HA HA HA HA HA

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132273-Lightning-Could-Appear-in-Future-Final-Fantasys
Lightning may return in future FF games

 

How delusional can Toriyama be

 

i havent even played xiii yet and im already sick of her

 

Considering that whole FF committee thing, I could definitely see Toriyama trying to push for a few cameos in later games. But hopefully the directors will ignore his suggestions about her and just do their own thing. Or Toriyama stops having an embarrassingly raging hard on for her. Hopefully both.

 

Well, we at least know there's a 10000000000000% chance she's in the next Kingdom Hearts game. I'm betting that she's gonna a super boss in FFXV.

 

Well if people would stop liking XIII then tHIS SHIT WOULDN'T HAPPEN /brick'd

 

I'm fairly sure she'll appear in a KH game of some description. KH3 is a good bet

 

Don't be silly, obviously if some people don't like FF13 nobody likes it and it's actually a massive failure and hasn't sold millions of units. Some guy from Japan likes Lightning and that's the ONLY reason FF13 has a trilogy

 

See, you've nailed Toriyama down in one sentence.

 

As much as I love Lightning Farron, my beautiful pink-haired angel...

She needs to retire.

 

Yes, but the real question is will she be the main character, or a Roxas style introduction character

 

Wasn't there a poll in Japan about people's favorite Final Fantasy character, and Lightning won first? And then like last year, it was Yuna who won first? Which kinda means that the poll is pointless because it's always the newest released game that wins?

 

Lightning won once, and was beaten by Tifa once and Yuna once, to my recollection, but she was always pretty high up there. A lot of people love Lightning, and it's not just localized to Japan. Heck, on this very site a while back a bunch of people got aggressive over me saying Lightning was a boring character.
It may be cool to hate Lightning now, but she definitely has plenty of fans floating out there

 

But I don't get how the developers are taking that kind of stuff seriously for games...

 

Well it's not JUST that though. I mean, I'm pretty certain a big factor is the sales. FF13 isn't the best selling FF, FF7 and FF10 beat it, but it's no slouch, and beats a lot of the non-groundbreaking FFs. Then 13-2 sold pretty great too, considering it was a low budget sequel.
The entire FF13 series currently weighs in at about 11 million sales, and there are no stats for Lightning Returns.
The original FF13 had some pretty huge scores from notable reviewers, too, and they backed themselves into a corner with 13-2 by having an actual cliff hanger.
The games also seem to be direct answers to criticisms. 13-2 is less linear, more fun/lighthearted, but people complained that Lightning appeared on the cover, yet hardly appeared in the game. Lightning Returns brings her back. Combat got more and more involved.
Obviously there were a lot of factors we'll never know about, but yeah, there was plenty of precedent, I'd say

 

Because people will buy things if their favorite character is in it.
That's how things have ALWAYS worked.

 

Do you think it's worth it beating XIII just so that I can play XIII-2? Just to get the story?

Because XIII's combat system seems great with the paradigm shifts and all, but it was poorly executed in XIII. XIII-2 seems like it did a better job of it.

 

13-2 is completely irrelevant to the original, you don't really need to beat 13 to play it