Final Fantasy 16 Won't Be An Open-World Game, But Its Eikon Battles Will All Be Unique

@Barighm: Yeah, it started more like a trend years ago, but now it seems that Devs are forced to turn every one of their old long running franchise into something else unrecognizable, just to force this (empty, boring repetitive) concept to almost every freaking game

MGSV was an amazing game..but not the best in the series (guess why)

Horizon Zero is freaking superb, but for like the first 4 hours before the game get wide open with tons of meaningless side tasks, and tons of icons on the world's map to add to the confusion, turning a potentially GoTY winner into a tedious game, until playing the game starts to feel like a chore

Death Stranding's open world was utilized and done better, see the problem with these games is that THEY USED TO BE STORY FOCUSED, and with the tons of other (pointless repetitive) tasks and side quests players tend to lose interest, because they start the game and build this kind of connection with the characters and us all invested in the story ...then can open worms everywhere, connection lost, and now playing the game to get to another scene or story related segment it start to feel like a chore ...we're not having fun anymore, let's take a break play other games then come back a month or two later trying to remember what we're doing,..that's how we lose interest in games

@mmtristan: There are so many other games that fit into the area. Final Fantasy was one of the last large games, with quality that was around.

they could easily did a spin off series, with the final fantasy name and had both going. frankly the market for this type of game seems saturated. Monster hunter had some mainstream success recently, so everyone jumped on the band wagon.

I have played some indie titles that are turn based, and while i do find them enjoyable, most lack the scale that the FF games had.

I can always go back and play the earlier titles I guess. but it sure is disappointing not getting anything new.

I do think they have some sort of spin off series that is turn based, I guess to replace FF. but the characters all looked to cutesy for me.

@mmtristan: Yes, but everything else about the game was well below the standards of the turn based ones. As I've said elsewhere, it's not so much the combat that was the problem, it was everything else.

@mmtristan: yes!!! I loved the combat in FFVII Remake and I hope the combat in XVI is just as good if not better.