Dengeki interview translated:
http://femto-jiokichi.tumblr.com/post/126396018243/dengeki-interview-translation
http://femto-jiokichi.tumblr.com/post/126396018243/dengeki-interview-translation
Final Fantasy XV Gamescom Active Time Report - CNN reporting live from disaster scene
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HerroRygar
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Some interesting stuff in there. They have actually been in talks with Avalanche since March, which is really reassuring. It also makes me feel better that Tabata recognizes that we were disappointed with the Gamescom showing.
I was a little disappointed, but I'm back on the positivity train. We are seeing some beautiful screenshots, and we are getting the release date (which is in 2016) soon. Hype!
Basically confirms swimming is dead, almost in exchange for their airship development(a fair tradeoff IMO).
It would be nice to have swimming though even if it was just for exploration. Either way it really bothers me in the demo running into invisible walls in the lake at the middle. If you're going to put in a body of water, make it shallow enough to run through. I don't mind it as much if you are at an ocean and there is an invisible wall. I just find it so annoying in Duscae to get caught up on water that really doesn't seem that deep with the Catoblepas just wading there. Artificial barriers like that just ruin the flow.
I wonder how this will affect Altissia. Not just the Leviathan encounter, but since that city is apparently the most important one in the game it now has a lot of artificial barriers. Can't jump into the lake cause Mr. Warp Sword doesn't want to get his hair wet! Maybe since he's the Jesus in this game we can get walking on water powers.
Sasuke could do it.
YankeeDonB
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Ha ha, hope you can climb back into the light.
The greatest fans often become the greatest haters, those who hype hardest fall farthest, etc.
I think this piece (about love/hate relationship between GoT fans and George Martin) is illustrative about the perils of both fanship and content creation in the age of constant contact and endless anticipation. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/11/just-write-it
I always look forward to a new FF with fond anticipation, but I never get that worked up. Down that route lies madness. As my long-time favorite series, I feel I owe each game at least an open mind when I play it. Some of them don't deliver in the end (e.g., 8), but they're all interesting in their own way.
Marketing missteps may be frustrating, but I don't believe they're predictive of the final product's quality
Icyflamez96
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I don't think that confirms swimming is dead, just water battles.
GreenMakoEyes
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so.. underwater battles don't play an "essential factor, so it won't be in the game" which I'm fine with.
Yep I second this. Which I think is fine. If he walks on water like a certain Uchiha then shit that'd be really cool but will probably be too much lol
YankeeDonB
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Thanks, hadn't seen these translations.
They really so seem to be emphasizing story a great deal in development. I like the sound of summons as part of this world's Genesis myth, and the idea of including childhood stories to ground the characters.
Also, hurrah for really fast chocobos who can get to places the player couldn't otherwise!
unity of the void
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I feel the same way. I love the Final Fantasy series, but obviously not every game is going to affect me to the same extent. You win some and you lose some! Also it's interesting (at least for me) to see which games resonate with which people. Even in my circle of friends we have different favorites from the series.
Jokes aside, I'm really interested in XV. I think they're going to pull off something amazing! I do think that within a few months I'll have to stop looking at pre-release media. I drove myself INSANE with every little thing concerning Bloodborne before its release and I think it spoiled the "freshness" of the game for me. I don't want to tread the same path with this game, or any other game in the future for that matter.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
There is hope
This interviewer knew all the questions we wanted answers to. Great way to tap the fan opinion guys!
DiipuSurotu
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FFWorld guy dropping some serious truth bombs
artsi
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Thanks, it's good stuff. I'd recommend reading it.
- 2016 confirmed yet again
- 300 people working on the game currently
- "Rather than focusing on making trailers that look great, we really work on the game as it should be worked on"
- All the FNC terms/names are gone so the game is not confused with XIII
- No completely new eidolons, they're all traditional ones
- One eidolon is in a completely new, unexpected form
- "They are not random animals or monsters, they are very intelligent creatures with their own thoughts and their own agendas"
- Marlboro area is unfinished, 60-80% complete
- Game is very grounded to reality, but there will be more fantasy elements later
a really great interview, basically asked all the questions that needed to be asked and tabata gave some pretty good, if a little repetitive answers.
artsi
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He's saying in the interview that they're working on all the areas across the game instead of working on one area at a time, so there are a lot of unfinished areas in that 60-80% range they're not ready to show yet.
But that would mean that once they're ready, there should be a lot of things they can display.
Relaxed Muscle
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Just like the ones from XIV they were just mentioned?!
Another 5% done in just one day, I feel the release is just a few weeks ahead.
I'd rather get awesome trailer every few months that showing unfinished and unpolished parts of your game. Thank you very much.
More "Please Understand", nothing really here to be positive. They are doubling down on ATR which is still a mistake.
Sign
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RIP Etro T_T.
I wonder if Noctis saw Versus 13's soul floating up to the gate all those years ago.
... did he see Stella's?
artsi
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Yeah, what's your point?
He's talking about the Marlboro area.
Well he just said in your quote that they don't have time to go all Nomura on trailers while they have a game to develop too, so don't hold your breath.
rayman1900
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If they did that, they would take maybe more time polishing the "great" trailers than working on the game instead, which is not an option since they want to release the game in 2016. I'm more okay with them showing me tidbits of their work and be reassured that they still continue to work on the game during that time than having them waste their time on another fancy trailer.
artsi
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It's one of the traditional ones we all know, but it's in a new form, maybe human as they've hinted?
rayman1900
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He said that 1 traditional eidolon (that we all know) will have a completely new form with a new design.
Relaxed Muscle
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1) He seems terribly oblivious that aspect of the game is neither that special and unique, when he was just mentioned a game that exactly does the same. Is not the first time he tries to go "Look at this incredibly new approach to summons!" when several FF games did the same. Is hilarious and sad at the same time
2) Is not very clear to be honest.
3) Screams like bullshit, all that effort on ATR could be expend on a good trailer every few months. Is what every other company does there after all.
I don't see EA delaying Star Wars because they have to create good trailer for it, screams like bullshit. Is a common practice on the industry. Seriously, is like the first time I heard something like that.
After all they spent months developing a separate vertical slice and they even got time to update it, did that made the game be delayed?
Ghost Slayer
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That eidolon is probably Stella
Dark_castle
Junior Member
One thing I like about Tabata from this interview is that he's fully aware that Gamescom was a weak showing by them, but he's not crying too much about it and already thinking about how to undoing their miscalculation for future event. What I'm not too sure about is his insistence on using the similar ATR format to update us on FFXV's development. I think I speak for many people that at this point, people want strong showing in each major events than peanuts every month.
rayman1900
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If they had the budget and time, maybe, but as said in the interview, they have none of that, so they need to stick to that for the moment. Anyway, I'm sure by TGS there's gonna at least a new story trailer, with maybe more consistent story/gameplay editing than what we didn't got at Gamescom. At least Tabata knows that the fans were disappointed about the lack of informations they released so far.
Not only that but ATR is generally something that only preaches to the choir. It's not something casual observers will even really see.
The French fansites interview was really good though. It will be a massive shame if Tabata doesn't take it to heart.
Well...we will see if he learned from this fuckup at TGS hopefully.
artsi
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He doesn't want to show trailers based on unfinished footage, they need to polish every area they're making a trailer from and that would hinder their overall development progress of working on every area at once.
There will be trailers for sure but not a dozen of them at this point of development, chill out.
Star Wars is releasing in 3 months, it's basically done already so they can create all the trailers they wish.
How many trailers did we see when it was 15-16 months away like FFXV probably is?
I don't see him screaming from the mountain top that this something unique to XV. He is right that the focus on summon as individual beings rather than a force of nature is special among FFs as there are 2 mainline FFs that put heavy emphasis on summon as their plot: X and XIV and even in XIV most of them are treated the same: Brainwashing followers to feed them aether so that they can materialised and wreck shit in the real world - only a few novelty ones stray from that path (Ramuh, King Mog and maybe Ravana/Shiva, all of which did not appear in version 2.0 but was later added on as patches) If Tabata wants to put more emphasis on summons as a coherent part of the world then more power to him.
Relaxed Muscle
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Like Dawn?
:/
And I wonder why they have so much problems in that regard, when every other studio dosn't seem so. I guess we can blame Luminous in this too...or something.
He did, and several times in interviews.
Is not about he's putting emphasis in that aspect, is how he wants to make it like is unique to the series.
Now that's the journalism that I want to see in Video Game Industry.
rayman1900
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I would see though Noctis only swimming on the surface, but not diving inside the water like in the 2013 trailer, but at this point it would just not be coherent with reality...
Then can you find me the exact quote where he said this have never been done before in the series? Because he is right the the sense that the majority of FFs treated summons simply as a game play element
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Are you thinking about underwater swimming? I think regular swimming is fine and fairly important to open for various opportunities to explore.
Wow. You have to be a special kind of pessimist to only see negative after this interview.
The Last One
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Nice interview. I can get that they have a lot done in the game but nothing is actually finished enough to be showed at that point, so it's hard for them to show something new and super impressive.
Now lots of questions and answers still worry me a lot, or rather the lack of some of them.
There are so many discussions about the game being faithful to Versus XIII, which is a fake and silly problem. It's a fan whim and nothing else, and it's a dumb one. They are not the same game, versus XIII is dead.
Who cares what character is in it or not, you'll see the fucking story when you play the game, you don't even know anything about it yet..
Fans wants airship and underwater battle ? And hookers to and cocaine in the box ? We live in such a spoiled era it's ridiculous. They don't need to put all of that in the game. Everyone is focused on the superfluous and nobody talks about the deep fundamentals, about the battle system, the pace of the game, the numbers of enemies.. Cause this is what will make it a good or a bad jrpg in the end.
Now lots of questions and answers still worry me a lot, or rather the lack of some of them.
There are so many discussions about the game being faithful to Versus XIII, which is a fake and silly problem. It's a fan whim and nothing else, and it's a dumb one. They are not the same game, versus XIII is dead.
Who cares what character is in it or not, you'll see the fucking story when you play the game, you don't even know anything about it yet..
Fans wants airship and underwater battle ? And hookers to and cocaine in the box ? We live in such a spoiled era it's ridiculous. They don't need to put all of that in the game. Everyone is focused on the superfluous and nobody talks about the deep fundamentals, about the battle system, the pace of the game, the numbers of enemies.. Cause this is what will make it a good or a bad jrpg in the end.
Vincent Grayson
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IV had summons as important elements in Rydia's story. VI had summons as a major part of the plot. VIII again had summons as a core part of the game's story (and mechanics).
IX and X feature them as very central elements to the world's mythology and the main story.
Summons being not just a spell you cast is actually pretty common, I'd argue.
Now, them being actual characters is pretty rare, with only really FFT, FFX to some extent, and FFXIV being the ones to do that.
rayman1900
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I think he pointed out more about underwater combat than regular swimming. I'm really looking forward just regular swimming and I can understand why underwater combat can be such a great challenge since FFVX is a A-RPG.
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The Last One
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A cute dog fifiteen years ago!
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