This last weekend in Tokyo, Square Enix held an open conference centered around its real-time tech demo, Agni's Philosophy: Final Fantasy. While presenting the technical aspects was paramount in the design of Agni's Philosophy (as it was meant to showcase the detail and flexibility of Square's new Luminous Engine), its creators were adamant it feel like a Final Fantasy. But what exactly makes a Final Fantasy a "Final Fantasy"? To answer this question they put together a list of the five minimum components for a Final Fantasy.
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.
Looking back at Final Fantasy 6 on its 30th anniversary provides a snapshot of one of gaming's most important franchises at a pivotal turning point.
lol
"The fourth thing needed in a Final Fantasy is a little ambiguous: "refinement." They didn't specify refinement of what exactly, but each game in the series has at least tried to refine the parts of gameplay that didn't work in the previous iteration"
So your telling me the turn based combat, open world map, the airship, npcs, side missions, exploration that were all MISSING from FF13 were things that you guys didn't get right in the past FF games....right.
"The second is "summoning," which has been a staple of the series since Final Fantasy III."
Yeah except you don't make them look like vechiles or Transformers.
"The battle system also changes from game to game as well."
Really because I always thought they stayed pretty much the same in the old FF games, with a few minor tweaks here and there.
I wish Square could take there own advice sometimes...
I'll tell you the main thing Final Fantasy needs:
HIRONOBU SAKAGUCHI
Oh... and get rid of that idiot Yoichi Wada.
if it weren't for them buying out edios i would say square enix is the second worse publisher this gen right behind EA
Publishers trying to to turn art into a generic mass produced product is what is killing Final Fantasy.
"Lastly, they stated that Final Fantasies need "change and challenge." The "change" part is obvious, with each numbered Final Fantasy taking place in a new world with a new cast. The battle system also changes from game to game as well."
FF13-1, FF13-2 and soon to be FF13-3 (lightning re-runs, err, returns) say hello!
I just feel like we've been given the same regurgitated world for the past years. New cast? yeah somewhat, but likable, meh!
I don't think Squeenix has clue as to what goes into a successful FF title anymore, and the only tile (FFVS13) that could bring hope to the series has been kept behind closed doors with very little info leaked.