What went wrong?
What went wrong?
Wyatt Rivera
Ian Reed
Final Fantasy XIV happened and them realizing that they don't need to try anymore when MMO gives them tons of money
Anthony Bailey
Square Enix
Cooper Hughes
Rent free
Isaac Peterson
2004 is the year of the downfall
FF12's development hell
Fabula Nova Crystallis
Crystal Tools
Cameron Jenkins
>tfw played FF on release date
>tfw when still enjoy most of the new shit
Nolan Watson
Was it too ambitious?
Jayden Johnson
the moment that that The Spirits Within tanked marked the end of Square-Soft
Ian King
This + Square being horrendously incompetent for most the past two decades without interruption.
Landon Foster
You grew up
Charles Hernandez
Tear is so cute I love her.
Ryder Russell
Nah that's can't be why because the games I was too young to play when they came out are still good.
Ian Turner
Every game being development hell and thinking too highly of themselves in general FFXVI seems far too grandiose already, and we hardly know anything about it; par for the course for SE
On the other hand, when something works (XIV), they actively make sure to sand off any rough edges and creativity for the least innovative experience in the world
I think XVI will end up to be pretty bland and too far up its own ass
Brandon Jackson
The series was never good. The gameplay has always been tedious and horribly balanced in comparison to other noteworthy JRPGs, and the storytelling has always been retarded.
Christopher Robinson
Modern gaming practices and culture
Jackson Ross
I enjoyed XV just playing it. Story was a bit stupid but I could always travel back in time
Oliver Howard
>I enjoyed XV
Are you mentally disabled?
Jace Green
Bloating budgets, engine rewrites, and putting Nomura in charge of too much story direction.
Hot take: There aren't any truly bad main line FF games, they just take too long and build up too much expectation. People remember the "golden years" as the best because they were knocking them out like every year.
Robert Edwards
They made Chrono Break and you didn't play it.
Jack Long
Nothing.
The franchise is on its peak once again and shits on the competition. Give me one single other JRPG franchise that has power, ill wait.
Jace Wood
>budget = power
Evan Robinson
They used to have like 4 dedicated teams all working on their own mainline FFs, and in doing so were able to add little gimmicks to make each their own, without having 10 years of hype and a super bloated budget for each. Much like Rare during the N64, they had their own formula for cranking shit out, ie pre-rendered backgrounds with the standard ATB battle system as a framework.
Mainline FF is still amazing for the most part. It’s just that in the last 15 (literally) years we’ve been graced with only the trash that is 13 and 15 (14 is actually good).
FF7, FFT, Xenogears, Parasite Eve 1&2, FF8, Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, FF9, and FFX all came out in 4 YEARS OF EACH OTHER. Let that sink in.
Christian Bennett
Final Fantasy 4 and 6 started being movies first and games second. The Franchise never recovered
Josiah Gomez
FFXI and FFXII turned out fine, FF only really started to go bad with FFXIII FFXIV and FFXV