IFireflyl
Gold Member
This post is confusing to me.
First of all: there are different development teams. Even if your explanation for this cynicism is "XIV is an MMO," the team is comprised of, like, no one from FFXV. In addition, practically everything stated in interviews has made it extremely clear that the story in XVI is its highest priority.
I never said or implied that Final Fantasy XVI is comprised of members of the Final Fantasy XV team. I stated that the last four original, main-series, single-player Final Fantasy games have been sorely lacking when it comes to the story, and that this track record leaves me with a lot of doubt. I don't care about the teams. I care about the products. Square Enix hasn't proved to me that they care about the final product.
Secondly: in regard to your "moved away from turn-based combat," it's strange that you say this as if SE had no experience with real-time combat prior to XV. The same (or mostly? same) team worked on Type-0. XV's combat is indeed insanely flawed and horrifically balanced, but that doesn't have to do with it being real-time.
I think you read too much into that bit. My thesis was that they spent too much time in something other than the story. You know, the important part of a JRPG.
Third: practically every mainline FF works on making the graphics "pop." Though obviously since the HD era that's been to the series' detriment
Kind of an irrelevant point to make since I wasn't knocking them wanting to have good graphics. Again, the point was that they spent too much time on something other than the story.
Fourth: This part obviously is just subjective/tales from my flat ass, but I believe that the dismal state of the game's story is primarily due to the focus on the completely incongruent open world camping bro-trip gameplay. There was an interview from years back stating that the devs were against the open world, but Tabata said that his position on making XV an open world was something he would stand firm with. I think it's that, plus being forced to use the Luminous engine while it was still being worked on, plus Tabata taking over a project and clearly being very insecure about directing it... and you have XV.
I think you're far too focused on Final Fantasy XV and you need to realize that they screwed the pooch with the three main-series Final Fantasy games before that as well. They haven't released a truly great Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy XII.
I get what you’re saying, but Naoki Yoshida is not a joke.
I’m not into the character designs of XVI, but XIV story wise is so good. I dont feel like i’m playing a MMORPG. I feel like i’m playing a full fledged GTA styled Final Fantasy. It actually feels like an FF game. The first for me since FFX.
It comes closest to that square magic.
In other words, as a MMORPG, XIV is a different beast.
And i havent even made it to Heavensward and the other expansions.
Dude actually managed to create something that resembles FF since X.
Tetsuya Nomura.. i dont dislike 7R. But the whole thing.. its a bit self centered. He’s kind of a joke with how he screwed up KH.
Tabata Hajime is a joke too.. genesis in crisis core wasn’t loved and type 0 isnt special.
That XIII dude is also a joke
“I brought with me a rose because it resembles Lightning” pff
But again Yoshi P is not a joke i can assure you
There’s reason to have faith in him
He’s the best square got
(Havent played Nier so dont know anything about Yoko Taro)
You could be right. I am focused on single-player JRPGs, and all I can say is that these have been lacking (story-wise) in the Final Fantasy series since Final Fantasy XII (some people would argue since Final Fantasy X). An MMORPG has a lot more flexibility to be worked and reworked.
What little I know about Final Fantasy XIV is that the initial launch was so bad that they essentially scrapped it and relaunched it as A Realm Reborn. You can't do something like that with a single-player Final Fantasy game. If you screw it up your only option is to pull the crap they did with Final Fantasy XV and release DLC to try to fix your mistake.
I certainly hope that the story for Final Fantasy XVI is awesome, but I've been disappointed for roughly a decade. Time will tell, but I desperately want you to be correct.
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