It's a differing opinion! Whatever shall people do when they come across one!!!

I recently got turned over to Warframe, been about 3 weeks and already plugged in over 150 hours(I also have a job and wife so I can’t spend ALL of my time on it...just a lot of it). It’s just the right kind of Grind to keep me coming back, honestly most impressive Free Game I’ve ever played....wait what was this…

Sadly, forming a complete opinion takes effort and it's easier for people just jump on the hate-wagon.

I don’t disagree with that in the least, it did feel awkward. It could have worked, maybe...but Vaan just stood around watching these things unfold, he was a passive participant rather than an active main character...which as the audience we're already watching things unfold but to have it be a player watching things…

It’s easily it’s predecessor. Compared to every other FF prior to X, it is extremely linear. The Airship is just a travel Hub where in the others it was a full blown vehicle you could fly around. The battle system is better than XIII, XIII was a more Streamlined version of it with one controllable character that could…

While writing I usually ask myself this question at some point, although it’s not limited “What if this was a male” but goes deeper, if the character is well written then changing these gender/race/identity shouldn’t detract but should add to their depth.

You’re entitled to your opinion that it's not a Final Fantasy to you, I'll give you that and we can let this discussion end since neither one of us will convince the other differently.

Well the character models were so generic and weren't openly defined as a Gender that you could easily imagine them as whatever you wanted.

It’s an opinion. It wasn’t popular BECAUSE it had ATB, it was popular because they were GOOD Games. You show me the metrics on how them being Turn Based or ATB made them good and I’ll accept the fact, without said proof I’m going to say it’s an opinion.

That's some information I didn't know, thanks for sharing that since it's pretty interesting to know.

This would be the statement in question, since it’s not written as an opinion so much as a factual statement.

I get what you’re saying, but I disagree. For a FF to be a CoD version we’d have to see a yearly release that changes nothing about the game, which is what CoD regularly gets called out for even though people continually throw money at it.

Oh I was the same. But during boss fights at least I felt the MP management mattered and in XIII I found them to be breezingly easy without having to worry about it other than the right paradigm sets.

It is, because it’s stating your view of Final Fantasy is the Only Correct View which is incorrect and what Tabata has said. Seeing as he’s the one in charge of Final Fantasy, it is what he and his team envision.

I believe that would be correct.

The problem wasn’t they “strayed from their roots” as much as it was they simply became complacent and didn’t actually try to make games as well as they had in the past.

X and XIII are among my least favorites because of how linear they were. I loved the open world appeal of the previous titles and even XII’s approach to it since it was large and full of exploration.

Final Fantasy Disease right here.

This is exactly what the article is describing. ATB is fine but it’s not exactly a huge sell point for gamers today and it doesn’t define what a Final Fantasy is. Final Fantasy is a name, and it has a particular meaning for the Company.

Oddly I found the XIII system more braindead. I did auto attack for everything except bosses of course, but without MP management I found it pretty easy to just spam the best DPS I could.