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Final Fantasy XV, which my wife jokingly called 'Truckstop the Video Game', seemed to have left no mark or impression on the collective gaming consciousness except amongst the weeb subgroup and the J-Pop and K-Pop types.
That's fine. Sex sells and all that. And I'm all about beauty and virility in fantasy settings. I don't want to see ugly and fat people in leading roles in fantasy stories.
EDIR: Unless it's a subversion of the trope, on which case, fine. It's fine to shake things up once in a while.
But it's just weird that outside of teenagers with the lamest tastes in escapism (IMHO), no one cares.
There isn't even the divisiveness that we see in FF XIII's audience, which can still be sparked by a lazy troll looking for lolz to this day.
I've LONG said that FF XIV (yes, the MMO) is the apex of this series, the ultimate representation of what this series could be. It's got everything we love about the series when it was at its best:
-Crystals
-Chocobos
-Airships
-Western fantasy aesthetic as seen through Japanese artistic expression
-All of our favorite in-game jobs (Red Mage, Monk, Dragoon, etc.)
-A vast, sprawling world with every environment imaginable
-Environmental themes
-Anti-war messaging
-An oppressive Empire in love with technology that corrupts the natural order
If you like Final Fantasy, then you like Final Fantasy XIV. If you think you hate, you probably wouldn't hate it quite so much.
They might as well have called it Final Fantasy XIV: A Franchise Realized.
Because it's all downhill from here as they move forward with numbered entries they aren't remakes.
SE could always prove wrong. I hope they do.
Apparently the same director and producer for FFXIV is doing the same for FFXVI, so if what you're saying is true then I'm excited to see how the series grows.