How has this franchise withstood the test of time?

How has this franchise withstood the test of time?
How did it survive Lightning Returns?

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The nostalgia bank is too big, they can just milk it whenever they feel threatened

I think you mean xv
Lr is actually quite decent

Lightining Return is actually shit.

While FF15 is the most enjoyable Final Fantasy game since the PS1 games

Lol
Ok barry

The takeaway from this image is the shittier the logo art is, the better FF game it is.

>13 is over a decade old

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I've only played FF1, are the other ones good?

>FFXV
>Not having the full logo

>XII has the best logo
>It's actually just mediocre

I like final fantasy :)

yes, play ff7

Favorite game
Hardmode: no vii or xiv

I miss FFXI circa 2005 so much

look at 8's logo, truly the greatest love story

>imagine ear about people that genuenily enjoyng the FFXV game, and still must soffer by people that don't belive them with the excuse of calling them Barry, in the 2022...

You know that FFXV it is good.
And even the rest of the worl know that.

My favourite are FFVI, FFIX and FFXV.

If you have a PS4, or a PS5, I suggest you to play FF15.
It is pretty cool

X-2 is the best one.

Don't have a PS, so I'm going to look up 6, 7 or 9, thanks.

>still the best one

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i have over 150 hours in lightning returns. don't ask me anything

Tou can also play ff15 on PC or Xbox.
It's multiplatform.

Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy XV, and Final Fantasy VIII are all hugely underrated games

He ruined an entire generation of children.

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ENTER we don't talk about 1.0

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Say hello to the best FF

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And finally say hello to the worst FF.

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No clue. Stopped at 10. Everything got to they point of overwhelming homoeroticism. Also they somehow lost the ability to make fantasy worlds I like. 9 was maybe the best at this.

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Rinoa is garbage. Selphie and quistis are infinitely better. Tomboy and big sister cannot be beaten.

It's not a Barry thing, it's a LR is absolute dogshit thing

>VIII
>C
Why

Because it's not good

>While FF15 is the most enjoyable Final Fantasy game since the PS1 games
No, that would be Shadowbringers. FFXV is garbage and no amount of trying to associate it with much better games will change that.

The MMOs are unironically the answer. As single-player FF has progressively gotten worse with each iteration, the MMOs have kept the flame alive, kept the series at least a little bit relevant while they do the song and dance that's now become typical with ridiculously long and expensive dev cycles for the single player entries.

Based Selphie Enjoyer

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What about LR is dogshit? As someone who played it, it's more preferable to XIII and XIII-2 merely by the fact that it's an ARPG instead of a glorified autobattler.

>How did it survive Lightning Returns?
I don't know OP, you would think best girl's best game would finish the series and be the Final Fantasy

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XIII trilogy is peak FF. The fact we suffered through the shitshow that is FFXII is whats surprising

Some of them aged well others have not.

9 has aged incredible well, despite it's issue of feeling rushed along after the Ifra Tree.

10 has aged the best and It's combat system of switching party members in combat should be a mainstay.

If it's an ARPG then it's a really shitty one.
>spacing is irrelevant
>can't dodge attacks
>can't even move besides a slow walk

They're all good games. Even 13 and 15 are good, they just caused seethe by being different.

XIII is absolute trash. Calling the trilogy peak FF is just bait or you really do have awful taste.

>Lightning was a Louis Vuitton model
>Before Tifa, before Rinoa, before literally any other FF character
It's fucking amazing how hard Toriyama pushed his waifu.

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We get it, you have zero attentionspan and reading is hard

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You don't need to dodge, guarding exists.

>You don't need to dodge
In any good ARPG you do

The ability to move quickly across the field and dodge are the same thing: evade. Once you get that, combat changes a lot. The game never just hands it to you though, so if you never get it you'll have to play the game as a turtle who has to guard to avoid damage.

> attention span in an glorified autobattle JRPG

oh the story is dogshit too. Poor exposition and lack of interesting characters.

Based toriyama

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13 was kino, fuck the haters

Fuck off Toriyama

Lightning Returns is the best game with "Final Fantasy" in its title. (It's not a real Final Fantasy. Those are II-IX.)

Also the franchise survives by its name recognition momentum. For now. It has finally entered the "ironic" spiral and without self respect it'll wither. It'll take some time still. For me it died with FFX though.

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>7 worse than 9
>8 is just a piece of shit right out of the gate
>11 and 13 not even a proper game
>14 and 15 zoomer dogshit
I wouldn't call that "withstood the test of time"

Nothing wrong with playing a videogame over a fetish.

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Don't do it you'll attract him

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I'm gonna say it.

FF13-2 is possibly the best game in the trilogy. Noel and Caius are an absolute kino protagonist/antagonist duo. The trilogy has given us some of the best music in the entire franchise.

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God, I love her FF13-2 outfit. We need more porn of her in it.

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I love quests in 13-3

I love Claire

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Quests were okay in that game. Many of them required a lot of planning ahead since several of the npcs only appeared on certain daytimes so you had to schedule your meetings with them.

Currently playing through the last dungeon on X-2 after leaving it for a few months. Do not care about the story at all but I'm a big fan of the real-time turn based combat and changing classes during battle

>heretics from Al-Bhed

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This quests system is perfect to me. Elden Ring is similar, but i failed most of quests here. I love accomplish them.

Cute Claire Cosplay!

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He is cute

What did you play bc that game was soulless

Haters be hatin'.

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It's banking on millennial nostalgiafags that grew up with the franchise like me
some of the jrpg that's considered more niche back in the day now seems more popular desu
like smt, fire emblem, xenoblade what have you

>tatoos

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Would Toriyama jerk off to the POV futa Lightning blowjob animation by esk?

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