Comments on: Would Square Enix Ever Team Up With A Western Developer For Final Fantasy?

By: Jam

Jam — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:12:47 +0000

Chessnuts I couldnt put it better myself. I dont find the stories that irritating (although they are all just like you said), its more the ridiculously cheesy dialogue and the zero character development. FFXIII had such one-dimensional characters it was ridiculous. And the cutscenes are so embarrassingly corny I would be embarrassed to play it in front of mates.

Weirdly enough im actually a FF fan!

By: Chessnuts

Chessnuts — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:14:52 +0000

The problem with the Final Fantasy games is mostly the story. People just don't engage with cheap scriptwriting and corny dialogue anymore. The story was what used to make Final Fantasy games worth playing through, but gamers have matured now and moved on from that, but clearly the current FF devs haven't.

It's not just the cheesy-ness of it, but how unoriginal the storyline plots are. It's the same shit every time: the world is at the brink of destruction with some evil man with long hair behind it all and so a bunch of camp teenagers with a slightly worrying dress style decide to prevent that.

Hironobu Sakaguchi understood this and I think that's why he wanted to leave Square because the rest of the company didn't. Result: Lost Odyssey has a much more unique and interesting story, and if it wasn't for still being a typical Japanese game with some of the most cringe-worthy dialogue, it would be one of my favourite fantasy genre stories to this day.

As soon as Square Enix finally figure this out for themselves, then they can start to make Final Fantasy (or whatever they want to call it) titles that are a hit in the 21st century.

By: José Luis

José Luis — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:27:30 +0000

Give it back to the creator of Final Fantasy, he already made better RPGs then the last Final Fantasy games that have come out and LAST STORY is going to prove it once again.

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:20:16 +0000

The final fantasy series really has gone down hill in my opinion. I am not saying that the games are bad… I just was a big fan of the world map form of travel… this allowed you to explore and see the actual world. It also allowed you to find secret towns, places, ruins, and monsters in the game.

Obviously FF7 is the game that I got hooked on. FF8 was good as well. Especially the FF8 card game. I liked the limit/materia system that ff7 had as well. Square will always do graphics right though… that is for sure.