Scoobes said:
ishiki said:
Scoobes said:
Soriku said:
Scoobes said:
Soriku said:
Uh...somehow I don't think Wada was the one to tell them not to make HD towns. |
I wouldn't be surprised if he had the final say. If incorporating towns into the game was going to cost a lot then I can imagine the CEO telling managers to remove the feature.
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FF XIII-2 has towns, Lighting Returns has towns, Versus XIII has towns, The Last Remnant has towns, Nier has towns, Star Ocean 4 has towns...all games SE published/are publishing.
Don't think it's much of an issue for them. Back then it just seemed like a bullshit excuse. Like, their idea of streamlining the game in FF XIII didn't work because nobody liked it so they made an excuse even though they're capable.
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It was a bullshit excuse but one that may well have been born of poor decision making and management (due to a CEO not having any prior experience in the games industry maybe?). The FFXIII sequels inclusion of towns were a direct response to criticisms of XIII.
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I still think it's unfair to blame him for that when theirs been no indication he's been heavy handed in that direction particularly when he encouraged Eidos to do extra things for the PC versions of multiple titles. because those developers wanted to do it, with less of a track record. Especially if Toriyama or Kitase thought towns were vital to the gameplay, and thus would have defended against.
While there has been indication from interviews that the direction and reasoning for FFXIII was from toriyama and kitase. Particularly since FFX did the same thing, FFXIII just took it to an extreme.
He did deserve to be canned though, just like sakaguchi deserved to be canned, I think his misteps were more trying to fix FFXIV, letting it be released, making MMO's because of the Profit FF11 had, and trying desperately to get that profit again despite the markets changing.
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I know it's all just conjecture, but at the end of the day, a CEO is responsible for those below him and making the final decisions. I do wonder how a CEO that had prior experience of the games industry would have handled the last 13 yrs. Perhaps Kitase and Toriyama would have benefitted from a more experienced voice up top, even if it was more heavy handed.
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Yeah I agree with that statement, more than anything. Though as you said it's conjecture. I'm not sure a CEO with only games industry experience is good either though. I mean the previous regime did great things, and then threw it in the toilet because it let Sakaguchi do The Spirits Within. I think the right mix, of business/games people, but that is difficult to attain.
I say this, as I do like the new FF's Still.
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I think it's hard to say Kitase is a hack and devoid of talent, when he did direct FF's 6,7,8 with sakaguchi as his producer (and as quoted from Sakaguchi that he was sort of Co-Director suggesting he was heavy handed). And then Produced FFX with Toriyama directing it with Sakaguchi still onboard.
But when they sakaguchi left, the tendency's in Toriyama, and Kitase games seemed to go to extremes in melodramatic, and or linear cinematicness or whatever. I'm sure you get my point. Sometimes Creative people need to be reigned in or they create an indulgent mess... like George Lucas, etc.
