Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
It's occurred to me that I might be looking at it differently than you guys. When I play an FF game I'm really just looking for a silly, familiar game to play when I feel like playing a grindy JRPG. I'm not exactly looking for a huge masterpiece or ~experience~ or anything. They're just games I play when I want to go back to something familiar and relax for a bit. As far as I'm concerned Square is still delivering those types of games and FFXV is looking like a similarly silly, lighthearted game.

If you see Final Fantasy as a more "epic" series than I can see where your disappointment is coming from. It's just not really how I see FF. (And I don't mean this in a bad way at all, by the way.)
Yeah, I see what you're saying. My thing is I just want an enjoyable game to play. My angry hate filled speeches notwithstanding I'm actually not a hard guy to please. I'll go to a movie and enjoy it even if most people who thought about it for more than two seconds ripped it limp from limp, so when I play a game like FFXIII and not enjoy it I'm just confused. Because I know it doesn't take that much for me to be content, so what's the problem? What am I missing?

But I was looking at these articles from more of a business standpoint because those sales numbers were concerning, and I already know Lightning Returns did even worse than XIII-2. So either the FFXIII fans aren't buying the game or that fanbase isn't as large as some would have us believe and they couldn't have made back what they put into making those sequels (the amount of money that goes into AAA games in general is just ridiculous btw). I admit those articles are a bit out of date. I don't know how much ARR has made since then. I hope that clear things up. I just want the Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl one more time.