Its only a thought and barely an idea. . .

I hear that most peoepl are getting tired of the Final Fantasy Games. The fact being that even though each is different they are all relitivly the same. Somethign Darryl siad in a post sparked a thought.

DO you think Final Fantasy would be more interesting if you could see the enemies? If thier were no random battles. Battles could be handled like Secrets/Legends of Mana. Where you are walking and if you get to close to an enemy you enter a battle mode.

. . .Or. . .

You have a botton to press mayber L3 to ingage in battle. Monsters can still ingage you also but they would have to get close to you to do so.


I know that none of this is possible in FF X. And FFXI is supposed to be in the vein of PSO(Phantasy Star Online) but FF XII is still open for change. And I beleive has just resently gone under consrtuction. I know. . . I know. . . I should stop rambling and voicing meaningless garbage.

I like your ideas better than just random battles. They get kinda old fast.

I would like to be able to see enemies ahead, but just the same you have to believe some enemies will sneak up on you as well.

I would like the idea of world-map with height-difference, and that you could only see the monsters in your vision-area. Then enemies could sneak on you. It\'d be really cool, because if it\'d be night, certain monsters would appear, and you\'d have to look very hard to spot one.

You now what I jsuty realized. Square hasn\' shown us if thier is a world view yet. Id assume it would be liek the Technical demo exsept you would have a world map some where. I just checked all the movies and none had the slightest glimps of how they are going to do the World View. I hope thier is one or should I say there better be one. It would jsut take all the fun out of most of it if thier were not one.

I read about the FFX world map somewhere.  Can\'t remember where though. =/

Yeah I read about it also. I think they mentioned something about it being the same as the town maps.

The view is supposed to remain unchanged so that goinng out of the towns and cities is seamless.

I\'m not sure what this means though. Its pretty obscure. Whether you\'ll walk around ala Zelda or have some kind of vehicle I don\'t know. I don\'t imagine they could make the maps proportional, that would be crazy.

From videogames.com;

"The field map, for the most part, is rendered in full 3D, though the camera can\'t be rotated. The 3D world can become confusing at times, as portions were filled with rocks and other obstacles. Relying on the radar is significantly easier. The radar has color-coded arrows, where yellow is your character, white marks are save or healing points, and the red leads to the next plot point. The camera angles during cutscenes and battles have improved, using some wild camera angle shots. In field maps, whenever there are treasure chests, it shows the character kneeling down and actually opening the chest."

That would be beyond crazy. I\'ve vhevked all the links I have. Even checked the Play online site. I can\'t find it anywhere. All well its not that important. I had imagined they would do it as kangu siad a seemless transition. I\'ll take all of you words for it. Then agian i might have read somehtign and just forgot.

I think they should stop making sequels that aren\'t connected in anyway to the previous game. \'Final\' fantasy is pretty explicit in its title. Make a new series....

Originally posted by EThugg
I think they should stop making sequels that aren\'t connected in anyway to the previous game. \'Final\' fantasy is pretty explicit in its title. Make a new series....

Naw dude, FF all shares the same theme, the fact it has nothing to do with its predecesor is why it has lasted till 10

The fact the FF has name brand recognition also allows for FF to have a very large budget as well.


I do agree that Square should invest into new franchises but it doesn\'t have to come at the expense of FF for Square.

I think they should insert a system like Wild Arms 2.
In Wild Arms 2, when you got to a certain level hight than the enemy that would face you in a randowm battle, an exclamation sign appeared over your head and if you didnt want to engage in battel, you hit square, and it would cancel the random battle.
I thought that was a great idea and I loved it.

Originally posted by ddaryl



Naw dude, FF all shares the same theme, the fact it has nothing to do with its predecesor is why it has lasted till 10

The fact the FF has name brand recognition also allows for FF to have a very large budget as well.


I do agree that Square should invest into new franchises but it doesn\'t have to come at the expense of FF for Square.

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Whats so special about making it to 10? If the games relying on tired gameplay, and name recognition, it deserves to end.

Originally posted by EThugg
Whats so special about making it to 10? If the games relying on tired gameplay, and name recognition, it deserves to end.

Geez, EThugg, what\'s up with all the negativity? It can\'t be healthy.

Final Fantasy 10 is just another game from a long line of similar games True[/i]

Square Soft is doing this just for cheap profit False [/i]

The reason for this is due to the fact that they are just building on the success of previous games, i live the Final Fantasy series.

Just because they all follow the similar path, dose not mean that this is a boring series.

but if you ask me i think the fact that Final Fantasy 11 is going to be like Phantasy Star Online, makes me happy at least, this shows that square soft has a long term plan for this great series.