Ito is the janitor, but the others generally work as producers on a fair bit of stuff.
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Rumor: Square Enix Seeking Developers for Numbered Game of Super-Famous RPG Series
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Ito is the janitor, but the others generally work as producers on a fair bit of stuff.
Dark Cloud
Member
So sad Ito is a janitor at Square. He should be the one directing FFXVI. I'm hoping he is.
LongDongJunon
Member
Act Raiser 3
FINALLY
FINALLY
I remember the last time this happened. It went Fabula.
I do want Toriyama to work on XVI as event director (if the superior choice, Jun Akiyama, is not available). I think he gets a lot of things right about how stories in Final Fantasy games should be portrayed to the player during scene presentation. Keep him away from being full director, though.
ShadowKingpin
Member
This is all that needs to happen.
plushyp
Member
I'm guessing this is kids freaking out over easy words at those spelling competitions?
Yeah, he knows how to direct sequences. I'm not sure if this is also his doing, but his games end up pretty polished (FF XIII was extremely polished for what it was at least). But keep him away from the story and directing anything else. He's kind of one of those guys that has strong qualities but goes completely off the deep end when he has too much control.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Producer: Yoshinori Kitase
Director: Motomu Toriyama
Lead Combat designer: Mat Kishimoto
Character Designer: Nao Ikeda
Art Director: Square Enix Mobile Game Division
Music Producer: Ariana Grande
Writer: Daisuke Watanabe
Event director: Shinji Hashimoto
:trollface:
Director: Motomu Toriyama
Lead Combat designer: Mat Kishimoto
Character Designer: Nao Ikeda
Art Director: Square Enix Mobile Game Division
Music Producer: Ariana Grande
Writer: Daisuke Watanabe
Event director: Shinji Hashimoto
:trollface:
Calm Mind
Member
Teletraan1
Banned
I don't trust this company to make most of the games listed here.
legacyzero
Banned
Agni's Philosophy: Final Fantasy
Idk, just threw the names i know and i like lol
Just need Tabata to take over the project after an arbitrary period and this is perfect.
Producer: Naoki Yoshida or someone else with experience on AAA projects. Let Tabata work on his new IP and take a break from FF, lol.
Director/Lead Combat designer: Nobuyuki Matsuoka
Character Designer: Yusuke Naora, Roberto Ferrari
Art Director: Yuki Matsuzawa
Music Director: Falk Au Yeong 😘
Composer: Mitsuto Suzuki & Yoshitaka Suzuki
Writer: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone at SE that's proven themself as a capable writer for the kind of story and characterization I want nowadays
besides Yoko Taro, but his writing is obviously too dark for a mainline FF
Event director: Jun Akiyama
Ooops, right
Nah, if Agni will be reused it's most likely for Tabata's new IP. The current Agni's Philosophy project is named WITCH and is headed by Tabata's BD2 team. See the last time Tabata presented it at the Microsoft Build conference in 2015: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1038568
APZonerunner has said this recently:
Damn, I like everything you've just said. Next singleplayer Final Fantasy by the team behind XIV, and Tabata and crew working on Agni's Philosophy in some form. This is great, I hope it ends up being accurate.
I would so love to see a sequel based on the incredible FFX-2.5 novel, just to see how absurd it would get and how fans would hate it 😂😂😂
I mean it's codenamed WITCH, but that's different to it actually being called that. The rest is deep conjecture.
Evidence that it will be a final fantasy are that its first name was "Final Fantasy Tech Demo" and that following its release at E3 they put out an open survey asking if people wanted a future final fantasy to feature the world and characters in Agni's Philosophy. It's far from confirmation that it will be FF16, but its definitely very strong evidence that at some point SE were considering making FF16, or an FF project out of AP.
LordKasual
Banned
BD2 is my new favorite team. I feel like they're going to be dishing out the most interesting material, coming off the heels of XV and Luminous Studio.
Yeah it seems like LS is still in the "what else can we do with this" phase. That Nvidia applications demo was definitely impressive, I'd love to see a game made from the ground up with that kind of stuff in mind.
UE4 will probably be used for pretty much everything that isn't XVI though
Yeah it seems like LS is still in the "what else can we do with this" phase. That Nvidia applications demo was definitely impressive, I'd love to see a game made from the ground up with that kind of stuff in mind.
UE4 will probably be used for pretty much everything that isn't XVI though
Yeah, their next title is going to be interesting to see. They have all the tech necessary, and I'm extremely curious how they are going to develop further on the systems they created for XV.
Especially since whatever it ends up being will be Tabata's first chance in a long time to create a game from scratch with his own direction.
i.e. I have a lot of faith in Tabata and his division for taking over the mess that was the FF Versus XIII project and turning it into one of my favorite Final Fantasies (even with its flaws).
LordKasual
Banned
It's crazy, they moved their scope forward in massive strides within the course of a single title. I've always been waiting for Square to finally move their games onto the more technologically modern scale. XV was the first title they've done with it, and already we've seen ridiculous concepts made reality in XV that we haven't seen before in other games. Even a game that just perfected what XV started would be all i'd ask for.
With the new tech they're using, the gap between "CG trailer" and "actual gameplay" is already smaller than ever, and for a Square Enix title, that is an exciting accomplishment. If Final Fantasy XIII had been announced a 4 years ago, it probably would have been a significantly different title. (i.e. what they initially hyped us on). By comparison, there really isn't much in the Versus XIII Citadel trailer that Noctis couldn't literally do in the actual game. Being able to abuse Lightning's gravity thingie probably would have been just as interesting as Noctis' Phasing ability.
If only they could spread this tech out and go back to developing random one-shot IPs like before (Brave Fencer, Parasite Eve, Threads of Fate, Bushido Blade, ect) instead of only Final Fantasy....whew. Haven't been this happy to be Square fan since the PSX glory days.
My safe prediction is that it is a Final Fantasy X prequel or a Final Fantasy XII sequel.
My really out of left field prediction is that they were hired to by either Sony,( to add to their repertoire of critically acclaimed PS4 JRPGs) or by Microsoft (because MS need JPGS and Spencer claimed that Japanese games will come) produce a sequel or prequel to either Grandia or Legend of
Dragoon. Either way, I think the game will be console exclusive on one system.
My really out of left field prediction is that they were hired to by either Sony,( to add to their repertoire of critically acclaimed PS4 JRPGs) or by Microsoft (because MS need JPGS and Spencer claimed that Japanese games will come) produce a sequel or prequel to either Grandia or Legend of
Dragoon. Either way, I think the game will be console exclusive on one system.
A world with FFX-3 that doesn't feature the blitzball explosion scene isn't a world I want to live in.
If there's to be an FFX-3, that scene needs to happen.
jomjom1985
Neo Member
Bravely Third
DiipuSurotu
Banned
The team was busy with FFXI and the main writer left SE to become a freelancer. After that, there was pretty much no one left at SE who really felt like the Chrono series was theirs to continue (especially considering how CT was such a collaborative effort back then).
It's not like some guy can come and say "I'll make a new Chrono game!" just because they're an employee of SE.
I see this statement all the time, and it always baffles me. Who do you trust to make a game using a property of the company that you don't trust? Are you saying that S-E doesn't and can't put out good games? Do you have ideas as to how those games should be made instead that's not just "copy the exact formula of the previous entry"? I seriously want to know. This exact statement gets brought up a lot, but it seems like more in talks about S-E by people who think any post-PS1 RPG not named Persona is trash.
I don't think so, and considering this is SE I doubt the definition of "super famous" is twisted. Maybe Fire Emblem, which SE obviously wouldn't be working on.
I actually like the story of the novel, there's a lot of potential. The history os the summoners, the Behdol, the war. Its' great!
But that scene man....that scene,...
Producer: Naoki Yoshida or someone else with experience on AAA projects. Let Tabata work on his new IP and take a break from FF, lol.
Director/Lead Combat designer: Nobuyuki Matsuoka
Character Designer: Yusuke Naora, Roberto Ferrari
Art Director: Yuki Matsuzawa
Music Director: Falk Au Yeong 😘
Composer: Mitsuto Suzuki & Yoshitaka Suzuki
Writer: Unfortunately, I don't know anyone at SE that's proven themself as a capable writer for the kind of story and characterization I want nowadays. They desperately need fresh blood in the writing department. No Watanabe or Nojima on a mainline FF anymore, please.besides Yoko Taro, but his writing is obviously too dark for a mainline FF
Event director: Jun Akiyama
Ooops, right
Yuki is a man:
Kazutoyo Maehiro has proven to be a good writer.
Thought Yuki was a woman.
Laplasakos
Member
If this is FFXVI, why they are looking for a 2D artist? Maybe they will go the DQXI/Ni No Kuni path?
Yusuke Naora designed the adult designs for the main party in FFXV and Old Noctis especially is one of the best designs in the series. They should let Naora do more adult, grounded designs like this.
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/FMyqUsC.jpg[/IMG]It says for Concept Art.
Laplasakos
Member
Oh, that makes sense. Kinda excited now. I wonder if they will announce it this year with a teaser for the FF30th anniversary.
mortal
Gold Member
He is a solid artist, but he has a long history with the series. I rather see new blood take a shot at the job. I agree about wanting more adult characters, although much of that would be attributed to how well written mature characters would be.
As I'm getting older, the problem I have with Square Enix is that a lot of their character development is unconvincing or inconsistent. I still feel like they think I'm 13 years old or something.
Tokita, kitase,matsui, horii
Theres a bunch of people still in Square, and Others who are freelancers Like mitsuda, nobuo.