What are you worried about?

[Dat Matt]

I think the 13 soundtrack is the best in the series. I'm excited to see what XV has in store.

[Edge7]

Honestly? I'm less scared of what the final product will be like and more scared that I'm growing too old and jaded to be impressed by it.

I first heard about this game when I was 12, and Noctis looked like this tough, badass teen that I'd want to model myself after in High School, or something equally goofy. I'm 20 now, and I'm just praying that Noctis isn't the typical "insecure High School boy" type. Or, even if he is, there'll be another character in the game I can relate to.

Well, I guess we'll see.

[Pumpkin]

Was Noctis announced that long ago?

[FFFFsephychibi]

Hmm well 2006 was when the first trailer was shown, and noctis was featured in it, not sure if we had a name for him then though, but yeah yooo it's been THAT long. I was 16 T_T.... now a 24 yr old who works in the game industry~~~ still waiting square T_T

[Psychotic]

I'm worried that it'll suck and no newbies will want to come to EoFF to discuss it for years, as they have the older games!

[Wolf Kanno]

I have pretty much resigned myself to the belief I will hate the plot. The Scenario Writer is Kazuhige Nojima and he's never written an FF or KH game that I have liked. In fact his games have this really annoying habit of having excellent premises and good characters that get choked and ruined by far-fetched "game changing" plot twists or ignoring swaths of the cast to focus on a few people. On the brightside, his track record is better than Motomu Toriyama who has yet to make a game I don't utterly hate.

On the other hand, I am not worried about it being a good game, as the KH crew are pretty damn good about making fun games, I just hope its not too easy cause the KH series is reaching the point where I have to play them all in Proud Mode or higher just to have real challenge.

[Pumpkin]

Which other FF games has he written?

[Wolf Kanno]

VII, Compilation of VII, VIII, X, X-2, KH, and KH2.

He's also wrote the original concept for XIII and wrote the mythology of the entire FNC compilation. It's not like everything he touches is awful but if he is the sole writer, I tend not to like them and if he's teamed up with Kitase or Toriyama they do write absolutely awful scripts. He has strong points in his plots but they are always combined with I feel is bad writing. I mean I love his way of dealing with Squall and Tidus in their respective games but the other cast members and the actual plots of their games are terrible or just weak and often saddled with silly plot twists that detract from the overall narrative.

To go further with my issue of the writing, I am also basing this on the the issue that I just don't feel SE has put out a good story in the series in a long time. The quality of writing has diminished over the years and I feel this is largely why I have gravitated towards other franchises that are still putting out quality stuff. None of this is helped by Kitase's insistence of keeping the series in a demographic stasis (12-16) which is ironic since it was his introduction into a leading position in the franchise that most fans feel is when the series moved away from its previous demographic stasis to appeal to an older gamer.

[Pumpkin]

I like VIII, X, and KHII! I can see your point about some of it though. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. From what I can tell of the story so far I don't think I'll find it super interesting but who knows

[Edge7]

WolfKanno, I think Sakaguchi was the sole reason I liked the wiring for FFVII as much as I did.

[Wolf Kanno]

WolfKanno, I think Sakaguchi was the sole reason I liked the wiring for FFVII as much as I did.

VII isn't as bad, but as I mention, it depends on who the man is teamed up with. I actually don't mind KH1's plot for instance but Nojima is one of several writers, same with VII. It's games like VIII, X, and KH2 specifically where he's mostly the only writer with input from bad people that bother me.

Its not like he can't write, as much as I feel that he tries too hard to be clever. He's basically the M. Night. Shaymalan of gaming where all of his plots have some lame ass plot twist somewhere between the halfway point towards the end. I feel the premise of XV is promising, I just expect him to pull a "everyone is dead fish people in a VR program being played on an alien space station... and we all grew up together" plot twist about 40 hours in, which will certainly take whatever joy I may have had out of the story.

[Edge7]

Huh, I didn't know that Nojima was the primary writer of those games, that kinda explains a lot actually. I was never too sure, but I thought KH2 was primarily written by Nomura, and I chalked not liking it as a result of the KH "mythos" as it were.

[Wolf Kanno]

The big issue with KH2's plot is that it exists to basically open the door to more sequels and spin-offs and doesn't really do as much to really further the mythos of KH like the other games do. It was pretty much one plot twist after another that created more loose ends for sequels, prequels, and spin-offs to be produced to fill in the gaps. As a stand alone plot, KH2 leaves much to be desired compared to the rest of the franchise.

[Freya]

I thought it KH2 was a good stand alone...

[Levon]

Maintaining my own excitement/hype