Dissidia Final Fantasy NT will receive its final major update on the 5th March, Square Enix has announced. Since releasing on PlayStation 4 back near the beginning of 2018, the game's enjoyed a lot of support, primarily in the form of additional DLC characters. However, it's fair to say that the title never really took off. Despite bundling so much of Final Fantasy's storied history into one flashy looking package, it was met with lukewarm reviews as well as lukewarm sales figures.
Ultimately, the Dissidia Final Fantasy NT struggled to connect with an audience outside of its hardcore players -- even after it went free-to-play last year. Clearly Square Enix doesn't think that there's enough interest here to warrant future updates, although you'll still be able to play online for the time being.
Square Enix has also said that there are currently no plans for any kind of sequel.
As for our own take on this, we just can't help but feel that Dissidia has been mismanaged as a series. The original PSP games were great but they were obviously stuck on a handheld -- and when Dissidia did finally come to home consoles, it just wasn't that good of a game. There's so much potential in a crossover Final Fantasy fighter -- maybe Square Enix should give Arc System Works a call.
[source gematsu.com]
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yeah it's sad new, i have loved Dissida NT although it was a bit bare bones but i think the issue there is it was a port of a arcade game and that limited it's scope
maybe Square Enix should give Arc System Works a call
nah otherwise it would just be another eSport fighter, it will look amazing but it will be as bare bones as other games like that such as DB FighterZ (which again looks and plays great but has bugger all in terms of content), i would rather they got Omega Force to make a Warriors style game, that would be awesome and after all they worked with KoeiTecmo on NT and Opera Omnia so it wouldn't be impossible to think they could work together again
It's cool that Square added a ton of new characters to the game, it's just a shame the game sold so poorly. I kinda wish we got another Dissidia game with a little more focus on a campaign like the PSP games.
The problem was the game they released wasnt Dissidia, it didnt play like Dissidia. They crazy battle mechanics of NT is what caused it not to catch on. I remember me and party of 4 friends eagerly downloading the Beta and being so confused and disappointed by what we got. They might have been better off just Remastering the first 2 PSP games instead.
Ι tried for about a minute and I instantly realized the combat was simply not fun for me. Had they made something like Tekken with FF characters, I'd be all over it.
@3Above they should remake 012 as it had the entirety of the first game in it anyway
Maybe because there no decent storymode thats why i loved on the PSP. 😆
@FullbringIchigo That would be incredible! Not sure why SE seems to be avoiding Remasters as of late. I still would buy FFXIII Remastered.
@3Above i think for XIII they had a deal with MS for the Backwards Compatibility program (which had remastered cutscenes and uprezed character models), that could explain why it never got a remaster if it's true
@FullbringIchigo oh wow, that's a bummer. I hope that isnt true cause that could affect alot of other games.
I'm going to be the first to admit that I didn't even give this game a chance and never intend to. The 3v3 aspect of it was such a huge turnoff and from what I hear they skimmed on features big time compared to the PSP Dissidia duodecim in favor of pushing the online. I would love to get something like similar to Duodecim again some day, that game was so incredibly packed with content and even had large amounts of stuff to do just for single player.
@3Above @3Above I was wondering why they skipped the anniversary for FF13, would have been the perfect time to announce a FF13 Remaster Trilogy.
"they were obviously stuck on a handheld" As opposed to NT, which is stuck on a console
But seriously, the main reason I never picked this game up, despite having sunk 300+ combined hours into Dissidia and 012, was because it was only on the PS4. Admittedly, if it had a decent single-player component on par with those earlier titles, I might've bitten the bullet and gotten it anyway, but even then, I still would've much preferred to play this game on a handheld than a console, if given the choice.
@FullbringIchigo - Agreed, if DBZF is anything to go by, either (or both) of your suggestions would imo be a better choice than a Final Fantasy Fighterz.
@KidBoruto Exactly. All I can hope is that maybe PS5 backwards compatible will be a thing 🤷🏾♂️
@FullbringIchigo
I agree with the idea of a remaster for PSP Dissidia on Switch, at least (also hoping the rumor of a FFVII: Legacy Edition to be true). Sadly, NT felt like another game to jump on the trending band wagon on online fighting multiplayers that didn't quite land, except for its ongoing roster of fan favorite characters (plus it didn't help that it dropped the same weekend as DBFighterz and Monster Hunter World). The story of the PSP Dissidia games was finished and NT felt like a sequel that reached out to a newer audience rather than the hardcore fans. The story of Omnia Opera was more entertaining and seems to be more focused than NT. And the "FREE-to-Pay-," uh, "Free-to-Play" aspect for console games feels like a more desperate cash grab when more DLC content will be added to the game anyway (similar to Xenoverse 2). Dissidia Final Fantasy may become another series that ended with another game being less than ideal, but here's to hope that time will change that and Square will try again, but go back to its PSP formula or another company will try their hand at it with something that will appeal to both old and new fans of the franchise.
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