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DarthAragorn posted...

I can't imagine being excited for a fucking Final Fantasy game in 2020

I understand where you're coming from, but between Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Dragon Quest XI doing so well, I genuinely have hope that 16 might be a return to form of some kind.

I know how stupid it sounds, that the sixteenth installment of a franchise is going to be a good one, but I think they're putting out better games now than they did last gen or earlier in the current gen and I don't think they're going all out on the bluster like they did early in the PS3's lifecycle.

13 was divisive, and it took years of troubled production for it to come out. They threw tens of millions of dollars into that game, and they went all out on "turn-based battles are dead, we're modernizing the JRPG", and it didn't land. They had to recoup their costs by making a trilogy of XIII games with the same tech as the first game, shunting Versus to the side for years, while nuking the launch version of 14 and starting again from scratch. Then 15 came out and that was divisive - better received than 13, but it definitely had its failures, leading to planned content getting scrapped and its director leaving the company.

But since then, we've got a Final Fantasy 7 Remake that actually strikes a workable balance between ARPG and JRPG mechanics, and while I don't think any Dragon Quest game has been received poorly per se, it's still encouraging that XI has done so well. I honestly think that Final Fantasy XVI could cap off a trifecta of awesome releases, signifying that Square Enix has learnt from its biggest mistakes and are back in the business of making great games.

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