A203D said:
darkknightkryta said:
Yeah the game's development must have been a nightmare. I'm pretty sure they stopped development of the game to port it over to the PC and 360 cause the game was finished on PC and then ported back to the PS3/360 (This was said at the 360 version announcement at E308). So they spent maybe 6 months on porting the engine, a year probably on finishing the game on PC and another year porting it back to PS3 and a few months (3 probably) porting it to 360. I would say 2 years of development time was wasted and if that article is true then they literally finished the game in a few months and ported it to the PS3 cause that demo was finished less than a year before release. That doesn't even take into consideration the year or 2 working on the PS2 version of the game. Hell development started before FInal Fantasy 12 was released. This game had a 6 year dev cycle and the final product doesn't show it. Like this game has been riddled with bad business decisions, from the tech director, all the way to Wada. Like the fact that the game could have been released 2 years earlier and the fact that they raided the dev team for FInal Fantasy Vs 13... I could have been playing FInal Fantasy vs. 13 right now. And 5 years into this gen the only "HD" game that Square has made in house has been Final Fantasy 13 and The Last Remnant (Another game with a bunch of bad business decisions). I really question what's going on at Square, and now Wada wants Final Fantasy games every 2 years, he's an idiot. You need about 3 years to make a proper Final Fantasy game (all of them have had 3 year dev cycles as far as I know), and wanting them pushed out every 2, we're going to start getting 6 hours Final Fantasy games. Like Final Fantasy 13 has some ups and downs, but the games arn't going to get better with current management, they're only gonna get worse.
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Yeah well i think after seeing how deep rooted these problems are then we're all disappointed with the decisions that have been made, but tbh, i think Wada is right to put pressure on the team now. they've taken far too many liberties, making FF less like and RPG and infusing it with FPS elements, and all the resources and time they consumed to do that.
i dont think that Wada wants a main FF installment every 2 years, i think he want a new game from that team every 2 years, whether its a spin off or whatever. either way i was hoping that FF15 would've been developed by the other production team, who've havent been heard from since FF12 was released. and i can see your point that these games will continue to get worst because i dont have faith in the FF13 team.
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That's the problem; with Wada's infatuation with the "west" he's gonna want less RPG elements in the games. You gotta realize making a world, npcs, and the like take a lot of time, more than most other genres of games, 2 years is not enough time to develop a proper RPG.
