What Are you Playing Now & General Game Discussions

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(06-01-2023, 11:09 AM)basballguy Wrote: FF developers have taken heat in previous years for dumbing down their games and making them too linear.  Still the case?  

I think the only game that really got flak for linearity was FFXIII. Their attempt at open world with XV was kind of a mixed bag. I hope they return to a FFXII style in that while the story is fairly linear, there is plenty of opportunity for backtracking and some side questing, as well as a robust endgame. JRPGs lend themselves to linearity but between XV, 7R and XVI it looks like Squeenix is trying to transition to a more ARPG and open-world style, which is "in" nowadays. 

Some developers and games make the transition more smoothly to an open-world variant of their respective genres. God of War and Zelda come to mind.