Would you like to see another love-based Final Fantasy?

I mean, i think FFVIII, a Final Fantasy with Love as the main theme, was a whole new approach by Square and the results are really good. Some previous and recent FFs tried to emphasize on love, but didn't seem to be able to portray the love story as well as FFVIII, in which the logo obiviously depicts the main theme of the game. FFIX was ok, and FFX forced a love story inside. The love story's just no good, unless it is a purely "Love-ly" story, ya?

Should Square try out another Love-based Final Fantasy? I think they should.

Yes, just as long as your guy doesn't act like some just-hit-puberty-first-crush guy again.   liquid_s

Who is that supposed to be? lol

[QUOTE="liquid_s"]Yes, just as long as your guy doesn't act like some just-hit-puberty-first-crush guy again. Spurs_Fan

Who is that supposed to be? lol

here they are:

ff1- romantic relationship between white m. and black m.

ff2- from what ive played, none at all

ff3- maybe

ffiv- cecil and rosa, this was nice, i guess kain fits in there too.

ffv- bartz and reina but its really little.

ffvi- celes and locke, nice as well but i dont think it happens in the end.

ffvii- cloud, tifa and aeris. i honestly didnt like this one much. it started the anti- tifa and aeris groups.

fviii- my favourite love story, squall and rinoa with a bit of eyes on me. cryed at the end lol

ffix- zidane and garnet, very predictable and original but thats what is good about it.

ffx- i really like this one. poor yuna.

I think another FF game with a love story would be great. I always like it when there is a love story. It's the romance parts in FF that are one of the best, I guess that's why FFVIII is one of my favourites and Rinoa is my favourite female character (and should be healed lots in the Hurt/Heal game - Just type "Heal Rinoa x2." in your post).
thorpe1988

This is starting to become the craziest thing I was ever involved in, outside of that whole TOS thing, ya? :wink:

However, I think that almost every RPG uses love as a story point, it helps the characters connect and grow, it helps us have some sort of relationship with them through our own experiences with love, and our dreams of true love. I think FFVIII captured the most realistic persective on love and used this element more so than any other FF, if not more than most any other game out there. I also though, am not a fan of FFVIII. What seemed to be the plot was really secondary to the love between the characters, the relationships they formed, and I was upset when everything resolved the way it did. However, I do think Square should try to use love again, but this time in a fashion that strengths and expands the story rather than crushing the life out of it.

yup. FFVIII has the best love story in the series. FFVII kinda dealt with a pre-school love triangle, and FFX's was just, FORCED inside the whole plot. I'd like to see one that's more like FFVIII plus FFT. "Politics" + Love, it just makes the game more mature and beautiful. I can tell FFXII was made to look like "politics+love", but it just isn't good enough. I think Sakaguchi and Nomura working together will produce the greatest FF. Sakaguchi on the main plot side, and Nomura on the Love side. But, i think such an FF will consist of a game lasting for at least 100 hours, lol.

Since such a combination is fairly impossible, i'd rather see a more Love-ly Final Fantasy. :)

I m really sick n tired of all da love ff games it was cool but now its just getting old ...i think they should focus on REVENGE in the next ff games insted of love :P but yea thats just my take on it .... crimson_playa

i think this is a briljant idea!!!!

I think the next FF should be about a gay guy who is on a never ending quest to save his girl friend :PSpurs_Fan

I was joking :P. I was being that guy on the tv show Drawn Together lol

Anyway back on topic :lol:

I was joking :P. I was being that guy on the tv show Drawn Together lol

Anyway back on topic :lol:

Spurs_Fan

Well, you may have been joking, but you never really know. They have done some serious hinting in the past at characters possibly being homosexual, and you never know when they will just straight up do it that way and not put in that moment were you find out they are not really gay, and instead confirm that it is true.

I think there is such a guy in FFXII. Not homosexual. But, it makes you think he should be biting a stalk of rose.

Here's a picture of him: http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d173/snokosnojo/Final%20Fantasy/Final%20Dream%20Union%20Materia/elcid1.jpg

And his name is El Cid. So, there was all this talk about "Wow! This is the BEST Cid in all the FFs i've ever seen!" :lol:

yup, he came a long way to look that way ^^..lol. maybe, SE thought they should have an unique Cid since they had too many of them like "men". :lol:

yup, he came a long way to look that way ^^..lol. maybe, SE thought they should have an unique Cid since they had too many of them like "men". :lol:

kinetic-core

blame the character designer for making the characters look stereotypically gay.

aka vaan, baltheir, el cid

vaan looks like every other average japanese male teenager. I wouldn't call him a guy with gay features. Maybe, because i'm an asian too, and that all other asian MALE teens do look like vaan, and normal it is, i think. I'm used to seeing guys like that, i suppose. Balthier is definitely more "manly" than anyone if you wanna say anything. His voice, actions and design shows nothing about him being gay, if you ask me. :)kinetic-core

not the looks, the clothes, theyre disgusting, you wouldnt see me wearing them. i thought asian people had dark hair.

[QUOTE="kinetic-core"]vaan looks like every other average japanese male teenager. I wouldn't call him a guy with gay features. Maybe, because i'm an asian too, and that all other asian MALE teens do look like vaan, and normal it is, i think. I'm used to seeing guys like that, i suppose. Balthier is definitely more "manly" than anyone if you wanna say anything. His voice, actions and design shows nothing about him being gay, if you ask me. :)jordina

not the looks, the clothes, theyre disgusting, you wouldnt see me wearing them. i thought asian people had dark hair.

The clothing of a character is an intersting point to bring up, but one that must be considered on more than just initial appearances. While some costumes are indeed very odd and sometimes not the most attractive, you have to look at them in terms of the character. Where that characters is from? What that character does for a living? What the character may have been doing at the time? These factors can easily help justify certain things. For example Wakka in FFX wears clothing that I myself would never wear, and would find odd most of the time in general, but he is from an island with tropical weather. His clothing is a mixture of Jamaican and Pacific Islander, and so while it may be odd, it was designed to complement his character while maintaining a unique feel. A character like Vaan is also from a somewhat warmer climate, his garb is somewhat pirate-like in appearance, and so his character is once again brough out by this. Now it is true that Vaan does appear to be somewhat androgynous, honestly so do many young asian males I know anyway. A friend of mine Ken, gets mistaken, or used to before he finally cut his hair, as a girl simply because he was thin, and had the rather typical kind asian features making it hard to tell right away. Vaan clothing may compact that a bit, but honestly they had a goal in mind with the design and they achieved that I think.

Talking about the hair... I don't see anyone combing a hairstyle similar to wakka's either. I'm just saying the features the characters hold are formed with East Asian looks as their very base, most of the time. Except for Ashe, who was based off a French woman and was given Asian features for the gamers in Japan. I know you hardly see some guy with thin fingers like cloud's or tidus', and maybe you would say barret looks normal because he has the average build of a western guy and on that point, big fingers. To us girls here, Barret seems a little fat. lol.

What i'm trying to say is, how the designers' concept vary with the western gamers' opinions, is actually all because of cultural differences. It's the same thing with Brother falling in love with his cousin Yuna. Western gamers find it absolutely repulsive, but East Asian gamers know it is absolutely fine that something like this appear in a game, or in real life. :)

Certainly, a love story with an action-intensive plot would be really nice. A love story built around revenge and such, it'll just be the FF of the century. I wonder if something like this would be produced. :)

And, i hope someone actually understood what i was saying. Cultural differences may make it hard for you to understand me too. lol.

I think there is a certain amount of romance needed in any final fantasy, Romance is basically what the series has been based apon, In one way or anotherthe_unbroken

I don't know about that. Really it was minor in FF, and FFIII, but you played as a group of people that didn't really even has starting names. In FFVII I think you lose the love story aspect as soon as Aeris dies really, they just drop it for the most part. I mean obviously there is something between Tifa and Cloud, but they never really go there. I won't say that it isn't in each game in some way, but it isn't always even important.

i would want something different now, i said NOW. * acts like spoilt brat*

i do want something different though.

do you dudes agree.

i said dude didnt i.

i meant guys. gs is turning me american.

i said dude didnt i.

i meant guys. gs is turning me american.

jordina

[QUOTE="jordina"]

i said dude didnt i.

i meant guys. gs is turning me american.

shn_mrtn

i kind of agree, its a good thing im half scottish. english is alright but american people seem more relaxed and nicer and way more socialble.

[QUOTE="shn_mrtn"][QUOTE="jordina"]

i said dude didnt i.

i meant guys. gs is turning me american.

jordina

i kind of agree, its a good thing im half scottish. english is alright but american people seem more relaxed and nicer and way more socialble.

[QUOTE="jordina"][QUOTE="shn_mrtn"][QUOTE="jordina"]

i said dude didnt i.

i meant guys. gs is turning me american.

shn_mrtn

i kind of agree, its a good thing im half scottish. english is alright but american people seem more relaxed and nicer and way more socialble.

lol, ive seen this extreme makeover programme and they seem very socialble. i guess you could be right about LA, thats where rich people live i think.

[QUOTE="shn_mrtn"][QUOTE="jordina"][QUOTE="shn_mrtn"][QUOTE="jordina"]

i said dude didnt i.

i meant guys. gs is turning me american.

jordina

i kind of agree, its a good thing im half scottish. english is alright but american people seem more relaxed and nicer and way more socialble.

lol, ive seen this extreme makeover programme and they seem very socialble. i guess you could be right about LA, thats where rich people live i think.