HD towns for Final Fantasy XV?

One area of criticism that the game has consistently faced is that major traditional RPG elements that the series is known for, such as explorable towns, are not present in the game that was released.

Toriyama chalks this up to a mix of his own personal strengths, the advent of the challenging production required by high definition consoles, and production of the Crystal Tools engine which drives the game.

"Personally, the Final Fantasys that I have worked on have been very story-driven, so in terms of the development I wanted to, of course, use my personal strengths which where those," said Toriyama.

However, he says that production on the current consoles does not allow the freedom the team has known in the past. "In the Final Fantasys on previous non-high definition consoles, we were able to kind of take everyone's ideas and include them in the games -- I call it a bento box system, where you have all of the different little things in there. So we had minigames or towns were you were able to talk to all of the townspeople. But with the HD console you're not really able to do that because it takes so long to develop," said Toriyama.

"If you think about how long it's already taken to develop this game, to have to have included all of those other aspects, it would have been too long. So what we did instead was define what was truly important to the game, and include those aspects and really emphasize those items we wanted to include," he continued. "We had to consider the amount of time it took to create the game engine, which we built from scratch, as well, and so with that additional time included we had to decide what we could and couldn't do."

blah, blah, blah

However, this will not continue for future games, he said. "Now that we have that base technology... The next time you see a Final Fantasy, we might be able to pack in more of those elements that existed in the past. And I also think that a game doesn't need to have all of those items in the future. We can create additional downloadable content for people to add, too. It doesn't have to come with that game itself."

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=27619

I'm listening........

Damn imagine how many DVDs will be needed for town exploration :shock:

Final Fantasy 15 will be more like 12 imo, but I doubt it will be released on the 360.

MS are lucky FF13 is so linear otherwise it might have spanned 10 disks!

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **Mafro** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:13 am

You could have at least used a different thread title than GAF :roll:

Mafro wrote:You could have at least used a different thread title than GAF

Gaf:

HD Towns Confirmed for Final Fantasy XV?

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **Dual** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:20 am

Zing.

Anyway, isn't WKC doing this already?

There's something wrong with Square-Enix's production methods, because what's being asked of them really isn't that unique.

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **rinks** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:56 pm

Brilliant tactic, issuing a statement that highlights the deficiencies in your latest title, just two days after its international release. They've just lost one sale, and I've just saved £40.

Didn't they say something along these lines for 13?

[/honestlynottryingtocausetrouble]

I'm not getting FFXIII because of a lack of towns to explore, really liked running about the towns in 7 and 8, especially the Timber Owls town from FF8.

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **PCCD** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:01 pm

I'm stunned there's been no "FFVII remake in production exclusive to 360/PS3!" story flying around the internet in light of this.

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **Oxx** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:58 pm

Can't they add towns to FFXIII via DLC?

Oxx wrote:Can't they add towns to FFXIII via DLC?

Where are they going to put them, you can't back track can you?

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **Oxx** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:01 pm

New Game + ?

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **Carlos** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:11 am

Here's a plan, Square: make a non-HD version. Crystal Bearer was a disappointment but not that bad and it looked pretty good.

Why not choose the biggest selling console in japan and of the generation, the Wii, as the main platform for FFXV and then upscale it and make it downloadable on the PS3/360?

Or do a capcom and go back and make a new 2D version. VI is still the best in the series. Imagine it with HD sprites!

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **SEP** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:20 am

Carlos wrote:Why not choose the biggest selling console in japan and of the generation, the Wii, as the main platform for FFXV

Because Square-Enix do not want to be responsible for the mass suicides that would cause.

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **mitch** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:29 am

They will be SD on Xbox 360

Damn Mitch you got burned on the last joke and now this :lol:

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **Mafro** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:34 am

Carlos wrote:Why not choose the biggest selling console in japan and of the generation, the Wii, as the main platform for FFXV and then upscale it and make it downloadable on the PS3/360?

That's not how it works at all.

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **Rik** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:35 am

Why not choose the biggest selling console in japan and of the generation

Because nobody buys third party games for it.

PostRe: HD towns for Final Fantasy XV? by **mitch** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:35 am

suzzopher wrote:Damn Mitch you got burned on the last joke and now this

Tis that Friday feeling.

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