You have no idea how dark, happy, grim, somber, or bright FF15's story is. You're assuming the worst because you're angry about Nomura.

hard to be outraged on a story we knew little about....but I kinda feel a little bugged(can't think of the right word) about Stella; from the trailers we saw of Versus(which are now meaningless) the interactions between Noctis and Stella seemed promising yet a little cliche: two potential love interest who take part in opposite warring factions who probably don't know into well in the game.

the part of the old trailer where Stella has Noctis in the destructive magic field and vice-versa Noctis has Stella surrounded by his many magic swords basically in a game of chicken gave me chills. shame to see all that go

Hard to get mad over something we knew nothing about. For all we know, the original story could've been terrible. I mean just look at Kingdom Hearts.  

The FFXV demo was enjoyable apart from the lock-on targeting. Still hyped.

I got this as well. My guess is that Versus XIII could have ended in a cliff-hanger which could have been great, as long as there was a sequel guaranteed.

well at least the gameplay is still appealing to me.

lol I love the KH games but I have trouble taking anyone seriously who thinks Kingdom Hearts has a well told story. The storytelling in those games is some of the worst I've ever seen. It was passable with the first game, but everything fell of a cliff with KH2 and only got worse from there. 

shikamaru317 said: Slade6alpha said: Brb, joining the Kapi-96 hate train. Who else is joining Losing so much hype for this game... I'm with you Slade. Versus VIII/FFXV has been near the top of my most anticipated game list ever since it was first announced in 2006. But ever since Nomura was removed as director against his own will, Tabata has systematically destroyed most of what originally made me excited for it. -A realistic derivation of Kingdom Hearts combat....gone, replaced by a simplistic combat system that had some pretty serious issues in the demo. -Multiple playable characters....gone, now only Noctis is playable. -Stella, a strong female character who shared Noctis' powers and at times would be both a protagonist and antagonist...gone, replaced by Luna, who so far we've only seen sit their looking pretty waiting for Noctis to show up for a dinner. -Ignis, my favorite member of Noctis' party, given an English voice that I can't stand. -Multiple story segments from Versus XIII trailers....gone.   FFXV is starting to look like a rental for me at best. Screw you Tabata!

Exactly and all the people who followed versus since its initial release, exactly knew who stella was and what will be her role in the game. I followed this game for seven years of its development while watching mediocore 13 and iteration get released. I really liked where versus was heading under Nomura's vision. but after watching the latest build and now this NEWS, I feel the game we all wished for Versus and relaunched as XV at 2013 E3 is now official dead.. I just now hope this doesnt turn out to be another FF13 saga.

RIP Stella :(

You can't seriously tell me KH1 and KH2 had a good story and writing.

What do you mean that they were "not integrated", both in the latest Versus XIII and the first XV trailer, we can see Noctis (and sometimes, the other guys) doing exactly what I just said you could previously do. Maybe these "ideas" were something that ultimately would've had to be removed, but as far as we know, these things WERE going to happen, they had far gone through the "concept" phase of development, if they weren't, then geez Squeenix, thanks for wasting your time and money on a visual representation of something that was NEVER SUPPOSED TO EXIST.

And corny. You forgot corny.