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Wyrdness on 08 June 2015
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thatguymarco said:


I don't see Stella coming back, ever, not without some awkward and forced plot-twist or plot-convenience, as far as we know, she was rewritten as Luna, and well, if they got to the trouble of rewriting a whole character, I must assume that her Noctis-like powers were removed, maybe she was too intrusive of a character in the story so they decided that removing her was the way to go to streamline development, that, OR they know that Internet feminists would get make a big fucking ordeal out off seeing Noctis beating the shit out a woman, and decided to go the safe route and make her into a strong independent woman who don't need no man that does little in the story, but that doesn't pose a threat to the main cast, either way, it fucking sucks, but, I'm rambling now.

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.


SE are the architects of Versus' long troubled development, throughout the 7th gen SE were clearly in disarrays and kept pulling teams to fix problems of their own making and Versus just ended up being convenient for them. 

Some will say this is an ott view but I think Versus ' was just convenient for SE to try and get back on track, the whole XIII saga was meant to be XIII, Type-0 (then called Agito) and Versus, instead we got XIII, XIII-2 and LR. With the extra effort needed to redevelop XIV I doubt they had anything at all for the next game FFXV but they happened to have an FF related project in development in Versus, hijacking the project and changing things around was convenient and would save more time then building something from scratch for the 8th gen.

If the was an actual FFXV already in development I have little doubt most of the changes would not have taken place even with Nomura as head of KH and Versus but because the project is now the flagship title for the company in the 8th gen these changes were made.