Comments on: News: Finally Some Quality Control

By: DiceAdmiral

DiceAdmiral — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:10:20 +0000

I don’t know how they could allow multiple saves in Pokemon without destroying the integrity of the trading system. If they didn’t allow cross-slot saving then it wouldn’t do what you’re wanting and if it did then it would be stupidly easy to duplicate Pokemon.

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:08:29 +0000

Wat Mel said!

Sometimes I think that SE employees prefer to jerk around the press than to actually make games…

By: Andrew 'Mel' Melcon

Andrew 'Mel' Melcon — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:27:33 +0000

Since when do games need committees to make sure they don’t turn to shit? Really? Getting someone who knows how to make a good game is just that hard, I suppose.

This just sounds like yet another please understand.

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:38:53 +0000

I’d be careful not to heap too much praise on Kitase – his contributions to FFVI and CT were as scenario directer. Beyond that, he did fantastically well as director of FFVII, and then did an abysmal job on FFVIII.

After FFVIII he became management – and that’s all he has done ever since.

I don’t think that he’s the best judge of what is Final Fantasy – and in fact he may be part of the problem. I’m guessing that his approach to the series is very similar to Toriyama’s: pretty cutscenes >>>> everything else.

- And Yasumi Matsuno no longer works at the company.

- Also, I would guess that in practice this committee will be nothing but a circle jerk, where they sit around patting one another on the back while Rome burns… But, as I said in my post, it may be able to prevent the most offensive shit (All the Bravest) from being made.

By: Matt Dance

Matt Dance — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:33:42 +0000

Absolutely, it should not have taken Toriyama much effort to tell someone to redesign the areas a little better (unless he was just fine with it). But that speaks more to his ineffectualness as a director than his sense of what Final Fantasy is. I've just read some unwarranted reactions to his inclusion. Kitase too - he's the man I want in there, being that he directed 3 of the all-time best Squaresoft games (certainly at least my favorites). People seem to forget that, focusing only on the negative. Tabata and Yoshida are fine choices, but their record may be clean in part because they haven't done as much. Yoshida especially must know what Final Fantasy is though, given how A Realm Reborn has turned out. Then you have Yasumi Matsuno, and why is he not included. Besides not being there and working on other games, he had his own world-vision which was refreshing for the series, but is still his own and maybe not what they want for the series in general. I have reservations about how FFXV will turn out regardless of this committee. They can say they have all the elements included, but how good will they be? Square Enix to spend a lot of both soul searching and hard work to make it as good as it needs to be, and not let the announcement of it years ago influence a deadline. No one wants another decent-but-flawed Final Fantasy game; we want a great one. Let the fans enjoy XIV and Bravely Default in the meantime. But they may also need to cut Nomura off and let him finish Kingdom Hearts III if that is delaying the process. What is Kitase doing right now that he can't pick up some slack? Lastly, Kazushige Nojima writing is heartening.

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:09:57 +0000

Watanabe is a hack, and undoubtedly shoulders much of the blame for how poorly the narrative turned out, but Toriyama still chose to make the game one big tunnel run, without any towns to break up the monotony.

I’m personally a big fan of what Square sometimes do, where they have separate event directors and gameplay directors.

By: Matt Dance

Matt Dance — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 23:07:47 +0000

I don't have that much of a problem with Toriyama. As far as FFXIII goes, I liked it for the most part, including the basic arc of the story and the ideas of the world. The script was bad however, and that had to be the fault of lead writer Daisuke Watanabe, who held the same or related position for such games as FFX-2 and a lot of the spin-off Kingdom Hearts games, so you can see where he's coming from. Toriyama has an idea of what makes Final Fantasy, but he's not able to push through a vision despite questionable staff support. He's probably better off doing more particular work (like Event Planner) than directing the whole game.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:47:33 +0000

“X and Y have shipped as Bug type Pokemon” made me lose my shit. Hilarious!

By: Epyon-01

Epyon-01 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 20:09:32 +0000

Why does Ito stick with Squeenix? They have no respect for him there and he could be doing so much more elsewhere. The fact that freaking Toriyama is part of a Committee to ensure FF quality control is mind boggling.