Should they start creating more adult centric Final Fantasy games

[Jinx]

D'you mean XV?

[Vyk]

...Oh. Now I get it. Ha. Oops

[Jinx]

[black orb]

>>> If by adult you dont mean dull and boring, yeah..

[Jiro]

I don't think Final Fantasy games are made for children. Plenty of aspects of Final Fantasy games are very much in the 'adult content' region; even as far back as the original Final Fantasy there were 'dancers' (I mean strippers/prostitutes). Mature, or at least less fanciful fantasy storylines have been done before: Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy VI, probably smurfing all of them if I think hard enough. You look at the themes covered and tell me assassination, rape, torture, patricide, suicide, and genocide are just for kids.

[Loony BoB]

Just to confirm the bit that Vyk touched on regarding XIV: Yes, there are a lot of adult themes going on in that game. The most obvious of them are the whores that you can find dotted around the place. They used to all be in the Miner's Guild on a stage, dancing. If you spoke to them they would offer to join you later if you paid the right fee. Obviously, you couldn't actually "pay the right fee" But yeah. Drunken men about, staring at 'em, etc. They left the Miner's Guild in A Realm Reborn but are now found dotted about the zones instead. XI & XIV don't get shy about things such as racism, sex, etc.

[Jinx]

Well, while there are a lot of adult themes, it could be that Final Fantasy doesn't present them in an adult way. Don't get me wrong, I love the series. But there are books on racism, genocide, rape, abuse, etc for children and teenagers. The content is just presented in such a way that it's easy to access and doesn't upset them, but still teaches them things they (might) need to know right now, and will definitely know later.

So while I think that there's a lot of adult content in Final Fantasy, I don't know if I'd say the game is really made for adults. I'd say the audience they most appeal to is late teenagers.

[VeloZer0]

I don't really consider FF12 as having an 'adult' story. Just because it involved politics doesn't make it adult, it was probably the most shallow and predictable of all the games.

I don't think there has really been a problem, over the length of the entire series, about the tones or subject materials broached. I feel it is the melodrama that makes it hard to take the game, and hence subject material, seriously.