TWEWY alone (just played it recently) is enough to make me excited for this game.I'm pretty pumped for 15. Let's be honest..it's not like 13 had any strategy in its battle system anyway. Hit Auto Battle....Win Game... Plus it looks like it might not be linear as hell like 13 was..I'll give it a shot, it'll be the last one I give a chance to if it sucks though.
Passion and care went out the door with Sakaguchi. There's a good reason X was the last game in the series I bought around the release date, and I flat-out refused to touch XIII or anything related to it, considering SE's blatant trolling to the FF7 fanbase (which has clearly failed).Course not.. now they are a pure out and out business. Whereas before they at least had some passion and care.
That's not entirely fair. Tetsuya Nomura is plenty passionate, just not very good at what he does (and spread too thin these days, doing character design for virtually everything and directing and writing all the KH games AND FFXIV).Passion and care went out the door with Sakaguchi. There's a good reason X was the last game in the series I bought around the release date, and I flat-out refused to touch XIII or anything related to it, considering SE's blatant trolling to the FF7 fanbase (which has clearly failed).
None of the bolded sections are necessarily bad things, but I find the bit about the change in atmosphere pretty interesting. Perhaps devs who don't forget their roots are the ones making the better content, it's certainly possible to make a big-budget Hollywood style game that doesn't have to resort to cheap tactics and generic writing to widen its appeal.Kitase has been at the frontline of industry change. “In the beginning, the atmosphere was one of a small university arts or technology club. Today, it’s a market with Hollywood-scale productions. When I first joined Square, the view of games from wider society was one of a niche subculture; it was underground and impenetrable.”
Kitase’s interest in making games more approachable stems from what he saw at this time. “My father would complain that he had no idea what was going on when I played RPGs at home after school,” he says. “This made me want to make games something that those watching the screen next to the player could also find interesting. That’s one of the reasons I’ve pushed 3D CG graphics and voice acting.”
The last FF Sakaguchi really had any major influence over was 9, credited as producer and scenario. He was "only" executive producer on 8, 10 and 11.Passion and care went out the door with Sakaguchi. There's a good reason X was the last game in the series I bought around the release date...
Too little too late, they should have thought of that when they released 9, 10 and 10-2 as ps2 (and later ps3) only games.
You made my point for me. 8 is an absolutely awful game and 10 is the game that made me give up on the whole series ever getting better. 9 was the last Final Fantasy I truly enjoyed.The last FF Sakaguchi really had any major influence over was 9, credited as producer and scenario. He was "only" executive producer on 8, 10 and 11.