessary extravagance.
As for the Jap/Japanophile issue..make no mistake...the Japs are catering to their home market first, they always have. Funny thing is, now Square Enix is thinking about "Westernizing". It's easy to Google. So maybe, just maybe... this is an indicator of them losing inspiration and fans.
I mean..you've been around the Escapist forum (and perhaps other forums as well)...haven't you come across critical topics saying something in the lines of "SE hasn't made a good FF since FFX (then just Square)"? I sure have. People are gradually "dropping out" of that ENOURMOUS fanbase.
And finally, as for the conveying of emotions..I present to you FF13 or "Emo Paradise" (including a song by Leona Lewis...seriously). Go check the gametrailer footage. It's "Sera.." this and "Oh Sera.." that and a lot of voice raising. The "onion induced" was a joke.
Have I hit a nerve or something? Cuz you come across rather fierce. Is FF your favorite franchise in the whole wide world?
ALSO.. It would be nice to see you coming up with some ideas for change. Or would you rather prefer to leave everything as it is?
Looting as a way to check how people live? Wow, never thought of it that way...but it's still rather disingenuous. You aren't playing as an internal decorator/ anthropologist if you get what I mean. And if it's not important to the story...then its a whole room/ house modeled/ textured and rendered for 3 seconds of "joy" for the player, if he's the kind of person that pays attention to these kind of things.lordlee said:
Lightsabers... that's a terrible example. Who uses them besides Jedi and Sith? And the colouring usually tells something about the personality of the wielder (or his affiliation in the Force spectrum). No...unlike a 6 foot sword a lightsaber is an example of a weapon as a story attribute done right.
I'm saying "Jap" to abbreviate "Japanese"... not to use the negative connotation that is the result of events from WW2. I had absolutely no intention of being denigrating.
My original post carried the implication that there has never been a good FF? Whahaha...only because you saw what you wished to see. Apparently pointing out obvious cliches earns me the title of absolute pessimist. I've actually played FF7-12, with the exception of 11...thank you very much
. FF9 is my favorite, followed closely by FF7. My bad about your ideas...I've read em but, as you point out yourself, they're mostly "gameplaywise" and thus focused on execution. Good point concerning genre consistency though. Any ideas concerning core story mechanics, like the eternal protagonist & co embark on an epic quest to save the world from evil? Or are the foundations sacrosanct and thus immune to criticism?
In my honest opinion, and as blasphemous as this actually may seem considering how far Square has gone to erase this game from the memories of everyone in the known world, they should use similar personalities from Drakengards lead cast.
What i mean is, instead of having a lead thats serious (Lightning), Angsty (Cloud), overconfident (Tidus) or a complete moron (Vaan), they should have one that is brutal and rather psychotic (Caim). Add to that a murderous lunatic (Arioch), Calm and collected (Leonard), Cunning and more like a mentor (Legna), Brutal but insightful (Angelus) and finally the sarcastic one who's secretly prepared to give even there lives to help there friends (Urick). As a result, while you will be trying to do the right thing, the actual method the cast of characters choose to take will be much more brutal and make the player wander if they actually are doing the right thing (Eg. the cast might decide that in order to defeat a horde of creatures that have begun to take over the town, they destroy the town and let it burn rather then try to evacuate it or just wander through and slay each creature)
The villains should actually come across as a bit more morally bound, but again they use extreme methods that most people do not like and ultimately object to. Giving them a slight moral high ground, but at the same time not enough to make them seem like good guys
Essentially, the game would be centered around two factions. With one being an empire that has stood for a long time, an order that is very old and feels somewhat out of date but ultimately is able to keep order. This is the factions the player characters are on, as all of them are members of an elite group of knights who are tasked with keeping order by any means, given missions by the tyrant emperor of the empire himself. Who are the enemies? A band of rebels and members of a much vaster alliance of enemy nations seeking to disrupt the order of the Empire and make things more democratic. In other words, your essentially playing as the bad guys.
Setting would be mild steam-punk, but keep alot of fantasy elements in it to. Think of it as more along the lines of the industrial revolution in this world, magic is gradually starting to be replaced by technology but its still a powerful force in the world.
The point of this is to give the player in question something to think about; Is what the main cast doing the right thing, or is the way the villains are conducting themselves ultimately better? Sure, the villains are doing horrible things, but surely they have good goals? Or, is that just it. Are there methods bad enough that it doesn't justify the ends they are trying to make. Quite literally, i wouldn't mind a final fantasy game that explores the moral shade of grey a little more instead of a typical good vs evil battle.
What i mean is, instead of having a lead thats serious (Lightning), Angsty (Cloud), overconfident (Tidus) or a complete moron (Vaan), they should have one that is brutal and rather psychotic (Caim). Add to that a murderous lunatic (Arioch), Calm and collected (Leonard), Cunning and more like a mentor (Legna), Brutal but insightful (Angelus) and finally the sarcastic one who's secretly prepared to give even there lives to help there friends (Urick). As a result, while you will be trying to do the right thing, the actual method the cast of characters choose to take will be much more brutal and make the player wander if they actually are doing the right thing (Eg. the cast might decide that in order to defeat a horde of creatures that have begun to take over the town, they destroy the town and let it burn rather then try to evacuate it or just wander through and slay each creature)
The villains should actually come across as a bit more morally bound, but again they use extreme methods that most people do not like and ultimately object to. Giving them a slight moral high ground, but at the same time not enough to make them seem like good guys
Essentially, the game would be centered around two factions. With one being an empire that has stood for a long time, an order that is very old and feels somewhat out of date but ultimately is able to keep order. This is the factions the player characters are on, as all of them are members of an elite group of knights who are tasked with keeping order by any means, given missions by the tyrant emperor of the empire himself. Who are the enemies? A band of rebels and members of a much vaster alliance of enemy nations seeking to disrupt the order of the Empire and make things more democratic. In other words, your essentially playing as the bad guys.
Setting would be mild steam-punk, but keep alot of fantasy elements in it to. Think of it as more along the lines of the industrial revolution in this world, magic is gradually starting to be replaced by technology but its still a powerful force in the world.
The point of this is to give the player in question something to think about; Is what the main cast doing the right thing, or is the way the villains are conducting themselves ultimately better? Sure, the villains are doing horrible things, but surely they have good goals? Or, is that just it. Are there methods bad enough that it doesn't justify the ends they are trying to make. Quite literally, i wouldn't mind a final fantasy game that explores the moral shade of grey a little more instead of a typical good vs evil battle.
I smash the series back down to it's basics, give it remarkable graphics, a responsive and enjoyable combat system, a diverse cast of characters and then, I cel-shade it!
Also, if it's setting is in modern times, people do NOT punch each other through combat armour!
Guns, guns, guns! Rocket launcher!
Also, if it's setting is in modern times, people do NOT punch each other through combat armour!
Guns, guns, guns! Rocket launcher!
That would be good, provided you had the voice actors from Advent Children (though aren't they the same ones who do everything FFVII-based now? And Kingdom Hearts?), and provided it was Aeris, NOT Aerith. Then I'd be happyT3hMonk3y said:
.Anyway, if I was in charge, I'd basically make the world a bit of a mix of elements from Ivalice in FFXII and Cocoon in FFXIII. Try and have a round number of characters (Seven in X was a bit silly, if you wanted to level up your characters evenly then it made it so much more difficult..). Maybe six characters to choose from. And I'd do what they did in XIII, having a linear section of the game before making it open-world, but a shorter section. Personally I thought 20 hours of linearity was perfectly fine, but apparently some people don't agree and Ifrit forbid I should want to anger the internet... [/sarcasm].
As far as a story goes, I'd leave that down to the writers, though as a writer myself I would oversee them, make sure the dialogue is realistic at all times, that the story makes sense, and I would personally oversee the voice actors always to make doubly sure there was absolutely no Narm. Seriously, I love FFX (playing through it right now, in fact), but sometimes the voice acting just descends into such Narminess (aside from the laughing scene, I mean - an example would be Rikku when Tidus finds out the truth in Home about the pilgrimages). It just really grates on my nerves, you know?