[Kotaku] There Is Enough Discarded Final Fantasy XIII To Make Another Game

[dunno001]

rccsetzer said:

dunno001 said:
I think someone here got it right, but only 1. Sure, I see this coming out as DLC, but that's a side effect; it wasn't their main reason. The main reason, is the FMVs. Square got carried away with them, and when it came time to go to the chopping block, it was either chop the FMV we spent $1m on, or chop these game assets which are still being worked on. The game gets the shaft, and the FMV gets to move on.

Yeah, but when it comes to blu-ray alone, that thinking fails. There is no excuse. The game uses 35 gigs of a dual layer blu-ray. Why not use it all? Final Fantasy is not Dragon Age : Origins, where the last is a game made for receive a ton of DLC (everytime in the game you cand do what you want).

Easy: you have to keep the FMV ratio fairly stable through the game, or it's easy to tell what was added at the last minute. If they kept the game in, they'd have to make more FMVs to go with it, and then try to find some way to reopen up the story to add it in. Or it just could have been the exploration part, and trying to add in an entire world with the narrow passages would exceed the space left.