Final Fantasy general

Hey, another 8-Bit Theater enjoyer.

8-Bit theater is a fundamental building block of the modern internet's better parts.

"So you stupided yourself into extinction" or something similar to that is a favorite of mine.

Finally got round to finishing VI. It's a good game, probably not as impressive to my modern eyes as it would have been back then. Felt like it was banging its head against hardware limitations and seemed unfinished in a lot of ways. I really liked the characters.

The ending was disappointingly generic after beating Kefka (who was somewhat trivialised by Trance Ultima spam).

Even Shadow staying behind to die?

Final fantasy VI is one that I got to the final dungeon but never got to Kefka and now I can't play it on my Playstation 1 any more. Likewise I can't finish FF IV and FF V either. I was in the final dungeons in both. I always hated Omega since he was on the path you have to take in the Void.

Kinda jaded to that with how often it's done with anti-heroes.

I didn't play FFVI when it came out, so I probably missed the potential "magic" when I played it years later. It was fine, but I always felt the art design was too much of a shift from the previous two games.

That's true. To be honest the only reason it gets to me now is because I thought he lived when I first played and it wasnt until later that I realized he stayed behind to die.

Speaking of FFVI, I was lurking of Game FA Qs and there was one user who made a strong argument as to why Terra is the main character of the game. When I was in my 'honeymoon' phase of the game, I assumed all the characters could qualify as the main character of the game. In reality I just saw what I wanted to see as not every character was important to the story. Terra herself has strong themes of the story and her arc wasn't just learning love.

Square Enix just said in their latest earnings report that they will "aggressively pursue" a multiplatform strategy.

The only games I could expect to stay exclusive is the VII Remake trilogy, and even that has been given a crack.

And how will they finance a multi platform game considering FF VII remake was financed by deals with Sony from what I hear?

Sony cant pay them enough money to keep exclusives when PS 5 sales are lagging THAT much.

Also there is a good chance that the VIIR-3 is going to have its budget slashed massively.

I've heard from my friend that Rebirth felt like a lot of spinning it's wheels and bloated it's content to justify the budget and existence.

The PS 5 isn't doing so hot is it?

Both Xbox and PS consoles are not doing well at all. They have essentially flatlined due to lack of 'must play' exclusives and the nuts cost of games due to graphics requirements. Which is why Sony and Xbox are laying off thousands and closing studios left and right. Only Nintendo is doing well and PC is still growing at a good rate.

Unless MS and Sony actually attempt to innovate or just copy the Switch/Steamdeck... there wont be a PS 7 or Xbox whatever as the death spiral will not stop, there will be a true crash.

EDIT: I say PS 7 cause people are already making games for the PS 6, it legit takes 6-7 years to make 'AAA' games now. Which is stupid as hell.

Edited by Memers on May 13th 2024 at 3:02:42 AM

I think what I've heard about any possible "Video Game Crash 2" is that it's caused from the opposite way of how the first one happened.

Big yikes, state of triple AAA games is not exactly in roses.

Games being too expensive to produce? Well...... there's always the indie scene.

Edited by RedHunter543 on May 13th 2024 at 6:07:15 PM

The PS 5 hasn't flatlined: Despite supply issues, its doing just slightly under the PS4 as of around the same timeframe of 39 months on sale at 54.17 to the Ps4's 54.93 million

So no, The PS 5 is doing far from bad.

The Xbox Series consoles, on the other hand, Are flatlining pretty bad, not only are they almost under half of what the PS5 has done, but is actually 2 million behind the xbox one is over the same timeframe of 39 months on sale, of which the xbox one already did pretty badly compared to the 360, and this is before the hardware for the Xbox Series flatlined even harder by April.

So no offence, but saying both Sony and Microsoft's consoles are flat lining is just being disingenuous.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on May 13th 2024 at 7:51:16 AM

Xbox did take a major L with Starfield, and they aren't getting the FF money.

Edited by RedHunter543 on May 13th 2024 at 6:32:44 PM

I looked through Square's financial report, and their games actually made them 38% less money this last financial year than they did the previous year, and this is not including the costs from cancelling a bunch of games recently. And what's crazier is that even without the operational costs factored, their games only made 1% more revenue than the previous year.

That means that the despite Square's CEO saying how they need to take resources away from their AA games and focus everything into AAA development (which is why they cancelled all those games), their big AAA games in FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth plus a few other titles released this last year made roughly the same money in sales as the large amount of AA titles they released the previous year, at greater operational costs. Meaning they made less money off their big hyped AAA games.

Yikes, so how bad is it for Square?

Is this salvageable?

They must have a black hole somewhere that's just devouring their hard won profits,I am certain of it!

Square: "We can't ignore this any longer. We finally hit the Godzilla Threshold in terms of money and need to do the unthinkable. We prayed it would never come to this."

-later-

Square: "So.....Nintendo.....just how much are you willing to spend on the rights for Geno and Mallow?"

Like, this doesn't bode well for Square and Final Fantasy as a whole.

At least this might scare them off from Final Fantasy X-3.

Final Fantay VI Remake!

lol