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Aiddon on 26 June 2011
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Hynad said:

I don't think the HD Ivalice test is any indication that there will be anything Ivalice related coming out of it.  If we'd apply your logic, then we should have had a polygonal version of FF VI back during the PSX era, a fully polygonal version of FF VIII on PS2, and we should be getting a remake of FF VII on the PS3 any time now.

I don't think you should get your hopes up for an Ivalice game this gen, and especially not based on that "Rabanastre test".  For all we know, this is nothing more than the team testing the Unreal technology, the same way they tested the tech available to them with the other era's tech demos.

Now, I would like to be wrong about all this, as FF XII is on my FF series top 3 (right behind VI and IX), but I don't think you should build expectations based on those tech tests they did with Rabanastre.  Sure, the team is up to something, but I see it more as them using already existing designs to test the tech and nothing else.  By re-using already existing designs, they cut on artists expenses, and can get to work right away. 

I do hope that the team will get a shot at an other FF game though, but if they do, I hope Matsuno will stick to the project till the very end.  FF XII suffered a lot because of his illness, and the end result was a product with outstanding gameplay (thank you Ito) but with a story that didn'tfully live to its potential, even if it was still good.

Like I said, I don't think the FFT team (especially Matsuno) will ever touch the FF series again; it was just full of too much bull**** that was ultimately not worth it. If anything they're better off finishing the Ogre Battle Saga and sticking to smaller projects so they don't have to deal with one half of the team throwing hissy fits over direction and are free of executive meddling. With Square being in financial straits after the disaster of FFXIV I only expect the meddling to get worse with any FF project from here on out.