>London Fanfest in a week
>The Guch' as a special guest
>Has something to announce
What are you hoping as the father of Final Fantasy returns to the brand for the first time in over 20 years?
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you really only need Kitase directing, Uematsu scoring, Guch story conception and Amano's art for a good FF.
Nomura needs to stay the hell away.
>Kitase directing
>Gooch story
Get that the wrong way around? You can let Kitase direct if you really want as gooch is closer to a producer than director. Also why not Ito?
>Nomura needs to stay the hell away
Let him play the same role he played before? He was merely an artist. Why not demand Shibuya back alongside Amano too?
The person you really want to keep away from it all is Nojima and Hashimoto may as well be dead.
>The person you really want to keep away from it all is Nojima
Oh yeah?
>you really only need Kitase directing
Kitase is half the reason the franchise is in the fricking gutter and you want nomura to stay away?
Are you intentionally being moronic?
Nomura was involved with the most popular and beloved FFs, there's no reason to cut him out.
And if you're a pure nostalgia classicgay then you wouldn't include Kitase.
Nomura can stay but he can't be involved in any character concepts at all. Ban this man from every designing or influencing any art of the series ever again.
>Nomura can stay but he can't be involved in any character concepts at all
It's funny that Nomura is capable of doing good, solid character concepts but he struggles to practice restraint.
>Ban this man from every designing or influencing any art of the series ever again.
Making this part completely fair.
>shit on every director who's ever worked on final fantasy to muddy the waters and defend their cult leader, I hate them
I play XIV and XI. The only directors I shit on are Yoshinori Kitase, Hajime Tabata & Naoki Yoshida. That cult leader part's an issue if I hate him tho right? Yoshitda does not get a free pass though and he's only supposed to be a producer on XVI.
I'm even willing to give a free pass to Toriyama, X-2 had good intentions with the job system and I don't actually blame him for XIII/Lightning Returns and think he's done great work on the 7 remake even if I'm not an FF7 fan.
>Just like how they trash Nobuo and mistaken his contributions to that cancer-ridden homosexual Soken.
Really bothers me how much people attribute to Soken during the recycling & remixing process. It's not exclusive to Uematsu though either and even happens to members of his own team when they finally create something that isn't just an almost verbatim remix or packed to the gills with leitmotifs.
Isn't it funny how there's someone at CBUIII who keeps putting in Nobuo 1.0 tracks into scenes & quests too?
>It's funny that Nomura is capable of doing good, solid character concepts but he struggles to practice restraint.
You mean the "lack of restraint" when Nomura had the absolutely batshit crazy unhinged idea to prevent Kitase and Nojima from killing off 2/3rd of the OG FFVII main cast during the second visit to Midgar?
That "lack of restraint"? Or are you referring to something else?
>Or are you referring to something else?
Something else but quality post anyway.
>had the absolutely batshit crazy unhinged idea to prevent Kitase and Nojima from killing off 2/3rd of the OG FFVII main cast during the second visit to Midgar?
yeah that was pretty unhinged, would've been kino
>I play XIV and XI.
we have nothing to discuss
don't you me again
Nomura can design a few characters, that's it.
*goth girls
Rhyne pls go and stay go.
>NOMURA BAAAAAD!
This is what morons on the internet that's been feeding off misinformation. Nomura literally have done nothing but good things for FF, from Gilgamesh, Shadow, Limit Break, saving half of the FFVII crew from being killed, iconic monster and character designs. But homosexuals like you still somehow wants him to shoulder the blame for "modern FF" when he's only involved with character design through most of it with VIIR the only title that he actively have input on its story.
Nomura directed Final Fantasy VII Remake Gotcha Thanks For Your Money so he should never be in charge of any other project ever.
>Kitase directing
That position belongs to Hiroyuki Ito, either him or bring back Yasumi Matsuno at a time when Square Enix is not merging with another company.
No, no. You need Yoshi-P to work with Nomura, maybe let him get all his Osaka and Tokyo devs in CBU3 to work on a Versus reboot while the bulk of Osaka remains on Verum Rex. Kujiraoka and Suzuki and Maehiro on Versus, the Osaka Team on KHVR and Mitsunori Takahashi, Abe, Matsuoka and Hamaguchi on 7R. Maybe even bring Masanori Sato and Akiyama over to CBU3 to make it the Vagrant Story meets KH2 game Nomura wanted to make for so long.
>the Vagrant Story meets KH2 game Nomura wanted to make for so long
And now I know why everyone says 16 is just V13
Nomura when he's reigned in is fine. See: FF7-8, PE1-2.
It's when he's given carte blanche (Kingdom Hearts 1+, everything post Gooch leaving) that he is insufferable.
He should stay a concept/character artist.
>Has something to announce
it's just another black mages tour
i'll take it
Nomura directing, Nojima writing, Uematsu scoring, yep it's ludo time
Nomura can maybe draw a few characters as long as someone else is around to slap him across the head when it gets too moronic, but that's it.
He cannot write. Not even a single line. Not dialogue, not story, not lore, nothing. He's been raised on a diet of nothing but bottom of the barrel shonenshit and it's literally all he knows how to regurgitate. His idea of character motivations and interactions is plain dogshit. And that's not even getting into his obsession with the dumbest trope ever invented: alternate timelines and multiverses.
The remake of FF7 is like a congealed diaper of every Nomura-ism he's capable of.
Never let this man do anything other than draw again and maybe this company can still be salvaged.
good thing nomura didnt write ff7r, moron
He's the director and if he had any standards at all (of it the ideas hadn't come from him in the first place, which is likely) he'd have demanded rewrites from his team.
he did.
Learn what collaboration and compromises are.
Ah, yet another dipshit giving Nomura all the credit, good and bad. Nojima is the Kingdom Hearts writer. Nojima is the FF7R writer. Look him up, since you clearly don't know who actually works on FF and KH games, lmao.
You can not have any of the big lead directors/writers alone. The lot keep each other in check.
Kitase is generally the most grounded and the best at tard wrangling the others, but he fricking loves contrived unnecessary drama to drag things out.
Tabata will jerk off everywhere with giga-misery, pyrrhic victories, bad ends and a really large cast of morose characters.
Nomura will always conceive some convoluted plot threads that don't go anywhere because he'll jump between new plots and characters as he goes along.
Toriyama will just make another Lightning parallel to worship and derail every other character.
Poor ignorant you can hate nomura but he was responsible og ff7 was good
>all these nomura-drones seething over fpbp
AMEN
nomura designed the monsters in ff5 6 7 8
he did the in game designs of ff6 characters shadow and setzer, did gilgamesh in 5, did 7 and 8 entire cast
kazuko shibuya designed the ff1-5 cast not amano
amano only did the monsters of 1-4 and the logos, he did promo art for every ff based on stuff other artists all designed first
>kitase
I want Yasumi Matsuno back actually.
>Has something to announce
Please don't disappoint me, the last time I fell for this "big announcement" was the Fallguys collaboration and Xbox console port.
Both interest me about as much as an infected haemorrhoid.
The worst case scenario is a series of three FFIX raids in FFXIV with high quality new mixes of the FFIX soundtrack at the bare minimum.
I just hope it's something relevant to the game, not something Japanese specific or specific to the event or worse a completely corporate announcement.
>Shadows of Mhach
You do realize that was the FF9 raid right? Go back and raid The Weeping City of Mhach. The only outlier was one of the bosses being a Yunalesca callback.
Huh? There's no Yunalesca boss in Mhach.
It's not Yunalesca, but you catch onto megadeath and zombie mechanics during the 2nd boss really fast if you remember yunalesca. It was pretty subtle.
Oh yeah, the day that launched you instantly recognized who had played FFX.
Sakaguchi is my favorite gaming grandpa
why doesn't anyone care about nobuo uematsu's music outside of final fantasy
He's Japanese, no really that's the answer. People say the Japansese are racist because their society is homogenous, yet people in America I'm talking mainstream circles here not niche spheres, and the West in general have a very heavy bias against Japanese creations.
Do they though? Anime and Manga are bigger in the west than they've ever been, and many many prolific filmmakers for example cite Akira Kurosawa as one of their biggest influences and one of the greatest film makers of all time
are you dense? it's barely been a decade since you had western """journalists""" openly shitting on any game for japan with herro-tier shit and you only have to go back a single year to find them all foaming at the mouth over elden ring daring to not have all of the associated drek they shove into games nowadays like minimap markers and that crap
They absolutely fricking hate japan because they (almost) always put quality above virtue signalling
Thats pretty much only video games though, and anyone who actually enjoys gaming ignores all that culture war shit.
That's kinda like extrapolating Americas taco preference to south American foods.
Your write Dancing Mad, One Winged Angel and To Zanarkand and its kind of hard to top yourself after that.
Nobuo wrote Answers
TO ALL OF MY CHILDREN
>go to distant worlds
>whats her face comes out and sings this song live
>Big brick shithouse black guy in full barett cosplay seated next to me trying to downplay his full on b***htears strongcry as it hits the crescendo.
Its not his best song but its his best song with vocals i think.
I cried like a b***h at the Fanfest during Stormblood when they sang Dragonsong. The big Final Fantasy songs with lyrics just hit different.
Shame japan is medieval with drug use and Eyes on Me has been memory holed because the singer did coke in the 1990's.
Damn, I didn't know about that. I love Eyes on Me. I kind of get that Japan has its stuff with drug use and its publicity, but you know.
It happened with one other song in the series too. I saw the woman who sings it do Suteki Da Ne at Distant Worlds in London a few years back so its not that one but theres definitely another vocal song in the series Square has vaulted due to the singer doing weed or something too.
TELL US WHY
GIVEN LIFE
WE ARE MEANT TO DIE
HELPLESS IN OUR CRIES
and he thumped his cardboard gun arm on his knee at every beat like
>WITNESS
>bop
>SUFFER
>bop
>BORROW
>bop
and so on. Motherfricker was in the zone.
It's sickening how despite Soken's good shit Answers still mogs everything else in that game.
I forget his name but theres another composer other than soken who works on XIV and does some of the more techno-ey stuff for trials and raids and i'd like to see him get to do a bit key vocal track.
Though Dawntrails is probably going to be summer sovl next year.
I think I know who you're talking about, the guy who worked on the Pulse remix?
Distant Worlds > Answers however
Koji Fox wrote the Lyrics to Answers, Umetsu composed the song. Same with Dragonsong the
Lyrics was Koji Fox, the melody was Umetsu.
Yaeko Sato wrote the lyrics to Answers, Koji translated and added a bit himself. She also wrote Distant Worlds and Forever Today.
That's an arrangement but you were almost correct.
Dancing Mad alone shits on the entire XIV original soundtrack, and I like XIV
That's not entirely fair, Dancing Mad shits on a whole lot of the franchise's other tracks.
I'd go as far as saying Dancing Mad shits on almost all videogame music in general
I'm not gonna jerk off Uematsu or Dancing Mad too much because he gets enough of it already but Dancing Mad has probably his best homage to his progressive rock influences in general. It's really something special to see the same Emerson & Turkish influences from the Nice carry through.
Same reason no1 curs about Sakuraba's music outside of gaming.
I love Uematsu's music and wish he'd make a third Earthbound Papas album or a Black Mages reunion tour I always told myself I would travel to a Uematsu concert if he ever did another one in the U.S. and I actually have the money to do it now if he did. I know he recently came out with some folktale story songs https://youtu.be/DBLOtyZ8ozw , but they really don't do it for me. I like his instrumental stuff.
I like Yasunori Mitsuda's work on the Chrono series but everything else is kind of meh. Tsugunai was kind of good though.
CT is one of mitsuda's weakest works, which goes to show how good of a composer he is.
Xenogears ost is better than CT you fricking Black person
I'd take him sneaking in a Steam Fantasian announcement at the least.
I thought he had retired, good to see him still going.
I know Ganker gets all weird with "racism" stuff, but Western developers and journalists really do seem to have some weird attitude about Japanese games for whatever reason. Like you'll see them outright shit talk Japanese developers and their games in ways they would never do against other Western developers, even though they talk a big "we're tolerant, we're diverse" and all that jazz.
The west never got over being completely trounced by the east in the medium for decades. Especially american corporate types.
The west and more directly, Americans, have had a problem with Japan in general. Likely because no matter what dirty tricks the States try to pull on Japan, they just come back harder from a different angle.
Lose the war in the 40s? Come back as an economic powerhouse in the 70s-90s.
Become so economically successful that the U.S. and it's cronies enact the Plaza Accord to stunt Japanese growth? Come back in the mid 90s early 2000s with a cultural victory via Anime and Manga, the later of which has completely eclipsed U.S. comics. They tried some trumped up shit with Toyota as well about unintended acceleration in their cars, just when Uncle Sam was bailing out the U.S auto industry. Toyota turned it around and now they are number one globally. It's all very vexing for mutts, you see, as Japan refuses to play by their script and so the mutts get enraged. It's the same with videogames. For decades, Japan alone has humiliated western developers, with the exception of the 360/PS3 era, dark days back then. Now they're back and Souls games are an institution. Japan is proof that you can't keep a good people down.
It's all fake. Western games only tried to appeal to female gamers recently by making female characters ugly with no personality and they advertise it as revolutionary after marketing teams spent years screaming at everyone thag video games are too cool and hardcore for girls. Meanwhile Japanese games have been pandering to female players for decades by making the male characters hot and giving female self insert options for a long time and it worked. They think Japanese video games having a little bit of fanservice for girls with cute dating options with hot guys is scandalous (FE Fates) but Western games having fully rendered buttholes, wieners and balls and gravity defying bolt on breasts with hideous male love interests and bestiality is woke and queer and based (BG3). Never listen to them.
They will never be able to overcome the brainwashing propaganda of "sexy things only appeal to teenage boys" when RPGs in Japan are a female-dominated genre and they want shit to be cute and sexy as frick.
Yeah and it's their own fault. They were sexist for a long time, alienated potential female gamers, noticed too late that they could be an interesting market but the damage is done. All the female nerds I know irl are almost only playing Japanese games, I am too and the only one who only played Western games recently got into SMT5 and P5R and fell in love with these games.
Someone posted a screencap from resetera once and they were literally insulting japan for GASP liking the white race
The fear to beauty is really hilarious, also how ironic Japan actually manages to make cool female characters while west basically says women have to look like men to be strong
Yeah, i've noticed that a lot over the years.
A JP game doing well, particularly if it doesn't have any of the go-to complaints, like say Elden Ring really caused a shitton of overt seething among the western dev and journo scene.
Not generally the people who are actually competent and doing good games, but most of the big AAA and their trashy SF faux-indie cliques were livid.
I care. Loved his work on BD and LO, as well as Granblue Fantasy and even one of the Neptunia games.
His work on Final Fantasy monopolizes discussion because it’s the most accessible. Most people haven’t played other games with his work.
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, The Last Story and Fantasian PC Ports.
That'd make me so fricking happy, anon
bro dont do that to me
I'm hoping Square give them both the reins for 17 before Uematsu passes away.
I want Sakaguchi to make a 2d sprite based FF17 that would run on a Super Nintendo with Uematsu composing and i am not joking.
You can have a 3D real-time FF17 on the PS5 directed by Nobuaki Komoto with music by Junya Nakano. Best I can do.
I'm sticking with 14 and Soken then.
I'd kill for a REAL open world 2D FF RPG, and with open world I mean "you can tackle shit in any order" not "le big open field".
>I really don't think Final Fantasy should have been made after Sakaguchi-San left the company.
M-my knees are moving on their own...!
Why cant i upgrade any buildings anymore? i have these unlocked
>At rank 20 after you do all upgrades you get access to a exclusive currency.
Weekly tokens up to 70 a week for specific handicrafts
>There's a literal fricking 200 voucher item, which will take your ass dozens of weeks of getting the max yield of these to get
Island sanctuary is a fricking insult.
A fricking blatant piece of shit jab at the players.
Whoever designed this is a fricking filthy ass homosexual who gave no fricks and just went the inconvenience route.
Frick you if you support this bullshit.
Time-gating players from playing a mini-game is some gacha-level shit. Pure Cancer.
You're already paying a monthly sub, this shit does not make sense.
People like you are why relics are just tomestones now
You're out of your fricking mind. If there were more buttholes like him, they might listen. As it stands, the shit eating morons like you who suck Yoshit-P's micropenis outnumber actual critics 99 - 1
Actually have a nice day. It's no wonder XIV is so risk-free in it's approach and how boring jobs are now. It's your kind that enables them to get away with the lazy design choice. You have no standards and you only get angry at people who have them.
I remember Stormblood days when the playerbase still gave a shit and hadn't been flooded with blizzdrone converts yet. Eureka Anemos sucked dick and everyone held Yoshida's feet to the fire over it. And what do you know? He listened and changed shit and Eureka ended up being one of the best pieces of content in the game by the end of it all.
You know thats why I feel like Endwalker is objectively the worst expansion.
HW had issues, but they were resolved by the end.
SB had issues, but they were also resolved.
They don't even acknowledge the crippling issues that Eureka Orthos or Criterion have, AMR and ASS are going to be fricking abandoned content by the time this system gets fixed next expansion.
>SB had issues, but they were also resolved.
well after the expansion ended, which is when people finally started doing eureka
I can't see a reason for there to be a blow up in people doing EW criterion.
Its so neglected right now that its actually insanely profitable to run AMR or ASS. Mounts sell more than POTD with a fraction of the time investment
Eureka was fixed when Pyros came out with the logos actions.
Put the Island Sanctuary tards onto making exploration content or relic quests. Give Island Sanctuary to the 1 dude who sometimes does gold saucer stuff in between photocopying raid logs.
6 months of grinding for another fricking recolored Mandragora mount. They aren't even trying to disguise their contempt for the player anymore.
This.
You can't defend it unless you're unironically a cultist.
>Time-gating
There's hardly any time-gating in IS beyond the buildings.
You can grind out everything post-patches in like a day if you want to.
>There's hardly any time-gating
The whole fricking mechanic of the island is time-gating.
Why do you come here lying about something you know nothing about?
Are you mentally ill?
>Handicrafts (Time-gated)
>Pasture leavings (Time-gated)
>Crops (Time-gated)
>Building upgrades (Time-gated)
>Rare Animals (Time-gated)
Every single major thing in Island sanctuary is time-gated.
If you want to rank up the same day more, your only option is to gather like a fricking zombie over and over until you hit it.
Do you even know who this was made for?
Clearly the shit eating morons who have no standards and are okay with the blatant contempt the dev team has for them.
They don't even give a single frick about RMT bots or Undercutting bots. What are you paying a monthly sub for unironically?
>They don't even give a single frick about RMT bots or Undercutting bots.
RMT selling is one of the easiest ways to get banned in XIV next to teleport hacking. They all get banned eventually.
>What are you paying a monthly sub for unironically?
To enjoy the game?
I mean I know there are some among you who live solely to b***h b***h b***h but to many having one optional feature in a game that's for Animal Crossing gays isn't a big deal.
Sakaguchi games are kind of ass. Remember how much The Last Story was hyped up?
Lost Odyssey was good though
Hey. Hey buddy.
Eat Shit.
There hasn't been an opinion as wrong as this.
Lost Odyssey and Fantasian are great.
I liked it more than Xenoblade
TLS wasn't bad and I'd put Lost Odyssey in my top games list.
>he didn't like the last story
???
FF9 remake.
Yeah I'm ok with this, FFIX is my favourite out of the entire series but a remake wouldn't replace it so I'm ok if it gets the FF7R treatment as my game will always be there.
I really don't know why FF7 gays are so split about FF7, they either really love it even though it's so mediocre with it's linearity and quests, or absolutely hate it for not being a faithful 1 for 1 remake.
Because some people are brainlets and completely dont understand FF7: Remake is a sequel to advent children and 'remake' is not a statement by the company of the product but the intent of the villain, same reason the next is called rebirth and all about jenova probably replacing tifa back in nibelheim.
Literally everyone understands that it's a sequel.
No they don't. All those moments where the screen flashes green INCLUDING RED XIII SEING THE LITERAL POST CREDITS SCENE TO FF7 BECAUSE THIS IS A FRICKING TIMELOOP DO-OVER when people meet aerith? thats just "stylistic intent" to the brainlets who completely lack the media literacy to understand a fricking square enix narrative written by tetsuya nomura.
I imagine they need a parent to help dress them even as adults.
That was already confirmed by the nvidia leak.
I hope it finally is this. It's been going around far too long.
The nvidia leak wasn't 100% true though. Remember, SMT V and Bayo 3 PC ports were on there.
please god let it be that Mistwalker is stepping away from mobage trash and will once more attempt to RPG w/ third party studios
Terra Battle 2 announcement and crossover, please undastad
Giott and Gooch
>Gooch famously dislikes RDM because its none committal and a leftover from the early days inspired by D&D multiclassers.
>Refuses to level it.
I mean i'm a red mage main but i gotta admire the dedication of a true hater.
>a leftover from the early days inspired by D&D multiclassers
no its just the elf
I love red mage but red mage sucks dick in xiv. It's a garbage version of black mage with a vestigial melee phase. The only "white magic" part of it is a res.
Here we go again, XIgay here coming to frick the thread up with his schizoshit spam. Hey moron, go play XI if that's all you give a frick about.
Anon, are you okay?
They said something they don't like about XIV, you brought up XI and immediately said the line. You shouldn't be tilting that hard and talking about schizos out of nowhere, it's a glass houses and rocks thing y'know?
Why do you dumb Black folk always bring up XI?
You know red mage existed in several other games BESIDES XI right? The games that were actually good? The games that WEREN'T shitty mmos?
Even if you don't like Red Mage because
>it's not a "true" red mage like XI
The RDM itself in XIV is one of the best designed and most fun DPS jobs. It has the least static rotation in the game; every pull is a unique permutations of buttons.
Wasn't Fantasian spotted on steamdb a few months ago? It's probably just that
Sakaguchi and Uematsu need to return to save Final Fantasy!
that dog is from LR FF 13 not FF7R
>What are you hoping as the father of Final Fantasy returns to the brand for the first time in over 20 years?
His suicide.
>First reveal of the xbox version of FFXIV
>The Guch walks on stage
>Alliance raid: Lost Odyssey X Blue Dragon
>Phil starts the slow clap
Imagine.
You rope Shigematsu into it and I'll at least be looking forward to one thing in Dawntrail.
>FFXIV comes to xbox with Dawntrail
>We could get a fricking Fable X Final Fantasy cross over
12 year old me from 20 years ago just shit and came at the same time.
>Gucchi walks on stage
>"Ahh harro... i. bring. yu. BIG lion ah breasts. Sank yuuverymach"
>Bows and leaves
>Screen shows Hrothgals as the most horny thing Squares put out since Lulu in FFX
He wears that lionhead glamour for a reason. Lafell mains want their giant kemono women.
>FFXIV does a IX raid
>All the bawdglamour hogs get a beatrix outfit and hair style
>The modbeasts then add FFIX hip and breast proportions
Please god i only want this one small thing.
>The modbeasts then add FFIX hip and breast proportions
You could already do this with customize+. It would be tedious I'm sure, but you can do it.
Final Fantasy XIV has ruined the franchise and fanbase forever.
The only hope is starting over
Ironic you say that because it's the only game that is keeping the Final Fantasy brand and SE afloat.
Well Endwalker as the FFIV inspired expansion and Stormblood was VI and Shadowbringers was III with Dawntrail looking X inspired with a bunch of shit in the trailer and fanfest art reveals being from Spira maybe IX is close and they are adding that as the alliance raid.
Shame Eden is probably the total VIII fanservice we are going to get but i hope Dawntrail has some V too, Galuf's mentioned so heres hoping Faris is our Corsair trainer.
>Stormblood was VI
How? If anything it was a bit of 5,6,11,12,Tactics and 3 all thrown together. Hell, it was more 5 than 6 considering Omega Shinryu were crucial to the story.
It was 2 changing david bowie villian for a chink weeb arthas
Anon, they clearly meant 4.0 > 4.5 MSQ.
Yeah, we got Eureka, Ivalice, we had the four lords and Omega (which pushed on VI again too) but remove those and SB's MSQ is more VI than anything. Shinryu appearing there was incredibly hollow as a reference anyway.
Anyway, you'd left out FF X from your post game references since we also got Yojimboi before we looped back round to GIRU once more.
Not shitting on you, was weird to see you misinterpret that so easily.
If the OG final fantasy guy comes on stage to say hes working on XIV Barry is going to put a bullet in his own mouth.
I told you
My source at SE said Sakaguchi is coming back to overlook XVII and collaborate with his protege Nomura. SE knows just how damaging 16 was to the brand that has already been diminished, it's all hands on deck for FF17
he will be the successor to Matsuda's Blue Mage cosplay and come out on stage dressed up as a sheep to announce Beastmaster
Big if true.
Death to XIV
Ivalice Online XVII please look forward
Ivalice gays are almost worse than the other assorted shitposters.
Matsuno is a washed up hack who hasn't made anything good in over 20 years and rage quit his last attempt.
>B-But Matsuno!
Don't care, peak setting for a comfy light-party focused MMO (mostly tactics advance)
What kills me is that if they didn't have the FFXI guy heading XIV to begin with, we probably would've gotten an Ivalice thing since all the current heads of XIV are big Matsuno fans. The only reason we have what we do is because that's what XIV already started with.
Yeah people don't often mention it, they ripped so much from XII and stuff (games they worked on anyway), if they didn't have to salvage 1.0 it'd have been a done deal.
Catgirls sell unfortunately
XIV even under Tanaka was hugely inspired by Ivalice.
Is Tanaka the guy who looks 80 now or was it the other guy?
this guy
Yeah it's him, you should look at a recent photo of the guy, he doesn't look good.
Yeah, I felt sad seeing him on the FFXI 20th anniversary stream.
He looks pretty good. Remember that he didn't retire being of Yoshida being promoted within XIV but because of health issues.
Tanaka's a legend, I hope he's enjoying his retirement.
I mean, he looks 60.
FF12 was fricking boring, who honestly thought otherwise? It had none of the charm and interest of FFX even though it was on the same console.
FF12 is the worst Ivalice game. Tactics, Vagrant Story and to a lesser degree Tactics Advance are true Ivalicekino. The only good part of Ivalice in FF12 is Fran, the rest is buried under shitty star wars episode 1 references.
Holy shit you are dumb, ff12 doesn't have any star wars ep 1 references moron
You've not played 12 or watched episode 1 in a while huh?
>The only good part of Ivalice in FF12 is Fran
Despite all the memes about Vaan and Penelo being pointless, Fran is actually the most useless party member. She is only there to get you into Eruyt and to have her ass hanging out for fanservice. Fran is shit if you're not a coomer. Venat, Cid, Vayne, Gabranth, and Larsa are all pure Ivalicekino.
>Tactics advance
>lesser degree
LOL,
XII's fine, by far the worst official Ivalice project that Matsuno & co were involved in with the Return to Ivalice alliance raid series in FFXIV. The raids were fine mechanically, the best part but the rest was utter dreck.
Strange because Bozja on the other hand was very refreshing.
Bozja was relatively decent despite matsuno's shit. It's easily the second worst written thing in the game after 4.0
nah that's the NieR raids
honestly all the raids fricking suck in terms of story, like are you seriously going to tell me Crystal Tower is better than 4.0? frick no.
I kind of think the Post-EW Alliance Raids are just straight up better than the Post-EW MSQ.
possibly but I haven't played em so idk, I've heard EW is dogshit though
I never said I like 4.0 but Crystal Tower is a fricking abortion, literal misery and this isn't even time talking I played that shit last year
4.0 was insufferable, but so was a lot of 3.0 and a lot of 2.0, none of it was worse than the raid tiers however.
>like are you seriously going to tell me Crystal Tower is better than 4.0? frick no.
Is this a joke? Absolutely.
4.0 was such utter dogshit I can't imagine anyone who could actually like it. There were a few times where it wasn't actively atrocious but even those were relatively few and far between. Any time gyr abania, zenos, or lyse is on screen it's embarassing.
I'm surprised they managed to make zenos a half-decent character in EW but there is no saving lyse.
CT, Mhach, Myths of the realm, and arguably even nier are better than 4.0
The ivalice raids are actually insulting, and that's before they removed the quests that actively shit on you for redoing ARR filler. You're better off if you haven't played tactics because the story gets all that much worse if you do.
>You're better off if you haven't played tactics because the story gets all that much worse if you do.
How is that? It's a literal nothingburger "what if", it is painfully uninteresting sure but far from insulting.
>NieR better than 4.0
never said it wasn't but it is still dog
no idea how fricking low your standards are
>How is that? It's a literal nothingburger "what if", it is painfully uninteresting sure but far from insulting.
for anyone who liked the story or plot of tactics I'd say it's prety insulting, yea
You can have a "what if" where the characters aren't braindead moronic
crystal tower mechanically has long since been a joke, but the story is good yea
unless you REALLY like the skypirates which, fair enough I guess, it's by far the best actual plot in alliance raids
crystal tower is the only alliance raid series that has a good story what are you talking about
oh and the new one is ok too I guess
It's kinda sad that Tataru's quests are the best writing we've seen since ShB's closer but it's expected.
The YoRHa raids were very good for us Drakengard & NieR fans tbh. Secondaries, latecomers from Automata & XIV fans maybe didn't enjoy them as much but they were pretty solid.
>I kind of think the Post-EW Alliance Raids are just straight up better than the Post-EW MSQ.
Considering 5.4, 5.5 & 6.0's scenario shit the bed hard, that's not surprising. It really goes to show how silly it was to try and cram a big end in to bring the ancients back then have two raid series' to finish it off. If only the raids themselves were designed with any semblance of competence.
6.1 > 6.5's hate train's pretty good right now. It does a lot of things better than 5.4 to 6.0 but it being the main scenario when it couldn't go anywhere at the moment and it's blundered surrounding the void really are the shit cherry on top to a fanbase that worships the ground Ishikawa vaguely passed by once on Tuesday afternoon.
>The YoRHa raids were very good for us Drakengard & NieR fans tbh.
How? Because Taro threw us a bone? The story, like the actual plot, is still terrible.
>but the story is good yea
It is absolute not good, lol. The main antagonist (if you can even call him? it? that) is literally nothing, the rest of the plot is just Graha jerk and "do you le remember FFIII?"
shit is so bad
>the rest of the plot is just Graha jerk and "do you le remember FFIII?"
yea and ivalice is "Remember tactics" and nier is "Remember nier/dod"
what's your point?
my point is literally what I said in my first fricking post lol, all the raids suck dick, for various reasons, including but not limited to the purease understanderu profitable game but budget small where they dead end the frick out of a storyline (NieR) or give it nonsensical """cutscenes""" (Ivalice) or are so insanely limited in scope the game they are ripping from has a more coherent story for the characters than the raid itself (Crystal Tower)
say what you want about how much Stormblood sucks wiener but the reality is is that XIV offers very little in the way of actually good story, even from writers who typically have good output, like Taro, Ishikawa, and Matsuno.
>only secondaries didn't like the nier raids
I 100%'d Drakengard when I was 12 and have been playing its derivatives ever since. This take is a bit extreme. The raids were very boring along with its story. People complain about Eden's story all the time, but still praise it because of the gameplay. Omega and Mhach were probably the only raid series with next to no issues with either the story lr gameplay.
What's up with Ishikawa and Omega anyway?
FFXII has the worst mainline OST, it's fricking BORING.
I'd give that award to 9 & 10. I can't remember any of the zone music from either.
>IX and X for worst music
You fricking wish
>IX & X
>worst OST
???????????????????????????
Ivalice can suck a fart out of my ass. Most of the games in the setting fricking suck
I think this is the only theme Uematsu made himself in 7 Remake, the rest were arranged by other composers of his prior work.
Non-Uematsu scores don't have enough of a focus on melody to be truly memorable.
Also lack of technical limitations men that more modern compositions lack that same otherworldly feel. Black Mage Village wouldn'tget made today. The Mako Reactor theme from 7 lost a lot of thay feeling without the synths. We gained a lot of audio fidelity and it sounds more like 'real music' but we've lost a lot of its heart in so doing. Seeing it get universally praised is a little sad.
While there's definitely some stuff they lost in the VIIR tracks from more modern sound fonts I thought they were pretty good overall. I don't remember what piece it was exactly but there was a relatively noticeable difference.
With a few exceptions I don't think most of the area/noncombat tracks in XIV are that great, even most of the "normal combat" themes are kind of whatever with only the boss tracks being memorable.
Was glad to see that most of the combat music in XVI was good, though similarly wouldn't say any area theme was, though to be somewhat fair area music is a lot less memorable in general, not everything can be cosmo canyon.
>Was glad to see that most of the combat music in XVI was good
Lol all of it was boring orchestra shit, at least in XIV there’s the occasional banger to wake you up again, you don’t have that in XVI
>you don’t have that in XV
>He didn't even get to titan
One (1) song
Wow
>inb4 typhus
Sounds like ‘ai generate edm song’
Whatever happened to the experimentation of Alexander?
>D-doesn't count
and besides all the combat themes in xvi were good, I'm not gonna say all of them are as memorable as TWENTY TWO SECTORS TESTED but they were all pretty good, definitely at least as good as your normal fight theme in the series.
4 and 7 would probably be my favorites though
2 was kind of shit but I did like its battle theme
>definitely at least as good as your normal fight theme in the series.
HOLY FRICK no
Compare soken to soken, putting Uematsu in the picture is just sad
When sticking to just soken, sure. The battle themes in xvi are about middle of the road for him
>When sticking to just soken, sure. The battle themes in xvi are about middle of the road for him
Is this comparing Soken to Soken or comparing Soken to "Soken"?
>HOLY FRICK no
this isn't even a controversial opinion
I'm not saying he's better than uetmatsu's best, I already said that, but I'd definitely say they're better than some of them, like IX or X's
>IX
complete disagree, the boss theme is very iconic and appropriately dire to contrast with the upbeat battle th eme
>X
Kinda ehh but also not composed by Uematsu
Now if we’re talking about regular battle themes then Uematsu wins again
One of those wasn't even composed by Uematsu, come on. Also I prefer this as the boss theme of 16 which was played during the harder hunt battles
ah frick I'm moronic I didn't even check the song, I meant to put that one for the first song instead of the like miniboss one or whatever it technically is
>Now if we’re talking about regular battle themes then Uematsu wins again
Yea probably
To be fair to you for being so cordial, I do think Soken can compete and even outshine Uematsu, but only when he’s being the most experimental. See again Alexander and Shadowbringers tracks. The problem with XVI’s ost for me is that by necessity of design it had to have a more ‘grounded’ soundtrack, and since it was done with a sound font you couldn’t even get the advantages of a real orchestra.
Ofc I prefer sound fonts, I am a uematsu fan after all, but I think they are best used as potential for strange new soundscapes then as instrument replacers.
yea obviously
though somewhat sadly I don't think we're ever going back to 'classic' soundfonts, so they just have to worry with what melodies they can make, and I think those and the 'main' motif are pretty great
overall I think the only thing I'd say is that he tended to overuse prelude and prologue, I love them and all but there were a few times when I thought "Really? We're doing prelude now?" but there were also a good few times where it went well
I do agree that soken uses leitmotifs better. Like imagine an ffIX where Melodies of Life motif was more central instead of just being used in like 3 songs, idk
Does XVI even have a single jazz theme in it
It's bizarre that they effectively gouged out the HW team from XIV to make a game with ARR's mentality
No
Honestly I think yoshi might be a bit autistic and thinks that an initial entry into a story or world has to have a ‘grounded’ soundtrack because ARR had this problem too
So basically my copium is that maybe we’ll get more interesting tracks in the DLC. I’m interested in what they’ll do to Leviathan, of course the original punk rock theme is a classic but I feel like going for a more watery synth sound like in Eden would fit him better
>because ARR had this problem too
If the story of all primals having primal judgment instead of their own unique theme is right that'd be stupid, since even in ARR you have levi, titan, and good king moggle mog
>I’m interested in what they’ll do to Leviathan
To Sail Forbidden Seas is the song Soken made for Leviathan. It's a sea shanty, the lyrics are all about fighting the sea, and of course the title refers to the sea. Obviously Soken just wanted to keep the song when Leviathan got cut so it got turned into the basic eikon battle theme.
All of this is just not true, lol. Where'd you even come up with this?
Listen to the song and read the lyrics. It is 100% Leviathan's song.
No it isn't you moron, not only does it share motifs with a few other songs on the soundtrack that are completely separated from anything that you could moronicly claim was just cut content for Leviathan, the song itself is just referential to the different corners of Valisthea/their respective elements/the aspects of Ultima. Parts of the song address each and every element, including water, because that was a former mothercrystal. Leviathan isn't what the song is about, though. You are a moron.
This is not about all the elements or Ultima, it's about the fricking ocean and the turmoil kicking up at sea. And it's a fricking sea shanty. Open your ears. What the frick does a sea shanty have to do with Garuda or Ifrit or any other fricking eikon? Not a god damn thing.
>Eurus, Caecias, Thrascias, Zephyrus,
Meses, Notos, Lips, Apheliotes
look it up, moron
I know what the winds are. Do you know what sailing is?
I know what sailing is, do you? What part of sailing has to do with fork-flamed fire, or being thunder-cloven, or mountains, or vales? Or running onwards? Like I said 2 posts ago, it's about the different corners of Valisthea, the mothercrystals, Clive's journey to each, and the respective Eikons. I can't wait for the DLC to release and for your dumb headcanon you spam everywhere about it being Levithan's theme to be shit on, canonically.
Obviously it's no longer Leviathan's theme and won't be in the DLC, but it's obvious if you have ears or a brain that it was originally Leviathan's theme. Again, it's a fricking SEA SHANTY. What does sailing have to do with Clive's journey? You only sail to two mothercrystals. It's not like sailing is a major motif in the game.
Okay dude, whatever, I'm sure it just shares a motif with 3 other completely generic battle themes for no reason.
holy goalpost move what.
I guess Joshua and Clive are LITERALLY Prometheus and Epimetheus because that's what Away says, right?
I think its really just a byproduct of being given the task to produce it around when HW was done and popular.
By the time ShB came out and really overtook everything it would have been too late for him to go 'no we need to adapt to this and change XVI accordingly'
Titan has great music but it's literally a rearrangement of Under the Weight.
They were changed to make them fit more with their respective battle-versions.
Rufus Shinra is the best boss theme in the game.
Oh yeah, mixing Boss Battle and Shinra Theme leitmotifs with each other... what could possibly go right?
Expectations for Rufus Parade music in Rebirth? Actual singing, maybe? The OG did have lyrics after all, they were just not voiced because MUH music on loop, which is no longer an issue...
>Actual singing, maybe?
YES
I agree and I wish the FF7 Remake boss theme was this instead of watered down Uematsu/original pieces
Revo in bravely default 1 did.
man bravely default 1 was kino
what the frick happened to BS and BD2
For him to shit on Final Fantasy and announcing Fantasian for consoles and pc.
What happened to him saying Matsuno was working on a new game? That was like 3 years ago and we've heard nothing.
I thought he was just involved with the Tactics Ogre remaster/remake?
He specifically said "new game" so I don't think that is what he was talking about, but I guess it could be. The only other thing that has been mentioned was in an interview with Yoshida he said he should really make a new Ogre Battle before he dies.
Matsuno was doing a kickstarter project a couple years back that got released in EA on steam and had some drama surrounding it's investment. He now claims he was not involved in the misappropriated funds/push out/takeover from the publisher.
Which pushes Matsuno's last works to FFXIV and a kinda grim 3DS game.
>a kinda grim 3DS game
Crimson Shroud was pretty alright considering it had the budget of like 5$ and a chewed piece of gum. Also, he's been separated from the Kickstarter project for a hot minute, like since 2014-2015. Anyway, see
>Which pushes Matsuno's last works to FFXIV
Gabranth died on the way back to his home planet
>What are you hoping as the father of Final Fantasy returns to the brand for the first time in over 20 years?
I have no hope, SquareSoft is DEAD, just like Final Fantasy.
>4.0 scenario being shat on again
I still like 4.0's scenario for it's Gyr Abania side. It's post game patches are probably the best MSQ post game content we've had so far. That said, 4.0 suffers from having two zones & two writers to the point that if you don't do sidequests you're gonna get filtered hard by GA. It's strength on the eastern side in 4.0 still remains the steppe but the other parts of Ishikawa's writing here drag on so god damn much.
4.0 suffers from:
>Rushed setup from trying to tie up both ARR & Heavensward's postgame leading to a soberingly grim tone once you hit GA&SB
which leads into specifically
>Yda's mask off to Lyse
>Lyse in general
More generally it's also got
>Terrible pacing that gets worse if you do the sidequests in line with the zones your in and a chasm once you hit the East
>Ishikawa kinda forgot about the empire
This part's probably the worst of Ishikawa's writing up to the ShB postgame. The zone writing is at odds with the war, while the Steppe is still the best part of the scenario, it's completely out of place with the expansion it's in. This makes the Zenos eastern side with Yugiri even more grating.
Then as for the ending disconnected from Ishikawa's Eastern jaunt
>Gyr Abania continues with it's own pace once we return
>but suddenly has to sprint towards the end because 2 zones big war lol
The ending with Zenos then cucks players to setup it's postgame but we're going there because we're now reliant on Ishikawa's echo ancient train. While the content itself is fine and we're back on the empire front and Yotsuyu, it has to abruptly end once more so we can go into Shadowbringers.
XIV's biggest writing problem is still it's love/hate relationship with post game MMO storytelling to go to an expansion and put things on the backburner. It then starts to fall apart when you try and then fit 2 expansions into one. Twice they've done this now.
I Still like GA & Steppe tho but 4.0 gets a lot of hate for cause & effect storytelling.
>I still like 4.0's scenario for it's Gyr Abania side.
opinion discarded
killing yda (and by extension, papalymo) and replacing her with lyse is the worst plot point I've seen in anything, ever, and the rest of gyr abania is not doing it any favors
Wow shit so wait am I doing this wrong? Am I supposed to force myself to like Lyse?
I like Lyse and I like storm blood.
Its a more coherent story than Endslopper.
>ai slop
opinion discarded
what a hot moron
This thread is completely infested by mmotroons. absolutely disgusting .jpg
>This thread is completely infested by mmotroons.
Can never mention Nobuo or Sakaguchi in the same thread, especially related to FF.
MMOgays seethe at those names.
considering painting your walls red, moron
>MMOgays seethe at those names.
You know sakaguchi has been nonstop playing XIV for a while now, right? He openly posts about it on his twitter a ton. Dude fricking loves the game.
>You know sakaguchi has been nonstop playing XIV for a while now, right? He openly posts about it on his twitter a ton. Dude fricking loves the game.
You act like just because he plays XIV, that it magically stops him from being trashed by the community there.
Just like how they trash Nobuo and mistaken his contributions to that cancer-ridden homosexual Soken.
>Zeromus appears with the same theme from FFIV
>"HOLY KINO POGGERS SOKEN DOES IT AGAIN!!!"
>>"HOLY KINO POGGERS SOKEN DOES IT AGAIN!!!"
>Eventual FFX event happens and "To Zanarkand" plays
OMG SOKEN IS A MASTERMIND!
>Zeromus theme praise
I only saw people make fun of it for sounding like a shit pokemon battle theme remix
Go look at any of the Youtube video uploads of it. Nonstop stroking of Soken's wiener. As is the case for anything he produces, regardless of its quality.
>Probably one of my favourite themes of a trial in a while, and tbh the highlight of 6.5 for me personally (both the boss fight and the music)
I'd woke up hoping for a brand new positive day and here you are telling me there's people who enjoy the dreck his team put out for that trial and I still have an infection and the c**t that made this comment didn't drop the U?
How very cruel, I'd like the fever to kick in and take me back to the void now pls.
shit nobody ever says
do you have fun making up people to hate? is that what fuels you?
Go back
>soken simp
>feminized "who hurt you" tier post
>"take meds schizo"
Yep it's a twitter crossposter
>he's making up people again
lmfao
>feminized
yep, it's a /misc/swine crossboarder
>b-b-but POL!!!!
frogposter too
>sam hyde poster
but alas, you only have frogs, I have many an image to laugh at how pathetic you are
>gaki poster
Speaking of Soken, am I the only one who thinks that the beginning of the FFXVI Phoenix Eikon Battle Theme "Away" starts off with what sounds kinda like a Cloud of Darkness leitmotif?
Wouldn't surprise me. The battle theme is Don't Be Afraid.
he reuses the same shit over and over so I wouldn't exactly be shocked
>that it magically stops him from being trashed by the community there.
lol
lmao
these mentally ill mmotroons shit on every director who's ever worked on final fantasy to muddy the waters and defend their cult leader, I hate them
moron
If you actually look at the OP, you'll see it's mentioning something called "London Fanfest". Maybe if you use a search engine you can find out what event is being referenced there.
FF1 remake
He's gonna retire. That's his announcement.
>He's gonna retire. That's his announcement.
He can't retire, he has one more Final Fantasy to make!
>He can't retire, he has one more Final Fantasy to make
correct
Sakaguchi will be executive producer for XVII
are they implying that black people can't afford the subscription? racist much?
I hope it's a Lost Oddysey sequel
That or a Steam port, but given this is a FF thing, I doubt that happens as that's Mistwalker and MS.
>the father of Final Fantasy
>returns to the brand
>Dancing Mad
eh... over rated imo
But this? His best.
masterpiece
yes, it doesn't need over 17 minutes and 4 movements to be great
a brief loop, genius
DID SOMEONE ORDER SOME BADLY EMULATED SLAP BASE ON A EARLY 1990'S CONSOLE??
there is a better one in the same game
%3D%3D
He's co-directing FFXVII with Luminous Studios.
this is what I have heard through the grapevine as well. it's now or never for final fantasy after 16's disappointing sales
This, final trooning 16 is an embarrassment to final fantasy.
Cope. Luminous is currently doing a technical demo of their new Luminous engine at CBU2 and will be showing it at CEDEC. They are not being shunned and are working on Final Fantasy 17.
>Cope
Cope is believing Luminous would be the main studio of a game from now on.
At best, they will be relegated at collaborators just like they did with XVI.
The yoshitpiss troons have decided to come out of the closet.
bro you are in a yoshitpiss thread, at best you are in the closet with the lot of em
>thread is literally about Sakaguchi
>b-but it was always about yoshitpiss
remind me
what other game has a final fantasy fanfest in london soon? moronic twitterzoomie
>Luminous Studios
You might want to take a seat...
I wonder if they regret using villains like Chaos, Exdeath and Kefka in the Omega raids because now they can't do plots about their games like they did with FFIV
they still can pull things from omega, even if subtle like with Ultima and Athena
They could easily use the Ivalice variants of exdeath and chaos if they wanted.
Maximilian Dood was offered an all expense paid trip to fanfest and turned it down because he won't endorse mmo slop KEK!
Literally who?
so eager to be right
so eager to serve
this is why the snoyim will always be slaves. I'd wager that deep down you knew this was bait but your servile instincts just couldn't let it slide. Thanks for the link, snoy
>ecelebgay thinks he's better than sonygays
it's not your place judge anyones worth, snoy. now run along and fetch me another link
wow even after Square had him for the FF16 pre-release event?
max is king rat for trashing 16 after SE rolled out the red carpet for him, fricking traitor
Once the money stops flowing he flips the switch, that's how it's always been with him.
I hope Rebirth flops just to spite Maximum Rat
I hope Rebirth flops because it's inevitably going to be an abortion just like Remake, and Final Fantasy XIII, and Final Fantasy X, and Final Fantasy VIII
we are not the same
we actually are tho because we both hate all of those games and are avid 14 players
I hate MMOs (except for BDO, my beloved)
we are not the same
let's at least agree that Maximilian Dood deserves to be raped by a pack of wild dogs and part on good terms
ofc
He gave it an 8, which is generous for what is basically FFXIII with action gameplay and better dialogue. FFXVI would unironically be so much better if it is literally FFXIV but offline.
He said ff16 is not even top 20 games of 2023 for him
Because this year was stacked, and 16 is merely "okay" at best overall, or possibly just bad depending on what you're looking for
He hasn't even played 20 games that came out this year, his point was ff16 was shit and the further away from beating it he was cleared his thoughts that its garbage
He said ffxv is better
Good for him, why should a good ol' Vana'dude go to a shitty XIV patch notes release?
Thank god, that's one leech I don't want anywhere near the game.
>joins the thread
reminder that when you engage with this dude you are engaging with someone who actively does shit like pic rel
Someone should post the writeups
>writeups
?
Ignore the bot guys
>no actual argument
>had nothing to do with the post at all
bot moment
Fun characters, Yuki Nishimura nailed the art, interesting gameplay, but absolutely ass monetization.
at least on launch it had the most generous monetization of any gacha I've seen
you rolled for characters yea but if you maxed their skill (not too terribly hard to do) they just got removed from the pool and you would get other shit
what killed it was that the devs launched the game and IMMEDIATELY abandoned it for like 4 months or some shit, I loved the base story and the gameplay wasn't too bad either, but it was dead after that
and then the travesty of "2"
apologize
nothing can save final fantasy now. the guch has been doing mobile shit for how many years now? no way he can bring that sinking ship back
12 had the best boss themes. don't (you) me
he's addicted to ffxiv so I'm not expecting much
Realistically another shitty smartphone JRPG that no one will play.
Would be sick if he came back and directed FFXVII though.
He's in no shape to lead a major project. I don't think he even cares anymore.
gooch loves xiv and plays it a lot and uematsu is only half-retired since he DJs at a local club with remixes of his ff music
>loves xiv and plays it a lot
That's just marketing anon. He doesn't give a single frick about FF at this point, he just hangs out with the lads for a laugh once in a while
>That's just marketing anon.
Right he plays through every savage and ultimate raid "for marketing"
Does he though, like do you see him actually do in a stream where he himself does it
No you're right anon he gets some random person to play his character for him and posts about his prog and clears on twitter constantly using someone else's screenshots.
yes he streamed it quite a lot and you can see his logs
I think he does stream it, actually.
yeah boy i can't wait for another shitty phone game nobody is interested in because mistwalker refuse to take on any real projects
>mistwalker refuse to take on any real projects
Does anyone trust them with any real projects considering everything major they tried to make flopped
FFXVII with a cast of nothing but beastmasters....
Do you think we'll see any mountain zones in DT?
Took you a while to find this one, wheres the pink Black person
I've been lurking for like 200 posts
I'm not Pinklala's parent, idk what they're up to
Clouds don’t work like that.
sakaGUCCI is so zased
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/39918658/
endwalker in a nutshell
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>havent capped tomes in weeks
>barely can motivate myself to do the weekly 24man for a coin
I am actually impressed how well they killed my motivation for playing the game, considering I have been keeping with it since the release of ARR. There have been downtimes, but I don't think any expansion had less content I enjoyed than EW.
Regarding FanFest: The US one was the most surreal shit ever. Having Phil Spencer on stage shilling XBox for 30 minutes was so corporate it hurt.
>Regarding FanFest: The US one was the most surreal shit ever.
It was certainly strange and underwhelming.
.
TRANS RIGHTS IN GAYORZEA!
>under 10 listings for actual content
ALIVE GAME
I can guarantee you that the dungeon tab one is yet another ad. That shit's always gil sellers or some weirdo recruitment post.
Hello
I would like a Final Fantasy XI raid series
No, Eureka does not count
Thanks
>I would like a Final Fantasy XI raid series
but no one cares about that one
Me
I care
Me too, but no Shantotto. Shantotto is fricking awful.
I hope they giving him one more game to lead in, he deserves a final shot with his baby
>Had Rescue in the game for over four years
>Still don't design a single fricking raid mechanic around requiring it
This is as bad as the time we had a lot of CC skills during Heavensward, and the only raid that required active Silence/Gravity usage was Pepsiman's add phase, and timed stuns on gobs in A2S.
99% of mmo healers are very, very stupid and just want instant dungeon queues where they stand back and ignore most mechanics to whack a mole a couple of heath bars. I garuantee you most healers don't have it on their bars and don't know what it is and most that do are only putting it there for power trip moments and also put "ressing [PLAYER NAME] hahaha what a frickup" macros on their raise spells. Pick your poison.
I want my entire toolkit put to use that you can't "uptime strat" your way around not needing Rescue or dumping it on a job with mobility options (never happening with how their mechanics bible says to do mechanics puke on a per-roles basis)
Rescue has horrible latency issues and is inferior to any movement mechanics melee DPS already have. I guess you could have some quicksand type effect that needs someone getting rescued from, but seeing dispellable status effects going the way of the dodo, I doubt they would look into that. The current design philosophy is "Make the classes stupidly simple to play, just put more convoluted mechanics into the encounter". It is awful and I wish they would turn away from that again.
I just wish they'd go back to bosses having meaty hits, instead of wasting 4-10s every single tank buster while the rest of the party twiddles their thumbs doing their dps rotation.
Fricking this, people blame endwalker but SHB was unironically the beginning of tanking being utter dogshit garbage.
The fight design has been abysmal boring slop for so fricking long.
It's like they're afraid of giving unique mechanics besides "stand here to not die"
I always have a laugh when I get Titania in roulette and the tank cleaves the whole fricking party dead with her cleave buster, because it's extremely rare for a fight to have that in the first place.
>give unique mechanics
>non-stop b***hing from the community
I miss SCH/SMN/BRD AoE knockbacks in 2.0/3.0 PVP like you wouldn't believe.
>Using ACK bridge as an example
Who the frick complained about alexander role cages or shit like magnetic lysis??? genuinely it makes no sense why YIAZAMAT, is still one of the most interesting bosses simply because of his cleave and tornado mechanic.
Or even the scrap burning mechanic. It just feels like they want every fight to be a "dance" but the steps are fricking boring.
>Who the frick complained about alexander role cages
Speedclear autists mainly, who couldn't handle RNG dictating the optimal kill speed.
The fight mechanics bizzarely tend to get easier in post game than levelling. Like Holminster Switch or Amorout isn't super hard but i saw more party wipes than anything in patches. Same with shit like the Dead Ends or Tower of Babil.
At least this time around Lunar Subtarrane while still easy for my experienced tastes feels a damn sight more promising for dawntrail than Pagl'than was for Endwalker. Pagl'than was literally "oops all the time was put into spectacle" and the combat experiences were brainless dogshit. Meanwhile the bosses in the latest dungeon while not hard by any stretch are leaning a lot more into "no really you have 1.5 seconds to stand somewhere safe" which is better than the 4-6 seconds for lunar bahamut.
The final boss in particular isn't "WAKE UP DUMBDUMBS" like Ilberd but relies on player reactions a lot more than any other post Dead Ends dungeon boss and i hope thats promising for Dawntrail since the final dungeon is always testing something for the next expansion like Ghimlyt Dark testing ai npcs.
You know damn fricking well Dawntrail is going to be another difficulty reset.
Magus Sisters are one of the hardest bosses in the game, harder than most trials players will encounter.
You are just playing with a stupid healer who can't adjust.
I wouldn't say its the hardest but on a first playthrough its the most 'entertainingly' hard
I dunno if I agree with this, maybe I'm just a showerlet who plays the game too much but the tempo of both magus sisters and especially durante just feels so fricking slow.
But again it could just be because I've been playing since ARR.
It just feels like unless you're a brainlet you know to step into durantes AOE after the first one goes off/match the elements at the end.
But I generally hate all of EW's dungeons so I might be bias. Only one I liked was smileton and that was only because of the music.
This guy's music is awesome, and he is always welcome in our state.
I don't care what Sakaguchi does. He is the one who made the mmo into a mainline and killed the franchise. He is pure cancer
FFXI is the best game in the series, cope about not having a credit card and internet connection in 2003.
Don't you be shitting on the best MMO for its era, boy.
For me it was the PS2 network adapter in my eastern european country.
Game store clerks had no idea what i was even asking for.
I had to go to Target of all places to find the HDD portion to shove into my PS2 to play FFXI because I was 12 and didn't have a gaming PC until 2 years later.
At least the network adapter was in production and available; even if you did have to order it in.
You want real nightmare tier? Go back and ask for a gamecube network adapter. Now that's a funny joke. Almost like trying to buy a video cable for one too or the gameboy player! haha!
>cancerous mmo-homosexuals reveal themselves
This is the state of FF ever since Sakaguchi raped the series with MMOs.
No one deserves as much blame as him.
Why are these threads always so fricking bad. It wasn't even this bad during shitblood.
the wowfugee crisis of 2021 happened. to this day you still have to deal with the random "arthass lichekinge" or "khaleesi silvanas" shitting up dungeons and those troglodytes occasionally take a break from spamming ai porn on the dying husk of /vg/ to shit up threads here as well.
he needs to fire the current hacks in charge
I love Sakaguchi. I would cum in my pants if he were to work on a new game with Square Enix and it had Final Fantasy in the title.
He is also a very charismatic and funny guy. All Final Fantasy fans should watch the 35th Anniversary Special Interview. 🙂
Everyone speaks wonders of XIV but I just can't get into MMOs, the gameplay is so fricking boring and tedious. Oh well.
The music is really nice tho
The entire game is pretty boring and tedious, which sucks because there is a world where it isn't like that and a world where that didn't bleed into FFXVI. Unfortunately, neither of us are living in that world.
Where's the world where XIV1.0 was given an extra year and a bit and launched as a solid XI successor, and we actually got VS XIII + all the other canned/delayed projects that actual XIV1.0 fricked over??
The same one where Spirits Within never existed, Matsuno and Sakaguchi are still at Square and they made the transition to the 7th gen just fine.
I still want a crazy employee at SE to pitch building an actual Spirits Within game.
>Vehicles
>Guns
>World fricked by spirits
It could be a third-person shooter, could be an isometric hero-based RTS, could be an SMT style corridor crawler, etc.
go back to 2009 homosexual
god I fricking wish
>the year Minecraft and Demon's Souls came out
TAKE ME BACK.
>1.0 doesn't fall apart
>the MMO genre doesn't permanently fall into the hell of WoW clones
>we get the full Echo schizokino story they were leaning into
It's not fair...
>we get the full Echo schizokino story they were leaning into
Where can i read more about this?
It's probably just going to be some mobile or gacha shit
>gets kicked out
>literally not one good FF game since
Hmmmmmmmmm...
nah XII is kino, you just have shit taste
he was there for VIII, too, which blew dick
nah VIII was great you just have shit taste
he was there for V, too, which blew dick
>he was there for V, too, which blew dick
so true sister
Game so bad they didn't even localize it outside of Japan. They were fricking ashamed, and you're all hipster homosexuals with reddit taste.
>Game so bad they didn't even localize it outside of Japan.
But they did, moron.
a console generation later and in a half assed anthology pack?
The very same.
that version needs to be played on the ps1 or it's unplayable btw. doesn't have the abysmal slowdown VI has but it isn't forwards compatible you know
I was literally playing it on my PS2 slim yesterday bro.
I accept your concession. Ahh reddit hipsters, sometimes you just go too far.
It was just specific PS2 models that had issues with select PS1 games (including black label FFT).
>get ps2
>get disc read error
>send PS2 to sony
>wait forever
>get it back
>buy final fantasy anthology
> only VI is in the package when it arrives
>return through amazon
>buy it from a different seller
>game comes
>can't play FFV
>one month after warranty expires, Disc Read Error.
I played that on my PS2 without issue.
I kneel and concede.
>anon then proceeds to flip his PS1 upside down to be able to play said game
Frick Sony and always skimping out on their optical drive components even to this day with PS5
b***h what are you talking about did you just buy a broken PS2 and think that was just how the ps2 worked for everyone?
now post ps1 or I'll just assume it's your favorite game you've never played
>he was there for V, too, which blew dick
Go frick yourself, frick clean off with that shit.
V has Lenna and Faris, so it's great
And Sakaguchi personally designed them, so he's great
FFV is KINO I say!
this was drawn by a porn artist wasn't it
He happens to be one of the artists for Rage of Bahamut too, one of SE's mobile games.
Believe it or not, a lot of porn artists work at SE.
Saitom FF never ever
>Saitom
Who?
>choco FF never ever
ftfy
If you don't like X, VII Remake or XVI, then you are seriously moronic or gay.
>X, VII Remake
blehg
>XVI,
passable but still kinda dogshit
7emake and XVI are garbage.
Poor turn-based baby. You still have Pokemon.
I didn't know you were literally deformed Barry...
He was there for X though.
reminder
Nothing he was responsible of the frickup state of ff and square enix everyone forgets so easily his moronic ultra expensive film with a tulpa projection of his dead mom
Gooch made exactly 2 mistakes while chilling in Hawaii casually producing PSX FF games.
The first mistake was spirits within being a terrible, terrible movie while being ahead of it's time.
The second was resigning in shame and giving endorsing Kitase & Hashimoto.
He shoulda stuck it out.
On the other hand though, had he stuck it out, we wouldn't have gotten Lost Odyssey or The Last Story and that's basically a crime against humanity. Now take a second to imagine the timeline where it didn't flop. XII exists and Matsuno didn't ragequit his career, yeah we don't get LO or TLS but maybe Square don't move or he convinces Uematsu to come live it up in Hawaii like Toriyama convinced him to do. Do we still get Crystal Tools? does Toriyama still do X-2 to XIII? Compilation of 7 might not exist and 7 might only have been remade and made into a movie.
Without compilation of 7 we almost certainly don't see Tabata directing, Hashimoto stays focused on Nomura and he gets to make his dream FF rotating with Matsuno and Kitase? So no XV.
That leaves the last uncertain chain as FFXIV, no crystal tools so maybe it actually runs, does it stay true to it's XI roots like 1.0 or do we get the WoWclone theme park MMO we have today?
Who knows what even happens on the enix side of business, does Cavia still get it's contract work? It almost certainly goes bust still, but we don't see DoD3 or NieR and Okabe quits music after only releasing tekkenshit at Namco, we don't see Automata in the Japanese comeback either in 2017. And what about team Asano and games like bravely, octopath & triangle strategy? They spawned out of 4Heroes/Warriors of light, do we still get that with Sakaguchi at the helm? Are we still getting SaGa games too? What about Xeno? Does Takahashi still leave Square at the enix merger to found Monolith!?
All this could have changed had Spirits Within been well received or he stuck it out. Gooch leaving SE after Spirits Within had such a ripple.
Tabata said he joined SE because he wanted to work with Matsuno, however by the time he joined SE Matsuno just left and Tabata was assigned with Nomura instead
Crystal Tools wouldve still happened
Nomura still wouldve wanted to make his own FF because he was influenced on stuff for Versus from things like the 1996 romeo and juliet movie, and it was being done by KH staff which was FF7/8/10 staff and the CG cinematic team, he said he was influenced to do a fantasy venice city (altissia) from when he went to venice to promote KH2
Sakaguchi always wanted to make FF more Hollywood movie like, Kitase literally comes from a film background too
Sakaguchis main thing was no direct sequels, so FF7 comp or 10-2 wouldn't have happened but any number of FF spinoffs could
Sakaguchi is the main reason FF11 is an mmo too
crystal tools would've still happened
fabula nova crystallis wouldve still happened too but only with Sakaguchi involved
they weren't sequels, they were 3 ff games being different interpretation of the same lore
Ideas for LO and LS could've become their own FFs too
Sakaguchi also said he likes how Tabata does things so he likely would've still put him in director positions on variety FF stuff too
Sakaguchi wouldve wanted more FF movies had SW been a bit
Takahashi left Square before Sakaguchi did
>Takahashi left Square before Sakaguchi did
Yeah, I messed up there. I was trying to remember them by box art and confused the lower right of Unlimited SaGa's NA & PAL releases with the new SE logo with Xenosaga which was indeed published by Namco. My brain associated monolith's first title as Baten Kaitos but I was wrong huh. All because both of them came in nice cardboard sleeves. Funny how the memory works.
>Tabata said he joined SE because he wanted to work with Matsuno, however by the time he joined SE Matsuno just left and Tabata was assigned with Nomura instead
>Sakaguchi also said he likes how Tabata does things so he likely would've still put him in director positions on variety FF stuff too
Yeah so I was thinking more in the vein of no compilation/sequels means no before crisis or crisis core so maybe he gets passed over for Agito and with Matsuno still around maybe there's not that same space.
That's one of the more interesting things there.
>Nomura still wouldve wanted to make his own FF because he was influenced on stuff for Versus from things like the 1996 romeo and juliet movie,
With this do we see it as Versus XIII still in that era or does he do it separately? Without regular FNC that question & split becomes more interesting. If he's tied up in his own FF say in a timeline without Crystal Tools production hell then we maybe even see him do third birthday without Tabata filling in,
>crystal tools would've still happened
On that, this is one of the weirder things in a mergerless vision of square too. Do we still see Wada take over if they never merge? I remember Suzuki commenting on the company having no vision or future in the early 2010s. Something I distinctly remember as it happened after the XIII games but also after Cavia had swansonged with NieR under contract.
Anyway good fun anon, you have a nice day. Was fun thinking of what if scenarios c:
>With this do we see it as Versus XIII still in that era or does he do it separately?
I honestly see him doing something like that but TWEWY dies and becomes a part of Nomura's political urban fantasy game. And if Sakaguchi probably thought Xenogears was very dark I am positive Nomura would never get to make Versus his own game. But I can definitely see him making it a new IP if this were the case.
I don't think 14 would have been an MMO if Sakaguchi stayed on. I actually think we would get Vagrant Story 2 or even a new Ogre Battle game. I can even see Lost Odyssey being 13 and the Last Story being 14. As for what happens with Lightning, I can't say, she probably would have been merged with the Lost Odyssey concept and Toriyama would add a whole lot more Hollywood flash and spectacle with Vanille as the immortal. The merger would be much more smooth but the split between Square and Enix would be more discrete, and this means Yoshi-P wouldn't work on FF or Versus devs wouldn't work on later Dragon Quest entries.
>Nomura would never get to make Versus his own game. But I can definitely see him making it a new IP if this were the case.
Oh yeah this creates his own timeline. What if Nomura left and took the Tokyo Team to Monolith after KH3 on PS3 to make this game? Takahashi and Soraya were all over dark identity stories (and Monolith is no exception)
>Nomura left and took the Tokyo Team to Monolith after KH3
I'd start crying. Would Monolith already be owned by Nintendo?
>New Eureka-like zone is not gonna be legend of mana-inspired to take advantage of the tropical setting.
Nier didn't deserve a collab before it...
I know it'd never happen, but Sakaguchi returning for one game to do FF17 would rock
>Elon musk as pepsiman with a moronic X shape
> Zuckenberg some fricked up reptilian shit
>having expectations of a fanfest or live letter
If he and Uematsu came back to make another FF game, I'd buy it for full price.
No, you wouldn't.
You're right, I'd buy it twice.
hey sakaguchi, suck my balls
>yfw i'm going to be there
so excited bros
>london
im so, so sorry.
dem cankles
who cares?
final fantasy is a dead franchise
when the last remaining boomers that care about this garbage die off, it will fade away into the empty, cold void where it belongs
the catastrophic failure of ff16 should be enough proof that people just don't care anymore
wheres the crossover phil
Realistically: Fantasian getting a PC release.
The dream: Sakaguchi coming back to continue on with the series from FF9 and ignoring everything made after it.
Fantasian PC port now that the exclusivity deal with Apple is timed out. (it's got a Steam listing)
FF9 port.
XIV raids.
Sakaguchi directing the next FF.
>FF9 port
To where? It's already on everything. I know you mean remake, just twisting your melons
Guch has mentioned before that SE likes to occasionally bring him on stage to shill the new FF as a sort of seal of approval for fans. At this point he's likely thinking more of retiring than being brought back. More likely he'll just announce a steam release for those apple arcade games he made.
Mistwalker buying the FF IP off Square.
>Mistwalker buying the FF IP off Square.
lel this would be beautiful
Remember when console fanboys were getting upset about Microsoft trying and succeeding to buy Activision-Blizzard? Remember the hardcore consolebabs who care about Square being bought by Sony? Sell off the Western studios & IP's to make them nice and lean for buying.
Imagine it happens but they sell of FF but kept Dragonquest etc lmao.
That'd sure expose them.
If only, but Mistwalker couldn't afford it and SE wouldn't give it up. FFXIV and all their mobile gacha still make them money. The IP still makes them money, even when the main games don't.
Is Fantasian really that good that everyone in this thread is asking for it? Isn't it a phone game?
It's alright, not amazing but good enough.
>everyone in this thread is asking for it?
>isn't it a phone game
It's pretty good on an ipad pro, if you use a video adapter or cast, it's fine too but like, the biggest problem with it is that it's an apple arcade game.
If you're not familiar, it's a gamepass style service. So not only is it a mobile game but it's like, imagine that the next game you cared about launched with good gamepad support but was a phonegame and also exclusive to gamepass and locked to a platform but this is a world where Microsoft still has windows mobile using metro UI so your options are playing it on a shitty nokia or some weird metro style windows 8 surface tablet using Windows 8 RT (ARM) and the DRM was uncrackable.
Yeah, that's the Fantasian experience.
Supposedly apple arcade is compatible with Mac OS too for what that's worth but it's probably their newer style macs, idk.
I played it with a free trial arcade sub a while back. Good little RPG, very stylish but not worth a subscription to a mobile game service. Definitely worth a buy on PC/Consoles if it ever came out.