FFXIII: Lightning Returns

As long as they don't do anything stupid, like Abyssea...

Not yet, XIV is still not breaking even yet, and won't for a few years.

I meant making the difficulty setting go from what it is now to easymode.

Because I truly believe that is what originally killed FFXI.

From what it is now? Are you implying FFXIV is hard?

FFXI level cap use to be 50 as well~

Mobile gaming is huge in Japan these days though, but even then, the #s are kinda surprising, but FF beating out a Mario game in terms of sales is something to be happy for.

That Mario game must have been really bad.

As for what broke XI, the level cap increase from 75 to 99 really did them in

Raising the cap didn't, them not planning for it properly did.

Thats true too

FFXI was never that hard tbh either. Just took something with more than a pulse to do or get anything done. Sure, before the grand CoP nerf it was difficult to get anything done in the storyline, but it still wasn't impossible to do it either.

But Abyssea made it so you don't even need a pulse to get anything accomplished to get the best crap in the game...

Hard is a relative concept. Cop before the nerf was hard because it required a lot of time mainly cause of a mediocre game design. Could it be done? Sure given time/effort/luck but again the main problem was the design.

I am not sure what do you mean with abyssea. it still took time and effort to get the best things which I assume you mean the emps. An organised group would get them faster the rest at a slower pace.

Hence allow me to make a lil correction. Abyssea more of the playerbase to get involved with the content and ,from my perspective at least, the only people that were bothered were the ones that always were "I have things you don't".

Honestly the only thing that broke FFXI was that they tried to please everyone which doesn't really works, instead of polishing their gameplay.

Not that I'm a fan of Lightning, but this topic is not for XI-XIV debate guys.

I liked lighting character wise just the rest of the game was kinda meh so not enough^^

Well now that 13-3 has bombed in Japan hopefully SE gets the message that we are not interested in shameless cash grabs, give us high quality games or close the doors.

im interested in this, moreso than what i've seen of 15 so far

If they aren't capable of releasing content worthy of the Final Fantasy name anymore, I'd rather that they just use different titles for their bs games. Then I guess they wouldn't make as much money on them then, but I'm getting sick of the past 10-11 years being nothing but failures in my opinion, not reaching the level of quality that the franchise deserves. Not to say the stories were bad (some were though), but I think the quality of the game isn't up to where it needs to be.

I dont think they have the financial flexibility right now to do anything other than a big title like FF15 and KH3. They can't take any chances because current gen was just a financial disaster for the company. I would love to see them give us a proper Star Ocean game or another Chrono Cross, they just can't because they have failed so miserably in the last 7 years. They literally have to go big or go home.

I don't really know what is smart or not, but, what if SE made the move to do handheld games only? That way they would be able to focus more on a good story to sell the game over spending millions in developing it to make it look pretty.

I'd rather not >.> Since I don't have a Vita or 3DS lol

neither do I >.> but it would require less development time and if they actually have some good ideas floating around (would be a surprise) then I think they would sell well.

They made some handheld games, Dissidia, a FF7 prequel, they got rated really highly, but they were all on the PSP I think, the vita is just a waste of time, SE realized it and moved on.

The FF7 prequel was a decent game but it had a lot of wasted potential. It felt like they wanted to give it a KH-type battle system, then fumbled it, went halfway, and threw in a weird RNG-summoning system.

You mean the shiva twins that can be mounted (as a bike) wasn't a good idea?

I don't get why so many ppl hate on a bunch of FFs. I thought 10-2, 12, 13/13-2 were great. Not to mention FFT and Dissidia.

They are blinded by nostalgia goggles pretty much. I like those games too.

No, we have high standards. Those games are trash, and SE is suffering for it.

It's not that they're bad games, the stories are fine for the most part. It's just that most people believe that SE is sacrificing quality for visuals, and that hurts the overall game. It doesn't make it a bad game, just not worthy of the Final Fantasy name to others. So they hate on it and pick at every little detail they find wrong because they expect better.