thatguymarco said:
Well, as far as Nomura being removed from the director's seat, I think that most of it has to do with the fact that he announced KH3 too early, he directed both games for more than a year, and I can see that kind of pressure leading Nomura to be an unfocused mess, but I don't think that's the main reason he was removed, I think that his vision of the game was either too ambitious or controvertial for Squeenix to allow development to go through, and decided to get someone easier to manipulate to follow orders to direct the project (Tabata), although, I'l give Nomura-haters something, it was a stupid decision to announce KH3 that early, it just led for development of both games to be slowed down, since, both games ended changing fucking ENGINES during development, that must mean that not that much had been done for either of them, KH3 more so than FFXV, although, in FFXV's case, it may be the fact that the "Ebony" engine used in the E3 2013 trailer was too good for the consoles to run it, since the trailer looks fucking amazing and seems to have quite the work done on it. I think that Nomura was removed more out of a necessity, rather than outcry from the company, Squeenix just needed to get the games moving and having one man behind both of their most anticipated tittles was gonna affect dev speed, combine that and the fact that the man's vision was too good to be true (which, by the way, wouldn't had been the case if Nomura won his argument about keeping FFvsXIII as a 7th gen game and kept working on the 2011 build of the game, hell, the game could've been completed by now) and it's easy to see why Squeenix removed him, the game needed to come out as fast as possible, be appealing for most people and a markatable beast, and it needed to not overblow its (ridiculous) budget, and that was something that a NEXT GEN Versus XIII wasn't gonna do for them. Also, Nomura is still working in KH since nobody other than him has ever touched that series, even the co-director would be lost without the creative soul to make KH3 the best game it could possibly be... ...although, I must agree with everyone, Nomura's skill as a writter has gotten way, way worse. Birth by Sleep had me in tears, of boredom. Sorry for the long-ass reply by the way. |
Stella was scratched and Luna came in her place:
http://www.takuchat.com/final-fantasy-versus-13-was-not-changed-it-was-canned/
What I wrote was me being creative at reconciling your idea of giving VsXIII a chance as a sequel of FFXV. I don't know much of Luna but if she is similar to Stella then it would be easier for Noctis to fall in love with her in a sequel as she would remind him of his lost love. I am just entertaining this idea of yours.
That is what I believe, that Square told us the truth and Nomura was given a sole project of KH to speed things up. I believe that someone could take on the Kingdom Hearts franchise and make a worthy sequel, just like we have new writers and directors taking the reigns for new entries/sequels to films with huge universes like comic book franchises and Star Wars for example.
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1