lol, suddenly FF7 Remake was obvious? C'mon man.
Please re-read what I exactly said about that. It wasn't obvious that it would happen now at E3 2015, but imo it was bound to happen in the future, even when it wasn't on PS4. "FF7R is coming" is something many people said (it was already a "joke" in a forum like GAF when there was a new rumour about it), so he was just another person. If he'd have said, 2015 will be the year of FF7R, that would have been more noteworthy. But "a FF7R is coming" is so unspecific, it's just something many people would put in a list, if they'd pretend to know a lot of stuff.
My criticism was exactly about this. His "leaks" that are coming true, are just like "Big/Known IP => new game is coming". The more unusual stuff has not happened yet or is still years away according to him.
But I'll give him some plus points now for this:
I imagine Nomura needs to be freed up before they start making any real progress with some of this stuff, although he's no stranger to juggling various works. But considering he's busy with KH3 at the moment, that's why my best guess in regards to the development timeline would be for this to kick into gear sometime after KH3 is completed. I have mentioned this point before. This last part is my assumption though. Kitase and him are basically the key people for it all.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=142521175&postcount=2035
That's finally a bit more specific and not something everyone would talk about. And even when FFVII was their baby, the main people behind the remake could still have been some other people.
I'll give another example of what I mean:
JRPG #1
JRPG #2
JRPG #3
JRPG #4
JRPG #5
New Shadow Hearts
Final Fantasy X spin-off
FF7 spin-off
FF6 remake
New Parasite Eve
Monster Hunter PS4
DMC5
New Capcom TPS IP (Because we need more TPS)
New Prince of Persia
New Cyberpunk Action/Adventure/RPG IP
New Sega Action/Adventure IP
New Marvel Action/Adventure title
New Soul Calibur
New Rockstar IP
So if for example DMC5, a new SC, new Rockstar IP, PoP etc. would be announced, would you say then that Verendus leaked that? Sorry, but for me that's not a leak.
On the other hand, a FFX spin off or new Shadow Hearts is something not so usual. Sure, SE made the FFX/X-2 HD-collection, but still not many people would think that a new spin off is coming just because of that. I''ll be one of the first people who will post "good job, verendus" in the anouncement thread, if that happens. I swear.
But again: These didn't happen yet, like the other unusual stuff from him.
And some more bold predictions I mentioned already like "FF16 announcement in 2014/2015" were even wrong.
Since he claims to know all these projects (he even saw FF7R with his own eyes), he must be really deep in all this stuff. So why can't he be just a bit more specific about at least one game that's getting announced soon. For example the two JRPGs. No need to leak everything about them, just some hints about the look of the main char, a name of a city or the subtitle of the game, nothing more. That's exactly what shinobi did with Horizon. GG's Horizon was a fresh unknown IP and he leaked some specific stuff like the project name or the "red-haired girl" as the protagonist. That's nothing what brings anyone's job in danger, but still is on point and noone could've guessed it without exactly knowing about it.
Verendus is teasing games like that instead:
Sucker Punch - They don't make excessively long games. It's also going to be visually amazing; you can tell that already. I like how the gameplay is shaping up. Kind of cinematic.
Benders - Covers my favourite genre, and also adds elements of another genre I love. Has the kind of mechanics that I now largely prefer in my games. Nice artstyle. Kind of cinematic. This is the one that has one thing I dislike about it, but we'll see with the end result.
Japan Studio - Uncommon artstyle. Uncommon genre (at least from WWS). Interesting looking. Different from the usual kind of games we get. Third person. Kind of cinematic.
The japan game is the only one a bit more specific, but "Uncommon artstyle" and "3rd person"? Isn't that what practically all of their games have, except for their J&Rs (they're obviously not 3rd person in the traditional way
).
To close this, I'll quote myself:
But I never said he doesn't know anything, just much less than he's pretending to.
So here's a deal:
Since he seems to know stuff about multiple projects that'll be revealed in 2 or more years, then he should easily know something like a name/subtitle (or anything like that noone ever heared before) that will appear in the next year. Nothing else, he does not even have to say who is developing it, just a name like "New Game: Game of Forever" that will be dropped in the next year/"near" future. If he can do it, I'll gladly eat any crow you guys will serve me.
Btw. I probably wouldn't even have said something if he'd be one of the "silent" leakers. With that I mean people who just leak stuff and do not care if people believe them or not. But Verendus isn't really like that, he wants the people to say that he knows all this stuff. At least he commented to some people in the past when they said he was wrong or that they do not believe him. That's why I asked him to earn this "trust" with things, really noone have heared about before (that shouldn't be too hard with the knowledge he has about the new IPs).
Sorry for another (long) post, but I didn't want to get my previous post derailed by an one-liner, that wasn't exactly showing the whole picture of what I said.
Edit:
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The only explanation.
Now that would be a good explanation.