Square Enix: Final Fantasy XIII “Last of its Type”

They're just starting to admit that simply giving unlimited amounts of budget for a game development won't give them unlimited profit and success as well.

FF VII was one of its kind, and it was popular not because it featured the first rpg combat characters in 3D.

What? That's it? The End?

Then we'd have nothing else to troll about... >.>

Guess someone from SE saw the other trolls on SC... =)

Indeed. But they needed to be a bit faster on the uptake. It might well be too late now (with all the negs FF XIII has been getting).

Hey... I liked XII.

I liked XII as well... but it doesn't feel like an FF game when I'm playing it. And X was shit to me as well - personally I wish they'd go back to the original formula and continue from there. I don't know about the rest of your guys - but I was always more interested in seeing what sorta equip and lvl up system with skills that they would offer with the same turn based side vs side palette that they've had going on for years before 12, rather than see a completely different battle system. It personally started going downhill for me at the release of 10 tbh 8*(

So it is finally FINAL?

Someone had to say it.

Wasn't there a joke about this in Burn up W! ?
Some terrorist group demanding FINAL be added to a game's name.

me versus is still technically gona be last XD if this is the last time square is gona develope an ff.

in all honesty quality started to downgrade when enix got introduced.

i mean mana series up to legend was good

ff was up to 9 (10 was made by enix but it was at the early stage of the merger thats why it had 50 50 lovers and haters).

breath of fire another rpg with a following.

the two chrono games trigger and cross.

kingdom hearts 1 had a good story corny since it is disney fused with ff but still good then 2 came sure it had better gameplay but how much u wana bet u skipped more then half of the cut scenes while replaying it

do the math enix killed the good ol jrpg formula

breath of fire was made by capcom...

i don't think versus is the final one since ff14 - which is an MMORPG is already one the way ...

there are trailers and gameplay trailers going in Youtube already : P

Nope. Final Fantasy will continue for as long as people exist that know what it is.

Even if they change direction with the traditional numbered games, they'll still be releasing Tactics games, spinoffs from the numbers (In the style of Versus), which might be JRPGs...

I'd be one of the last to say this, but the video game industry has some stagnant and overly reused areas. The typical JRPG format being one of them. Rehashed sports games, rehashed shooters and basic hack and slash games, not to mention horrible movie tie(cash?)-ins.. and kid's games...

I seriously believe we need to clone Hideo Kojima, hit each clone in the head in a different way, and see what innovation comes out of it. That man is legendary.

I'm hoping that there will be a day when Final Fantasy left the JRPG style and instead using western style Action RPG elements such as free roaming, non linear storyline and karma system just like Oblivion or Gothic series, or even Fable series. It might be good that way.

People like you, whom actually consider Hideo Kojima as the apex of writing, are the reason the entire video game industry has gone the same shitty route as movies and television.

The mass media seeks to appeal to such retards, but thankfully the intellectuals can depend on independent sources. Of course we will remain ever resentful at the budget of the mass produced garbage in comparison to original productions.

you speak the truth bro, but most of these readers are western idiots that cream at the thought of crap like Oblivion,Fable, and othere western produced bullshit games so these jerk-off's are not going agree.

Final Fantasy is to JRPGs what Oblivion, Fable, et al. are to WRPGs.

I've played all FFs from V to XII as they came and I-IV somewhere in between, and always considered them the best RPG series in history of gaming, especially because of it's unique jRPG feel, so for one, despite of how pitifully bad FF XIII seems to be based on its reception, its a franchise I will surely miss. Damn, I don't want another Fable, that's for sure.

Unique JRPG feel? When they're all so similar and there's dozens of copycats?

What is "Final Fantasy" supposed to be anyway, since the main games have no connections beyond superficial stuff like chocoboos and the summoned monsters? It's just a marketing label, like what Gundam has become. Trash it and do something else.

I honestly couldn't care less about the "JRPG Feel".

I would like to consider myself a serious RPG gamer, I'm the kind who would play Last Remnant by gathering 400+ chain kills in a single battle to grind after getting The Seven.

What keeps me playing JRPG is more variety that comes from having a large portion of the industry churning out RPGs, trying to make new interesting mechanics, new forms of combat systems, that's what's fun.

But sadly, there are a good amount of rehashes in this industry that we all love, but that's inevitable. All we can do as gamers is to support the companies we love by buying the games that actually deserve our money.

I just hope it will not reach "final fantasy 40" or so....

Saying "I am serious RPG gamer because I play Final Fantasy" is very wrong. Arguments can be read in earlier flamewars about FFXIII vs Bioware.

They would fail if they switched genre since they have made non-rpgs before and they either fail outright or are nowhere near as popular as the rpgs. It is more likely they will mix in some western rpg concepts and create some new features and concepts of their own to try and change Final Fantasy. Whether they do a good job of it remains to be seen. One thing I expect is that future Final Fantasy will probably be less linear and be less of a movie.

So, less quality, more manly fist-bumping and lasers.

R.I.P., FF.

uh, games that are too much linear are boring, open world with decisions afecting it might be the way to go.

Shut up fucking micro pennis the yellow game industry is over so micro pennis deal with that hahahha asshole

America, land of the stupid hahahahaha.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA... what?