Quote Originally Posted by Lord Golbez View Post
I want to exclude all of them because nothing you listed there matters.
This is a fairly dishonest response. When your point is refuted, suddenly those games don't matter? The only thing you've implied that matters to you is "AAA titles" and "sequels." I've listed both, and you dismiss them entirely because "they don't matter." Why don't they matter, exactly? Because they disprove your point?

The fact is that FFXV was announced as versus XIII 10 years before it was released. No amount of sequels and spinoffs released in the interim is going to erase that.
Realistically, Final Fantasy XV actually began development around 2012-2013 when Tabata took over Nomura's role as director of the project. So the title took about 4 years of development time. Pretty reasonable, if you ask me.

I'm not even sure what you're complaining about here. That the original Versus XIII got scrapped? Okay, but that happens all the time in game development. That it took too long to develop? Okay, but it did eventually get released and we're nearly 2.5 years removed from its launch now. Or are you complaining that it took too long in between the other mainline games? Okay, well it actually came out 3 years after the relaunch of FFXIV, which itself came out 3 years after FFXIII. So each mainline title has actually had a pretty reasonable development time.


And speaking of premises, your notion that the time between releases is one of the biggest complaints for recent FF games is pretty hard for me to swallow. The only reason that time between releases becomes a cause of complaint in when the quality of the final product is disappointing after the wait. Persona 5 was released 8 1/2 years after Persona 4. I didn't complain, because it didn't disappoint.
So if the argument is about the quality of the title rather than the amount of time it takes for them to come out, then the development time is irrelevant right? Would you complain if Square Enix took 9 years to develop Final Fantasy XVI and it ended up being one of the greatest games of all time? I would wager the answer is no.