[Aptorian]

The game has ended so that they can start over... or something like that. And this cinematic details the cataclysmic ending.

Really, Square-Enix should just produce 90 minute fight sequences and release them at the cinema. I'd pay to watch something like this for an hour or two.

[Lucifer's Heaven]

That really was pretty friggin' epic.

[Aptorian]

It's the thing that really bothers me about the modern Final Fantasy series. It's so incridibly beautiful and epic in scope and imaginative and crazy... but ultimately gets stuck in the same Japanese RPG Jersey Shore bullshit where weird androgynous people have incredibly long conversations about nothing that interests me. I really wanted to get into Final Fantasy 13 but... no. It's just not worth it.

[Defiance]

Yeah, the latest Final Fantasies have been really mediocre in my opinion. I think a lot of the problems came with voice acting. Badly written dialogue/constant whining is a lot more annoying (and more easily noticed) when it's spoken rather than read.

[Illuyankas]

Not entirely convinced a reboot, no matter how essential, will be enough to repair the immense damage the game's name has received after all the dumbass idiotic and imbecilic decisions made by the game's developers during its life. They do make pretty cutscenes though.

[Defiance]

Actually, I think Final Fantasy Versus XIII is going to be renamed to Final Fantasy XV. It would be absolutely idiotic not to make this change, considering that XIII has gotten a lot of criticism and Versus XIII is in no way related to the XIII universe.

[Defiance]

Briar King, on 18 November 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

I think I may put FF VII in the PS3...

Great game, but I never thought its story was as amazing as so many people try to make it out to be. The gameplay was fantastic and there was a load of stuff to do, but I found most of the characters to be really stale (the only characters that really moved me were Cid and Aerith).

VII is still one of my favorite RPGs, though. I hear a lot of chatter about how people want it to be remade, but I have to say I'm against this. I don't need pretty new graphics to enjoy something, and giving the characters voice actors would feel really silly (plus navigating the world map would be extremely weird...you're as big as mountains and it takes twenty steps to get from town to town).

Story-wise, I thought IV and VI (especially the latter) were stronger (although IV does "kill" off characters way too much only to have the pop up again later). Admittedly, I'm a Kefka fanboy. I found him to be a much more compelling villain than Sephiroth (I think people mainly like Sephiroth because he looks "badass"). Kefka is one of the few (if not only, can't quite recall) Final Fantasy villains that starts off with literally no power. Unlike Sephiroth, who is simply made to be powerful (which, in my opinion, takes away from badassery a little bit), Kefka attains all of his power over time by working behind the scenes and manipulating others. Plus Kefka has a whole lot of memorable lines, while Sephiroth doesn't really say anything of note. Plus, he's the only Final Fantasy villain to actually succeed in destroying the world.

I do hope that Square Enix shifts away from the futuristic fantasy stuff they can't seem to get enough of and give us a Final Fantasy that's more fantasy and less sci-fi at some point (I think the last time they did this was FFIX). While the futuristic stuff certainly makes for some pretty cinematics, I think it's failed to add anything of value to the story since the days of VI and VII (it was done excellently in VII I felt, I fucking loved Midgar).