I think the word Final was added so as to add more substance to the game title. If it had been named as only Fantasy then the appealing element would have considerably declined.
As far as the numbering is concerned, we all know that Final Fantasy games are a series and any series has to start with number 1 irrespective of where it ends.
Final Fantasy I was just a start of a big era of gaming genre. The word Final does complete justice to the title of the game and makes it more engrossing.
One thing I must admit is that your question was really good and innovative. Only n imaginative mind could think and question so deep.
As far as the numbering is concerned, we all know that Final Fantasy games are a series and any series has to start with number 1 irrespective of where it ends.
Final Fantasy I was just a start of a big era of gaming genre. The word Final does complete justice to the title of the game and makes it more engrossing.
One thing I must admit is that your question was really good and innovative. Only n imaginative mind could think and question so deep.
Possibly the name simply sounds cool. Of course, though, even with the coolness, the name still has a descriptive quality minus the final part of it. Obviously, there is no final anything that I know of - except maybe when you finish the game. However, I could be looking into this too deeply. Any thoughts?
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree a bit on this. I don't think that the makers of the game had predecided about launching a complete series. If it had been so, then they would not have added the word Final. It is only after the success of the first that the next editions came up. All they could then do was to add numbers in front of the original game.
Hironobu Sakaguchi has more officially said that it could have been any "F" name and it would have worked. But, had Final Fantasy not done well, it could have been his last game before quitting the game industry and Square was under the threat of bankruptcy. So, even if neither of those two situations had any direct effect on the game's name, it's still fitting.
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It was started as the RPG game with the fantasy theme. And it was created in a series of game. Most of the series games have no relation with each other. Some have tangent story. And it makes you wonder if it's even worth going random. But the way series developed and had some common threads. You'd find that it was named the way it is developed on the basis of it's elements in the game.
I think the bigger reason for the title(Final Fantasy)although nobody quite knows for sure they say-is that Square was going bankrupt and this game called Final Fantasy was going to be the last hurrah for the game company. It was true that Sakaguchi was going to quit Square and go back to college though and make one final game before he left-but I am not sure that was the real reason after all ?
I think this fact explains why the word "Final" was used on the game title. If the game was not a success, it would have been Square's final game before the company close. The word Final has a good appeal (if not great) to gamers. This is also commonly used in other industries like movie titles. If it was a different word, it may not have been that successful.
