Dio Brando

Turn based let you control anyone while in Action RPG you have three AIs toying with your fate

Changing genres isn't technically evolution Evolving is by improving on the formula you created not blindly mimicing the market trend without knowing how such trend worked ARPGs and Turn based RPGs are not even in the same genres,they're two different beasts For MMOs what they did is no different from what MMOs do at the time.It's the same as FFXII except you play with other friends and come up with plans.XI and XIV are like traditional FF experiences but with an MMO twists allowing you to form huge parties with other human players Yes Story does define FF but so is gameplay,if they wanna go full ARPG they should do the system similar to Kingdom Hearts not the mess they concoct with games like XIII and XV where you're under the mercy of the party's AI.Even if a story is good if the gameplay is frustrating it's hard for me to replay the game and rather watch scenes on youtube Crisis Core was on a small scale and it was built for action from the get go,you're on your own,no AI to worry about,you have access to all sorts of magic,items and weapons and the game was short as it can be completed with 12 hours if you know what you do With XIII and XV however they struggled as they want to obtain some form of party management like the old games without you controlling your party........it's like playing an MMO with a party of AI that won't listen instead of a human player and it's frustrating.That's what XIII and XV feels like especially XIII.MMOs with a party of AIs that you can't coordinate a plan with It's fine if you don't like Turn based that's fine.But don't talk in an objective manner like saying "No one likes it anymore" when there are a huge amount of people who wants it It still proves to be as financially profitable as Action RPGs if we wanna talk sales I'm just saying my opinion which won't necessarily bode well with everyone but I just wanted to say my two cents on the matter

DISCLAIMER:Everything and anything I say here is a matter of subjective personal opinion.It's not forced upon you,you don't have to agree with it.And as long as we respect each other everything will be fine The Final Fantasy series has been known for reinventing it's mechanics ever since the second game on NES(remember when you had to hit your own party to level up their stats.....UGHHHH)but in general the series,from 1 all the way up to 10,was more or less adding and experimenting on an already existing system since the ATB feels like a natural extension to the usual Turn based battle system that exist in JRPGs.XI was an MMO so the change there isn't unfamiliar to the MMORPG community and FF XII's system is more or less a modified version of of an MMO battle system that would suit a single player experience,but from 2007 onward Square has been experimenting with Action-based battle systems.It worked for small scale projects like Crisis Core FFVII on the PSP but on home console releases like Dirge of Cerberus or mainline games like the XIII trilogy and XV it ranged from a mixed bag in XV to a big failure in XIII where the battles felt like it's on auto-pilot with little input from the player beyond paradigm shifting. It might be just me but personally:I don't think an action RPG mainline Final Fantasy title would work,not without suffering from major issues *Meanwhile somewhere out there someone is shouting at me* Ok here me out.The series from the very beginning,wasn't built for action based combat from the ground up.The reason this type of combat worked for games like Secret of Mana or the Kingdom Hearts series was because those were built with action RPG elements from the get-go where you control one character and to compensate for the party's AI your characters are usually designed to fill bits and pieces of each role so that you won't get screwed and good game design that even if your party constantly dies you still can beat it on your own with enough item,MP management and strategy which is why Kingdom Hearts 2 worked so well In modern Final Fantasy however they try to force action elements into it with mixed results and sometimes complete failures.in Final Fantasy XIII,you only control one character in a pseudo action\somewhat ATB battle system where your party is controlled by the AI and unless you have enough TP to cast the spell Libra,your party members will be rock stupid and rarely will they ever cast the spell you ever want them to even when you shift their paradigm roles.For example:I once was at a very low HP,the lowest of my party and I'm only one hit from death,shift my party to medic while I'm on sentinel anticipating a heal while defending from an upcoming attack,instead Hope doesn't heal me and go to heal Fang instead,and since if you(the party leader) die it's instant game over,I had to redo the entire dumb long battle with the Proudclad all over again just because of circumstances beyond my control.It begs for you to have complete control over your party like the older games yet it doesn't do the setup the Gambit system offers nor does it give you the option to move and dodge like a proper action game to avoid getting screwed by your party members.It only gives you 10% of control over what role your party should be and insist on you controlling one person with a level up system that artificially locks you at the level the game wants you to be in so no grinding either until you beat the boss.The game isn't hard by any means cuz like I said once you cast libra and remember when to shift paradigms you'll auto-battle your way to victory but the fact that each normal enemy boss has a mountain of HP and your AI do whatever they want can screw you over on multiple occasions is just not a good game design when it's up to RNG not your performance Final Fantasy XV is nowhere near as bad sure but it's still a big problem despite the game's easiness.I like the game but it's still a huge issue Your party's AI is so incompetent and rock stupid in this game it's almost like you have a party of three Donalds that can't heal They stupidly charge into danger,barely guard when they need to,die all the time to the point I had to spend over 5 Phoenix Downs,30 hi potions and 7 Elixirs just to keep the assholes alive because YOU WILL NEED THEM as your team up attacks and tech attacks are the best way to deal damage in the game with how useless summons and magic are.Sure you can set Ignis to heal using potions but doing so will cause him to drain your potions like nothing else.This might not be a problem on most story missions,but on sidequests,superbosses and Raid missions it gets infuriating(and no wait mode doesn't fix the issue either and it's one of my biggest gripes with Final Fantasy XV They desperately try to shift the series to an action oriented franchise yet they can't seem to integrate them without putting you in dozens of situations where you wish you could just CONTROL what the dumb AI on your team does rather than design the game around the fact that you control only one person.They want an action game that heavily conflicts with the ideology of Final Fantasy as an RPG franchise that emphasizes party management and strategy over button mashing and fear that unless they use dat quote unquote "BOOHOO DATED TURN BASED COMBAT" that they won't get their precious sales Let's look at Resident Evil 7,yes it's a different genre but it's a good example of returning to roots and selling millions. For years Capcom and the gaming industry claimed that survival horror is such an outdated relic that won't sell in today's market yet time and again games like Amnesia,Outlast...etc proves that there is a market for it and lo and behold,Resident Evil 7 returned to it's survival horror while incorporating elements from Amnesia and Outlast and proved to be a success That's a proof that the old style of the series was never outdated,it's just a stupid thought the industry decided on for no reason Heck Square's own game,Bravely Default,sold so well that Square themselves were so surprised that the genre THEY USED TO PIONEER is still making money for them(those out of touch CEOs and investors never cease to amaze me).Heck Pokemon,a series that's been turn based for 21 years now has been selling double the amount FFXV sold with each and every entry with Pokemon Sun & Moon selling over 14 million units in the span of three months compared to FFXV's 6 million units To add to that,despite how fast the original XIII and FFXV sold,neither of them reached the sales of the original Final Fantasy VII which sold over 10 million units.Yes the market was different back then but the fact remains that,despite them reinventing the series to be more action based over and over again they still can never reach the milestone that "EWW TURN BASED" game reached heck they didn't even get close to the amounts 8 and 10 sold either.XV might sold it's sweet 6 million mark for the short term but whether it maintains a steady long term profit is debatable regardless of the DLC support of(paid story DLC stuff that should've been in the game) What made XV sold over 6 million units is not the fact that it's an action game.It's because of a very aggressive marketing campaign, the recognition of a brand that's been going for 30 years and finally the return of one of the elements that defined a Final Fantasy game:An explorable world Much like survivor horror,turn based was never outdated.It's just a different genre on it's own that has as much right to live and have it's own market as action RPGs Shoving a genre like Action RPGs to Final Fantasy ignorantly without knowing what made either work caused the series to suffer from an identity crisis for almost a decade. I still believe that it's possible to make a AAA Final Fantasy game that's true to it's roots(much like RE7's return to survival horror) that still can sell millions of units without having to go through nonsensical revisions and identity crises. I'm not saying that a great action RPG Final Fantasy game can't be done but so far only small scale projects like Crisis Core proved to excel in that while suffering when it's applied to mainline.I'm very doubtful of the Final Fantasy VII remake being able to acheive the essence of what made the original the beloved classic it was when Nomura is bragging about how he will change everything yet contradict himself by saying he'll still maintain the essence of the original. But hey that's just an opinion,A PEEERSONAL OPINION,thanks for reading (Watch out Matpat,Personal Opinion will give Game Theory a run for it's money )

"Look at all those faces"

I still remember the first time I discovered Pokemon back in the late 90s and as I mentioned in previous posts,it wasn't through the anime or the commercials,it was through Smash Bros on the N64(it all ties back to the Based Sakurai after all ^_^) where I saw Pikachu,Jigglypuff and the other Pokemon available in the game and I wondered where do they come from.And just a week after I got Smash Bros the anime started airing in my country with a sort of sub-par Arabian dub but I got hooked to it(up until Hoenn at least)and a little bit later I got both Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Yellow and the rest is history......sort of. I completely missed out on Gen 3 on the GBA for reasons I've mentioned to some of my friends here so I won't delve deeper into it but it involves the accusation Pokemon got from multiple religious organizations at the time in the early 2000s that resulted for Pokemon being banned from my country up until 2006 and the beginning of Gen 4 and the only Pokemon game I managed to get after Gen 2 was Pokemon Colosseum on the GameCube but other than that I didn't manage to come back into the series until the release of HeartGold & Soul Silver which I picked up but didn't manage to beat it until later in 2013 cuz at the time I was busy with Final Fantasy(ughhh). It's thanks to SomeCallMeJohnny's month of Pokemon in 2012,JWittz and the hype for Pokemon X&Y in 2013 that not only I managed to fully come back to the series and be even a much bigger fan of it than before,but I also managed to get into competitive play both in Smogon and VGC and while I'm still nowhere near as good as the current top players of each formula I still can provide a decent challenge to those who battle me.I also got the Gen 5 games(got Black 1 and White 2) which to this day is still my favorite generation and I love Gen 6 to death especially the remakes for OmegaRuby & Alpha Sapphire which not only made me experience the one gen that I completely missed out on,but also made me love a lot of Gen 3 Pokemon especially Gardevoir.......then I discovered the Pokemon Adventure manga,learned a lot of Pokemon trivia,discovered awesome Poketubers like The Dex,J.Wittz,TamashiiHiroka,ShaddyPenguin,KingNappy,LumioseStation, The Silver League,JustinFlynn and some VGC competitive players like AaronZheng and Alex Ogloza......etc the list goes on. I owe a lot to Pokemon,for me it's more than just a video game,or an anime or a manga or a card game or a line of merchandises.....it has become a part of my life from 1999 up to this day It actually helped me learn the English Language tremendously back when our schools didn't bother to teach it to Elementary schools,it made me fall in love with the JRPG genre which to this day is my favorite genre of video games heck it kickstarted my love for the Mon collecting sub-genre of RPGs which would lead me to discover the equally amazing Shin Megami Tensei franchise(especially the main series and Persona).It has one of the few gaming communities out there that I legitimately had fun with and met a lot of awesome people through online battles who helped me build and adjust my teams,and while sure it still has some bad apples but it's one of the few communities that I had a 95% positive time with then compared to the negative 5% of bad time that I had And finally,it's thanks to Pokemon that I'm even here alive today.....I'm not even kidding.It helped me through depression,loneliness and sadness more times than I can even count,it helped me meet new friends than I never thought I'd ever have,it taught me more than just a language,it taught me even some life lessons that most people think you can't learn from something like this.It helped me be what I'm today and can't imagine where I would've been now if it wasn't for it. It might have it's missteps,it might be cliche sometimes and the anime might not be that good.......but I will still love it and adore it for as long as I live. Thank you Pokémon for the awesome memories you gave me for two decades of my life,Happy 21th anniversary and here to more 20 years of Catching them all ^_^

You have a point Although for me the most valuable collection for me was the MGS remastered collection that had 2,3,Peace Walker and both MSX Metal Gear games

Emphasis on the phrase "In my opinion" cuz if you're hyped then that's fine Heck I'm picking it up since I skipped on 2.5 because of the load times alone but that's just because I wanna play KH1 and 2 in 60 fps and better loading cuz I ain't touching Birth by Sleep or the days\Recoded scenes

Breath of the Wild and Super Bomberman R *Sees the vote results* Well I expected that result on a KH site but I never knew people are so excited for yet another port of games they already own and played dozens of times.........yes it's in 60 fps which is sweet but it's not the most hype thing ever in my opinion

The essense response is really vague cuz what it means differs from dev to dev Mostly likely it means what NOMURA think VII's essence is rather than Sakaguchi's vision of the game Cuz it makes no sense that he's saying he'll change a lot of the story while at the same time keeping the core of the original And I fear his vision of VII is more close to what Advent Children was than the original game.Which means stuff like Cloud's crossdressing and the dates in the Gold Saucer will be replaced with Cloud brooding to a wall with him swearing he'll get revenge on Sephiroth

@MythrilMagician and XIII didn't need a sequel either and it never deserved getting TWO Square honestly should stop making sequels to mainline games

@Joker Wait really? Well,guess that makes since there was a split second of her body when she turns to Shiva Btw if there is a pic of it send it to me on private chat

He's so good at cooking he could make a feast out of a demon god despite being blind

I could taste test for ya

THAT'S IT

Black & White 2>SoulSilver>Sun & Moon

Happy 21st Anniversary Pokemon ^_^.You wonderful franchise that not only entertained me for 21 years but made me what I'm today.

Guess Richard Epcar might've been flustered when seeing his script by the amount of time he has to say the word "Darkness"

That was PUNtastic

The fight with Terranort overall has some stupid design decisions Cuz he for the most part counters everything that isn't a shotlock or you countering him so all my battles against Terranort were just:Counter shotlock counter shotlock counter shotlock and heal Btw I mean the battle against Terranort with Terra,cuz his boss fight with Aqua was really easy all things considered especially in phase 2 where he summons The Guardian

The game isn't out yet dude .It's coming in March 3rd which is a week and a half from now

Says Mighty No.9 when the Sonic twitter mocked him

THAT'S IT

Well neither do I but I'd like for the difficulty to be a natural thing proposed by good game design not by really bad AI I don't hate the game by any means just sayin,It's just discourages me to go after additional bosses when everytime I'm gonna experience the same frustrating time

Maybe you're playing on easy?

The reason it didn't bother me much in say KH2 is because Sora is competent and powerful enough to dish the pain and heal on his own thanks to the absolutely beautiful battle\magic system in that game Noct on the other hand NEEDS the bros if you wanna dish out major damage without draining your HP using Royal Arms or praying for the RNGods of Eos that you can randomly summon one of them