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"Final Fantasy Isn’t Dying. It’s Already Dead"

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The new face of Final Fantasy. Uh, you are looking at her face, right? Image: Square Enix

 

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but I think I’m gonna call it: Final Fantasy is dead.

It’s hard to pinpoint an exact time of death on this one, but at some point during the last decade the world’s foremost Japanese role-playing game series keeled over and kicked the bucket, and now Square Enix is pretty much just defiling the corpse. Here’s an excerpt from a question-and-answer session on July 27 with Nobuhiro Goto and Motomu Toriyama, developers of the next game in the series, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

 

 

Q: Has [main character] Lightning gone from a C cup to a D cup?

 

Goto: Well, Toriyama-san said he wanted them bigger, so…

 

Toriyama: Hey, don’t try to escape responsibility for this!

 

Goto: Yes, we made them bigger.

 

Q. Was it a C cup, up until now? Are her breasts going to jiggle, this time?

 

Goto: Yes!

 

Toriyama: It depends on the clothing. Like if she’s wearing corrective underwear.

 

 

 

Dengeki Online’s report of the event noted further that since players can choose Lightning’s costume and weaponry, they can ensuretheir preferred amount and duration of boob jiggling through judicious equipment selection. If you want to get a better view of all those mammarial undulations, one developer noted, just have her hold a smaller shield!

Hey, I’m the last person who’s going to tell people what kinds of videogames they should and should not make. I like Leisure Suit Larry, and that game is 95 percent jokes about and/or pictures of breasts. There is room to create and play a whole wide variety of things. But if in 2013 this is what a Q&A session about Final Fantasy has become, then any claim that the series once had something approaching mainstream respectability done gone and caught the train out of town.

 

In its heyday, Final Fantasy was the ne plus ultra of console videogames based around strong, relatable characters and epic storylines. Sure, the games had their moments of levity, but mostly took themselves seriously enough to attempt to tackle subtle, complex themes on platforms that were largely dominated by paper-thin plots and cartoon characters. They pushed the boundaries, if imperfectly; despite what I may have believed in high school the writing was not exactly Shakespeare. But the ideas of orchestras playing the games’ amazing musical scores or of art galleries displaying the design work of Yoshitaka Amano were not out of the question. And surely today’s game designers, the people making games like BioShock Infinite or The Last of Us, were inspired in part by early Final Fantasy.

 

What inspiration, if any, will breast-jiggling simulator Lightning Returns pass down to a new generation of game creators? Somewhere along the line, Final Fantasy lost the plot. Original creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is long gone, and if he attempted to pass the torch to a new generation they dropped it, let it go out in the dirt and kept running anyway. The 2001 game Final Fantasy X wasn’t that bad, but the next game after that, the awkwardly-named Final Fantasy X-2, decided that what the series needed was to take all the female player characters, 

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And it was pretty much all downhill from there. The Final Fantasy hydra has many heads, and it’s not just the console games that are continuing the legacy of the series. But everywhere you look, it’s bad news. The original version of the Final Fantasy XIV massively multiplayer online game was so poorly received by fans that Square Enix shut it down and rebuilt it from the ground up, at what had to be an exorbitant expense. And once the new version comes out, even if it’s good, it’s still going to be an MMO with a monthly fee in an era dominated by the free-to-play model. On mobile platforms we’re getting games like Final Fantasy: All the Bravest, critically excoriated as a naked gameplay-free cash grab.

Cash cows don’t last forever. The declining sales of Final Fantasy games, following the utter mess that was Final Fantasy XIII, should indicate that. At this point, it’s tough to see a path back to relevance forFinal Fantasy, if the caretakers of the series are spending their creative cycles thinking about the particulars of breast physics. That’s not why the Final Fantasy brand still carries the cachet that it does, and the modern games are at this point living entirely off an inherited reputation.

You had a good run, Final Fantasy, and it was nice knowin’ ya.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/07/final-fantasy-is-dead/

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I must say that the series is dead. It may not be a corpse lying in a grave, but its a zombie that just won't lie down.

The further the series has gone, the further away from its roots it has gone, the messier and more cliched the storytelling has gotten, the more style over substance it has gotten and the need to have a more cinematic experience instead of solid gameplay has grown. Never mind the fact that the creator of the series has left after FFX, and now have a bunch of hacks writing and designing the series. Matsuno leaving is another huge blow.Also, the series has spawned a ridicoulous number of atrocious spinoffs, from lame  FF XIII sequels to the terrible Crystal Chronicles games, to the needless sequels for X.

 

If they had at least focused on FF Versus instead of this **** Lightning games.

I was hooked since 2010 I hope they won't disappoint my expectations now

I might even buy a PS4 only for this one fucking game.

Lightning games are a fail so much like this 2003 FF movie only that it still sells millions.

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WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY BADASS LIGHTNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!??!!!!  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

 

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#Pray4XV  :cry:  :cry:

 

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no but seriously I like FF new fighting system. It's more dynamic than the usual click, fight, click fight RPG system

The story have gone downhill tho and that's the one they should fix. 

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To me it's more or less dead.

I started with 6 on SNES and and have loved all from then on until 11 (minus 8). 11 was a MMO but I couldn't play at the time due to cost involved. But it seemed I don't miss out much cos its basically any old MMO but with FF references.

 

Then from 12 onwards it became just a chore to play, it didn't feel like a FF game at all. 13 was just so constrictive and slow at times (battle system was fun though) and the dumb ambiguous story spanning 3 games. Then FF14 was another MMO but one FILLED with glitches and unfinished content.

 

I'm not getting my hope for 15, looks like a repeat of 12,13. FF has lost it's magic, it's too involved in trying to be mature with more realistic settings - I miss visiting caves, deserts, jungles etc to fight crazy monster villains, seeing a huge world and being involved in silly quests (like supplexing ghost trains for example :lol:). Sexing up a strong female character shows how desperate they are...

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is that Lightning? wtf? isn't that Photoshop?

omg, what have they done to her?

You can dress her up in bunch of outfits for the lightning return game. That lightning costume is from the cat eared character of XIV and if you wear that costume in game she'll do the same victory pose as the cat girl in XIV :wth:

 

Stupid as fuq.......

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People always say that the latest Final Fantasy has ruined the series. Final Fantasy just  has an unpleasable fanbase.

 

I'll admit that XIII is not the strongest entry in the series but XII was amazing so I don't see any downward spiral.

 

X-2 has by far the best battle system in the series.

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People always say that the latest Final Fantasy has ruined the series. Final Fantasy just  has an unpleasable fanbase.

 

I'll admit that XIII is not the strongest entry in the series but XII was amazing so I don't see any downward spiral.

 

X-2 has by far the best battle system in the series.

People are just bandwagonning and it's just getting more and more obvious.

I agree with Final Fantasy X-2's battle system. That and Final Fantasy X both had the best battle systems.

 

And I dare say it, but Final Fantasy X-2 is one of my favorite series. The humor, the battle system.. and just how the game was so light hearted when compared to the previous titles. Final Fantasy VII and VIII were just so damn depressing to play.... but they were good.. however I think that people overrate the living hell out of them.

 

 

If they were to make a sequel, please let it be Final Fantasy X-3.

And I'm glad that X is getting the HD remake while VII is left in the dark.

 

 

/Come at me tbh.

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