Holy Necron with this thread! (This being funny because Holy is both a spell in the series and Necron is the final boss of IX. It's a double play on words, which already makes me a better writer than almost anyone working on the series currently).
Anyway, I would like any of the following:
- A Final Fantasy Tactics style game.
- A return to old-school classic turn based FF
- Improve upon the real-time system of XV. Better camera, companion AI that isn't moronic, and a greater degree of challenge that doesn't allow for item spamming would be be good.
I think if the XIII debacle showed anything, it's that an ATB system doesn't really work in the modern context. It had its place back when there wasn't the graphical capacity to do real time combat well, but when continuing to do turn based combat would have felt repetitious. However, nowadays it just sits in this uncomfortable middle between real time action and actual strategy.
And this is a total pipe-dream, but I'd like them to hand off some of the creative and story direction to someone else, possible a western developer who actually knows how to write a good story and compelling characters. The recent stories in the series have either been garbage (XIII), or rushed and chopped up to the point they are incomprehensible (XV). A Final Fantasy game with combat built by the Japanese studio, but with a story and art direction by, say, CD Projekt or Obsidian could be really, really awesome.
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