Is Final Fantasy XV a low-key failure?

I'm still playing 20+ year old games. The number of people talking about a game means jack to me.

leaon79s
You know what? If that is your point of view, then you're right. Doesn't matter what the subject is.

Oh it is still there. I mentioned Dark Souls because the first game still gets mentioned here and there, just like Persona 4, Resonance of Fate/End of Eternity, and a couple of years ago Folklore was mentioned here and there. FFVII and IX are often remembered too.

As an aggravating factor, I was browsing the play store when I noticed that one companion game (for FFXV) for Android had been terminated, and along with reports that the companion movie was problematic, I get this feeling that any success on it is more "artificial" than anything.

spidershinobi - This week I saw an article about The Witcher 3 and took some time to realize it is already a 2 years-old game that people are still celebrating. The Dead End Thrills website is still releasing new ultra-high-res screenshots for it, so it is still used as a graphics high-point; another article was discussing Mass Effect Andromeda's terrible facial animation, and people in the comments were pointing that The Witcher 3's animations were infinitely better without the developers ever using motion capture.

My point is: you're right. People keep talking about great games for years, and these games can be paragons of quality for a long time; Final Fantasy was a series that was always among those games, but not anymore: there's no blurb about FF XV anywhere. I think people spent much more time examining FF XIII's successes and failures than XV's, and XIII is generally known as an average game at best. That's not to say FF XV was a bad game (most reviews praised it), but it is far from being a cultural phenomenon as The Witcher or Dark Souls are nowadays.

By the way, you're talking about GTA V being forgotten, but it is consistently in Steam's top 10 sellers almost every week, so FFXV is not even on that same level.

(I dare to say the last big Final Fantasy (that is, as a game that moved a huge number of console sales and people kept talking good things about for years) was FF X.)

Nier is the new cultural phenomenon!!

It is weird because out of most people I know that had "finished" both, The Wither III and Final Fantasy XV, 100% say Final Fantasy XV is a far superior experience. However they don't praise it as let's say the entire Dark Souls series that they all consider simply as the best of the best.

On the other hand I feel that people that have played The Witcher III and has no interest or intention n "finishing" Final Fantasy XV, Bloodborne, or Dark Souls III, are very vocal about their love to The Witcher III regardless that they can't compare it to something else they yet have to experience all the way through.

They are very diferent games so that approach makes perfect sense. You make a good point about CD Projekt RED, they indeed deserve the praising. I heard the Polish nation is helping out in founding Cyberpunk 2077. To me it is very interesting to know what would happen 7 years or so before the end.