Cute girls.
Lightning voted best character in Dengeki's otaku-driven poll
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Cute girls.
I'm not sure if I have the best perspective on this since I haven't played FFXIII-2 or Lightning Returns
but this sounds really sad. I'm guessing she -has- to have a few buch of hardcore followers after all, but who knows how many you need to win a contest like this? A hundred? A thousand?
then again, maybe I haven't and I wont because I did play XIII and found it pretty mediocre
qualitydisc
Member
Actually just got that for cheap ($53) on eBay this week (it retails for 6000 yen i think). The seller said she bought it at the Artnia store in Shinjuku. My first piece of official FFXV merchandise
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
When did Final Fantasy start being dominated by otaku? Genuine question. The change in the franchise fanbase over the years sure is something.
Sure I expected a decline, but not a significant decline like what X-III-2 and LR got.
DC1
Member
What lighting love...?
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
Welp, brace yourselves for another trilogy.
*sigh*
Oyashrio-Sama
Member
When the writing started catering to that audience?
zeopower6
Member
I'd guess the gap between Lightning and Miku was close since there were a few ties in the voting.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Jesus Japan. Come on.
FF X.(I love FF X and XIII trilogy and Im no loli otaku type of guy, I hate "sexy" pointless JRPGs with a passion).
FF X-2 is the worst joke in final fantasy history.. much worse than anything the XIII saga ever pulled off.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Well, Japan shifting demographics and Square insistence to appeal to the youth has not been kind to the franchise.
Oh god...I can already picture it.
The last crystal in the world is actually Lightning in a crystallization stage like the end of FF13.
Or remember the lore about the moon and the goddess in the trailer, and how there is a lady sleeping on the FF logo?
Probably Lightning hahahah...haha..hah...
/cry...because this is SE after all.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita a disturbing happy show.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Honestly its the inclusion of the Neptunia character that makes me blink
People like Lightning = fanbase becoming Otaku? Jeez, I hope you have something to back this up other than 'I dislike this character and I am not Otaku so people that like her must be Otaku because I am not'.
More like they became the dominate group in purchasing games in Japan. Changing FF to suit the Otaku taste is a response to Japan's contracting console market.
Frankly, I don't get where the hate comes from. And it seems weird considering when FFXIII-2 came out, people were complaining that instead of playing as Lightning they were playing as Serah. Then Lightning Returns came and suddenly people hate on her. I guess I just don't understand the 180 turn. Is it because FFXIII is overstaying its welcome? That maybe true but either way, we'll still be getting a FFXIII sequel since SE can't make a new game quickly. And of all the FFXIII characters, I'd rather play as Lightning than anyone else.
It's more like, Hey I played 10 minutes of FF XIII and saw a bunch of bandwagon internet jokes. Now I know everything about the character and I have a PHD in otaku culture.
Oh Japan.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Yep. Neptune is not a good character, at all.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I think you're taking this more seriously and generalizing more than you probably should.
djplaeskool
Member
Needs to be Noire-sama.
Great minds think a like.
I'll also take Iris Heart
It's largely not the same people. There was no 180 turn (although hatred toward the subseries has certainly been exacerbated by its long-running nature).
The audience that actually likes Lightning was annoyed when a game which looked like it had lots of Lightning did not have much Lightning.
Then when a game focused around Lightning comes out, all the more reason for people who don't like Lightning to be all "hey, I don't like Lightning."
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Lightning is like the Triple H of Final Fantasy.
Just keeps getting those massive pushes for fuck knows whatever reason.
Just keeps getting those massive pushes for fuck knows whatever reason.
ihearthawthats
Banned
Sorry if this is ot, but what kind of dog breed is this?Square and Toriyama, trolling the world:
LostOne428
Banned
OH GOD. Does this mean more games with the boring character that no one likes?
On the flip side it seems that's what you have to obtain dependable sales these days. Especially now that Japan's AAA market has tanked.
DC1
Member
Am I dreaming right?
Well.. she's much more enjoyable when playing with her Japanese voice overs.
Maybe we westerns were all thrown off by the sultry 'I don't give a f*ck' English voice cast/direction.
I know that I was incredibly surprised that Lightning's original Japanese voice over had a much wider range of emotional dialog exchange.
I even felt like she actually cared about what the heck was happening and wasn't driving purely by duty and a half backed hope....
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
When was the last Final Fantasy (or SE in general) character that people referred to as an actual goddess outside of the game? When was the last time a dominant reason for liking a character (at least express on GAF) was explicitly "I want to fuck them"? Don't push your insecurities on me. If you're not an otaku, don't explain to me why you aren't, i never called you one. But to deny that the face of the current FF fanbase isn't pandering to otaku, is crazy.
I'd take anything that mixes up the FF15 sausagefest
Boomstick (Coffee Crazy)
Banned
Not necessarily.
FFXIII was rushed and its sequels existed at all because Square Enix catastrophically misjudged their seventh-gen development plans, and Toriyama's team had to shove some lower-budget stuff out while the rest of the people put out fires.
There's a fair chance they'll move on now.
It's not that I think. That cat costume + pose + "redesign" (check the paragraph regarding the bust size and costumes) seems to imply that they are catering to the fanbase you are mentioning.
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