The latter parts of it is my thoughts. Get that holiday money.
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Square Enix at Gamescom '15: FFXV headlines main stage, other "reveals" teased
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The latter parts of it is my thoughts. Get that holiday money.
Sorry, I mean the FF franchise.
And yeah, it would be a pity but I bet you wouldn't be surprised. No one would.
Because deep deep deep deep down you are all just like me... you just don't want to admit it lol.
Vyse The Legend
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Not even that is inaccurate. FF14 is very successful and legitimately fantastic.
Kenzodielocke
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I didn't get that impression at all from the video. More like" wow, this is developing well then."
The Last One
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I know the HUD was placeholder but I didn't get this impression.
you might be surpise though after all nomura did say he got basics for the game done and they just need to the detail right now
LegendofLex
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The main things I noticed are that the UI isn't finished and some of the visual effects could do with some polish. I didn't get the impression that it's more than a year off at all.
Go_Ly_Dow
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I wish...
Pffft.
She personally read and verbally commented on one of my GAF comments addressed to her.
BossDarkseid
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I wish...
I've only seen that pic in one other thread on GAF....
At some point, won't SE start to cannibalize itself if they target holiday 2016 for a lot of these games?
Interface23
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Star Ocean in the spring, FFXV in the fall, KH3 in the early parts of 17 is my bet.
Go_Ly_Dow
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BossDarkseid
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Star Ocean...Spring/Early Summer. FFXV Aug JPN/Sept US/EU...KH3....March 2017. maybe Christmas 2016.
The Last One
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I'm expecting a "out now" in the end of the Gamescom trailer. /s
Icyflamez96
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I think FFXV is coming out next year, but as for KH3... Idk
Probably 17 or 18
Probably 17 or 18
LegendofDragoonLives
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Weren't some people saying keep dreaming on this being a 16' title? Hold that L for pessimism guys. lol at some people still stating for a 2017 or even 2018 release.
Ganondorfo
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Wait Yoko is the main composer of FFXV? Wow didn't know that, I always wanted her to compose for a main Final Fantasy game one time, I loved her Parasite Eve and Legend of Mana work (and offcourse her legendary Super Mario RPG work). I wonder how the music will sound like.
Vincent Grayson
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You can go listen to the tracks from the demo right now. And they're legitimately fantastic.
Vyse The Legend
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Sarcasm or not, that would still be more plausible than the 2018 guy's assessment of the situation.
i think she shines in her kingdom hearts music she composers
TheGreatLugia
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HerroRygar
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What aspect of the video looked like test footage? From my perspective, I saw really, really polished animation, nice lighting, fleshed out combat and well-integrated gameplay mechanics. Watching the video a few times actually made me think that the game was much further along than I had previously suspected. Admittedly I have never developed a game, but from my perspective they've already solved a lot of the technically challenging tasks; if all that remains is asset generation and polish, that's not a super long task.
One analysis video I watched assumed the UI was placeholder because the resources (such as MP) never drained, but that could easily have been a debug-mode setting for the sake of producing a flashy, action-filled trailer.
Go_Ly_Dow
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yup very likely i would believe
Dark_castle
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You guys joke about a new Chrono game, but with the FF7 remake actually happening, I think nothing is impossible now with the current Square Enix.
And none of you have any idea how much I wanted a new Chrono, one that is being made by the original team ( Masato Kato, Yuji Horii, Gooch, Yasunori Mitsuda).
And none of you have any idea how much I wanted a new Chrono, one that is being made by the original team ( Masato Kato, Yuji Horii, Gooch, Yasunori Mitsuda).
KoopaTheCasual
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Ah thank you. I guess i missed this. Really seems like 2016 is possible then.
Vyse The Legend
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Why is everyone talking about a new Chrono game as-if it is likely happening? Did I miss a quote/hints somewhere?
Horii has no intentions, and Kato is far and distant from what SE is doing nowadays.
At least FFVII has a lot of the original staff.
Napalm_Frank
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To me the biggest odd sign was that they revealed the Tangled world without any more context than the tower appearing in the footage. I would have at least expected renders of the characters ya know?
No, I think everyone looks at what SE has announced recently (FF7:r, Nier 2, etc.) and - rightfully so - realizes that nothing is impossible anymore.
themagicalkitsune
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Yeah they put Frog's Theme on during their E3 announcements video. :lol
Perfo
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Everything feels like a placeholder, including battles and monster placements. Imho they don't have much on their hands for now and they're still testing mechanics while building worlds and enemies. Not even much cutscenes were in that trailer, and it tells alot. This is like LR: FFXIII first teaser trailer: nothing more than a project really really behind with development. mid-end 2017.
um i don't think still testing mechanics i think they have the basic foundation done by now as fro cutsenes i think want to reveal the worlds first before any cutsnces or characters get show maybe they will show tangeld cutscenes or rapunzel at the d23's in august i still say 2016 is not far feched as peoplee may think
TheGreatDirector
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Apparently they did that last year too so it isn't even a new thing.
KoopaTheCasual
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Go_Ly_Dow
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So it's been in dev for over a year then.
It was actually my response to that begging for forgiveness! She found it funny haha.
Worldshaker
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I really wish SE would talk to Uematsu and Sakaguchi and let this happen:
Nobuo Uematsu Wants To Make A 2D RPG With The Final Fantasy VI Team
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/10/28/nobuo-uematsu-wants-make-2d-rpg-final-fantasy-vi-team/
"but they both feel that theres still more they can do with 2D games". I think a high quality 2D sprite based RPG would be received well with how big retro gaming has become over the last decade. They could even do a multiplatform release on the PS3/PS4/Vita/3DS/PC.
I can dream right? My only hope is that Uematsu and the Gooch are already secretly working on something.
Nobuo Uematsu Wants To Make A 2D RPG With The Final Fantasy VI Team
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/10/28/nobuo-uematsu-wants-make-2d-rpg-final-fantasy-vi-team/
"but they both feel that theres still more they can do with 2D games". I think a high quality 2D sprite based RPG would be received well with how big retro gaming has become over the last decade. They could even do a multiplatform release on the PS3/PS4/Vita/3DS/PC.
I can dream right? My only hope is that Uematsu and the Gooch are already secretly working on something.
brandonh83
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Considering I haven't played a better game since it came out 20 years ago I probably have an idea
LOL, I was thinking exactly the same. Around the same time when that interview came out there was the first announcement about a new Console JRPG Studio being funded which we now know as Tokyo RPG Factory and also a few weeks later there was this big feature Famitsu had with Sakaguchi and Kitase reminiscing about the FF franchise. I speculated that they were hinting at a new oldschool JRPG with Gooch, Uematsu and Kitase made by that new studio
**Droooooooooool**
FFXV is a 2016 title. Something AWFUL has to happen for that to change.
Now, KH3 is a different story....I was not expecting UE4 to make it look the way it looks so soon. It's really a toss-up here, it can be 2016 (hold my heart if SE's Big 2 actually drops next year) but it could also be 2017.
I personally try to cap my optimism a bit, so I think XV will happen anytime from May to October next year and KH3 MAY make it into FY 2016 but it will release in 2017 (January-March), don't see it going past June 2017. The moment we get XV's release narrowed down (hopefully in 14 days) we'll be able to make more accurate guesses
Now, KH3 is a different story....I was not expecting UE4 to make it look the way it looks so soon. It's really a toss-up here, it can be 2016 (hold my heart if SE's Big 2 actually drops next year) but it could also be 2017.
I personally try to cap my optimism a bit, so I think XV will happen anytime from May to October next year and KH3 MAY make it into FY 2016 but it will release in 2017 (January-March), don't see it going past June 2017. The moment we get XV's release narrowed down (hopefully in 14 days) we'll be able to make more accurate guesses
HerroRygar
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Ah, I see where you are coming from. From my perspective though, stuff like battle and monster placements are fine-tuning; if they already have a working battle system, figuring out the best placement and composition of encounters is pretty trivial, especially given that they're using Unreal and likely have excellent tools. The cutscenes thing is more substantive, but that might be because they're planning to withhold story elements until D23.
Worst case, this looks like a game that is in excellent technical shape but still deep in the asset generation and balancing/tuning phase of development, which doesn't scream mid-end 2017 to me. Honestly I think there is a non-trivial chance we'll see KH3 before FFXV, where we know with confidence that Luminous still has a ways to go.
I'm betting FFXV is coming around mid-2016 - if they're kicking off the 'big marketing push' at Gamescom there's no way that's going for more than a year.
In KH3's case I'm convinced the leaked video was real (I highly doubt someone got a Leonard Nimoy soundalike to record lines for a fake leak) and it's Winter 2016. A theory I heard is that that video is the trailer for the D23 Japan Expo in November, and they showed it privately to journalists at E3 who won't be able to go to Japan so they could still report on it when it comes around.
FFVIIR will probably be 2017 - they're going to want to get it out for roughly the 20th Anniversary of the original game, the marketing potential is really strong. Plus, if it really has been in development for over a year, that would mean a development period of about 3.5 years assuming a Holiday 2017 release, which seems believable given how much of the groundwork for the game (story, characters, world design, etc.) is already complete. If it comes in 2018 I think it'll be because something went wrong.
In KH3's case I'm convinced the leaked video was real (I highly doubt someone got a Leonard Nimoy soundalike to record lines for a fake leak) and it's Winter 2016. A theory I heard is that that video is the trailer for the D23 Japan Expo in November, and they showed it privately to journalists at E3 who won't be able to go to Japan so they could still report on it when it comes around.
FFVIIR will probably be 2017 - they're going to want to get it out for roughly the 20th Anniversary of the original game, the marketing potential is really strong. Plus, if it really has been in development for over a year, that would mean a development period of about 3.5 years assuming a Holiday 2017 release, which seems believable given how much of the groundwork for the game (story, characters, world design, etc.) is already complete. If it comes in 2018 I think it'll be because something went wrong.
It's a fake. There's a video on YT from the guy who made it.
I honestly had no idea it was a Tangled world until I read more about the trailer. Nothing but the tower is recognizable.
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