What Modern FF Is Missing

[SirPrizes]

It kind of blows my mind realizing VII, VIII, and IX all came out within a four year span.

It was the 90's in general. In America we got IV, VI,VII, VIII, IX, FFTactics, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Mario RPG all within one decade, and I've heard people debate why each or any of the titles are the best of the series. After the 2000's we've gotten X, XII, XIII and Kingdom Hearts, and only two of those titles have been as popular as any of the ones from the 90's. Quality has suffered over the years.

Yeah, when you put it like that, modern gaming and gaming in the 90s are like night and day. I think a lot of it probably has to do with massive budgets and more complex tools to work with increasing development times and making releases less frequent, but still. It seems like game companies haven't quite discovered an efficient way to budget their projects properly. I'm sure such a way exists, just, for whatever reason, they haven't found it. I also blame ridiculously high production costs for us not seeing Square putting out anything on a home console that isn't FF or DQ.