Re: Final Fantasy Flounders

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.
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