Final Fantasy Union: "The Final Fantasy games, like most RPGs, have upheld the tradition of immersing that one person, the player, into the game entirely. Trying to sink two people into the sixty hour plots simultaneously might be spreading themselves too thin, surely. "
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.
Would be interesting if we see multiplayer in future titles.
Would be nice if Versus has some coop, that or any other FF game.
Ring of Fates and Echoes of Time don't require peripherals and Echoes of Time is online too(and released months before KH 358/2 Days), also they were entirely internally developed. Just thought I'd point that out.
Wada does seem insistent on multiplayer... which can be both good or bad. I suppose if it's secondary content like 358/2 Days and BBS then it's cool... just hope it doesn't end up like Resi 5.
Umm...there's the biggest multiplayer game they've ever made coming out in a few months...
Aaagh multiplayer this multiplayer that. There haven't been enough stellar single player titles. It's like people are getting too lazy to make story driven games. Sick of multiplayer.