If pushing the limits means you have to sell 5 million on a new IP just to break even. Then you’re not going to do it.

Because that would be stupid. You’re going to make what you can afford to, while protecting yourself from closing your doors.

Lair’s pretty visuals didn’t save the developer when the game failed to sell.

There are things SE have done in other RPG’s they’ve made that would have made FFXIII a much better game.

Yet they did nothing to improve on XIII’s obvious glaring flaws. Thanks for that Cure, AI. But I’d have used a Cura instead. Since you know, the damage we’re taking negates that heal completely. Leaving me still in need of healing.

Too bad I can’t use anything close to the Gambit System to set priorities.

Gee, thanks Sentinal for taking all this damage away from my healer. It’s just a shame the AI of the healer decide to stand right next to you so he can die from AoE damage. Making you a complete waste.

If only I could move like FFXII…

I have nothing against change, but only when they actually apply what they already know to it. So that change isn’t a complete mess, that could have been avoided.

Graphics can help a game, but only so much.

Oh Dear God, why people think that their opinion is the absolute truth? If Lightning, Sazh, Vanille and Hope are weak to him, they are strong to many and many and many! Bless this poor soul God! Amem

ff has never been better this gen

Just an opinion, but this is the majority’s also. If you disagree, then that is you. Again though, this is two years past, and everything you’ve said, and everything I just said, has been said about 10 million times. Google around, and you’re going to find there are a sort who like the game, and many that don’t. Both parties have wielded the same argument foundations since it launched, and the truth is that there are simply far more haters than admirers, and therefore, as ratings and statistics go, FF13 is simply not a good game and that, percentage wise, it is not going to apply to, or be enjoyable by, most. Hence, journalists, even when they themselves enjoyed FF13, admit to its many faults because there is a truth to them in that they are vocalized, empirical, and consistent.

But it’s been two years. Two. Years.

If that means more of the same game with each iteration, then I think they will do just that. If it means copying other popular games, and trying to bring in a new audience to boost sales, then I think they will do that as well. =/

With FF, each story has been beautiful in its own way…sometimes changing too much. But I love that about FF. I think their main problem is trying to change up the gameplay. FF 13 should not have been that linear, FF games have always had world maps. The battles themselves were the most intereasting I’ve had next to 12 and 10 but still could have been sooo much better if they used a few old gameplay mechs. As a game developer…I think I would do what I feeel is best. I’d find some form of gameplay that the fans love and stick close to that and just keep improving on it.

 Take KH1 and 2 for example, gameplay only improved but the story and events made it feel and look like a brand new game…but it was still KH.Trust me when I say the events and the games world its self really matter. If SE keeps changing its gameplay Im afraid that we might wind up with a FPS FF.

I suppose I’ll continue the Final Fantasy discussion some… Let’s be honest, most of the vocal fans of games like Final Fantasy on the internet, they don’t want change. I think the consumers in Japan are pretty much the same.

Just look at Dragon Quest for example, the people who buy the series like candy in Japan were a bit upset by the big change with DQ X.

Final Fantasy has always been about trying to do something different with each game. I think for years the developers have been trying to find the middle ground. Basically, they want to not make the same game, but they don’t want to change to much of the formula. Change is almost like a forbidden word in video games when it comes to long running series.

I’m fine with change, but I think most fans want new entries in a series to be more of the same. What do you do as a developer? I think Square had a pretty good idea in the PS1 era with the series. They kinda did something really different with FF7 and FF8, but they returned to the roots of the series with FF9. I’ve said it before, but I think fans want another game like FF9, they haven’t really gotten that game this generation.

“I look around Tokyo Games Show, and everyone’s making awful games; the same games. Over and over. Their not changing anything, even the characters are your boring repeated anime characters.” said Keiji Inafune, 45, head of global research and development at Capcom and one of Japan’s most prominent game designers.”I feel like Nintendo, Capcom, and Sqaure Enix are the only ones trying new things. Pushing the limits.We can barely keep up with the west now.”

You used one seires of games to talk about next gen…dogmatic. Friend, do some research. XIII was so loved that it sold over 6.7 copies world wide.The only people that hated it hated that it changed to much, and according to SE THATS WHAT THEY WANT FINAL FANTASY TO DO.

The only bad thing coming next gen is exactly what Keiji Inafune is worried about.