Final Fantasy Creator to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Please come back to us lol. we need a REAL Final Fantasy!!! not this XV bullshit... cant even tell its final fantasy anymore.

Congrats to him. He deserves it. And Final Fantasy has been a shadow of its former self since he left Square.

good for him..

Well, he does deserve it.

Glad to know more people understand that the quality of the FF titles in terms of overall cohesiveness in storytelling, gameplay and pacing after Sakaguchi's absence pale in comparison overall to when he was still with Squaresoft back then.

Nice. Let's face it most of the people who've mangled the franchise to some degree since won't be getting the same down the line. This man has given me hours of RPG goodness and is truly deserving. I just wish more people had played Lost Odyssey. Needs a redo and a sequel.

At least someone deserving the award is getting it. Congrats. It's such a shame that MS didn't market and see that another Lost Odyssey would be great for RPG gamers. I would've liked to see where the story was headed beyond the mirrors.

how to fcuk up a franchise over a lifetime award ?

All hail to the king!!! :)

Well FF up until 9, then it sucked after that.

What, did Sakaguchi die? But seriously, well deserved award, FF is still to this day my favorite game series ever no matter how much Square-Enix is trying to change that. Hopefully we'll see something new from Mistwalker other than that mobile game, which granted looks fun but it's still a damn mobile game.

Well deserved and long overdue

How many achievement points is this worth on XBL?

Loved the top image, never seen it before

Lost Odyssey is my real final Fantasy 13

Yea cause it will take a lifetime before another Good Final Fantasy game comes out, Since Squaresoft became Square-Enix their Flagship game which is Final Fantasy went to shit,

will never understand why people never mention blue dragon. sure the name might suck but the game far from does. it made the previous jrpg enchant arm by from software (known as enchanted arms in north america) look like an xbox original. also, yes that is the same from software of demon's souls, dark souls, and bloodborne fame. back to blue dragon, it was a great collaboration between sakaguchi and akira toriyama (of dragonball and dragon quest/warrior fame). it fondly reminded me of past dragon warrior games i used to play on my nes. it was mr sakaguchi's way of showing that he didnt care that people didnt like old school style rpgs and that there was still room for them back during its prime and it did. this is just my opinion so all you flamers can go cry somewhere else but i thought lost odyssey was mediocre at best. i thought the 1000 years of dreams stories in the game were actually better than the game itself. also, lost odyssey hasnt aged gracefully as i play it again every now and then along with blue dragon. at least blue dragon has an excuse for its cutesy art style since it was a design choice but lost odyssey's visual style looks extremely dated in almost every aspect by today's standards. before you ask, yes im one of those that thought final fantasy vi (aka iii) was better than final fantasy vii, if you take into consideration how good the games were at the times of their release.

"The game was named Final Fantasy in reference to his plan to leave the industry if the project was not successful, and with the intention of being the studio's final project before it went bankrupt. "

Very interesting, never knew that, which makes sense since I'm not a big fan I never bothered to look up where the name came from :). Still I respect it as a major franchise in gaming history and I am looking forward to XV. I wonder if some real Final Fantasy fans will reply to this comment and tell me why XV isn't a true Final Fantasy game :).

That is nice to hear.

He deserves it. A shame what the company became when he was forced out solely because of ONE mistake with the Spirits Within. One failure can make a lifetime of successes null and void in the business world unfortunately.

There's a typo at the end "...Double Find Productions founder Tim Schafer" - Should be double fine*

Also, Sakaguchi has certainly earned it!

Shouldn't receive one until FF7 is remade with the FFXV engine.

That's very nice and all but it's really sad to see him wasting away his talents creating mobile phone/tablet games. I'd love to see more epic JRPG masterpieces from him again.

About time.

he got bought by MS and then by Nintendo last gen, now there is that pay to win timesink for mobile, seriously ...

FF series only distracted People from the real inovative sRPGs of the past ...

Grandia / ShiningForce / Skys of Arcadia / Wachenröder

Grandia on Saturn was better then FF.7

yes, WACHENRÖDER: /watch?v=0BEgUxUsI6Y