Should FInal Fantasy be Sci-Fi or Medieval?

Haven't been posting in here for like forever and since I noticed that there are piles of debate threads scattered all over the first page of the board , thought I'll start something up myself :3

Well , as many of you ought to know by now , Final Fantasy was all about miniature characters , unusually large sized enemies , castles , crystals , saving the world , nutters who want to destroy the world and even more castles....Up till Final Fantasy VI anyway.
From VII onwards , things start to go...say , "Sci-Fi" , though retaining it's supernatural settings to a certain extent ( Where did all the Crystals go? )
So do you prefer Final Fantasy to be in the olden days or in it's Sci-Fi setting as it had been for some of it's series?
Or should it be a mixture of both contents?

It is supposed to be medieval. It is called Final Fantasy. Not Final Sci Fi

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Any would do. both would fit-in in the word "fantasy". As long as it would involve impossibilities, improbabilities, and other unbelievables like creatures, magic and others.Fantasy_Gamer

Mmm...Then again , Final Fantasy was far from being the Final game from Square Soft the moment it came out XD

Anyways , different people have various perception of Fantasy I suppose.

closing our mind that fantasy must always involve magic is... never mind. Another of those topics that lead to never-ending arguments.

I will love Final Fantasy for as long as it will keep its core elements. .. Of course, I will always like one game better over the other. That's just a basic truth.. That we have our own opinion, taste and preference.

closing our mind that fantasy must always involve magic is... never mind. Another of those topics that lead to never-ending arguments.

I will love Final Fantasy for as long as it will keep its core elements. .. Of course, I will always like one game better over the other. That's just a basic truth.. That we have our own opinion, taste and preference.

Fantasy_Gamer

I don't mind any setting as long as it feels unreal :lol:Poltergeist86

From the very first trailer of Final Fantasy XIII onward, I was going "What the hell?" It never looked like a Final Fantasy game. IT looked like a Phantasy Star game. If I want a Phantasy Star game I WILL PLAY FREAKING PHANTASY STAR

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closing our mind that fantasy must always involve magic is... never mind. Another of those topics that lead to never-ending arguments.

I will love Final Fantasy for as long as it will keep its core elements. .. Of course, I will always like one game better over the other. That's just a basic truth.. That we have our own opinion, taste and preference.

z827

I don't mind any setting as long as it feels unreal :lol:Poltergeist86

anything  they put their mind to

hell final fantasy could be platformer or FPS

anything  they put their mind to

hell final fantasy could be platformer or FPS

dbz987

Phantasy Star. ROFLNeoGen85

According to you, everything was better in the 16-bit era -.-magitekk

I've never even played Phantasy Star....'cept this demo on psn, I think it was Phantasy Star 2 or something. But it was cool.

I've never even played Phantasy Star....'cept this demo on psn, I think it was Phantasy Star 2 or something. But it was cool.

magitekk

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I've never even played Phantasy Star....'cept this demo on psn, I think it was Phantasy Star 2 or something. But it was cool.

valereth-1

Ah, nevermind, the thing on PSN was Phantasy Star Portable II. I guess it's not a remake...

Well, you know that a lot of old games get released on PSN. I mean, I just bought a bunch of 2-D Castlevania games.

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I've never even played Phantasy Star....'cept this demo on psn, I think it was Phantasy Star 2 or something. But it was cool.

magitekk

Ah, nevermind, the thing on PSN was Phantasy Star Portable II. I guess it's not a remake...

Well, you know that a lot of old games get released on PSN. I mean, I just bought a bunch of 2-D Castlevania games.

If FFXII has shown us anything is that it can be both sci-fi and medieval and good at both.Fenian_lostsoul

I prefer the medieval theme, which is why I was like "wait, is this really a FF game" after putting a few hours to FFXIII.

Putting a few sci-fi elements to the medieval theme would be nice though :)

As far as I know, just about every FF in the main series has had some type of sci-fi in it, even FFII. It had that Dreadnaught thing.magitekk

I prefer the medieval theme, which is why I was like "wait, is this really a FF game" after putting a few hours to FFXIII.

 

tekken220

I did the exact same thing from the first time I SAW the game. I went "Wait...how the hell is this Final Fantasy? It does not look like Final Fantasy."

Definitely medieval. I have never liked sci-fi all that much and, while a few elements of sci-fi fits comfortably into a Final Fantasy game, it feels a lot more foreign when they take it as far as they did with FFXIII. That's one of the main reasons that I did not get that into FFXIII...I felt that they abandoned the previous feel of the games.siberian142

I liked everything in X. I think it was a good balance of both, although I think it had a touch more medieval in it, and more so modern-tribal if you know what i mean, than medieval. Unless we have two different understandings of the word 'Medieval'.mr_bri9htside

FFX's setting always came off to me as a mythical kind of utopia-ish...thingamahjig.

Though I haven't played the game, when my cousin did and I watched him I don't think I saw a single castle, knight, or anything of the like.

FFIV is a prime example if Final Fantasy being fantasy and not sci fi.valereth-1

Yes, FFIV was very fantastic; but I recall mentioning the Tower of Babil, the Giant of Babil, and the Lunar Whale. All very anti-fantasy, sci-fi places that were very out of place.

Given the history of Final Fantasy, it was not out of place. It has always had some science fiction elements. Those 3 things are no where near enough to earn it a science fiction label. It is fantasy through and through

The Giant of Babil is veyr fantasy, though. I mean giant stone structure coming to life? Never heard that  before

magic or magick is sci-fi, though too many sci-fi elements can get a bit much if you dont do it right...FFVII ws amazing, the best game iv ever played, they did it rite, FFXIII is wrong...A_Fading_Scream

I lol'd, because people who love FFVII tend to love FFXIII also. Afterall, Cacoon = Midgar on so many f***in' levels.

Medieval =/= fantasy. Just sayin'.Yonathin3155

And Final Fantasy 1 was prehistoric. From what I saw you battle dinosaurs!SuperfastSonic

Oh. You could fight FFVI as well

[QUOTE="SuperfastSonic"]And Final Fantasy 1 was prehistoric. From what I saw you battle dinosaurs!valereth-1

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[QUOTE="SuperfastSonic"]And Final Fantasy 1 was prehistoric. From what I saw you battle dinosaurs!SuperfastSonic

I think if they made it into a medieval setting (i.e. castles, villages) with a hint f sci-fi (i.e. weapons, enemies) it would be great, or like a medieval setting with sci-fi enemies. And it would be like ff1-6 (top down, 2-D or 2.5-D) with the ATB system and include the 4 crystals of light.KillamanCarney

lol u learn something new everyday... ff7 is sci-fi? really?

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....yeeeeah?

...he should have created a poll...

But anyway i prefer medieval anyday, i just like it more, and not because of the nes and snes ffs, im too young to have played them as a kid...