I think with hindsight, we can say that Blitzball should either aim to be “Blitzball Manager” or full on “BIBA2024" and not the awkward middle ground it ended up being in FFX.

Blitzball is fucking great and could easily sustain a whole game by itself and I will die on that hill.

I miss the days before the internet lol.  I thought everyone loved Blitzball like me and forgot to beat the game because they were too busy going around the world and collecting the best Blitzball players. 

Especially because one of the Zanarkand Abes that you see in FMV is a *woman*. Pretty sure there are other female players too, though Blitzball isn’t my cup of tea and I didn’t play it after that first terrible intro match.

They do a pretty shit job of explaining it in-game and your starting team absolutely sucks so you need a decent bit of luck to win the required game, so it's no surprise you and many others got turned off from playing it again. I was the same on my first playthrough but when the Remaster came out I devoted more effort…

I for the life of me could never figure out Blitzball. I tried, but soon grew to immediately hate it, and never touched it again after you play it in the story. Sucked when I later found out that you had to win in Blitzball to get most of the components to make Wakka’s ult weapon. Through playing around in Wakka’s…

You can play it at basically any time after doing the tournament in Luca, accessed from save points. If you didn't try to dig into it when you originally played it's very easy to forget the menu option was there. 

1000% this. If they ever remake FFX or go back to that universe they should absolutely redo Blitzball to make it more of a proper game. Scoop up some FIFA or FC20XX devs that aren't at EA anymore and give it some proper love and it could be one of the best minigames in Final Fantasy history. 

I like the idea of Blitzball - both as an in-universe sport and as an element in the game. I like the idea of underwater soccer played in three dimensions. I like the role the sport plays in Spira, bringing joy to an otherwise joyless world. I like having the main character be a professional athlete in the sport…

Just as an FYI, the game mechanics of Blitzball (mixing RPG elements when the ball carrier meets with a defender) was straight out of Captain Tsubasa soccer games that have been popular in Japan since 1988.

But this is also Konami we’re talking about. Not buying their bad products doesn’t mean that they’ll reevaluate and decide to put out better products, it just means that we won’t get any products, and even a barebones MGS4 port will be better than no port. With that said, I haven’t actually purchased this collection,…

No way Konami would’ve given him the budget for that. I like Kojima, but it’s clear as day that he just wanted an excuse to work with one of his film idols.

Replacing Hayter was especially stupid considering:

What an absurd take. Do you actually expect every company to publicly announce ever single decision or idea they have?

So in the regards of any future plans, titles, and such being leaked, I say “you reap what you sow.”

RE: Scorn. That would actually be a great way to do the storyline and I hadn’t even considered it. They were already using the Wraith arc as a whole “Peter stops a friend from getting too violent” story and having her get that symbiote and completely lose it (possibly even as Carnage’s endgame goal, drive her mad…

Yeah, it just seems like the assumption of “we can make a console game that people will log into and play every single day for years and years” is a flawed one. Even games with a looong tail like Diablo 2 tend run out of rope with individual users when they get frustrated with something or they run out of things to do.

They already did give us a new entry, with new stories, characters and mechanics. They also gave it a new name, Triangle Strategy.

Frankly, I would be happiest if they just released War of the Lions on Switch with some minor quality of life improvements and a higher resolution. I would prefer not to have the art or aesthetics changed. It already looks great! And I’m still bummed by FF9, which is so much uglier on modern consoles than it was on…

That’s a known issue with the port of WotL.