why final fantasy fails today.

[zarx]

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.

XIII released Dec 2009 in Japan and work probably started just after it shipped so given the currently scheduled Dec 2011 release date for XIII-2 that is almost 2 years of development for a game that reuses many assets and the design work that was already put into XIII, while using the same game engine. Considering that they don't have to wait for a couple years for the engine and world to be designed 2 years isn't that short a dev cycle considering XIII's 5 years including the early work done on the PS2.