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NEWS: Final Fantasy XV Gets 5-Episode Anime Prequel, Feature-Length CG Film

Alright square-enix, here's how things are supposed to go.

Step 1) You release a game

Step 2) People like it and it's story and ask for more

Step 3) Figure out which other medium would work well to release additional content for the game, keeping in mind which part people are actually interested in

Step 4) Make the additional product

Right now, you haven't even done step 1, so you can't really figure out step 2 and your flat out skipping step 3...

Remember last time you though people were gonna be so in love with a final fantasy that you could start milking it even before it release? That was FF13, here's how it went you announced 3 game, one hasn't come out yet (almost a freaking decade ago) another one came out and was the worst received of the mainline FF (And it came out along with a LN that was necessary to understand anything, which most people didn't read since they only cared about the game) and the third one went trough a tons of transformation and eventually release just to be greeted by a giant 'meh'.

SE, you suck at handling multiple stuff at the same time, just go back to the simple formula, one game at a time.

I see the characters, 4 bishounen, and am a bit sad about where the franchise has fallen.

So much this. I really hate this sort of hyping and mass marketing crap and am not surprised to see my most hated animation company Aniplex involved in this somehow even if it's only with the anime and it's distribution. The fact that they are doing a game/movie tie-in release version in Japan just kind of sickens me though as it's their typical process of just leeching off of other peoples work and brands.

I was growing casually interested in this game again after the all time production clusterfuck that was it's XIII Versus iteration led me to become skeptical about it and I don't want to do anything that might result in Aniplex getting even a cent of my money so if I do somehow end up getting this game which is a big if (I was skeptical before thanks to the production hell and them just not seeming to have down what they want to do with the concept up until very recently, kind of warmed up to it a little last trailer a few months back and now am more skeptical than ever as opposed to hyped with these mass marketing deals being struck with the devil of the anime industry) I'd almost kind of have to go with some sort of Metal Gear Solid V used copy strategy like some people did to try to cut Konami out of the mix. Thanks a lot Square Enix, you could have just you know released the game and let people make up their own minds then decided what you want to do with it but you've gotta be a backwards Japanese company and go with this sort of shitty obviously Sony backed approach. All it demonstrates to me is that they really have learned absolutely nothing from past mistakes after all as the approach to A Realm Reborn and trying to rebuild community outreach had me think. Fool me once as they say.....

I kind of hope this game bombs and we can just be done with everything that ever came of the Fabula Nova Crystallis project clusterfuck that began and frankly already failed to live up to it's promise all those years ago. If this succeeds wildly it'll pretty much mark the end of the Final Fantasy I became a fan of growing up I fear and sadly it probably well because hype and mass marketing is everything in this era of media. I don't know I bet it barely even feels like Final Fantasy much like what happened with XIII and now I get this feeling more than ever that Sony has been a large part of the production process and marketing for this and why it's gone through such ridiculous development hell.

I see the characters, 4 bishounen, and am a bit sad about where the franchise has fallen.

Tell that to "Mighty No. 9."

All the ranting in this forum just makes me shake my head. I've played both demos for FFXV now and it's freaking amazing in so many aspects. That's not not just me falling for pre hype media BS, I'm making an actual judgment call after playing the game myself.

A lot of the people complaining are complaining because Square is putting their all into building an expanded universe from the start and promoting the damn game, something other companies get shunned for when they fail to do so, which is insane.

What studio for the anime? I feel bad for this game though. 10 years of work, and so far they've said it will run at a low 30 fps with some drops that they're "Still trying to iron out".

Kougeru wrote:

What studio for the anime? I feel bad for this game though. 10 years of work, and so far they've said it will run at a low 30 fps with some drops that they're "Still trying to iron out".

It is because everything must now be big and open world, and they always miss 2 points. 1, does it benefit from being open world, 2, can the system handle open world and this level of detail.

Well, it's "Final Fantasy." The big problem people had with FFXIII was because it wasn't open enough.

Sunny milk wrote:

I see the characters, 4 bishounen, and am a bit sad about where the franchise has fallen.

Yeah, because the franchise NEVER has bishonen men in it. That was sarcasm by the way.