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epik_fail1 posted...

I mean Final Fantasy 7 and X were well known to be system sellers. They were both in the top 5 most popular games of their eras. I don't think a lot of people bought a ps5 just for FF16. That's kinda the risk when you change the litetal face of a genre. Mario explored tons of different genres of games, but the mainline games are still platformers

There's also the fact that BG3 was very popular and Infinite wealth and persona as well.

BG3 and Infinite wealth showed you can innovate the turn based systems by adding a lot of aoe that is more complex than "one or all ennemies"(which used to be done by chrono trigger, but whatever). Mobility adds a lot depth to those games system as well. People would probably enjoy a FF that innovates on the classic formula

I think the problem is SE is stuck in the mindset that turn based is just a party lined up hitting the attack/magic/item button all day when it evolved past that a long time ago.

I actually liked FF16, think it was the first graphical performance that made me even slightly impressed with the PS5 generation and the gameplay was fun to boot(the MMO side quests I could live without though).