Free Spirit said: I love crazy Nomura. Give me more crazy designs. His stuff from FFV, VI, and VII are the craziest things he's ever come up with, and the best. He's gotten a lot tamer and more mainstream over the years, and while his art is always clean, crisp, and beautiful, it does seem to have lost that WTF Amano influence it once had when he and Amano worked side by side, art-wise. Then again, when Nomura wants to do crazy things not related to artistic direction...eh, yeah. Stick to art Nomura, you does it gud. Anyways, FFXIV is awesome, everyone on FFO needs to buy it and play it. With me! I'd love to have some FFO peeps to play with now that I am thoroughly into endgame territory (Coil and Extreme Primals now). I actually have my own Free Company now (Rank 8 with housing, yo) and would gladly take any FFO members who are squeemish about playing an MMO and help them as much as possible. I hate MMO's, but I've stuck with FFXIV long enough to get more or less use to things. And this game is an FF fan's MMO, no doubt about it. While FFXI was very much its own thing way off from the rest of the series in many ways, FFXIV is very much the 14th game in the series. And I need more FF fans to play with. Too many of these MMO types are just that - MMO'ers. They have zero appreciation for the fact that this is an FF, and have no idea what it is they are actually playing beyond "the next MMO in the line". When I see people who don't know who GIlgamesh is and have no excitement for his upcoming FFXIV appearance, when I see people who are completely oblivious to how awesome CT really IS for an FF fan, when I see people who don't squee at behemoth and magitek armor mounts, when I see people who just. plain. don't. get. it. on so many things in this game, it hurts. it really does. I'm playing an FF game with a bunch of people who have no idea what FF even is most of the time, and don't even care that they don't know, and there's something extremely offputting about that. So! If you're thinking about playing this game, Mateus server, Esprit Libre and the Spirit of Mateus FC FTW! Gogogo (warning: anyone who starts playing this game will never do anything else ever again. I have Bravely Default, FFX/X-2 HD, and Lightning Returns sitting around unplayed, and I have no idea when I will find time to play them.....)
Thirdtwin said: I don't think I'd call FF8 cyberpunk >_>
INTERVIEW 3 - Yoshinori Kitase (Producer) For FFVIII and VIII, the setting was sci-fi and many players responded by saying that they preferred a simple fantasy world. [Fantasy] They seemed to have a fixed notion of what fantasy means to them, and to them, it consisted of a medieval European world. I wanted to change that idea. I wanted to expand the definition of what the players thought the word 'fantasy' implied. Going back to a medieval European fantasy didn't seem to help us advance, so while I was considering different world environments, Nojima proposed the idea of trying to create a fantasy world that incorporated Asian elements.
Zubis said: Essentially after cyberpunk games (FF7, FF8) they wanted to challenge the fanbase's notions of what "fantasy" means, ie, not just traditional fantasy (FF9), but other types. So that's why we got FF10 with an pseudo-asian background, and why they went European fantasy with FF11. FF12 tanked, they moved away from that fantasy style and we got stuck with FF13's style. FF14 was a true return to give the fanbase what they want.
Crusader said: Eh, they did that plenty with the high fantasy games too; magic can answer anything. Remember how many deus ex machina moments FFIV had?
