Did this game "officially" kill the Final Fantasy Franchise?

[r.aiden.dav.i.d78.9]

I see this games mostly positive rewiew Is it time for FF and all other turn-based games to go to hell and adapt to others???






(I'm talking mainly about the Turowe ones, of course)

[StackzGaming]

Here's the truth.

Even Final Fantasy XV is superior to this. As a GAME.

If you took "the bros" and gave them this story...no game would have surpassed it.

[az4a3l]

Sadly like most fantasies, they happen only in your head.
No game will ever kill final fantasy or come close because FF keeps reinventing the wheel while the rest copy/paste.
I think the only viable comparison is to methapor fantazio

[Vesques23]

In order to kill, you have to do something that is different enough to change the game. Clair is a good game, but it's heavily borrowing ideas from other franchise while incorporating nothing new on it's own.

It's well polished at best, but it doesn't set a new standard.

[Boba Fitt]

Yes. No King rules forever.

[Papy]

No, but they can innovate and improve their gameplay, everything is good to take in expedition 33, nothing is to throw away in any case.

[Obtuse Moose]

Aren't Final Fantasy games just a bunch of completely different games that just happen to share the same franchise name and a few mascot characters in the first place? I don't think anything's going to change cause each game is already radically different in the first place.

[Metsys]

FF will live forever in everyone's mind lmao
you people said the same about metaphor and now nobody cares about that one

[Constant_K]

You can't kill what's already dead.

Joke.

[Hermit]

No, FF is killing itself. It moved away from what people loved about it and became just another action RPG series.

[Hermit]

Originally posted by Metsys:

you people said the same about metaphor and now nobody cares about that one

It was released 6 months ago and is doing better numbers than FF16.

[C1REX]

This game may inspire Final Fantasy and maybe some other dormant franchises to go back to their turn based roots. Many people didn’t like FF15 and FF16 to be action RPG.

[Dead Spirals]

No the IP is too big to fail rn, perhaps recent releases of Atlus games and this may show Square there's a market for good turn based systems still and they could greenlight a turn based game but for now I doubt we'll see anything considering their main team is on 7 remake still, the 16 dev team was never a turn based team at all and likely wouldn't go for it, and other things like the XV team don't exist anymore.

[Vesques23]

Originally posted by Hermit:

No, FF is killing itself. It moved away from what people loved about it and became just another action RPG series.

That's not accurate at all though. I mean, im not even a hardcore fan of the franchise, but it's by still a strong franchise. I don't think fans realize that that outside their small bubble of niche there is a bigger world of people who play these games and aren't bothered by nostalgia for the olden days.

14 is going strong while 15, 16, and 7 Remake sold well. I would say great but Square seems to have a secret number that no game has reached so far. By all accounts FF is far from dead.

Your base of people is small in the grander world of players. Here is a truth for you, Clair's numbers are good because it's a small AA game with a reasonable price. If you can handle that sort of thing then sure, Square could go back but...

Turn based games do not have the same audience they did two decades ago. Expecting a AAA FF game with all the bells and whistles but wrapped in turned based gameplay would be a flop on arrival.

There is a audience for these types of games, but that same audience would not be enough for a AAA FF game. Square could go back in time for sure, but you will get a smaller budget title, that will not be as hugely successful. While that may be good for you, that would be bad for Square as FF is it's biggest selling franchise.

[Sev]

A new RPG coming out isnt gonna kill a 38 year old franchise like final fantasy are you crazy? lol

[Stone IV]

No, Square Enix did.