Final Fantasy XIII-2 X Mass Effect Collaboration In The Works

 Tali? Mmmm Yummy.

It’s best fitting for Sarah since Tali’s the only innocent crew member on the Normandy (aside from that girl that very much loves everything).

I’d rather a new RPG by Tri-Ace personally.

A third Valkyrie Profile, a second Resonance of Fate, a fifth Star Ocean.
But that’s me.

Noel: …and this is my favorite store on Academia.

That might be why.

They want specifically different flavors, and when an exotic flavor decides to attempt desperately to appeal to it’s perceived conception of what they believe is enjoyed in another country, well… It taints the result and makes the product lose it’s identity.

It hasn’t exactly happened yet to Final Fantasy (although the taste has altered quite a bit in recent ages). But with various other companies creating less then absolutely delicious results… There is space for worry.

But that’s just me guessing as to one possible reason.

No opinion is ever official

Sensationalize much? Do you live in Japan? Those coca cola commercials (that are almost ancient history now) were only aired in Japan. Zero impact on western gamers and the western perception of the series. Non issue.

Nobody is giving any credence to the declaration that Bioware is the only company making “Real” RPGs. It’s a silly assertion and should be disregarded. As someone else noted, JRPGs and WRPGs are completely different beasts and I wouldn’t want a gaming landscape that didn’t have both. This isn’t Highlander.

Sidenote, 13-2 is doing just fine, it debuted at number one, and sold well over 2 million units now, not bad considering it’s a sequel to a game that divided their fanbase. Square Enix is finally turning a profit, they’re financing games like Deux Ex that are great contributions to the RPG genre.

That said, the FF franchise isn’t dead, but it is deserving of some breathing room. Yearly releases cause franchise fatigue, take a note from Call of Duty Square.. I don’t want to hear the words final fantasy until Final Fantasy Versus is released.

If you’re upset by the DLC releases for 13-2, direct your anger at the industry. Every publisher is guilty of this right now.

I wrote a rude reply and then I changed my mind about it. You are writing from nothing but opinion. You for some reason have a hate-on for FF and you’re using generalised, half-formed ideas to get your point across.

In what way is attaching anything to anything insulting to anything? You don’t make any sense. You don’t give any reason why ME3 should be ‘insulted’ to be attached to one of the biggest-selling franchises of all time. You don’t give any reason why ME3 should be ‘insulted’ to be attached to a game that has debuted very strongly, and topped charts world-wide. You give no evidence to support your argument that this is a ‘sad attempt to leech’. You have nothing to back up your assertion that SE’s approach is ‘embarrassing’. You connect Coca-Cola/FFIX – a corporate endorsement of a video game by an outside company – with ME3/FFXIII-2 – a cross-developer design-based collaboration – with seemingly no understanding of how fundamentally different these events are.

I almost feel like I’ve wasted my time replying. Your points are so half-assed and badly-formed that they don’t even really deserve anyone spending their time pointing it out. I’m no fanboy, and I’ll be the first to admit when something’s gone wrong, and I’ll certainly stand up and say if I think SE is past it or failing its fans (it’s not, but that’s irrelevant to this argument). What I won’t do is let people who shout nonsense with no means of supporting their own argument be the only voice that is heard.

 I am a huge supporter of the japanese gaming industry (a fancy way to say I’m a huge otaku :P), but that doesn’t necessarily mean I hate anything from the west.

Actually, I prefer that SE keeps trying to cater to the westerners with DLC collabs like this rather than changing the way their games look and feel. At least like this they’ll keep doing what they always did, and these additional and totally unnecessary, optional bits of DLC will try to cater to new audiences.

“Instead of changing the way I’m cooking my food, I’m just giving you a salt and pepper flask, so you can temper my food with it; perhaps you’d like it better.!”

they’ve already went on record in saying that their brand name is damaged, so I’m assuming they think they can only go up from there. . . I also assume they are using this as an attempt to merge audiences; which again, comes off as a cheap attempt to westernize Final Fantasy.

and before I get the inevitable “you think “J”RPGs are better!” line; I don’t even think that for a second, they both can be good and suck equally.

 Ever since Square Enix got infected with all kinds of diseases, Square Enix gone rogue…

One notable is “When making money in the west, do as the westerners do..”

to be perfectly honest, I have no idea.

My best guess is that this was done in an attempt to lay the ground work for some other crossover materials or in-game items down the line. Or an actual game, though only time can tell.

Japanese made WRPGs:

Wizardry
Demons’ Souls
Dark Souls
Trinity Souls