"Next-gen" has been on the lips of just about everyone, as developers and publishers prepare for the inevitable next round of consoles. At E3, however, Microsoft and Sony were quite reticent to talk about any hardware beyond the current generation. Meanwhile, Epic was proudly displaying its Unreal Engine 4 next-gen technology and the folks at Square Enix unveiled "Agni's Philosophy," a beautiful demo leveraging the publisher's Luminous engine, which shows off just how good Final Fantasy might look on next-gen platforms.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
Maybe they should worry about finishing Versus XIII and bringing Type-0 to the west first. Seriously, this is one of SE biggest problems. . . taking on multiple projects without finishing the ones they are currently working on.
Agni's Philosophy demo was really impressive. I think Square Enix will make a lot of great upcoming games. Should be really exciting with what next gen will bring.
That guy actually has the economics of the whole current-gen situation down.
He's actually made me reconsider the need for "next-gen". Previously I would have said that I wasn't ready to move on from this gen, but the whole "moving away from proprietary tech" thing, and the resulting "more chances to everybody" makes me think next gen needs to happen now.
I want another generation as good as the PS2. Great games galore.
He made some really good points in this interview on the topic in this "headline" and otherwise. Very levelheaded responses.
I kinda get the vibe that he's saying everything will come in due time, it's just a matter of when and what form, yet he won't say that outright.
I like some things that they did with the Agni's Philosophy demo, but they really seem to be missing the balance of things in their Japan studio games as of late, I have hope for games like FFVs13, but only time will tell.
Off topic: I hate how the people on N4G are so hypocritical; always complaining about sensational headlines and obvious flamebait, and yet fullfledged interviews like these are practically completely ignored and most of those who do post are sensationalizing where it isn't needed or complaining about off topic problems that they have no right to complain about in the first place.