gamrReview's Ben Burnham: "Square-Enix wants to return to the business of making Japanese games for the core gamer.
That was the sentiment expressed by Company President Yosuke Matsuda in a recent discussion with Nikkei Trendy, following what was seen as a rather difficult 2013 for the Japanese publisher and what turned out to be the surprise worldwide success of their 3DS RPG, Bravely Default."
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.
Gary Green said: With my fondness for (most) Final Fantasy games and my side goal of finishing off games in my collection with loose ends, a return to Final Fantasy XV seemed inevitable. It also serves as my third Final Fantasy platinum trophy after VII and VIII, a reasonable substitute since Final Fantasy IX is nigh on impossible to master.
Ah the good old days when square soft gave us amazing final fantasies. I'm afraid those days r gone.
Square Enix will never be able to make games like Squaresoft did so long as CG cutscenes have priority over game mechanics and story/character development.
That is the exact issue: they do eight plus hours of cg cutscenes. Something which has to take years longer to make the game portion.
Final Fantasy XV could win back the core fans. Final Fantasy XV-2 could drive some fans away. And by the time Noctis Returns is released there will be no fans left at all ;p
Joking aside, I can't wait for Final Fantasy XV. I'm going to be all over that pre-order like a rash when a release date is announced!
We asked for a remake of FF7 n they cant b bothered yet they made a remake of other final fantasys