Is anyone else getting sick of Squares game names?
I mean with all these spin offs and sub sets of games and shit, just stop calling them final fantasy games. The Final Fantasy title has just been so ridiculously diluted by the amount of games put under it's banner that it really has no meaning at all anymore.
Yeah agreed there Benza, but the name sells and people continue to buy everything 'FINAL FANTASY'. Square know this. They'd probably slap Final Fantasy on every single one of their games if they could.
Wasn't this supposed to be a new franchise in the first place, but Squeenix decided to rope in the Final Fantasy brand name?
I thought it was originally going to be a FF 13 Spin off then they realized it actually had nothing to do with 13 and called it type 0?
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Yep, Adam wrote a thing about it
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Meanwhile, PSP RPG Final Fantasy Agito XIII has been shunned from the Fabula Nova Crystalis series, which also consists of Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and presumably the recently announced Final Fantasy XIII-2. Re-dubbed Final Fantasy Type-0, the change comes as director Hajime Tabata admitted the game had very little to do with XIII,
^ The game started as Final Fantasy Agito XIII, and now it's 'Type 0'. Which I think they now want to make into a new 'Final Fantasy' spin off. Like what they did with Crystal Chronicles.
EDIT: lol... Benza got there before me. There ya go.
While the Final Fantasy name is being used to the point of total saturation, the truth is that having it in a game's title is inevitability going to increase public interest in it, and consequently its sales.
Surprised that they've removed this entirely from the Fabula Nova Crystalis series though, I thought the connections between the games were going to be superficial anyway.
While the Final Fantasy name is being used to the point of total saturation, the truth is that having it in a game's title is inevitability going to increase public interest in it, and consequently its sales.
It's a double edged sword though, yeah in the short term they can slap the final fantasy title onto any old jrpg they put out and give it a boost in sales. But unless they keep up the quality of the titles.
Then they're going to use up all the good will associated with it until people just don't give a shit any more which will hurt em in the long run.
That's very true Benza. SE definitely shouldn't overdo it. Most of their games are pretty high quality, but not all of them are well liked. Associating so many vastly different games with the one series name has a way of changing people's attitudes towards it, either for the better or worse depending on an individual's taste. On the one hand, we know how different the games can be, so we don't judge the games on their name quite so much. On the other hand, if you have a bad experience with one game, it can be easy to just feel fed up with the series entirely. I felt a bit that way after FFXII and Crystal Chronicles.
On the other hand, if you have a bad experience with one game, it can be easy to just feel fed up with the series entirely. I felt a bit that way after FFXII and Crystal Chronicles.
Ad's I love you, but if you say another bad word about Crystal Chronicals I will beat you with a tyre iron.
Ah my 14th birthday present, found it disappointing that they wanted me to shill more coin for an adaptor and a GBA. My loss because I gave the game up out of sheer boredom by the 3rd world.
Loved the design and tone though, gameplay just wasn't singleplayer friendly.
Ah my 14th birthday present, found it disappointing that they wanted me to shill more coin for an adaptor and a GBA. My loss because I gave the game up out of sheer boredom by the 3rd world.
Loved the design and tone though, gameplay just wasn't singleplayer friendly.
Yeah single player was kind of a dissapointment, but the game was really made to be played with more then 1 person and if you could get that set up the game was amazing. Even the plot wich started off pretty poor took a while to get going but ended up being really strong.
I was talking about the Gamecube one. I played it as a single player game and got up to the last boss but couldn't beat it. I just found the game rather underwhelming, and not what I was expecting from a FF game at all. So, there's one example of where having the FF title on a game can kill it a bit. At that point, I had only played FFX and FFX-2.
SE aren't an AAA+ developer anymore. They are struggling.
I use Final Fantasy VIII as a yardstick for all new FF games because that's the first one that drew me in. I'm sure other people like the latest iterations but I just find myself constantly disappointed. Squaresoft was fantastic and so was Enix (played bust a groove to death). Today it seems not so much.
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