Has Final Fantasy jumped the shark?

[yomomma1]

Excuse me for my ignorance but what does "jumped the shark" mean?

Making something up not related to anything in the story to try and draw viewers or grow in popularity.

This is also used to say something has gone of course.

[dlmvii]

Also this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jm6B31HKBw

[Veno]

I don't think the industry is going down hill, just having a little bit of down time.
Remember that video game crash of 1980 or so? Something like that to a way lesser extent. Even after that huge crash, the industry got back on it's feet and started picking it's pieces back up, and we had great years, with 2007 probably being the most recent.

I think the industry needs some down time like this to get developers to take advantage of it, making them think,"What can we do that'll wow them, to break away from the typical these days."

1983, 1984. The industry did not get back on it's feet, nintendo made new feet.

Well, if you put it that way, fast forward to the 1990s, and that's when the Playstation, and I think the Dreamcast, started to get established. But I think the Dreamcast came out 2000, or maybe in the 1990s.....anyway, that's when great things started happening again.

[winds]

I really really hope that "imput" from the OP was a typo...

[yomomma1]

@ Veno... So anything from 1985-1995 Didn't do great things? Also Dreamcast 9 9 99

[AppleQueso]

One thing's for certain, the series hardly resembles Final Fantasy anymore. Uematsu doesn't even write music for the series anymore for crying out loud...

XII was a different game that got lots of flack from the fans, but weirdly it felt more like a Final Fantasy game to me than even X did.

I don't know if I'd say it "jumped the shark" though. When I think of game franchises that have "jumped the shark", I think of Silent Hill or Sonic The Hedgehog.

[Veno]

@ Veno... So anything from 1985-1995 Didn't do great things? Also Dreamcast 9 9 99

Well, not exactly, but I was just using some examples I knew about. I came in 1994, when the Playstation came out I think.

[yomomma1]

@ Veno... So anything from 1985-1995 Didn't do great things? Also Dreamcast 9 9 99

Well, not exactly, but I was just using some examples I knew about. I came in 1994, when the Playstation came out I think.

Ughh I need to stop doing this. If you were not in japan, it came out in 95.

a bunch of good games came out before that.

[Veno]

Yeah, I know, just can't think of them on the spot. I definitely know great games came before I was born.
Hell, I played Final Fantasy's 1, 2, and 3 from the NES before I played Dawn of Souls on the GBA. I found roms that had some fan english translation or something, but I just could not for the love of me make it to the end of the game, so I moved on to Dawn of Souls.

[Dylan]

I don't know if I'd say it "jumped the shark" though. When I think of game franchises that have "jumped the shark", I think of Silent Hill or Sonic The Hedgehog.

I think this is a good point. I think I'd say that Final Fantasy is more having an identity crisis than jumping the shark (similar, but not quite the same).

Final Fantasy has always kind of been out there, though.