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[Death Penalty]

Square Enix is gunning for casual gamers, plain and simple. VII Remake is the game for old nostalgic gamers. They're being very smart businesswise. And they kind of have to be—Japan is cutthroat these days.

Yeah, I said most of this. The thing is, it's twisting Final Fantasy into something nearly unrecognizable to me as a core fan and while we're still getting large entries (however slowly they may come) I will continue to loathe this direction. It's vaguely unsettling that they're testing the waters for a mainline entry on mobile, considering how much money some of their existing mobile projects bring in for the company.

I also can't really see the appeal in this project. XV's beauty, sense of scale and combat system (if you're into it like I wasn't) are the main redeeming factors in a disjointed and unfinished feeling main game. This seems to remove pretty much all of that, while keeping one of XV's weakest aspects seemingly completely untouched. I can't imagine the appeal.

 

[Caronte]

Can we please move on to FFXVI soon Squeenix?

 

[Chaserjoey]

Reminds me so much of FFIII and IV. This probably would have launched on 3DS if XV came out a few years ago.

I'm digging the style of the game, and I'm excited to see if they carry everything over or just the world and story.

 

[Necro900]

It doesn't look all that bad in motion. Gladio's face is horrible, though.

But seriously.. who asked for this?

 

[ZeoVGM]

The "XV Universe" is embarrassing as fuck honestly like nah I'm not gonna enable this at all. This franchise is becoming a laughingstock.

Why does it make you so angry? It's a spinoff.

 

[texhnolyze]

It's not about the graphics. I just wish we could stop the double standard with Ubisoft here.

What are you talking about? The reactions have been mixed from what I've seen in this thread so far.

I feel your frustration over Ubisoft, but this is an entirely different situation.

 

[kulapik]

Yt link for the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjkypaxnUw&feature=youtu.be

LMAO that framerate

 

[butman]

This doesn't stop guys

 

[le.phat]

Looks better then the console version, so that's a plus.

 

[LotusHD]

Why does it make you so angry? It's a spinoff.

I mean, I dunno about the whole "honor of the franchise" thing, but this just looks bad to me.

 

[TimeSage]

Why does it make you so angry? It's a spinoff.

It's a spinoff for an unfinished game.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Well, that's certainly a thing that exists.

 

[-Horizon-]

That is probably my favorite iteration of Cindy.

 

[Gotdatmoney]

That framerate is embarassing.

 

[Redx508]

Can we please move on to FFXVI soon Squeenix?

XV-2 coming soon
joking aside yea i don't want to see anything from XV anymore.

Should've just made it ATB and classic ugly FF7 style polygons to capture the retro crowd.

they have the Tokyo RPG Factory games for that.

 

[encephalon]

It looks really similar to FFIII and FFIV DS.

 

[PhantomKnight]

I don't mind the idea, they spent years creating the universe, why not use it more. Since it takes them years to create games, it would be a waste to just leave ffxv universe. With the universe the are tapping different market which is good, like mentioned in an earlier post. Only thing I wished for is that used a original story.

 

[TheCed]

No jaw nor mouth.
A monster upon itself.

& Knuckles

 

[clay_ghost]

Will definitely download and try this lol

 

[ZeoVGM]

Can we please move on to FFXVI soon Squeenix?

The existence of this has absolutely no impact on XVI.

 

[stenbumling]

I have called the authorities. Please Square Enix, don't be mad at me. This is for your own good. I hope you will find the help you need.

Spoiler

And yet, there's something charming about this. But ten episodes? Same broken, fragmented story? No.

 

[Monado Blade]

they have the Tokyo RPG Factory games for that.

Lost Sphear and I Am Setsuna are not mainline Final Fantasy games though. This one is. Well, technically anyway

 

[Strings]

lol...

I don't know what to say. Why remake this story?

 

[ZeoVGM]

This would have been real cool if it was ATB.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Oh crap I forgot chibi aranea would be a thing

Might actually get this now

Exactly. Chibi games are always better with girls.

 

[Sickboy007]

I really like the artstyle ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[Mediking]

lol...

I don't know what to say. Why remake this story?

When you're a JRPG fan... you don't ask "WHY?" anymore but "WHEN?" instead.

 

[AlexFlame116]

When you're a JRPG fan... you don't ask "WHY?" anymore but "WHEN?" instead.

I wonder when Persona 3 is getting remade. For mobile. FeMC only.

 

[Koozek]

Reminds me of this

 

[Strings]

When you're a JRPG fan... you don't ask "WHY?" anymore but "WHEN?" instead.

When... When remake this story?

Spoiler

Am I doing this right ?

 

[wrowa]

I like the idea of a chibi FFXV, but this looks rather cheap. It reminds me of a PC game played on the lowest settings: Playable, but everything looks somewhat off. I also wonder how much the game will
keep XV's open nature: If you make it into a linear story-based game then there's frankly not much left considering how barebones XV's story was.

Still, not surprised they are doing this. FFXV was a very expensive project and they are milking it to make as much money off of it as possible. That's only logical, really. When you spend a lot of money you also want to earn a lot of money, otherwise the investment and the risk you took weren't worth it.

 

[Plywood]

 

[Caronte]

The existence of this has absolutely no impact on XVI.

Sure, and Steam's success has no impact on Valve's current output right?

 

[Ydelnae]

Reminds me of this

I hope this killed any hope you had about S-E revisiting the Versus plotlines in any reworked version of the game.

 

[CJY]

"Please be excited"

 

[TheCed]

The sad thing is, it's going to be profitable !

...
I hate this game.

 

[wrowa]

The existence of this has absolutely no impact on XVI.

If anything a successful XV universe helps XVI. If SE makes a lot of money with everything XV related, spending a lot of money on XVI's development is easier to justify (since they can milk it across many different products in the same way).

 

[Mediking]

I wonder when Persona 3 is getting remade. For mobile. FeMC only.

Atlus-senpai listens to ME... soooo....

When... When remake this story?

Spoiler

Am I doing this right ?

Lmao I tried to be clever and you outwitted me. You win.

I hope this killed any hope you had about S-E revisiting the Versus plotlines in any reworked version of the game.

Never say never, Tom Hardy. Shouldn't you be working on Mad Max 2?

 

[theofficefan99]

Why does it make you so angry? It's a spinoff.

The way they've handled this game and this "universe" as a whole is what is making me so angry. It just screams "WE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THIS FRANCHISE."

Call me naive but I would say focusing on making an amazing mainline title will garner short-term AND long-term results, along with rebuilding the series' reputation. FFVII didn't garner a reputation worth 15+ million views by releasing in a very unfinished/rushed/stapled-together state that prioritized attempting to (and, IMO, miserably failing) chase Western trends and leaving everything else in the back-burner whilst dispersing vital lore/world/character/story info in outside material (and to make matters worse even with everything included the writing is trash) and etc. etc.

 

[AlexFlame116]

Atlus-senpai listens to ME... soooo....

But I am thou and thou art I.....soooo....

 

[doemaaan]

Scratching my head here.

 

[Mediking]

But I am thou and thou art I.....soooo....

But I'm better in Splatoon 2 than you...soooo....

 

[AlexFlame116]

But I'm better in Splatoon 2 than you...soooo....

Aw come on that's not fair! I can't play while I'm stuck in the hospital.

Spoiler

Give me a couple of days to train afterwards.

 

[Death Penalty]

If anything a successful XV universe helps XVI. If SE makes a lot of money with everything XV related, spending a lot of money on XVI's development is easier to justify (since they can milk it across many different products in the same way).

I mean, unless it's determined that allocation of resources to larger money sinks is an unnecessary part of the milking process. This does not necessarily imply XVI will have more bounty to work with, just that if this business strategy is successful we will see it for XVI as well. Personally I'm not convinced that's great news.

 

[Spiritwalker]

Well.. that sure is a thing.

Reminds me of this

I would have prefered this to be honest. It's cute.

 

[Frumix]

Reminds me of this

These legit look better lmao

 

[pbayne]

is noctis gonna be the new lightning

 

[butman]

Same plot. But, same size?

 

[ArtHands]

So people criticise mobile for having too many shallow f2p games and now they are unhappy mobile will have a mainline entry of an AAA game series thats not a f2p

 

[AgentLampshade]

is noctis gonna be the new lightning

At least he's likable.