A sign of the Decline of Video Games.

[strredwolf]

Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 is being advertized on TV now... which got me wondering... how many FF's are there?

Wikipedia says 13, not counting the spinoffs and related content.  That jacks it up to about 29, and five films.

TWENTY NINE GAMES AND FIVE FILMS?!?

The Super Flash Bros and Double Helix was right.  This is truly the beginings of the Decline of Video Gaming. (Scroll almost all the way down)

Comments

[bibliophage.livejournal.com]

I wonder why the link to wikipedia keeps taking me to this -

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/

[bibliophage.livejournal.com]

Figured it out.

http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Final_Fantasy_titles

double http.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

fixed

[shishiosa.livejournal.com]

Two additional words....

Mega Man

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I doubt that repackaging Mega Man/Rock Man that way extends the shelf life. It's been extended twice, granted, in the MM X and MM .NET series, plus exists in Manga and Anime form, and hits with a digital card fighting game. But this is something that doesn't take quite kindly to 3D rendering, and I doubt Capcom will want to finance doing it.

Square Enix, however, seems to be making it hand over foot with the five movies and 29 seperate games that are expanded beyond belif (including into character appearances in all Kingdom Hearts games). The movies are now very close to being rendered very realistically, even with Final Flight of the Orius(sp?) which used the same techniques as Advent Children.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

I'm still playing the old PS1 Megaman games... Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 are great.

[nikkyvix.livejournal.com]

What is this advertizement on FF7...uhh...advertizing?

I mean, it's been nearly a decade since FF7's release. I remember Squaresoft's original adverts for the game making it out to be the 'biggest movie epic never to come to your local theater' (cue now-outdated flashy CGI sequence). Is there some special reason why FF7 (an old game on a long-closed console) is getting advertizement now?

Unless you meant FF7: Advent Children, which explains it.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm wrong. It's FF12.

[bibliophage.livejournal.com]

Ah - XII instead of VII

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

No, no, no. FF12 doesn't come out until November.

What you're seeing is the 2nd direct sequel EVER in the Final Fantasy series. That's Final Fantasy 7 Dirge of Cerberus. It's actually an action RPG game. The only other direct sequel ever made was Final fantasy 10-2. (Final Fantasy 5 had a direct sequel in the form of an anime OVA series, but not a game.)

It's not as bad as you make it sound, because with the exception of a few characters with similar names, and similar props like Airships, the Final Fantasy series is almost entirely free of real sequels. Each one is a whole separate world with whole new characters. FF7 is the second time they've broken that rule partially due to its immense popularity. They're making 2 direct sequels to it, and possibly even releasing a Playstation 3 remake later. FF10 got a sequel because FF11's name was used by a MMORPG, and they needed to do something with all the single-player ideas they had. ;)

FF13 is going to be the next one they do this with. They're releasing FF13 and FF13Versus at roughly the same time. *sigh*

They have kind of diluted the FF name in america though. There are 5 games released in america as "final fantasy" that were not final fantasy games. (Final Fantasy Legend 1-3, Final Fantasy Adventure, and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest)

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Google "Dirge of Cerberus"

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Oh, and btw, It's currently 11 mainline games (2 yet to be released, one of those will come out this year), 2 films, 2 Direct to DVD miniseries, and 1 long-running TV series (25 episodes.) I'm not going to count the Mobile Phone games which most people will never actually get to play, so 5 real Spin offs with the Final Fantasy name (4 more to be released in the next year,) 5 games Masquerading as spin offs that aren't really final fantasy games, 4 games that have nothing to do with Final Fantasy except a couple cameos, 6 unaltered re-releases of the original series, and 7 children's games (Only 2 of which ever made it to the US) that have nothing to do with Final Fantasy except for featuring the bird mascot from the series.

That brings the total released count of real final fantasy games to 16 over the course of 21 years.