Hironobu Sakaguchi has said that he is tired of talking about Final Fantasy.
Sakaguchi created Final Fantasy back in 1987 and directed or produced more games in the RPG series right up to Final Fantasy IX. However, he left Square in 2003 to form Mistwalker, the company behind The Last Story.
Speaking at a BAFTA event to promote The Last Story, Sakaguchi said he wants to move on from Final Fantasy.
Asked if he was sick of being asked questions about his old game, Sakaguchi said: "I've had six interviews today and I've never had so many questions about Final Fantasy," said Sakaguchi. "So yes, I'm really tired of talking about it."
The Last Story UK release date is February 24th. Are you going to buy it?
It's ironic that final fantasy IX had better reviews
actually i think the last FF Sakaguchi produced was XI
Huh, there's something you don't hear everyday. Imagine if Shigeru Miyamoto just turned around and said (after half a dozen or so interviews in one day) "I'm tired of talking about Mario/Zelda/etc !" You would be absolutely horrified, wouldn't you?
To be fair he hasn't been working on a Final Fantasy game for over eight years, I'd be annoyed at people asking about the series when I'm trying to launch a brand new and completely different title. The interviews should really be all about the Last Story, not Final Fantasy which (a) is a thing of the past for him and (b) he'll know little about the recent/upcoming games in the series.
fair enough
It all makes sense, now. After Final Fantasy IX, the series went majorly downhill. The only Final Fantasy games I ever bought in the last few years were the DS remakes and the Dissidia series.
not true at all, X and X-2 were both very good, and most of the spin-offs i've played have been alright. XII seems to be the tipping point for the series, though i haven't played it properly myself
Let me warn you...XII is very confusing. I loved Revenant Wings (does that count as a one I completed) but can't get into the original at all. I find X's main character (Tidus) incredibly annoying. The only FF i completed is IV, and and mostly my way through XIII. Soon to start VI and can't be bothered with VII (but I completed Crisis Core).
Put simply, I'm at a mess of completing Final Fantasies so that's why I'm anticipating a Component Cable so I can play The Last Story (which looks SO ORIGINAL, apart from the enemy attack lines and auto attack, a la FF XII and Xenoblade)
nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
dont stop final fantasy! its meant to go on forever! i want more turn based fighting with awesome plots and characters and atmospheres!
and masamune (good name) x-2 may be a okay game, but it was shocking in comparison to every other installment (barring the online ones) and just made everything weird. it messed about with the plot so much that it ruined the awesomeness of x...
but the battle system has gone downhill since the ps1 games. the turn based system in x was okay, but wasnt tense or action packed (i left a battle in its state for about an hour once without pausing) and xii, and xiii have weird battle systems that are based slightly open worldy. four's was perfect so why mess with it? and eventually, xiii took away almost everything that mattered in final fantasy's battle system from 4 onwards.
VII is the best! I'm honestly hoping for a remake with CC style visuals then it would just be the perfect game.
I'm not suprised atall really, if he hasn't been involved in FF for so long its bound to be annoying
if you don't take the plot seriously at all, X-2 is a genuinely good game.
imo, battle system was at its peak in X, as it increased the level of strategy available (which tbh is fairly limited in jrpgs) by making it possible to plan ahead (sort of). i haven't played much of XII, but XIII was terrible and just watered-down an already simple battle system, making it consist of almost no strategy at all and basically just being composed of Auto-Battle and R1+X. most games didn't really mess with the battle system up till X, but it was interesting to see the different ability systems present, and that's where I think FF really has its strong point.
Final Fantasy X and X-2 weren't good games
, if you like them that okay but they had terrible stories horrible and characters stupid. Now I can say that the battle system was one of the best in the series but I'm not a fan of the sphere grid, I think it was dumb. Even the design the designs were barmy compared to say FF4, the fact you couldn't skip cut scenes and the linearity didn't help either.
But enough about that I preordered the Limited edition of this and i'm very excited
I hope you Like FFVI Kefka is an awesome villian and it has quite a few deep scenes plus the Moogles are awesome
X had one of the best storylines in the entire series, and whilst the Sphere Grid wasn't perfect it was a nice experiment. Dunno where you're getting character designs from though, they were pretty decent. The linearity wasn't that bothersome, because unlike XIII, X allowed for some exploration and was actually a good game.
well said masamune, as a lifetime ff fan, i dont know what he means calling x a bad game - the battle system wasnt as good as previous games, but hey, i can give them that, and it was quite complicated i suppose so it needed to be quite strategic, probably why they chose it. fine, iv had some classic designs, but most in x were actually quite similar, and all were pretty good, generally. linearity in x? i'd cal it one of the least linear, you just have to look around a bit, with super weapons, secret areas, monster catching, it gave incentives to go back. and who buys a final fantasy game to skip cutscenes? the ff series has allways been based around the story.
I grew up playing Final Fantasy. I've played pretty much all of them apart from XIII and XIII-2. In my opinion, (which you cannot judge as false as it's an opinion, by the way) X was an absolute abomination. The characters were bad, the voice acting was bad (and annoying), the main character, Tidus was the most annoying main FF character in the whole series, the leveling up system (sphere grid) was completely unnecessary and didn't help with trying to level each character evenly, Story, however was "okay" to say the least. I personally thought VIII and IX's stories were significantly better. Overall, X wasn't that great. That's just my opinion. Oh, and X-2 had nothing going for it either. Just saying. Having said all that, I agree that XII was where the whole series flunked, however I actually completed that game without any problems as the gameplay was far more solid than X and X-2. (XI is not even worth mentioning) Levelling up system was good. Customizing characters was great and sufficient, the ATB system was great for just sitting back and letting the characters hack away at enemies when wanting to level up. The story however was pretty vague, it had no real plot line, the characters pretty much had nothing going on in their lives that made the story any more fulfilling, so X was better in that sense, but still, XII was the better game overall as, being a GAME, it needs to have that fun element in. X was just boring, while XII was quite fun, and it had far more exploration in it.
Going back to what I said about Final Fantasy IX being the last great title of the series, it was indeed far superior than X and onwards. There's always something going on in that game. There's not a single point in that game where you think "When is something going to happen? I'm bored." I felt like that, sometimes during my playthrough of X. It's just going from 1 town to the next, linear cutscene, move on. IX expanded on it's story far more than X did. It had great characters, who were all likeable, the story was fantastic and something you'd never expect it to turn out to be. In X, you find out at the first maybe 2 hours in the game, the final bosses identity (Jecht) and how he's related to Tidus. That's not fun, now the rest of the story is just boring quests to fill in for it. I wouldn't have said IX was the last great title, if I didn't have anything to back me up on.
Take it or leave it, that's just my opinion though, but it holds it's facts pretty well.
Sorry should have elaborated, by design I meant the clothing style, my gawd it's some of the craziest outfits they have ever designed Fantasy shouldn't equal crazy it's the only game where I even cared about that and was noticably impracticle, wearing dungarees as a water polo star doesn't fly with me:P i wasn't so much complaining about the sphere grid I just didn't like it as all, the linearity was a minor compliant it wasn't XIII extreme so apologies
No It didn't with out analysing it it had plot holes you could drive a truck through, the plot was good I mean the idea of a monster created by a worlds sins and a chosen person has to be possessed, Jehct acting like a tool to his son so that he'd hate him enough to one day kill him, Tidus doing a Shamen King personality split and no one calling him by name and some (not all) of the best visually stunning cut scenes they had for a while...
)? why would a society against using machines use mashines to kick you ass, why after the fall of that cosmic tick Yvoone anyone would still follow a false religion let alone care, why did Wakka say "happy festival fireworks" after the destruction of a whole societies city, it was the worst attempt at levity ever in a game. X-2 was ridiculous I'm all for fun but godammit it was unforgivably silly. I could go on but I won't, to be honest it made more narrative sense than VIII.
But it was told terribly, Seymour is the most transparent villain on earth and it's ridiculous, how no one figured it out is insulting and why didn't they send as soon as he kicked the bucket (and what's up with his hair
I wanted to skip them (not all) because they were insufferable to watch and very few had any real significance to playing the game, plus if you die or save and start again -- no regardless, you should have the option to.
I HAVE AN OPINYUN, MY OPINYUN MEANS I'M RIGHT, MY OPINYUN MEANS YOU CAN'T DISAGREE WITH ME
The characters were pretty well explored and fleshed out, even if the game focused almost exclusively on Yuna and Tidus. I never found Tidus that annoying, he and Zidane were refreshing after the DARK AND BROODING Cloud and Squall. I'll give you the annoying voice acting, though this is due less to bad voice acting but more to bad syncing, as the voice actors had no access to the game when they were recording the voices and thus couldn't sync their voices at all.
Sphere grid system wasn't the best in the series imo, but it was still worthy and better than some other systems (Materia, Crystarium) imo.
The story was pretty fantastic in all honesty, especially with the themes it explored, and it did the whole 'ancient technology' thing pretty damn well.
Battle system
Final Fantasy IX is my favourite game of all time (usually I dislike the term 'of all time', but I genuinely believe nothing will ever overtake FFIX in my eyes), but I don't think it's really the 'last great game in the series'.
When has FF ever been anything but a bunch of quests to fill time? The reveal that Jecht is Sin was beneficial in my eyes, as it set up the mystery of how exactly Jecht became Sin and questioned the morality of destroying Sin, and after his mystery is revealed, the morality of the entire pilgrimage, not to mention providing a major moral dilemma for Tidus.
We can agree to disagree, but I still think that X and X-2 have their place in the series. I'm doing an entire series playthrough at the minute, so I'll eventually have a better opinion because I haven't played X in ages.
H was at mcm expo today, I wonder if anyone asked him again. Lol
okay, some are better than others, but they are all good games really and we're nitpicking. you dont want them to end now... every story has its good points, and the characters are usually well developed and are more complicated than you first assume. theres a reason why there has been god knows how many games - they knock most other rpgs out of the park.
vi is quite possibly the best, despite my love for the other ones, especially 7 and 4. though what i can take from x is that is was quite possibly the first properly mainstream final fantasy, possibly barring 7. its the first one i ever played, and led me to discover new ones which i love more.
Star Ocean FTW!
Seriously Square need to stop pouring so much money into a tired series. Give more to Tri-Ace! The gods of JRPG creation! Except maybe Monolith after the timeless classic of Xenoblade. But they have Nintendo and they never screw up, except from Virtual Boy from what I've heard and probably some others that were like add-ons etc.
I regard your opinion...
MegaTen Persona (and possibly others) FTW. As I said earlier, I'm messy with Final Fantasies therefore I'm starting to like Atlus' RPGs more than square enix (apart from the odd bit and piece from FF, the KH series, TWEWY, and original titles on SNES)
i need to play more Megami Tensei, from what i have played they're fantastic games.
True
Though the difficulty can sometimes be very cheap (Hama/Mudo), I still persevere. All i've played is Persona 3, but now I would like Lucifer's Call, Persona 4, and Devil Summoner...which have you played?
I've gone off subject...
just bits and pieces of Persona and Digital Devil Saga. i have a few games in the series, i should get into them really
I've only played Strange Journey (imported it for christmas) and if the other SMT games are anywhere near as good as that, I can't wait to play them!!
Anyways, back on topic... I understand people's misgivings about turn-based combat, but I really like it, and I thought that FFX had one of the best turn-based battle systems of any game I've ever played. Admittedly the sphere grid wasn't brilliant, but it's nowhere near as bad as people are making it out to be. I agree with previous comments about the story; brilliant plot, abysmal execution. It doesn't rank among the best games in the series for me (FFIII, FFIV, FFTA2 (I know that's a spin-off but I don't care, it's amazing!)), but nevertheless it's a brilliant RPG, and one that puts most non-Squeenix RPGs to shame.
Not considering myself a fan of FF Series in general, but XIII has been pretty good I think. Some dialogues do cheese me out (I'm looking at you, Hope), I must admit but other than that, I find it a bit easy to understand the gameplay and etc. The linearity never was a big deal for me IMO, seeing that I'm quite enjoying the game personally.
Never got to play the other games, let alone finish them. I did finish 1 and 2 though, but that's was long ago!
FFXIII is a pretty bad game, crap story, dull characters, dull and simplistic battle system (which is really saying something for a JRPG), and yeah... just not good over all, really
Oh, well, each to their own. Haha!
Can't say I blame him. Anyone would if they'd played XIII.
Or VII >:)