Do you plan to cut ties with KH after KH3?

[Wallflower3582]

Nope. I'll play these for as long as they keep coming out.

Also, it doesn't really make sense to commit to quitting the series after 3 if it's still going strong. What if the first game of the next saga comes out 16 years from now and it's getting perfects reviews across the board and its named GotY and somebody's all like "nope me and KH broke up after 3 came out"? Besides, i doubt Nomura is gonna leave us with all the loose ends tied up here. If you quit after 3 those lingering questions will haunt you to your grave.

 

[shady543]

Eh considering kh4 will most likely follow the KHX story, my passion for the series will definitely drop since I don't like KHX at all. However KH3 I can already tell I will be playing it continuously and I will still play all the future games until my grave regardless.

 

[Phantom]

I'll be looking forward to the next saga as well. I think I'd only quit if there was a drastic change in gameplay or drop in quality.

 

[kingsoraful]

Honestly, I've never given any serious consideration to the franchise post-KH3, given a wide variety of factors:

• I've no idea where this series could actually go after concluding the Dark Seeker Saga. This saga has encompassed the entirety of this far-reaching series and, as such, I can't picture a Kingdom Hearts post-Xehanort (beyond going full Final Fantasy and wiping the slate clean save for universal constants such as the action-RPG gameplay, Disney/Square-Enix IP cameos, and core themes of Light and Darkness, which I might glance at, but certainly wouldn't be as automatically invested as I have been thus far)
• It's taken ~16 years to get from start to finish for this saga, with ~5 years of production for KH3 alone. Given that Tetsuya Nomura is already signed on and committed for the FF7 Remake (which will certainly take 5+ years at least), I just don't see another Kingdom Hearts installment coming along any time soon, unless Nomura hands the reigns over to someone else, which leads into my next point...
• Nomura is the core of Kingdom Hearts, and I wouldn't want to continue with the franchise without his touch. I came into Kingdom Hearts 1 when I was 13 because the action-RPG gameplay and FF cameos, but I stayed for the plot corkscrew weirdness. After all these years of mistaken identities, slight retcons, and time-travel tomfoolery, I don't know if anyone could replicate this madness that I crave.
• I've mostly just been hoping that they never touch the series again after 3, though I know in my heart that The Mouse won't let this cash cow fade into memory.
• My biggest fear is that we'll see this big ol' thing that we all love slowly go the way of other lumbering, long-lived franchises that gradually lose their vim and vigor, proliferating only due to corporate mandate (Resident Evil, Sonic, Silent Hill, etc..)

So, yeah. Ultimately, I won't give a definitive "no" to any future installments at this point, but consider me incredibly wary.

Alright this is just not fair. Nomura already explained why this game took so long to make. They finished the entire game for the ps3 but it was near the end of ps3’s life so they decided to start from scratch and do it for ps4.

nomura has alreDy gone on record and saying the next part of Sora’s saga will not take anywhere close to the amount of time it took to make kh3.

 

[DarkosOverlord]

This is a really excellent summation of how I feel, and why KH3 really hasn't connected with me. It seems to have lost track of its mandate to play against type and now it's just another functioning arm of the Disney media apparatus. Nothing about the way this game is being delivered really seems to separate it from any other bloated meggga franchise the Mouse House exploits for hype points, and while there's certainly nothing wrong with the popularity it has garnered in and of itself, I really wish it could have maintained that flavor of unpredictability (not as a narrative crux) and archetypal self-awareness. The aesthetic and emotional iconography of KH is always what has defined it for me, and KH3 seems to have overreached in its chase of a specific 21st century brand of "updated" commercialism that is just the antithesis of what I would have wanted for it.

With that in mind, I think I'm likely to follow future developments, but I probably won't go out of my way to play the games. I'm not interested in buying any more game consoles/systems anyway, so while I know that my curiosity will drive me to look in on the series and watch cutscenes and engage in the community, I wouldn't say I have any intent of being strictly invested. I'd say that KH3 is the last game that gets my heart.

Agreed with this statement.
Let's see how KH III will turn out, but even if it's godlike I'll definitely take a step back, especially on the emotional level.

Looking back on these 16 years I got burned out on many layers for the most part. I want to have a lighter approach in the future.

 

[Chaser]

Alright this is just not fair. Nomura already explained why this game took so long to make. They finished the entire game for the ps3 but it was near the end of ps3’s life so they decided to start from scratch and do it for ps4.

This never happened.

 

[OathkeeperRoxas XIII]

I feel we had this same exact thread and hopefully those who jump ship don't force themselves back.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Alright this is just not fair. Nomura already explained why this game took so long to make. They finished the entire game for the ps3 but it was near the end of ps3’s life so they decided to start from scratch and do it for ps4.

nomura has alreDy gone on record and saying the next part of Sora’s saga will not take anywhere close to the amount of time it took to make kh3.

I think you are really mistaken. KH3 was never developed for PS3. The game never once entered development until the PS4 launched. Ignoring the year of lost development from switching engines from Luminous to Unreal, this game went into full development in 2014 for PS4 and XB1 exclusively.

Are you sure you aren’t thinking of Versus XIII? Even then that would still be wrong, but it was the game developed for PS3, then had all of its development canned in 2012 and everything had to be rebuilt from the ground up for XV for PS4/XB1.

KH3 took so long to enter development because Nomura was being pulled between projects from 2006-2012, working on a highly mismanaged project that he was too ambitious over (Versus XIII), and because they just didn’t have the staff for KH3 until after KH3D. The new generation of consoles was the perfect chance to get Osaka trained on developing games on an HD engine, and it’s paid off tremendously.

 

[Deleted member 246005]

I already thought KH went downhill storywise so after kh3 it could have an upswing.

Kh3 got me interested in KH again so I'll probably keep track. I wont be able to keep up with everything as i have RL things to do and other franchises that mean more right now.

But i got my 12 year old cousin into it so KH will be fine without me.

As bad as we complain about waiting for KH3, we could have had it worse. We could have had nothing for 10+ years like FFXV fans.

#silverlinings.

 

[kaseykockroach]

“Kingdom Hearts, I think we should see other people...”

 

[Sakuraba Neku]

I will be with this franchise until the end, even though I barely play video games anymore.

 

[Shogo-Kun]

“Kingdom Hearts, I think we should see other people...”

Okay, this comment wins all my internet points!

But to answer the question, KINGDOM HEARTS III will be my last KINGDOM HEARTS game that I'll play. I love this series to death, but it's gotten too big for me to keep up with anymore. That, and I don't see where the series can go from here and I'd rather leave this series on a high note. That said, I'll casually keep up with developments since the series is such a fascinating specimen. But I'll probably only hold a casual interest from here on.

Besides, having the entire Xehanort Saga in my greasy hands gives me more than enough material for my eventual KINGDOM HEARTS fanfic! Be sure to look forward to that in the future!

 

[Neo_]

Who in God's name is going into KHIII begrudgingly knowing it's the last time they'll touch the series? If I ever cut ties with it, it's not gonna be intentional.

That being said, there'll probably be a game where I don't recognize any of the Disney worlds and it'll be weird; I mean, I already have no connection to Tangled, BH6, Frozen and Pirates since they're newer and not my cup of tea. In fact, CoM is the only spinoff I spent significant time with, so there's nothing wrong with just cherry picking titles.

 

[sephydark]

Well, I did quit the fandom before, during the handheld era when a lot of the games came out on systems I just didn't have, so I won't say it's impossible. But on the other hand, I did quit the fandom before, and then I came back. I played all the games that I couldn't back then, and I'm super excited for KH3; I'm not just sticking with it out of obligation or a feeling that I have to see it through to the end. So unless they take the series in a direction I don't like, or release a bunch of titles that I'm not able to play, I'm going to continue to be a fan.

 

[sdr27]

There's so much potential for Kingdom Hearts after 3 especially since they are starting to do original storylines in the Disney worlds that alone has opened up a world of possibilities. Imagine an underrated movie like treasure planet or Atlantis. they could explore sequel elements or original concepts in a KH game. If Disney gets more involved with the franchise, they could hire screenwriters for the Disney worlds and collab with Nourma.

 

[cakito123]

Well,
I only played most Kingdom Hearts games when 1.5 and etc released, so I'm not tired of waiting or anything like that. Yeah I knew KH3 was coming out since 2013 but I wasn't really anxious and looking forward to it until a few months ago.

I like KH both story and gameplay-wise, equally.

Kingdom Hearts III, while it is technically the resolution of the series, represents also the start of the series in my point of view. Story-wise it is the end, but everything else-wise is just the start.

C'mon, until now the most powerful system a full Kingdom hearts game has been in was the PS2, so it's not like I'm expecting KH3 to be a game that stands side to side to KH2 or KHDDD that launched in 2012 - I 'm expecting a lot of big changes and KH3 represents this new technology and this new beggining already.
Maybe it is the resolution when we think about the story and its characters, but structuraly, visually and every other aspect of the franchise already met a conclusion in Kingdom Hearts DDD.

KH3 is already the first game of the next saga for me, because I know that the next saga will already feel like KH3, an actual 'current generation' game, you know?

 

[Elysium]

It depends on a lot of things really. If Sora and Riku continue to be the protagonists post-KH3, whether or not I'll have to buy yet another game system to play the next game, what Disney movies they decide to use for the game (KH3 already features mostly films I don't care about), etc. But, most likely, yes.

 

[Rydgea]

I'm also one of the only members not completely gagged by the graphic transition. I get chewed up over it, but I can't help but feel a disconnect. I genuinely appreciate the details, but there's still an inauthentic quality to some of the characters that I'm not convinced by. I appreciated the charm of the gradiented-to-filth old-has-been art direction. This new Pooh's bottom lip freaks me out.

Vain reasons aside, it really just depends on how this finale plays out. I'm liable to stick with it, but there's been a huge investment on the part of the players leading up to this climax. If it fails to meet expectation it could very well break the series for some, understandably.

I have no doubt I'll have fun, but I, too, haven't been raving over the (particularly newest) trailers as I'd have hoped for. The D23 trailers were probably the most hype I've felt from all of these past reveals. She's magic, but I don't know that Utada's return should be one of the top reasons that I'm excited to play a videogame. I could just as easily listen to her music on its own, but it still remains one of the most exciting reveals I've been stirred by. I can't decide if that's a good or bad thing.

 

[ImVentus]

It depends entirely on how KH3 will turn out. If I like the direction with the story, characters and gameplay. But if I see Nomura dumbing down any of his characters or have them acting out of character (Close to DDD) that will send a red flag for me.

 

[anniinan]

I think I will stick with the series for as long the games are made for Play Station. I hate mobile gaming and handheld consoles I could deal with because PSP somewhat reminded me of PS.

I was 11 years old when I first watched my friends play this and ever since that I have loved the characters, music, plot, series and everything with it. And because of Kingdom Hearts I fell in love with gaming in general. I hope that the next saga is a bit more carefully thought out. Some of the plottwists in this current saga still feel like Nomura was just winging it for the sake of trying out bunch of different things and the success of KH took him by surprise and he wasn’t really prepared to expanding it.

If Sora, Donald, Goofy and Riku stay protagonists of the series and future games are not made for handheld consoles or mobile games, I will stick with this love of my life until the very end.

Edited few thought errors