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Eidos Montreal's "really cool" Final Fantasy game that never was

From True Achievements: "Square Enix originally gave Eidos-Montréal — the developer of two Deus Ex games and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy — the task of making Final Fantasy XV, former executive art director Jonathan Jacque-Belletête confirmed to TA.

This week, TrueAchievements spoke with Rogue Factor’s creative director Jonathan Jacque-Belletête at Nacon's Bigben Week about his work on the upcoming philosophical, supernatural, non-violent third-person action game Hell is Us. Speaking about his time as an art director with Eidos-Montréal, he confirmed that Square Enix — before it sold its western branch to Embracer group for $300 million — removed the Canadian team from a “really cool” Final Fantasy XV project."

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-Foxtrot705d ago

I don't know why they didn't just let someone try doing a spin off game as an experiment

smashman98705d ago (Edited 705d ago )

It’s because square as a company is currently being horribly mismanaged. How else could you justify square placing a traditionally AAA single player developer Like crystal dynamics at the helm of a major live service game?

Not to mention their repeatedly tone deaf mentions of nft and crypto.

Pedantic91705d ago

Final Fantasy is still a household name, the name itself is important enough for them to be hands-on at all times.
Could've ended up diluting the series and potentially damage the brand if not handled with utmost care.
That's not to say the last few flagship titles (FFXIII/-2/Returns, FFXV) have been great so who knows, maybe if a western development team tried we might've had something very experimental, weird, fresh and maybe even something really cool.

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CDbiggen705d ago

We did get stranger of paradise though.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein11h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii7h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo7h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows907h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

qalpha7h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno7h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan7h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno6h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19817h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno1d 3h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno7h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 3h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator21h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac19h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger882d ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 11h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 9h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.