Series reboot.
Calling it now.

@Jon B If this is a reboot I don't see a reason to call it a different thing...Final Fantasy kinda reboots its self with every game (some with less-than-desireable results)

Im thinking its just another side game ala Tactics...
Calling it now

@Jon B If this is a reboot I don't see a reason to call it a different thing...Final Fantasy kinda reboots its self with every game (some with less-than-desirable results)

Im thinking its just another side game ala Tactics...
Calling it now

can't they just finish the god damn games they've already announced? Square doesn't make games, they announce them.

Yay my first double post!
I mean boo my first double post!

It's a transfusion of a action rpg and a strategy game . Then it goes into shock

I think this is probably just a typ0.

tactics style game on the 360. Wanting it now.

@AppleSoda
I'm just going primarily on their comments that Final Fantasy had dropped below the bar of quality that people expect (usually meaning reboot time) and this name "Type 0" represents the start of something, hence, zero.
It would also make sense to have a premier team working on redefining the series, so you get a solid rebooted entry.

Of course, there's no telling what it will actually be.

final fantasy type-0.....negative? main character loosely based on the life and times of frontman peter steele

I can tell you what its not. A Chrono Trigger sequel or Final Fantasy 7 remake

tl;dr - things fans actually fucking want.

SephirothX - he said things - that make sense.

My guess is a reboot of some kind also. Although I can't imagine which one. It obviously won't be FF7 (awesome as that would be). And I kinda hope it won't be Chrono Trigger.

Perhaps they're remaking the classics? Like FF6. Which would be god damn amazing.

final fantays

"What is Final Fantasy Type-0?"

"A miserable little pile of cheap cash-in"

If it's a reboot, it better damn well be a good one.

Not that we'll see shit until 2012 at the earliest, odds are.

I'm guessing a collection of FF related mini-games for the Wii. With such exciting mini games such as "Cook that Chocobo" and the ever so fun point and click mystery hunt, "Who the hell killed Aeris?"

Oh Japan, your obsession with blood cell surface proteins never ceases to amaze.

This probably is a reboot and I would completely embrace that. Final Fantasy is in dire need of some help after this year.

It's the game that donates blood when when the other games are low.

Hooray! It's either their 1 millionth handheld 'Final Fantasy' game or the announcement of 'Final Fantasy XV'... which will be released in 2015... expect delays though so maybe 2017... alright, you've waited this long so why not wait until the next decade? Spring 2020 release... for Japan. North America and Europe will get a later release date... soon... Hooray!

I hope they announce a "Final Fantasy" PS3 collection at this conference instead of a new game. I'm glad their announcement at Jump Festa was a port of 'Final Fantasy IV' and its sequel to the PSP. Just complete the friggin' games you started developing before announcing new ones!

It must be a Typo ;}

It is clearly the Final Fantasy game that can safely give blood to all of the other Final Fantasy games.

Perhaps a game based on the Origins of the Crystals usually seen in Final Fantasy.

I predict even more elaborate, feathered hair styles.

ಠ_ಠ

@ Dexter345;

LOL.

Hang on...Type Zero...



...holy crap. Is Square making a Patlabor RPG? If so, first day purchase. O_O

Shouldn't they at least put out the other Final Fantasy games before deciding to make new ones? We still have to go through Versus XIII and Agito XIII. Plus they have one on the 3DS in the making (or maybe this could be it). Give it a rest. Do something the fans want for once, then go back to your Fantasies.

Why would they need to reboot Final Fantasy more than they do anyway? And reboot it as what?

This site gives Final Fantasy XIII a lot of unnecessary hate. You all need to chill a bit. I'm pretty sure that most of the 5.5 million people who bought it enjoyed it, myself included. Sure, they stumbled a bit on Final Fantasy XIV but they'll learn from those mistakes, fix them and by mid next year have what I am confident will be one of the best MMOs out there. Just because it's not VI doesn't mean it sucks.

I bet it's going to be a shmup. Final Fantasy Einhander? :D

^ Now THAT would be awesome :)

I don't care.

"I really don't think Final Fantasy should have been made after Sakaguchi-san left the company." - Nobuo Uematsu

I'm starting to agree.

predicted jim sterling review score

Ugh, please no FF7 remakes.

just release Parasite Eve Archives, Chrono Cross/Trigger for PSN and i'll be happy ^^

@Dv8thwonder why did you even post in this thread? jeez

@TheWretchedCrow

HEY.

how about they just call it "the final fantasy" and hand it off to a western developer that'll give it moral choices and deep character interaction. that'd be a great way to start this whole thing over.

^ Because Final Fantasy fans don't want to play Mass Effect. We want good stories and beautiful environments, not a tacky morality system with no effect on the plot other than probably to weaken it.

^ Does "good stories" mean "Use the same exact angst-ridden characters with the same exact hairdo's going on the same exact quest 15 games in a row?" Does "good stories" mean the character depth of a rock? Let's not even talk about the 20-year old outdated gameplay mechanics--let's focus on the story. To each their own, but let's not lie about the depth of Final Fantasy, eh?

Nice avatar, by the way. It's fitting.

Eh, another Final Fantasy? Heh, sure.

I love the series but shit's gotta grow up or do something more than angsty manboygirl fights angsty girlmanboy for control of the love of the moon.

^
Angst-ridden? Maybe in Final Fantasy VII and VIII. They got over that pretty fast. And then only one character apiece. On disc 1. If you refer to the main quest, then each one is different, or at least as different as every other game is from it's peers. If you refer to subquests, they come up with new ones in each game. If you want me to explain why any character in the Final Fantasy series is deep and well-developed then name one, and I will.

The '20-year old gameplay mechanics' that have changed with every game since the series began, hm? I'll criticize Call of Duty, then, for using the same gameplay mechanics of Unreal Tournament 1. The battle systems of Final Fantasy have always been deep and strategic, even if some have been less well designed than others. Final Fantasy fans like them that way. We don't want shooter or hack and slash gameplay.

The depth of the series is immense.

@hyakushiki1234

Sorry dude, but you don't speak for the fans that have stuck with the series and expected it to actually MATURE sometime over the years. I've played since FF since elementary school, and the height of the series gameplay wise I think, was XII (even though the story sucked). XIII pretty much has been the worst FF I've played gameplay wise after all these years. I see nothing deep or strategic about hoping the enemy doesn't randomly one shot your main character, before you have time to throw up buffs, or get a taunt in. And if for some reason you can explain how GoGo from VI is deep and well-developed, you get a cookie. :)

If this is a reboot that gives me a main character in the prime of his or her life, with a realistic attitude about the world, then count me in. I'm sick of the new games turning all the heroes into cliche anime characters.

Dimethyle bromide, open your eyes. Stop buying the 1-ply toilet paper. Shit's still angsty. Manboygirl vs girlmanboy is still there. Fighting over control of the love of the moon is still a thing. Its pretty. its ridiculous. Its Final Fantasy.

Another mediocre spinoff

Final Fantasy shooter

Reboot. Like going back to the roots. 16 bit style.

WILD SPECULATION!

It's final fantasy meets tru blood (or more possibly twilight)

@batthink oh if it's that then day one purchase for me instant buy. Patlabor I loved that anime

Maybe it's just a TYPO!

@Phones

HEY.

I just hope they'll bring back the absolutely fantastic Final Fantasy V/Blue Dragon class system. Positively fantastic. (Mistwalker was responsible for Blue Dragon, by the by. A shame that it was so easily forgotten, and not even mentioned in the same breath as Lost Odyssey.)