Final Fantasy Director: Take Cues From Uncharted 2
Next game in the series won't be so linear.
Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama has said that future games in the series may follow the example of Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2, and explore the uses of downloadable content.
In a Game Developer Conference speech, Toriyama said that a lot of the action in FFXIII was in its battle sequences, and that Square Enix could do a lot more to provide interactivity within cutscenes. "If you have 1,000 flying dragons, hopping from one dragon to the other would be great fun," he said.
"If you can achieve that compared with Uncharted 2, I think that Final Fantasy is going to replicate the masterpieces of film, and that is certainly one of our goals."
The director also spoke of where DLC stands in Final Fantasy's future, and mentioned that a possible direction would be offering the story on disc and quests piecemeal via online distribution. "We avoided it for XIII, but we have to think that every user will be online, and so the story (could) be downloaded, and the battle scenes step by step… we have that in our perspective going forward."
Toriyama closed his address by saying that, in response to the linearity of Final Fantasy XIII, we should "look forward to the next one. I will have answered your complaint about the linear version of the story." We certainly will, Toriyama-san. Try not to take four years, though.
Source: Wired
In a Game Developer Conference speech, Toriyama said that a lot of the action in FFXIII was in its battle sequences, and that Square Enix could do a lot more to provide interactivity within cutscenes. "If you have 1,000 flying dragons, hopping from one dragon to the other would be great fun," he said.
"If you can achieve that compared with Uncharted 2, I think that Final Fantasy is going to replicate the masterpieces of film, and that is certainly one of our goals."
The director also spoke of where DLC stands in Final Fantasy's future, and mentioned that a possible direction would be offering the story on disc and quests piecemeal via online distribution. "We avoided it for XIII, but we have to think that every user will be online, and so the story (could) be downloaded, and the battle scenes step by step… we have that in our perspective going forward."
Toriyama closed his address by saying that, in response to the linearity of Final Fantasy XIII, we should "look forward to the next one. I will have answered your complaint about the linear version of the story." We certainly will, Toriyama-san. Try not to take four years, though.
Source: Wired
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Daz 15 Mar 2010 13:13
1/6
"If you have 1,000 flying dragons, hopping from one dragon to the other would be great fun," he said.
he' an idiot, leave the f**king c**t eyed QTE's OUT OF FINAL FANTASY
FF might as well be called Dragons Lair! 15 Mar 2010 13:49
2/6
@Daz
What you on about, Final Fantasy XIII was just one big QTE!
What you on about, Final Fantasy XIII was just one big QTE!
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Knowles2 15 Mar 2010 15:14
3/6
Well if the game was a open structure like the previous series, then DLC would be a good idea, as you could still provide a good story, an the extrat content could be additonal to the game, perhaps exploring the characters backgrounds.
But given the current game it rather linear, then downloaded content is just gimmick to extract money from one of the most fan bases in the industry.
But given the current game it rather linear, then downloaded content is just gimmick to extract money from one of the most fan bases in the industry.
Major-Anon 15 Mar 2010 16:01
4/6
Apparently FFXIII does have two 'open' chapters, mind you, you're forced to play 11 chapters of linear-ness before you reach those final two chapters. Little dissapointing to be honest.
Kankkles 16 Mar 2010 02:21
5/6
well on the upside of dlc they could at least make new eidolons for each character you know, like a second eidolon. instead of just one per character make it 2 at least that's my opinion
qwerty 20 Mar 2010 10:21
6/6
ur mother