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Subject: Re: Final Fantasy Flounders
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> 
>     [Speaking of analytical articles (see earlier post about
>      how I think modern reviews are superiour to the pabulum we
>      used to get in 80s and 90s magazines), here's a positive
>      example]
> 
> https://www.gamesindustry.biz/final-fantasys-sales-crisis-is-also-an-identity-crisis-opinion
> 
> So, Final Fantasy 16 came out to PC finally, and its sales --and
> reception-- aren't quite what publisher Square Enix hoped. The article
> tries to dissect why this is, and suggests that while part of the
> reason is because it remain exclusive to PS5 for far too long, it may
> also be due to the fact that Square Enix sees the Final Fantasy games
> as their tent-pole franchise, and tries to build massive games that
> appeal to everybody, rather than accepting that JRPG-style games are
> somewhat niche and budgeting for that instead.
> 
> The fact that the various iterations of the franchise themselves have
> little connection to each other --in setting and gameplay-- also mean
> that each game is largely judged against its predecessors, which
> doesn't allow Square to leverage the series' legacy. If you liked
> FF15, you're likely to buy FF16; if you didn't, then you're less
> likely. The fact that you enjoyed FF8 or 12 has little influence on
> most people's decisions to buy the latest game because each game is so
> different from the next.

I think it's too early to tell.  I've just been seeing advertisements 
for it starting last week.

FFXIII was pretty good.  I had a bunch of free time and finished half of 
it before other people watching movies monopolized the tv.  The only 
problem I had with it was numerous high power monsters that take ten 
minutes each to fight, but there was a hint at one point to go around 
some of these.

If I get a FF fit, I will probably install Child of Light, which has 
similar combat.  It's also a bit more streamlined (nice performance on 
my machine).  For purpose of comparison, Child of Light uses 2.6 GB hard 
drive, while FFXIII uses 57 GB.  Looking forward to normalization of 
terabyte hard drives.  They seem to have hit a brick wall and half 
terabyte are the norm last time I was at the computer shoppe.

-- 
"I'm throwing oranges in an apple cart."
          -- Cowboy Mouth