The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

Gavinmad said:

The DS remake is actually balls fucking hard though. I could probably beat the SNES version in my sleep.

Plus, seeing Palom and Porom actually twincast break on themselves was heartbreaking.

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Yes it had "origonal" difficulty with "cheat baddies" reworked, so a "proper" mix of the "USA EZMODE" and "JPN HARRDDDMMOODDEE"

The cut scenes did benefit from the 3d, however I would have liked them to go...more toward the spirit of the og sprites rather than to the orig character art

pharmakos said:

Naoki Yoshida Wants Next Final Fantasy To Be More Fantasy, Have Less Machines, And No Mecha - Siliconera

No need to click the article, literally all notable information is in that headline. Good news tho, imo.

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Yes this is very good news. I'm glad he wants to go back to the roots. Maybe a world with FF3 or FF6 setting.

Too bad the guy has no say in the next game and his personal opinion holds about as much weight as yours or mine.

Pretty sure he doesn't. We'll only see which one of us is right about 12 years from now though.

Nola said:

Yes this is very good news. I'm glad he wants to go back to the roots. Maybe a world with FF3 or FF6 setting.

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I mean... have you watched the intro to FF3/6 it's literally all about the mecha world and it's destruction of nature/natural magic/espers

But I think the spirit of what he is saying holds true. Old school FF needs to return in style, story, visuals AND gameplay.

Hell yeah go back to magicians and wooden air ships, none of this new age mecha final fantasy shit reeeeeee

Crazy mechs is a core part of FF, it's nothing do with with the fall on the series in any way and has been present somewhat in most of the games.

The only problem for me is FF14 and FF15 both rehashing the iconic FF6 magitech mechs rather than doing their own thing, FF13 having the cocoon mechs be boring metal coloured monsters and FF12 somehow managing to not have any despite trying to be fucking star wars.

I mean heck even FF1 had an airship and the technology stuff in the wind tower and "battlemech" etc. etc.

None of that is what anyone is "complaining about" - and I would say many people, like myself were happy to be rid of midgar in ff7 and get to the world and out of "technology" - ff6 is most likely the highest "mix" of mech/tech elements with traditional fantasy - imo.

I don't mind an airship cause the early FF games had them. I'm talking about cars and futuristic type cities like in FFX, FF13, FF15 ect. Too much technology in those games if you ask me. They seemed to get away from the classical spell casting and summoning what I loved about the FF series.

There is always Dragon Quest. DQ11 was easily the best jrpg in years. They should just give the next FF to the team that made it.

I mean yeah there was a lot of technology in the old games, but i'm more talking about how silly it got with stupid shit like this:

Hell yeah, lets turn shiva into a lesbian scissoring motorbike!