Quote Originally Posted by Evastio View Post
Is anyone kind of doubtful on Final Fantasy XV being a radically different genre than the other games in the series?

Sure, FFXI and XIV were MMORPGs, but they were still command based RPGs. I personally don't believe games of a different genre than their predecessors should be counted in the mainstream games.

I have nothing against Square making an action based game like this rather than an RPG, don't get me wrong there. I mean, I really enjoyed Dissidia Final Fantasy which was a fighter. Though I really think games that are of different genres than their predecessors should be spinoffs, rather than mainstream titles.
That's a rather loose definition of "Command based RPGS" you have in relation to FFXI and FFXIV. The combat looks exactly like Kingdom Hearts and there are commands, spells and summons in that. Much like in XII too. It's an Action RPG sure, but there's still commands there. It's hardly a radical break from the norm that we've seen in XII and XIII - pretty much the only aspect that's being dropped is the turn timer as far as we can tell from this existing footage.