Why can't SquareEnix learn from FFVI?

It won the Destructoid poll, where most likely, the hardcore fanbase is as the site is heavily into JRPGs.

Yes, the job system is the best gameplay system in the series, however, its the story and the characters that are the most important when it comes to ranking the series.

But that doesn't make VII the best or the PS era of games the best as well. In fact, look at the Suikoden series. The game widely considered the BEST, was actually the LEAST commercially successful.

@Gue1: challenging bosses? No final fantasy has challenging bosses even the optional ones simply require grinding in some form whether levels, items, or magic.

Even 6 doesn't actually have challenging bosses in a default play through, you literally have to limit yourself in final fantasy to find any actual challenge "ff6 hard type where only celes, terra can learn magic"

I like that idea, Celes, Terra, Mog, Relm, and Strago should be the only ones to learn magic. I think magicite should enhance the other members abilities however.

whoah whoah, I was on board until you said ff12 had better gameplay. That game was rubbish and a terrible MMO hybrid action game.

I am betting they are. At Sony's 2017 E3, FF6 REmake will be announced and this forum will post in the sticky, "SONY WINS!!!!" because of:

I don't mind someone shitting on FFXII's battle system, but it seems you haven't played it lol.

It's not a hybrid action game in any sense. Its battle system is just the classic ATB system in fast forward. The only action is field movement which doesn't have an affect on the system anyways.

I played it, it was terrible, having to switch characters to see if you can doll out a command was incredibly clunky, the camera/movement made targeting more clunky. The faster timing made it feel more like a MMO where you were managing a GCD and then doing something. The command window felt archaic. And to get around some of the clunkyness you could use automated actions... which caused the game to go into auto pilot mode. I just remember at some point I got bored out of my mind with the game and stopped playing. Now every time I try and play it my characters are lost in this orange crystalline area and I give up after 5 minutes. Nothing poses a threat, the game mostly playes it self, and if you try in play it the hard way its a clunky mess that feels like a bad mmo.

And really, its actually quite good to bump this topic now that FFXV is out, because oh man, does FFXV just don't get it.

In FFVI, a side quest has meaning, it fleshes out the story and the characters, and may have invented the "companion quest" that Bioware so loves to use. Everything is cohesive and thematically relevant.

FFXV on the other hand, its side content is nonsense and incoherent, and random to boot. Its open world are check boxing instead of having real meaning.