The Future Of FF (opinion/input)

FF gameplay hasn\'t really developed all that much since it\'s creation while alot of little thing have changed from the first to the ninth instalment none of the games make huge leaps except for in cosmetics. MOst of these changes come with the jump to a new system which is occuring as we speak.  What do you think should be the future of the FF series, waht needs to change, and what should stay the same?

-I think something needs to change with the battles. First of all the random battles are getting a little old (something the whole genre needs to think about). This is the one thing that keeps me from playing for hours with out stopping, I just get sick of the random battles. They really suck you out of the game especially when you\'re trying to accomlish a certain objective. This would be so bad if it didn\'t literaly take you out of the normal game world to a battle world. Maybe with the power of new systems the camera could just zoom inon the battles and menus could pop up. Also the battles need to feel more interactive. When sombody attacks you, you shouldn\'t just have to sit there, you should be able to take action to an extent(just one example). I don\'t mean full fleged action rpg or anything
but just something to keep things exciting and to keep the player more into the game.

-besides the battles I\'m beggining to fear for the serie it\'s self. I mean square is starting to pump them out pretty fast. We\'re gonna have two for ps2 within a year of it being released. Don\'t get me wrong, I\'ll take all the FF square can throw at me but I don\'t want the sacificing quality for quantity

besides this the story telling and graphics are always amazing in the FF series they just need some changes to gameplay that don\'t interupt the flow of the story which is has always been the center of FF games and the rpg genre
alike. Who knows, maybe square has been thinking of this all along and has it covered. Maybe that\'s why they make all these wierd expieremental hybrid games like PE, to test different gamplay styles. We\'ll see soon. What do you guess think.

(Sorry So Long)

FF needs some serious changes. Gameplay doesnt change from one to the other. Besides mini games they need to come up with a different fighting sequence (VERY OUTPLAYED)IMO

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i would said battle system is definitely have to change.....i dont and have no idea how it have to be changed. i\'ve played FFVII, VIII and IX ....the system is getting boring and there isn\'t much surprises anymore....VII is a complete surprise, in which is my favourite......the rest is start craping out, boring.......

the story...well...a continuation of FFVII would be very lovely.......cause the ending on 7 is completely inconclusive.........imagine, tifa, cloud, aeris and barret in a very detail like the model on FFVIII wow..., especially Tifa.........yahoo....

The FMV no need to change much, i meant 7,8,9 FMV is awesome looking ...... keep on the good work Square....

One other thing: please never never gave away square and ff to MS.........loyalty, greatness and success is my 3 words for Square......

I agree................Tifa re-rendered would be nice.....drooooooooooooooool.......aneways, FF will be FF. Its tradition. You got ur magic, ur weapons, ur limit breaks. As for the random battles, they give u things to stop that. Ex. half-enc and enc-none. But u need those random battle to level up. But I admit, they are very tedious and do get annoying some time. hmmmm I dont really know if Square will change their ways but who knows what the future holds. A new addition in FF10 is Voice acting so thatll be soemthing new. Hopefully the voice acting will be just as good or better then the voice acting of Konamis Metal Gear Solid.

I disagree in one way but agree with the other, I do like the fighting style that they have I mean it\'s fun as hell trying to figure out your oponents next move and trying to eqiup the propor stuff for the proper bosses, also if I wanted real time fighting I would turn on DOA2, but I don\'t I want to have to use my brains to win the fight, BUT, I do hate Random battles, and I think thwy should make a new way to level up instead o just walking around fighting monstars for an hour.


that\'s my two cents, take it or leave it

All FF needs is a good storyline and even deeper characters. FFVII was good becuse the characters were deep and very living. FFVIII was good because of its graphics and quite good storyline; the characters just got too repetitive I think. Now I don\'t know nothing about FFIX, but I think there\'s going to be something revolutionare in FFX. Just don\'t hype the game too much and do not expect too much from it and it\'s going to be great.

they need better stories I think.  and they need to be 10 disks long I swear I go through disks like a hot knife through butter. or is it...anyway I like Final Fantasy I mean it\'s not really a series they might as well all have different names cause no of them have any relation...maybe a few like Cid and airships.but really none of the same characters or anything that really pisses me off....I mean look at the movies star wars those are sequals.  Chrono Cross is NOT a sequal. Final Fantasy is not a series.  they are games with totally different stroy lines and characters.  but I like them all the same.  FF9 limits sucked big ass.  online gaming is a good idea but not like everquest.  and there is NO WAY IN HE!L I am gonna pay to play the game no way at all.  if any of you go to penny arcade and saw the comic  it was funny it has  a newsguy and he says something like square new final fantasy going to online won\'t be. I totally agree with them that it will suck.  but that is just my opinion.  way off topic now...