The Rise of the New Final Fantasy
There is a long history of the popular role playing games. They used to be a pencil and paper with weird dice game but have now made their way to the home video consoles. You don’t have to hide if you enjoy playing these games as they are almost mainstream. If you tell a coworker you play RPG’s it’s alright unless it’s the dress up kind played outside, this is not the norm for the players.
The RPG video games are whole other level though. Final Fantasy is the most popular RPG frachise here nationally along with Japan. Final Fantasy has been the primary role playing game ever since it came on the scene in the eighties on NES. This is the what a role playing game should feel like, sound like and play like according to most people who do this. Game developers must reach the level of Final Fantasy with their games or the game is a letdown. This may not be easy on the developers but Final Fantasy is the standard they all must strive for.
Thd Fianl Fantasy genre has been a success with their tactical off shoots along with the numbered games. The critics have been pleased and so have the customers as the volume of sales has been high. There is a new numbered game on the way, called Final Fantasy XIII. As indicated it’s the thirteenth in the numbered installments, all of those having arrived with their own new innovations and story lines.
For the first time this game will be on the new generation platforms, additionally it will be the very first one on a different platform than Sony since the SNES time period. This has caused a great outcry amongst gamers, to do a cross over for this popular of a game appears to be snub to PS3 players. A contract with Microsoft was a surprise since Final Fantasy is such a standard bearer. The Final Fantasy series developer, Square, has continued to address new creations for each game in this famous serial.
There’s not much information about this new Final Fantasy, so the wait will continue to see the reality. The folks at Square generally have been on target with their audience so most will be okay to wait and see. But it doesn’t change the fact, if the hype doesn’t pan out there’s going to be a tough crowd out there.
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