Ironically I've been playing a lot of 14 lately. My girlfriend got into it cause her friends invited her, and so I made an account to join her, and it's been alright. It's an interesting style of mmo where you have an individual storyline that's required to be completed in order to unlock features and content. Also since your character can switch classes at any time, you can generally stick with just one character and do all the content on one character rather than having to make new characters to experience other content. I also like how crafting and gathering is basically its own 'class' and levels in a similar way to the battle classes rather than being a skill. And crafting and gathering gets its own armor so you actually LOOK like a crafter rather than some giant dude in dragonscale armor sitting down to bake a pie or something.

My full history is 7, 8, 9, played 10 but didn't beat it for years, never played 11, played 12 but haven't beaten it, beat 13. Went back and beat 10 and then 10-2. Bought 13-2 and 13-3, played 13-2 but haven't beat it, haven't started 13-3 for that reason. And now I'm into 14, like I said.

Someday I'd like to go back and beat 12 and finish up the 13 series but it probably won't be soon. Then maybe doing 4 and 6.

And honestly I'm looking forward more to the 7 remake than to 15. =P

Nothing wrong with that. The new team turned coal (FF14) into a diamond (FF14: ARR) with their two-year long roadmap to remaking the entire game. I followed their rather detailed plans on how they will fix this, and admitting the game was bad enough to fire the entire former team, as well as develop a new engine to remove the open-world mechanic (which was freaking barren), and more like Metal Gear Solid 3/4 (requires area loading, but we get rich environments in return). The fact that their customer base was willing to pay monthly fees for this game, means they did something right. And needless to say, Square-Enix felt relief when they saw Blizzard announce Mists of Pandaria at the time. They were initially worried that Blizzard will cut into FF14's customer base with another expansion as awesome as Cataclysm.

Hah! Bake a pie. Nice.

Fair enough. I don't even know the entire plot of 13-3, and I was pissed off at the plot (erm, plots) of 13-2. As for 10-2 I hope you got the good ending. But yeah, too many Final Fantasy games to play all of a sudden, so might as well stick to the newer ones. I've heard 12 is a great game to play, but for some reason didn't catch on with the majority of fans. I'd go as far as "those who played it, loved it, and those who didn't will never see it ever because nobody talks about it." Sometimes I struggle to figure out which is more popular: 4 or 12? Because both don't get talked about enough.

Good plan.

A lot of us are. The real question is, what the heck is this combat mechanic? Apparently it's not Kingdom Hearts either. So it's a real-time fight with ATB mechanics? Did they mean ATB mechanics as in your abilities to require a cooldown? So... This is SMITE now? As for the multiple parts, I noticed a lot of people suspect that it's episodic. I'm assuming FF7 remake's releases will be identical to Starcraft 2. Multiple retail releases, all standalone with a beginning and an end, yet are pieced together to share an overall story. I suppose Starcraft 2 is episodic, but there's no season pass since they're considered three separate products, instead of parts of an overall product.

From what I can tell of the gameplay, imagine that the combat is basically the exact same as 7, except you have freedom of movement rather than everybody standing in lines. So sort of like 12. That's my guess until we know better.

As for episodic, I doubt it's going to be standalone episodes. It's probably going to be more like telltale episodes, ending at major points in the story or possibly even cliffhangers. I could easily see all of the 'escape from Midgard' of disc 1 being the first episode, and you don't even get to see the 'open world' until episode 2 or later. It also wouldn't make sense if your stats and inventory and stuff didn't carry over from previous episodes.

I just hope they don't pull a half life and do like 2 episodes and then never finish. =P

Sort of like 12... Hmm... Maybe. I agree that we'll have to wait and see. The glimpse we had offered little more than an opportunity to speculate.

I can see the "Starcraft 2 model" working as long as save files carry over, which I can't see how that would be difficult (think Mass Effect or earlier Dragon Ages). Even if you buy the later installments, the game can offer a default save file that offers slighly less inventory and weaker stats than what you would have had if you played the previous game.

And yeah VALVe really made a mistake marketing the episodic model. So many conflicting statements made about the benefits of the episodic model, mistakes learned from why you don't do the "episode previews," and eventually abandoning it altogether (and by now VALVe must realize they can't do Episode 3 since too much time has passed). I mean, I'm sure it inspired point and click adventures to adopt the model successfully. While games like Alone in the Dark and SiN screwed it up horrifically (SiN only screwed up because the company chose mobile gaming and abandoned the PC development completely, so it was doomed regardless of how well SiN Episodes: Emergence sold).

Good chat Thortok2000. Always happy to have discussions like this.

Agreed, good chat. ^_^