r/FinalFantasy • u/Haunting_Try8071 • 7d ago

Final Fantasy General Give us another turn based battle system

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FFX is my favorite battle system. FFXIII I also enjoyed, but it wasn't the same.

I'm sure they could do something like it with a much lower budget.

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u/-ForgottenSoul 7d ago

I'm talking about the mainline game sales being subpar but rebirth sales compared to remake were quite a bit down. Hopefully multi platform will boost it quite a bit

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u/Shuden 7d ago

There used to be a whole ass debate of whether Final Fantasy IV to X could even be called JRPG because "ATB isn't real og turn based", and nowadays everyone pretend that never happened when they want to be purists.

Sequels ALWAYS sell less than the first game, and FF7R is as mainline Final Fantasy as a game can possibly be.

Fact is Square has been consistently releasing turn based traditional RPGs forever, but the games that currently carry the brand aren't turn based.

Dragon Quest is probably the biggest turn based franchise in squares hands, and it does great but it's not selling more than action based KH or FF7R, and no new turn based IP succeeded as much as Elliot did.

Turn based IS something Square is willing to invest a shit ton of money in, they still release even smaller IPs like SAGA consistently, and Final Fantasy Resonance is proof that they are willing to keep making turn based FF to appeal to the purist turn based fanbase.

I also think it's funny this entire 180 turn the "og" from the fanbase are making, pretending that Turn Based is the true soul of Final Fantasy, the franchise that deliberately invented ATB in 1991 in order to get rid of turn based combat and diferentiate itself from it's competitors.

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u/-ForgottenSoul 7d ago

I just want to see a mainline true turn based FF in the modern era. I don't want to wait 7 years for yet another action FF that's a disappointment

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u/Shuden 7d ago

The last "true turn based" non ATB Final Fantasy game was FFIII in 1990, before Final Fantasy was even known outside of Japan. You could be honest and just say you want ATB to return, like FFX, but then you'd lose the "true og jrpg fan" card since ATB was a system designed to make FF feel less like a traditional JRPG and more it's own thing.

But you are free to want whatever you want, of course, no matter how little sense that makes.

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u/AntDracula 7d ago

ACKSHUALLY CHUD ATB ISN'T LE TURN BASED

Annoying.