How can Final Fantasy recapture that magic it once had?

Yeah, Bravely Default 1 is the last good final fantasy game. (well i never played Bravely Second so i don't know if it was good or not, but BD2 was dogshit).

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take Rebirth's combat and exploration

make it a wholly original world

make the story like 1, 3, or 5 where it's about the crystals' chosen 4 losers out to save the world from an ancient evil

make your own FF heroes (4 of them, no more, no less)

allow 4-player multiplayer with friends as well

not live service, not mmo

Easy as fuck.

make the story like 1, 3, or 5

so basically make the story boring, wow great game, no wonder 4 and 6 are better than all of

these ideas are so bad i'm convinced you might actually already work for Square Enix.

no arguments

Nice try, retards, only get 1 (You) apiece. Put them together and you can save up for a braincell to split amongst yourselves.

how can FF recapture the magic it used to have

do the same shit nomura wants to do

yeah, it's fucking obvious that your idea is retarded, that's why we don't need to elaborate.

he wants a live service dmc wannabe where you play as one edgy faggot who hates crystals

Just play that trash xvi and stay away from my franchise.

In what way is any of that "what nomura wants to do" retard-kun? If he wants that, why hasn't it happened? Oh, because he doesn't and you have diarrhea of the mouth in text form.

Imagine if they gave a team with the passion and vision of the bravely default devs the budget and resources of a mainline final fantasy title.

You can't without Uematsu. There's really no point. Even if they do bring back turn.based combat and fantasy setting, it's kind of hopeless.

take rebirths combat

make it more open world

how is that not just what Nomura is pushing?

make it online multiplayer

oh, my bad you're right, its even worse. this sounds like something a blizzard exec would pitch.

Dumb faggots like the retards in this thread would cry about how the story is boring and you're doing what the evil nomura wants.

It'd be amazing, i'd love for the Bravely Default devs to take that budget and make 10 Bravely default games instead of whatever they were asked to make.

force them to remaster XI

So... uh... what? Japanese have never invented a single thing in their existence.

how is that not just what Nomura is pushing?

Because he's pushing for literally nothing else I posted.

optional multiplayer is bad

How? Guess FF4, 5, 6, and 9 are all utter trash! What a dumb fucking post.

This stupid nigger has never played a final fantasy game before VII, and it shows. Holy christ, stop posting.

Find someone with an actual vision that isn't Nomura, Yoshida, or Toriyama, and let them actually cook. I'd like to see what someone from Asano's team could do with FF7R money.

Final Fantasy combat is ass, the multiplayer and created characters sound cool though

i haven't played classic FF because i don't want to turn the series into a bad diablo clone

sure bro.

diablo literally

LITERALLY

out of nowhere

He's given up. The man-ape has devolved into flinging non-sequiters. I accept your concession.

I assume you mean remakebirth's combat. Frankly, I'd prefer atb/turn-based, but the combat and general monster design (lifted from 7, or course) is the only good thing about the shit remakes. And the music, I suppose.

Less minigames

There wasn't a single minigame in FF16 you retard.

Is it voice acted and if so are they English or American va's?

Yes. And Japanese. It might have an English dub too but I haven't even tried it.

I just checked a playthrough and it's American voice actors for the English dub, that's a hard pass I can't stand the American accent in Japanese made games, it's incredibly one note think cheap anime dubs.
youtube.com/watch?v=Af_8Nb59T3Y

American accent

So is it north-eastern? Midwest? Appalachian? Deep southern? Maybe coastal Californian. Oh, you have no clue what you're barking about and just don't like America because you don't live there. We should just have the various joke-tier dialects from the UK, right? Carry on.

FF started to stray when it stopped being about an ever-escalating epic adventure and started to focus on personal drama.

FF7 was the turning point, but the presentation was simple enough that the stuff surrounding Cloud felt like accessories to the focused main plot of stopping Sephiroth and Shinra. The same went for the simple drama in FF4 and FF6: it gave time for twists, romance and serious character moments, but they were secondary and quick, there to flesh out things while everyone focused on saving the world.
FF8 and on all became way more soap-opera-y, and character drama became more and more of the focus.
FFX is one of the more popular because it's by far the most character drama-focused, but then you look at the audience and FFX has a way higher female audience than the other FFs. It drew in a big crowd that only really likes FFX.
FF16 seemed like it tried to get back to that kind of simplicity, but then it got bogged down by constantly getting sidetracked with a lot of spectacle instead of substance.

TLDR: Make another like FF1 - FF6 where it's a group of people journeying across a big cool world to handle increasingly more dangerous threats with drama as a SIDE dish, not the other way around. Stop bogging the pace down with slow dense soap opera content.

hire a director that actually likes old final fantasy games

bring back whimsy and fuck off with the gritty shit its as simple as that

I just checked a playthrough and it's American voice actors for the English dub

And there are Japanese voice actors for the Japanese voice track. Just use that. No problem.

Make games more like 7 Remake and less games like 16. Don't make the mistake of putting ubislop in your games either.

YoshiPenis went out of his way to shit on fishing minigames in the interviews leading up to 16

People were too distracted to notice because he cried about the term "JRPG" being le racist

Make it turn-based
Have the job system
Let Asano take the lead BUT no fucking 2DHD
Finally let Amano do all of the art design
Mizuta soundtrack
Kumiko, Mihoko, Yaeko on the writing
I have spoken

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Here are the top 25 RPGs since 2015. Where did Final Fantasy go so horribly wrong?
They mixed up their market segments.
The people who want edgy, grimdark, "hardcore" games like Souls or BG3 are not the same people who want 4 fuckers in a row-style JRPGs. Squeenix abandoned the 4 fuckers in a row segment (now dominated by Fatlus) in pursuit of the hardcore segment (long dominated by Fromsoft). But Squeenix didn't appease these hardcore types with actual customization, addictive gameplay, or even stylistic excellence - you got a bland brown world inhabited by characters nobody can care about. Social links? What are those? Romance? What's that? Fire Emblem's inheritance system? Meaningful dialogue choices? Branching paths? Hello? Squeenix execs? HELLO?
Who gives a shit about Clive and co.? Who gives a shit about Noctis and co.? Nobody's buying FF for the gameplay anymore, that's for fucking sure, so what about the story? Squeenix foists a bunch of unrelatable, edgy nobodies on us like it's still 1997 and Cloud Strife is the most innovative protag in the gaming world. These are not characters people have any interest in. Squeenix is out of touch and has been out of touch for a decade now. At this rate, the best thing that could happen is they go bankrupt and get bought out by Sega to become Fatlus 2.

Fantasian is low-rent mobile game slop that Squeenix decided to charge $50 for in their infinite wisdom.

This doesn't seem that bad at all. This is a competition between like four or five different genres and includes several re-releases the same game.

Half of those aren’t even rpgs wtf

They have to make sure it's a good balance, sometimes it gets out of control. I fuckin hated BOFIV with how much I had to play the shitty minigames to make dragons stronger.

At least give us a new mainline title every 3-4 years instead of every 7; that way if whatever experiment they tried didn't work, they can iterate and hopefully zero in on something that does work without us having to wait 2 decades to get there.

So... SoP2

Still plays like a ps1 ff game. It's great.

It's amazing how character design can make or break something. This is like if you fed an AI a bunch of gacha rejects.

fire everyone who was involved in everything post 12 in terms of battle system and general gameplay design

force everyone to replay FF1-12 from beginning to end

pay whatever money to get uematsu back

Learn from fucking dragon quest. making the same game for decades.

My own worthless two cents.

For me, the main reason to play FF is the characters, the story with its twists and the feeling of adventure.

Make it turned based but with a system that is a natural evolution of bravely default.

Include the job system but design them to be secondary jobs that can be swapped while the main class of the characters remains static.

Bring back the color and tone of the earlier games and move away from the bland art style and realistic graphics.

Make it single player with the only optional multiplayer mode being the ability for your friends to control your other party members so you all can feel like a party.

Just some ideas.

Sure!

4 niggas in a row with best graphics

the final fantasy 9 remake is real, r-right Anon Babble?

FFX is my favorite FF and I like most of the series. Most of your post is psychobabble

god i hope not

No more femboys.

It's still unreal to me how FF16 is basically an anti FF game in every respect.
One day I might write a script and make a video of every single thing wrong with that game, but I'm scared it might take me a year to do because the flaws are that many.

Same. FFX embodies just about everything I like about all the other games.

XI remaster

This but unironically.
Most of the expansions had good stories that are among the best numbered entires for kino.
Give the game a remake in a new engine with a rebalancing across the board, and it'd be perfect.