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Hynad on 28 June 2011
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deskpro2k3 said:
Hynad said:
deskpro2k3 said:
I'm skipping XIII-2. It taken about a year or less for them to develop XIII-2, so I'm not going to expect anything ground breaking. Its like this is their last ditch effort to make their fanbase happy. I wonder why they couldn't think about putting those extra content in the original game in the first place. Oh wait.. Yeah I know why

It's taken them more than a year to develop it, as production isn't over yet.  Plus, the fact that the game is set in the same world as XIII, obviously, it allows them to re-use game assets. Which means that the production could go much faster than XIII, which had to be built from the ground up after they spent years building their Crystal Tool Engine.  

Final Fantasy XII production started in 2001 and was released on 2006 in Japan. Shortly after Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings follow-up was released in 2007 for the DS 1 year after the release of the original.

For FF XIII, think about when the sequel was first decided upon. Every Final Fantasy title takes a few years to develop and produce. Square Enix will try to have Final Fantasy XIII-2 out by the end of 2011, which only a one-year gap.

So how long did they know they'd create a sequel? thats why i'm saying it is like a last ditch effort to make fans happy, and I'm not going to expect much from it.


FF XII went through many production problems that prior games didn't get. So I don't think you should take this one as an example. Would you concider the PS era Final Fantasy games disapointing, considering the fact that they were released so close to each others? VIII was released 2 years after VII and IX was released 1 year 5 months after VIII. Add X to the mix and that one got released roughly a year and a month after IX. Now, hardly anyone would argue that all those titles aren't quality ones, no matter what complaints you may have for their art styles, settings or battle systems.

You could argue that those titles weren't produced entirely by the same teams, and I would give you that. But XIII-2 is a sequel. It uses roughly the same battle system as XIII, only slightly updated. It's set in the same world as XIII, meaning they don't have to recreate everything from scratch. They are more familiar with their Engine, and of course, S-E is one big ass company compared even to when they were producing FF VII through X.

Now, as far as I'm aware of, from the interviews I read about it, they decided to go for a sequel as soon as production for XIII was complete. Which means that they will have been working on the sequel for nearly 2 years if the title is finally released in december of this year in Japan (XIII was released on December 17, 2009 in Japan). So yeah, no matter how you spin it, the game will have been in production for about the same amount of time as the majority of the most beloved titles in the series.  

 

One thing I will agree with you though.  Keep your expectations low.  Not because I think the product will be sub-par, as I think it will end up being better than XIII, but because if you expect too much out of a product, you more often than not end up being disappointed.