Your FFXV Expectation
What do you hope comes out of the FFXV project? Its in the making...its just, we probably won't get it until PS4 comes out. XIV doesn't even have an expansion yet! But still, the question is...what are you hoping the characters and in-game dynastics are like? Also, what kind of Summons would you like to see return? And what about mini-games?
Honestly, I just hope it isn't completely terrible. That's my only hope.
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Echoing TrollHunter here. I really, really thought FFXIII wasn't up to snuff in just about every important way. I'm hoping FFXV takes some cues from XII, but without Matsuno around I really have no faith in SE being able to pull it off. I doubt what I want will happen though. Considering the costs of developing PS3(4?) games and some of their recent failures, they'll be going with their absolute safest bet.
This is just what I'd want to see from previous experience though. I'd conversely also like to see some completely new and creative mechanics and writing - a package where I can just be impressed by how much blood and sweat went into crafting it.
As far as summons... I don't really care. This kind of thing has always been a non-issue for me, but I guess it's a selling point to some people the way Batman: Arkham City having all of Batman's classic villains makes me giddy.
Mini-games? None please. This is like the one thing XIII did that I put it above most of the other games for.
It's sad to say, but I really don't have any expectations for FF15. I'm just going to wait and see what comes out. I'm now starting to not consider myself a "FF Fan" anymore, but a "Fan of the older FF titles". It makes me kind of sad....
It would be nice to have the game be super awesome, but I will hold back on any excitement or despair until it has arrived.
>>Am willing to change opinions based on data<<
Sadly, as with VeloZer0, my only expectation is that it won't be too big of a disappointment. I don't remember when exactly it was, but I remember having lost all hope for FFXIII before it even came out (and I was really excited for it when it was announced). I was able to enjoy FFXIII like "hey, this actually isn't a bad game!" and fend off the ever-present feeling that "this game should be a lot better."
This is the spirit the series needs to get back to: making a game for the hell of it, not just to fulfill an expectation the fans and stockholders have when your announced product is four years in the making.Originally Posted by Flying Arrow
Something grown up. The rest of the series is a bunch of immature melodramatic crap that was only interesting when I was a teenager.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
Don't hold your breath. SE has said that they don't intend to make games more mature, and will keep marketing toward teenagers.
>>Am willing to change opinions based on data<<
Stuff intended for teenagers isn't inherently bad - it just usually is. Demographics be damned, something just needs to be good to be good. That's it. That said, plenty of teenagers like things that aren't outright pandered to them so I also don't think the series needs to aim a specific group in order for that group to buy it. I could be wrong though. There was that whole XII fiasco...
It's a shame because I generally love the setting and overall presentation for pretty much every game in the series.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
Agreed. But are you talking about the whole Vaan thing for XII?
I never understood the Vaan hate. People say he shouldn't be the main character but he isn't. He's the party's gofer, and he's used as somewhat of a narrative device. He hasn't been far outside of Rabanastre, so everything is fairly new to him just as it is to us. It's nice and subtle, and as much as I love FFX, I have to say I prefer this to "MAGIC? ELEMENT?!"
But anyway. FFXV. I'm hoping for the "rule of three" to take effect here. As in, it'll be a wonderful title, but very under appreciated for a time. Then after a few years everyone will talk about how it's the most amazing title in the series.
The Vaan thing is part of it. On the whole, I was more referring to SE making one of the best JRPGs of the decade and probably the best game in the whole series and half of the fanbase hating it. The thing with Vaan is really weird because on the one hand it's obviously an attempt by SE to meddle with the story Matsuno had planned, but on the other hand fans who hate him are generally just completely overreacting. Vaan is pretty inoffensive all things considered. This is a fanbase who generally holds up FFX as the best game in the series and, regardless of what you think of it, that thing is almost focus tested to be obnoxious.Agreed. But are you talking about the whole Vaan thing for XII?
Didn't Square say that they just put him in there to appeal to the teens? That's one good reason to hate him.
As far as XV. I have no expectations as I have not even played FFs I-III and V yet, let alone XIII and XIV.
But that's not a reason to hate him. I mean, it might be a reason to roll your eyes at SE, but it's not a reason to hate a character in a story. Vaan fits into the party as well as anyone and is far more relevant to XII than half of the casts of previous games. At worst, he takes a bit of screen time away from the the other characters, but he is way far from being the story breaker the way fans claim.
Terra was originally a male in his early twenties (sound familiar?) but this was changed and that didn't stop anyone from liking her. FFVII at one time was not meant to have any more than three playable characters: Cloud, Barret, and Aeris. Not liking someone as a character I can understand, but not liking a character because they weren't in the rough draft is kind of silly. The truth is, stories sometimes get rewritten a lot between their start and the finished product
Personally I think his worst crime is just being a bit of a bland character, but I like how he is used to tell us the story. I don't find how he is at all annoying!
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