When will it be a "final" Final Fantasy?

[Textbook Bobcat]

It's merely a branding, as opposed to a series.

I could understand your tears if it was as recycled as Tomb Raider/FIFA/Whatever. The last I checked though is that every Final Fantasy is home to innovation. Some unpopular, but they aren't scared to experiment.

Some instances milking is present (Crisis Core, etc) but on the whole I think Square promote originality.

 

[Tri Force95]

1. They most likely never will ,as long as people will buy them. 2. If they were to make a last FF game, it would have to be the best of them all.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Yeah, I agree that the devs seemed to miss the idea of the world "Final". But hey, i'll think they'll continue produtcion until people stop buying. So that'll be around Final Fantasy 30.

 

[Blanks]

There will never be a 'final' fantasy, as long as there is a new story to be told there will be a new final fantasy
There only sequels in name

 

[Dannyboy1186]

Well I think "Final Fntasy" is just a sort of pun since the first was sapposed to be the "Final" Fantasy but it was successful, they carried on from there.

I think Final Fantasy is still good (I even liked X-2 THERE I SAID IT) but I do understand why people don't like some of the newer ones. I didn't like Final fantasy 12 since I could not stand grinding levels to progress (I kept dying) but the story was still good. I have not played 7 but I am sure it was good because either it was the first 3D Final Fantasy or its just good throughout. Final fantasy 10 is my favorite since it was the first I played so maybe this is why people like 7.

Also everyone is entitled to their opinion yadda...yadda...

 

[darkhawk918]

Me final fantasy ended at final fantasy 7. They can never make a better final fantasy than 7.

You sure? Because they did. They made 8 and 10

 

[lwm3398]

Hurray for flame shields!

Flame shields, deploy!

And it will never end. Legions of gamers will always play it, so if there is money to be made, the cash-cow of a loved franchise will be milked until it's milk turns sour.

 

[Gigaguy64]

TC Cry More, I'm to tired and this has been argued to death, it will be final when they say it is, if you don't like it don't buy it.

PREACH IT!
the only reason it still lives is because people still buy it, and many will continue to buy it just because it says Final Fantasy on the box.

 

[Snotnarok]

Okay here's my question, why does it have to end? People who don't like it can not buy it (like mostly me) but people who do buy it can keep buying it. It's not like they're forcing you or whatever.

For me the series has been pretty stale after Final Fantasy Tactics (a game I love and play often even today)

 

[TheTygre]

When the Cash Cow accidentally walks into a slaughterhouse.

 

[Hitman 43]

"When will it be a "final" Final Fantasy?"

I asked that question a few days ago.

 

[The Bandit]

Me final fantasy ended at final fantasy 7. They can never make a better final fantasy than 7.

They can and they have. It was called Final Fantasy 6.

everyones entitled to their own opinion.

NO YOUR NOT IF I DISAGREE IM RITE

Companies have no reason to stop milking franchises. Their primary concern is making money. It's just interesting as to which franchises get nailed for it and which ones don't.

 

[Nieroshai]

Final Fantasy as a name never indicated an end to fantasy. Chalk it up to horrible naming conventions. Very few Final Fantasy titles are actually sequels, those being FFX-2 and FFVII Dirge of Cerberus, as well as the prequel Crisis core and the movie. Think of Final Fantasy in this way: take out the term and insert <The Thirteenth Japanese RPG by Square Enix Featuring Previously-Unseen Gameplay and Cultural References>. Quite a mouthful? So Square Enix isn't very creative at naming their games. We could have instead: ff7=Jenova Crisis and FF7:CC=Jenova Crisis: Crisis Core, or FF12=Assault on Arcadia or some such thing. But Square Enix doesn't want to do that, and I won't fault them for such a small mistake.

 

[meyou22]

And if you're just pissed off with the title, perhaps you're pissed off that The World Ends With You didn't hint at any apocalypses.

Actually, my little friend

Spoiler

In The World Ends With You, Joshua was going to destroy Shibuya if he could not be convinced it could good.

And on to the OP:

When you stop buying it!

 

[theultimateend]

I'm slightly annoyed at Square. After all these years all they can seem to do is create more Final Fantasy games, despite the fact that there even being a second Final Fantasy game screwed with the notion presented in the word "final", changing it from the end, or completion of something to mean "the last one unless it sells good" oh, there have been other games, but most of them have been spin offs of Final Fantasy games, and the rest have sucked. I'm just wondering if i'm the only person in internet land who thinks that its time to put it to an end, or am i just mad cos Final Fantasy 12 wasn't that great?

I loved 12, so did everyone in my vicinity, but that is probably why we are friends we have similar interests (at least in some genres).

Now I'm not here to heckle you for disagreeing with my tastes, we all have different interests.

I am here to heckle your ignorance to where the name came from. Do you even know WHY it is called Final Fantasy and WHY they keep making more?

Since frankly educating someone in something they hate isn't worth my time I'll just use the power of Wiki to help you out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy . It is basically the only reason the company exists now, of course they'll keep making them, it is something near and dear to them.

 

[Nouw]

I don't really care but Final I think is the meaning that this is the last fantasy game or something like that which of course is really ridiculous.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Why did this stupid topic need bumped? And hopefully never, not aslong as the games market remains in the shitty state it has been for these last two years FPS, FPS, FPS, FPS when is the last Halo, Call of Duty, Generic FPS #23432423. Feck why does it feel like I have had a bone thrown to me when there is one fighting game and two rpgs on the hill and a few rts, diablo next year, when did that become the norm?

/rant

 

[ajb924]

Judging by the decent story in dissidia (I haven't beaten it, if I'm wrong just say so don't tell me why!) I think it will be the last one... I'm probably wron and my view will change when I beat it, but still