Will Square Enix learn the right lesson and actually make a Final Fantasy game the players want, or will they stick their heads in the sand and keep at their failing strategy?

>>713746248 (OP)
PLEASE
FUCK
WE JUST WANT YOU TO MAKE FINAL FANTASY GAMES
WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM

>>713746248 (OP)
>Square Enix
>Learning
>At all
Can't wait for the turn based woke garbage

I do not have faith enough in SE to assume they understand anything about their former fanbase. Much less what would be needed to start to win them back.

Turn based is the dumbest shit in 2025.
Sorry you had to hear it from me, but it's so fucking lame.

>>713746248 (OP)
Bravely Default Switch 2 sales say you don't want turn based games and are just LARPing.

>>713746418
SE already had a fanbase.

>>713746248 (OP)
Even if every shareholder puts a gun to their head and asks for turn based games, I'll believe it when I see it. I seriously think every SE executive despises the FF fans from the Golden era (FF1 to FFX)

>>713746248 (OP)
HEY that screenshot is MINE

>>713746418
Too bad no one agrees with you, huh?

>>713746584
All 2m of them?

>>713746248 (OP)
>Square Enix
Who fucking cares? It's still going to be Nomura gaybait belt & buckle fetishist trash. A quarter century of making games exclusively for early 2000's aesthetic homosexuals.

>>713746757
None did, this guy was just a reporter. He also suggested they "release a new FF every year" as if that would be realistic.

>>713746976
>It's still going to be Nomura gaybait belt & buckle fetishist trash.
He's retiring after KH4 tho, but I suppose that's exactly what KH4 is in limbo, to not let him go and finish them FF7 remake master collection for PS6

>>713747026
>"release a new FF every year"
Yet when they did that on the PS1 they made some of the best JRPGs in history? Maybe that guy's on to something.

>>713747250

Idk, would anyone -really- miss him? He's a good character artist, but letting him off that chain was a mistake.

>>713747307
and game development hasn't changed at all since then of course

If SE gets rid of nomura and cancels KH it will transform overnight into Square Soft levels of quality.

>>713748179
Perhaps it is time to scale Final Fantasy back down to what it should have been then. You know, when it sold well and took a year to make.

>>713748427
>regressivism
yeah i'm sure the shareholders will cheer for that

>>713748613
>give the players what they want
>NO YOU CAN'T WE HAVE TO LOSE BILLIONS
sorry retard but money talks and losing money on FINAL FANTASY GAMES is absolutely retarded when they are a free win if you just do what players are asking you to do

>>713746248 (OP)

They´ll learn nothing but it no longer matters. Current SE target audience weren´t even alive when the company was called Squaresoft and making good games and surely those older than 25 already moved on. Not to mention the devs that made all the good games are either retired, close to retiring, moved on to other companies or projects or were relegated to minor roles within the company ages ago.

For your own good you need to understand it is impossible to go back. Just accept current SE is a talentless bunch of hacks that make mid games to please the suits.

final fantasy is the series they experiment and have fun with.
if you want old fashioned turn based niggas in a row, dragon quest is right there.

>>713748427
They can't lure back all those 30-40+ year olds at this point, many stop playing video games over time. They'll squeeze out a few more remakes before that well runs dry.
FF needs to find a way to garner a new audience, and that's what it's struggling to do.

>>713748613
The players would. Are you a shareholder Anon?

>>713748613
Losing money is worse
>But muh stock is up
That just makes it worse. The stock being up despite their AAA investments being losers is just another reason why shareholders don't want them to waste money making games. They probably want them like Konami whos more into merchandising.

>>713746248 (OP)
it's hard to learn from your mistakes when the risk of failure is coming home to provide for your family with nothing

>>713748939
>final fantasy is the series they experiment and have fun with
>they
Too bad no one else is.
Oh and before it was whatever it is you think it is now, its weakes game sold better than Rebirth.

i want kingdom hearts 2 combat in ff17 and kh4:
>2 shortcut menus each menu has 4 shortcuts assigned to face buttons - l1, r1
>kh2 magic + bbs more advanced magic
>kino kh2 movement - aerial dodge, glide
>summons - literally ff summons, you can move during them
>drive gauge
but we're stuck with osaka dogshit kh team and main ff7r tokyo team doing open world slop

>>713748427
You mean like Octopath traveler? Why is it that for retards it only counts when Final Fantasy is on the cover?

>>713749440
>muh osaka
You don't play KH, you don't even understand what you're complaining about.

>>713748427
>Octopath
>Fantasian
>Bravely default
>SaGa

>>713746353
Man, seeing Square make FFXIII a trilogy, then have to re-release XIV, then cancel Versus and make XV, then make Forspoken, and THEN make XVI is both hilarious and a nightmare. No, they won't learn theit lesson OP, they've shown themselves to be entirely incapable since 2006. Good thing is that we can also have new franchises, Persona effectively replaced FF as the big JRPG series, but maybe Clair Obscur will replace Persona, who knows.

>>713746248 (OP)
>final fantasy fans want a final fantasy game

C'est impossible! Putains!

>>713749572
No I mean Final Fantasy. Octopath has nothing to do with FF and most people don't give a shit about SE beyond their longest running and most popular franchise.

>>713749805
>but maybe Clair Obscur will replace Persona, who knows.
Lol, lets see them make three good games first like Persona 3, 4 and 5. I'm willing to bet their next game will be ultra woke and/or they'll get bought out by a big Western company which also means its getting woke. Its only a matter of time with Western companies

>>713749648
found osaka tranny
how is kh4 btw? 6.5 years since kh3 enjoy waiting until 2030

>>713749843
Well, we did like a ton of Enix games before Square killed them all

>Square Enix
>learning anything
>despite having spent decades now shitting out garbage

>>713749805
Not a single Persona game outside of 5 did numbers close to what even the shittiest FF numbers are at.
FF is still the biggest jrpg name. Just look at this board, every new jrpg still gets compared to it for validation.

>>713750290
Precisely. You get more threads about that mmo faggot than any other jrpg.

final fantasy fans want skill based action gameplay with gay (read: lesbian) romance options with an intriguing story that doesn't have to be about you ending a world-wide threat or god

>>713750743
Fuck off shitposter

>>713750743
>2m sales
Clearly not.

>>713750743
Final Fantasy is in good hands then!

>>713750743
>>713751132
Same anon.

>>713750261
This
They are clearly not able to learn

>>713746248 (OP)
FF16 is on the same level as MGS4 and DmC in that /v/ has unnatural hatred towards them because they don’t “get” them.

>>713746248 (OP)
Why make a game players want, when you can tell players what they want?

Square never learns fucking anything. They will draw all the worst lessons from Expedition 33.

This company is possibly the most soulless dev/publisher in Japan. Literally always blindly chasing the most retarded trends (literally fell for the NFT meme and wasted 300 million dollars on it), the most ESG/DEI oriented company too (Forspoken) and have no idea what they should do with their assets, resources and IP (they got Platinum again, so they had them make a shitty game as a service that literally died in a month).

There is NO hope for them whatsoever.

>>713746248 (OP)
Rebirth has better combat than E33

>>713748427
Everytime SE releases a lower budget AA turn based RPG nobody buys it. There's no demand for them. E33 was an actual meme that has no bearing on the actual market for what games people want

>>713750261
>>713751895
>>713746398
What exactly do you want Square Enix to learn?

>>713752947
This. Pretty much my exact thoughts.

>>713752947
Rebirth was the best game they've released in the last 20 years

>>713753264
And it was still fucking horrible

>>713753416
Nah it was really good and the combat was actually great

>>713746248 (OP)
Never.
The talent is long gone.
Just let it die.

>>713752947
The fuck does any of that have to do with "learning the right lesson" from Clair Obscur?

>>713753583
They want Final Fantasy to have melodrama slop writing and QTE combat

>>713753583
That them saying they try to learn from E33 is just lip service and execs going "THIS GAME IS A JRPG AND SOLD A LOT WE WILL LEARN FROM THAT" without any substance just to hype up shareholders.

>>713749805
>maybe Clair Obscur will replace Persona
We don't even know if Sandfall will continue the story or their next game will be a standalone title

>>713750073
How about they make 1 good game? Expedition 33 was actually dogshit

>>713746976
I don't know why retards like you shittalk Nomura when he's the only higher-up left at Squeenix who isn't completely fucking retarded. Kingdom Hearts as a series has been more consistently enjoyable than Final Fantasy since fucking 2009.

>>713753808
Kingdom Hearts had 1 good game 23 years ago and nothing but fucking trash ever since

>>713746248 (OP)
They already learned the right lessons with Rebirth. Making the combat worse by making it turn based would be a gigantic mistake

>>713753847
There isn't a single KH game that's worse than a 7/10 (outside of the mobage, but good mobage literally don't exist). Final Fantasy frequently dips into 4-6/10.

>>713753689
>them saying they try to learn from E33
No such thing was said during this meeting.

>>713753495
lol okay whatever you say comrade copenstein

FF seemed so hard to fuck up on the PS1. How did we get here?

>>713746248 (OP)
I dont want them to learn any lessons from e33 that game was not good despite the incessant pajeet shilling on here

>>713746248 (OP)
Trans Obscura flopped.

>>713757159

>>713757475
very white

Square Enix is incapable of learning anything.

>>713753926
Can't really get much WORSE than Rebirth though can it?
Like objectively?

>>713746248 (OP)
Please don't make Kingdom Hearts turn-based.
I'd take Chain of Memories before I take turn-based.

>>713759890
You will take what Nomuragods give you and be happy for the privileged.

they don't need to return to turn based, they need to give us good waifus

the waifus haven't been memorable for the past 5 titles

>>713761284
there is no quicker path to mediocrity than pandering to gooners

>>713761832
it's not about gooners tranny, it's about memorable character design

think about the last non-remake final fantasies and how many of the characters were cosplayed by people or how much fan art there was of the characters, they just don't spark any love or fan interest

>>713762218
uh-huh sure

>>713761832
>ff16 has a boring story, generic gameplay, and boring characters
>This is somehow not mediocrity to you

>>713763151
NTA but I will remind you that Stellar Blade sold more than Rebirth.

>>713746248 (OP)
>failing strategy
>their stock price keeps going up

?????

>>713763224
Filtered

>>713763360
Being bought out by the most monetization-greedy company in Singapore is great for the shareholders, they're about to make a killing watching this company destroy XIV, but for gamers?

>>713746248 (OP)
I browsed the Square Enix catalogue, went to each FF steam page and ended up buying Claire Obscure and Persona 5. And i'm someone who consider myself an old FF fan.
These new entries have zero appeal.

>>713763952
you probably did what most people do at this point

What people ultimately want for FF is for it to have both a great story and visuals. Gameplay is secondary, doesn't matter if it's turn based or not.

Thing is, they don't have the in house talent to write even a decent story.

>>713764009

Speak for yourself I'd never even consider buying a FF that isn't turn-based.

>>713764009
>What people ultimately want for FF is for it to have both a great story and visuals.
lol how's that been working out for you for two decades now you fucking moron?
oh no lost a few billion?
nobody likes the brand at all anymore and only replays the old games?
eat shit idiot

>>713763617
Their list of properties is pretty impressive and not a single failed business there.

>>713764009
I just want a FF game. I wanna go on an adventure with a variety of weird characters with their own personal stories and discover the world through their eyes and watch them grow as a character. I wanna hate the antagonist and receive a cool cinematic set piece as a reward after a long hardship moment.
I wanna miss the characters after the credits roll. I just want a goddamn final fantasy game.

>>713764126
okay, but i didn't play older FFs for its gameplay. I could not care less if it was turn based or not

>>713746353
We hear you loud and clear. Please enjoy buying the party members one by one as exclusive NFTs, limited in quantity. Please be excited.

>>713764319
did i imply i like modern FFs retard-san?

>>713764428
That's fine, we're allowed to be different.

>>713764505
>Gameplay is secondary, doesn't matter if it's turn based or not
lol

>>713764630
I accept your concession

I've only played FF1-6. I don't think I cared about the story or characters in them all that much. Maybe a bit better than other jrps of the era, but not by much.
Are they really that much better in the later games or are you guys full of it, as /v/ posters often are?

>>713764621

>qte parry slop
>turn based
e33 wasnt turn based

>>713764823
You can play up to 10 and see if you like those. If that's still not your thing Final Fantasy is officially dead to you.
There is no reason to ever go beyond 10 (maybe 12, if you want to push it).

>>713764773
I accept that you were projecting about being retarded and that everyone disagrees with you and that you're an idiot and your taste in games is trash lmao

>>713764823

Ehr, 1-3 is the silver age, 3-6 is the golden age, 6-10 is the platinum age, and after that it all starts to erode away. Modern Final Fantasy is practically unplayable for silver-to-gold age fans.

>>713764823
I'd say that from FFIV forward, the characters starts becoming more fleshed out.
Each game has a different kick to it. I don't care much for any of 7 characters for example, 8 i like only a few, 9 i love every single one.
So you basically have to play and see which has more synergy with you.

>>713765081
okay ms. only-turn-based-game-matters-in-all-videogames-tranny chan. Bumping faggot-chan

>>713765220
lol project and seethe walking simulator retard enjoy your "graphics and story" for however much pre-rope time you've got left

>>713765185
this is a pretty good summary

>>713746248 (OP)
god i hope the singaporians bury them

>>713764462
I hate.

>>713746248 (OP)
>Will Square Enix learn
lol
lmao

>>713746248 (OP)
>failing strategy

>>713746576
We're not talking about BD my man. Keep up.

>>713746248 (OP)
SE aren't capable of "learning" anything. They're retarded old boomers.

>>713767978
Yes.

>>713746248 (OP)
REAL TIME LIVE SERVICE FINAL FANTASY WITH GACHA AND NFT INCOMING STUPID GAIJIN

>>713746248 (OP)
Action still sells more than turd based.

Cant belive this place is defending nu square LMAO
Grim

>>713768815
E33 sold 3.3m.
Baldur's Gate 3 sold 15m.

>>713768992
/v/ is a slop board.

i don't get what Clair 33 is supposed to teach them other than that JRPGs are a niche. The game was selling at 50 bucks on multiple platforms and still hasn't reached 4 million yet.

>>713768997
Elden Ring sold 20 million.

>>713769208
Checkers sold 50 billion.

>>713746248 (OP)
My god they are retarded. The combat of R7make/birth was great. It was shit because of pic related and every other story change

E33 might be one of the worst things to happen to JRPGs.
The combat is actually atrocious. At its core, it actually has a lot of really great systems, completely unique characters, tons of customization, etc. except literally none of this matters since you can (and the game is balanced around) just dodge / parry everything.

>>713763360
turn-based tards are getting desperate and have been spamming this all week now.

>>713769562
God I hope E33 becomes the new standard. Maybe we'll get some good games out of SE for once.

>>713746248 (OP)
I enjoyed Rebirth and Remake

>>713769562
filtered, stick to excel

>>713746248 (OP)
Expedition 33 fucking sucked. Absolute meme game

>>713769475
>playing final fantasy for the story

>>713769631
The JRPG / action combat is just a distraction from FFXVI's problems anyways.

It's a terrible game because the story is terrible, it has literally no RPG systems (even DMC has more meaningful character progression), and its sidequests are shockingly bad, like it was designed by someone who hasn't played a video game since the 80s. The "highlight" of the game is the equivalent to jangling keys in front of a baby. If you legitimately enjoyed the bahamut fight I actually think that is really embarrassing.

>>713769701
>The only reason you could have this criticism is if I thought the game was too hard
NPC response

>>713746248 (OP)
by the time they do it, no one will care. 50 poojeet bandwagon copies of E33 will already saturate the market and then retards and journalists will be writing articles and blogposts saying shit like SE is living in the past and they should have stuck to their FF7R hybrid style.

>>713749572
I wish Octopaths would take a year to make. Only two coming out during an entire console generation is a travesty.

>>713749805
>Pokemon effectively replaced FF as the big JRPG series
Ftfy
Why generations of anons refuse to acknowledge Pokemon's place atop the JRPG totem pole, I'll never understand.

>>713768749
>Our winning formula
>selling fewer and fewer copies per capita of the population of video gamers each game for 20 years
Thanks guy, very cool

>>713769951
>designed by someone who hasn't played a video game since the 80s
lol stop pretending to be a legitimate poster you sloppy ropeweight, nobody agrees with you

>>713770857
Pokemon has the same problem that Final Fantasy does. Take a winning formula, stop using it, everyone hates your new games but still plays the shit out of the remakes.
>My pokemon turns into a motorcycle!
What the fuck are you doing gamefreak

>>713763617
They own over 10% of Square Enix now.

>>713769562
>E33 might be one of the worst things to happen to JRPGs.
It's not a jrpg.

>>713770969
I agree.

>>713746248 (OP)
the problem with square is not having their games turnbased or anything, but from the very start, squaresoft was kind of shit

from their very first game to their very first RPG, all Squaresoft knows is to copy other popular games or make flashy games with very shallow gameplay

they got lucky with Final Fantasy that it was mechanically better than DQ1, but ever since then, they have been huffing their own farts. now that all the people that made Square popular are gone, all they can make is shit RPGs

>>713771456
>replies to OP again
yawn

>>713746248 (OP)
I expect the most incompetent possible interpretation of what they need to be doing along with a major poison pill.

That's been the norm for SE since the merger. Only the Dragon Quest team generally avoids it.

>>713746353
They just released 16 last year?

>>713750073
>muh woke woke woke woke
Ever played a Persona game champ?

>>713772264
Sorry they haven't made a Final Fantasy game since 10 and 7-10 were really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

>>713746353
They make Final Fantasy games, just not for (you) anymore.

>>713773331
Was FF10 even a FF game? It was basically a movie with a turn based combat just like FF13. The last true FF game was FF9. Even then FF7 Rebirth's combat is the most amazing thing they have ever made though.

>>713773526
They make them for an audience that doesn't exist.

XII and XIII were riding on the goodwill from the old games
XV had a huge hype machine going back years before release; people loved the hot characters, story ideas, and aesthetic
They completely blew XV by making it a directionless and incomplete mess
That's the main reason why there was such a huge falloff for XVI
They got greedy with 7R, and those ugly woke NPCs didn't help

Basically, they've been riding on momentum and hype, and I think that's finally ran out. FFXVII is going to need to be as beloved as VII through X if SE doesn't want FF to enter Sonic territory or die altogether. I'm not hopeful that they have it in them.

>>713773716
>Even then FF7 Rebirth's combat is the most amazing thing they have ever made though
You keep posting this, nobody agrees with you, everyone hates it

>>713749440
Problem is you just want an action game not an RPG and that's why for FF FF7 Rebirth's combat is the most appropriate. You target weaknesses, status effects, there is team composition, team attacks, different builds through materia (or jobs) and because of the stagger system, and how is utilized in the game, it forces you to approach enemies in different ways. KH combat is just dodging and button mashing and that is all the is to it. Straight up brainless action kind of like FF16.

Not to mention FF7 Rebirth's combat can be evolved in so many ways too. Can be made even more complex, tactical and strategic. So much potential to keep making it better and better and it is so unique and in brand with the Active Time Battle system they have been pushing since FF4. How can you retards not see that? Or the potential? It's incredible what they created here. The fucking best combat ever.

>>713769668
They were both shit!
I really enjoyed both of them. Just finished Rebirth. 10/10. Don't read this! I don't want anyone discovering my fake contrarian persona!

>>713769562
>except literally none of this matters since you can (and the game is balanced around) just dodge / parry everything.
That's like saying Elden Ring customization doesn't matter because you dodge / parry everything. Also you can finish the game on highest difficulty without pressing dodge or parry even once.

>>713748427
FF games were always big budget Jrpg's that pushed the envelope. That's what set it apart from the rest of the trash.

>>713776348
The problem is that big budget has a different meaning ever since FFXIII when the budget and team required to make the latest top of the line graphics ballooned like crazy.

>>713746248 (OP)
>SE admits they were wrong to cast aside turn based games in favour of action games
>Instead of seeing this as a good thing, retards are hooting and hollering that they finally won and killed SE
I'm genuinely confused.

>>713776654
they didn't admit anything. You are falling for clickbait.

>>713746540

You are right combat should exclusively be a prolonged series of quick time events preferably 2-6 per second for 10m+

>>713775229
>How can you retards not see that?
Because I didn't asked for this. I wanted to save elixirs for hard mode, the game says fuck you. I wanted to grind materia duplicates like in the original, the game says fuck you. In return me and people like me are saying fuck you to Square. If this was not FF7 then people like me wouldn't care. It is a good hybrid of action combat/RPG but it doesn't fit FF7 at all.