And an overall grimmer tone. Really going for that Western Geraldo audience, huh

Never would have guessed Square would end up doing a reverse Sudeki, but I guess that was a foregone conclusion based on sales numbers

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Didn't the FFVII remake do well? Though that has colossal amounts of nostalgia going for it- if it was a completely new game about a spiky haired anime boy it might not have done that well, I imagine.

    Am I completely wrong but didn't the second most recent Final Fantasy about the boy band on a road trip also do decently though?

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I haven't liked anything they've done under the Final Fantasy brand in at least 20 years. They cultivated a specific style and everything about that style just irks me. I will never forgive them for letting it infect Parasite Eve too

        spoiler

        Lost Odyssey was much better than FF13

      • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        If I wanted to do 3rd person action combat I'd play Monster Hunter.

        This game is incredibly different from Monster Hunter. I play MH to chill out with friends while we upgrade our gear and try out different weapons. I'm playing FF 16 for DMC-type combat and the story! There are lots of cutscenes and I enjoy them

        This game is more similar to like God of War these days

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]M
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      2 years ago

      The series is still massively popular. FFVIIR was an enormous success and also quite fun. I don't have any history with the series before that so I've got no nostalgia whatsoever for this stuff; they're just good games.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Presumably it just isn't The Witcher or Fallout popular. I was going to cite more triple A Western RPGs but dang, there really aren't that many and even Bioware has fallen off hard in the past decade.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Didn't the FFVII remake do well?

      I enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next release, but I don't own a PS5 so I'm not in a rush to get it.

      Am I completely wrong but didn't the second most recent Final Fantasy about the boy band on a road trip also do decently though?

      It cleared 10M copies sold, which is slightly under the FF10 peak of 10.5M.

      But a lot of that was just pent up demand for Literally Any FF Game, after a seven year drought.