Thread 717523795

Final Fantasy is dying

We just need to import more brown migrants to make up for those sales.

>>717523795 (OP)
>dying
No no, Final Fantasy is dead.

The other thread actually has interesting discussion in it. I have no idea why you thought we needed another one.

more black mutts will save it, sweetbaby doesn’t allow the other direction on the lightness slider

>>717523795 (OP)
It's been dead for a couple decades now.

>>717524315
This is the third thread

>>717523795 (OP)
Why'd you post a fake screenshot, drama-baiting faggot?

>>717523795 (OP)
I'll take it from here, mes amis.

>>717525051
You know these articles get posted with slight changes to title and image to different websites all the time, right? Most "gaming news sites" are own by conglomerates, and the """"journalists"""" work for the conglomerates not the individual sites.

>>717524880
The best one

>>717523795 (OP)
Square Enix will outlive your bloodline.

Bump

>>717523795 (OP)
I've been playing ffx for over 30 years now. I genuinely think 15 is the best Final Fantasy. But with one huge caveat you have to consume all the extra crap. The comic, the movie, the book, the anime, the websites, etc etc
they are all a part of 15 which I see and the only true transmedium product ever made.

>>717531354
Pokemon was kinda like too to an extent. Gen 1 was the most wonderful experience, but if you're only looking at the old games without the endless amounts of people to trade and battle with, yeah you're going to think it sucks.

>>717523795 (OP)
>>717524094
And that's a good thing!

>>717523795 (OP)
It really doesn't help that SE likes to set insanely unrealistic goals for all its games. Like I remember Tomb Raider selling 2 million copies then a couple weeks later at a shareholder meeting SE saying it didn't perform to expectations.
>>717531354
15 got absolutely fucked by how badly managed it was. Its literally an entirely different game now with an ending that doesn't even resemble release. Also its still a shame that they scrapped the last 2 episodes and released them as a book instead.

Here's a bump

>>717535224
2 million copies in 2013 for a franchise like tomb raider and the advertisement it got is pretty shit

>>717535224
>>717536082
Tomb raider 2013 sold like 7-8 million its first month, with a total of 14.5 lifetime.
Squeenix still said it flopped because they've been run by retards who thought it was going to do GTA 5 numbers for some reason.

Tells you the state of SE when their break glass incase of emergency game only sold 2 million because of how retarded the idea was to split it in 3.

>>717536423
the worst part about remake being split in 3 is that their excuse was that it would be too much work to remake the full game yet they padded the shit out of ep 1 with nonsense.

What does this mean for the future? Will they actually do good FF title now?
Because there haven't been any in like 10 years

Everything heavily underperforms by SE standards even when it's good. This company can't collapse soon enough

the people who think "final fantasy" is a big, important brand are all getting too old for video games
and all the zoomers have never seen a good final fantasy game release in their lifetime so they dont give a shit

>>717538263
>Neither do their action games, evidently.
Uhh... Automata? Ever heard of it? Probably not, it's very niche and didn't sell well.

Jokes aside, I do agree with what you're saying. Ultimately though, that's not where Square Enix is at I guess. I think they're at a crossroads. They've got Dragon Quest as the "big budget" turn-based game, an old Enix IP. They've got Octopath and other Team Asano games (like the Remasters) as the "small budget" turn-based games. Where does "old school" Final Fantasy fit in this?

Back in the days when it was Squaresoft and Enix, this would just be healthy competition in the gaming space that the consumers benefit from, and it was. We got amazing games like Chrono Trigger, and we also got more experimental "cult classics" like 7th Saga (turn-based) or the Soul Blazer/Illusion of Gaia/Terranigma games (action). However, they are now both the same company, and Final Fantasy has nowhere to go in the turn-based space, so I think they're taking it the action route. Think about it - they've already got turn-based games, many of them in fact. Why would they need more? Final Fantasy could be the "big budget" action game instead, and maybe Nier could be the "small budget" action game, if they continue with that series. Now they've got turn-based and action fans instead of just turn-based fans.

>>717538553
10 years? the last good ff was X and it was flawed as fuck. Anything afterward was schizo nonsense from a company that completely lost the plot.

>>717524741
>>717524094
Yeah.
FF X was the last good one, at least from the SP ones, never played the MMOs (why would I lmao).
12 was already horrible with the fighting system and then 13 just completely destroyed it.
You could argue even 10 was already limited by how linear it was and lacking an overworld map, but it absolutely perfected the fighting system.

>>717529061
I seriously doubt anyone is richer than Honda

>>717538553
Nothing. Their stock is all time high and they already have a bunch of games in development.
Whether they'll be good is anyone's guess.

>>717539061
>Final Fantasy has nowhere to go in the turn-based space
And it most certainly never went anywhere in the action space.

>>717523795 (OP)
Just release it on PC bro

>>717539743
Pokemon is the single mos profitable franchise in the history of the world, my several orders of magnitude. Micky Mouse is 2nd, and it has only grossed *HALF* of what Pokemon has, and Mickey has been around for 70 more years than Pokemon has.

>>717523795 (OP)
Is that a legit screenshot?

>>717540412
It is.

>>717540412
*of the game. Obviously the article screencap is altered.

>>717540474
lmao I didn't need another reason to boycott SE.