I've played Final Fantasy 7, 9 and 12.
I really connected with the world of FF7; you start in Midgar which is this dirty-ass slum district made of old machine parts. It's all smokey and broken, people live in wrecked busses and vans, the church roof's fell through,there are 7 power plant reactors, best of all there's a big industrial steel cieling to this city, so there's no sun. It's all very mechanical, there's no mages or moogles, instead of an evil league of lords n princes they've got the Shinra corporation, Barret has a gun for a hand, he lives in a basement under a bar etc etc.
 
I love that aesthetic; but I hate what is basically the absolute opposite of that in 12. All this fantasy wizard bollocks goes right over my head. It'd be a shame for em to try another miserable urban FF now that everyone's doing post-apocolyptic wasteland games, but still..
 
Anyone else want them to make another ghetto-ass FF game? I'm so not interested in 13.

The word you're looking for is "Cyberpunk".
 
And you should try Lost Odyssey. It is generally agreed upon that it is the game Final Fantasy XII should have been.

I don't know, "cyberpunk" to me sounds too futuristic. Like that sounds like 20XX Tokyo to me.
 
and Lost Odyssey is far too regal for me to actually like.

"   All this fantasy wizard bollocks goes right over my head.  "

i think ff versus 13 in going to have that kind of aesthetic, we´ll see, i hope this will be good