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MacArrowny posted...

Wonder what it could've done to stay as relevant as, say, God of War.

For a narrative game it's all about the pathos of the story. God of War very smartly transitioned from edgy badass pathos to somber dad pathos, which was trendy at the time. And of course the marketing was flawless in explaining to people how different the game was and how "evolved" and "modern" and "grown up" it became. It really sold itself as a 2020s game.

XVI marketing seemed really weak in general. I don't know anything about the characters, conflict, overall pathos. It's GoT-ish, but after season 8? They forgot that no one actually cares about the political parts of GoT, only about the boobs and violence, and most importantly, the somber dad main character. Combat looked 10 years old too.

There's just no somber dads in FF. If Nier can change their whole game to add a somber dad, why can't FF? And now they missed the trend so they can't do it anymore. I guess there's the hunger games trend that they could try, or super hero stuff. Those would work well with the FF formula. Or try to go for a more cutting edge Gen Alpha trend. What would that be? Riverdale or Euphoria or something