Nomura: “Final Fantasy XV is an Action Game”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 26, 2013 10:02 JST
- Tags: Final Fantasy, Production Controversy, PS4, RPG, Square Enix, Tetsuya Nomura
Final Fantasy fans are decrying the complete death of the franchise and the last vestiges of Square with it, after Nomura’s reassurances that “it may be an action game, but you mustn’t forget it is Final Fantasy!” provide unambiguous confirmation of it not even being an action RPG.
Nomura had this to say in a recent interview:
It is being presented as “a Final Fantasy action game,” but I wasn’t thinking of it like that.
True, we did want to get rid of the UI, remove hit counters, restrict the playable character to Noct and so on. But if we did all it that it would become just another action game like all the others.
The team is saying, “don’t forget this is Final Fantasy before it is an action game.”
In response to the question “so what is Final Fantasy?” he also manages to avoid mentioning RPGs at all:
I think it is thinking about the numbers while fighting in a party. “FF” is different to existing action games and FPSes, you can see the quantity of damage you’re taking and inflicting, and how much you are healing. Managing those numbers is the “thinking about the numbers” part.
And in FFXV you can switch freely between 3 characters, so it is also about party combat. There are lots of combos and you need to be aware of characters outside the party.
Few will be in danger of forgetting what it is in any case, as the game’s content and character designs are also attracting criticism – with the all-male and exceedingly “Nomurish” cast in particular being dismissed as “another one of Nomura’s host gangs” and “completely lacking any female presence” (which he concedes himself, saying “yes, it’s nothing but guys, although there is one new girl”):
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fujoshi market is vast
As if FF hasn't already had every fujoshi drooling over it since rampant shippings of Cloud x Sephiroth... nothing new.
But if an all male cast is the only thing turning someone off this game then that just basically tells people that they've just been using FF for fap material up to this point... lol.
@16:50 - fuck Cloud x Sephi... Cloud x Barrett lol Somehow they have that special chemistry in the original (the only FF7 product that exists, the rest is commercial fanfiction).
Else, Aerith would be the only true love... remember the date in Gold Saucer and the play, that was good stuff.
Tifa never had a chance, I mean, she's his osanajimi = friend zoned.
If someone still has a chance it's either Marlene or Denzel (depending on Cloud's tastes lol).
You mean that wasn't what they've been using it for? O_O
FF = For Fujoshi
all of the success titles are fap materials :P
@16:58 - but not "just" fap material... not to most people, at least.. funny you didn't catch the "just"
Fujos are rare even among otaku culture. Mind you, unlike popular opinion, not every female otaku is automatically one. In fact, there are lots who'd feel offended about being considered one.
she's in the closet
Exactly... I personally know a ton of female otaku and anime fans, but I don't know a single fujoshi...
Kuja X Zidane where?
Stupid sexy Kuja... I was convinced he was a chick.
...
Center and left one, the rest look like normal action game characters.
So that blonde on the left is actually a guy? Or is that the one girl in the whole game because I can't tell.
Here, the one girl -
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130612232109/finalfantasy/images/7/73/51b7a87d_Final-Fantasy-XV-Unknown-6.png
But the girl of the game to me is Yoko Shimomura, she's gonna make this game really awesome!!
That's not the only girl, just the newly-revealed one. There's also the long-haired blonde, featured in the previous Versus XIII trailers, who plays a more important role, and is likely the main love-interest/enemy of the game. It appears that her and the main character's fathers are the leaders of two warring nations, and that they've each been given a power that they use to fight against the other, hence the 'Versus' from the original title.
Going by the positioning of the portraits at the end of the new trailer, both girls are likely sided with the opposition, and hence won't likely be fighting with you, but against you, at least for much of the game.
Stella Nox Fleuret
Versus was so named because it was the opposite of FFXIII in design philosophy, there was almost a schism in the studio at the time.
Oh look, Backstreet Boys are back.
Fuck off, Nomura.
I would say Arashi. I would feel bad just typing the name of the guys you typed about...
action RPG would be too epic and risky to make profit.
It's not as big as a risk as say... ditching the world map for linear hallways.
but it is an action RPG
Feels like Final Fantasy Agito
pretty much
It doesn't bother me if SquEnix wants to make action games. Go for it I say. Just don't call it Final Fantasy IMO.
Having action combat doesn't mean it won't be an RPG. Having action combat, no exploration, no customization, and little character growth would be a greater signifier of that... I'll wait to see the rest of the game's elements before I make a judgment...
It's a FF in every way except that it's not turn based... just like what happened with FFXI, XIV, Tactics, etc... so what's the problem this time?
FFXI & FFXIV are MMORPGs, Tactics is strategy with RPG elements.
The problem is that this is a MAIN GAME, a numbered title, and it's neither (MMO)RPG nor strategy. Spinoff games CAN be whatever genre they want... but the big numbered titles have always been RPGs.
Also, so far this doesn't have anything to do with FF... despite the name, the "Nomurish" character designs, and most likely attack names + monsters/summons/creatures (Cactuar, Chocobo, Moogles)...
@ 19:23
Actually:
FFX: Nearly on-rails half-RPG
FFXII: Singleplayer MMORPG
FFXIII: Fully on-rails pretend-RPG
@19:37 - you re-read it...
"I think it is thinking about the numbers while fighting in a party. “FF” is different to existing action games and FPSes, you can see the quantity of damage you’re taking and inflicting, and how much you are healing. Managing those numbers is the “thinking about the numbers” part."
And Action game with RPG elements is an Action RPG.
FF I RPG
FF II RPG
FF III RPG
FF IV RPG
FF V RPG
FF VI RPG
FF VII RPG
FF VIII RPG
FF IX RPG
FF X RPG
FF XI (MMO)RPG
FF XII RPG
FF XIII RPG
FF XIV (MMO) RPG
FF XV Action.
C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER!
Re-read the article once more, it is Action only and not Action RPG
The article says only that is an action game, not that isn't RPG and just looking and the gameplay it is one.
Sorry, but the MMOs were already given numbered titles, and those play little like the single-player Final Fantasy games, even if they are technically both kinds of "RPGs". Honestly, I felt Square was being a bit deceptive with their titling back when XI first came out, but by this point, people should realize that numbered Final Fantasy games won't necessarily follow a traditional single-player JRPG format. If Square put the resources into giving this game the production values of a fully-numbered installment, and naming it this way is what it takes for the game to sell well, then I have little problem with them doing so, so long as the game is good. If anything, you should have more of a problem with them tacking a number onto their mediocre MMOs.
You know, that list of titles reminds me of Game Dev Story, where they encourage you to make one game after another of the same type to improve quality, then complain when you make too many of the same type..
Once you've given up on the games in the main series ever being good again, does it even matter?
FF XI - MMO RPG
FF XIV - MMO RPG
FF Tactics - Strategy RPG
FF XV - Action RPG
I don't see the problem.
Final Fantasy ended with X everything after that was some crap a bunch corporate marketing shit heads slapped the Final Fantasy name on.
It ended with IX, not X.
Let's face it. It ended when they switched away from Nintendo. After that they just started a new series and the first of that was called VII and it was a good game, so no one complained.
FFX was the ultra same linear garbage as FFXIII.
It was barely an RPG.
No it didn't end after 10. This new one is called 15 you know, so if you can count after the number 10, it obviously hasn't ended.
He was speaking figuratively, genius.
hahah... and you got bit by a troll "genius"
I give up... There really is no more hope for FF and Squeni...
Just make it the final fantasy and start with a new IP already.
Well it still looks better than 13 and all it's spin offs.
No, it doesn't.
It unquestionably does...
This comment shows how much of an idiot you are.
Like dUH!. It's on PS4. :I