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Luminous Engine Technical Director Yoshihisa Hashimoto Leaves Square Enix
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Holy crap. He was a pretty big hire when they announced it, having spearheaded the tech at Sonic Team for Sonic the Hedgehog. Now he leaves before a single title is ever released from Square Enix using the tech he was put in charge of? Amazing. It really highlights what a clusterfuck the management at S-E Japan has been.
Wow. You know shit's bad when three mods in a row express their shock
That's unfortunate.
That's unfortunate.
Oh no.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Huh.
Well this is a huge bummer. This is the guy to thank for kicking off not only the Sonic Unleashed game play formula but the great graphical engine to go along with it. I was hoping that talent would reflect greatly on Square Enix but now it doesn't even seem like that's going to happen.
The Xtortionist
Member
Oh shit, this is the same guy that worked on the Hedgehog Engine? That thing put out some amazing graphics; the daytime stages in Sonic Unleashed looked ridiculous, and Generations was no slouch either.
Will be interesting to see what happens next at Square.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Nah I doubt that to be honest. He loves Kingdom Hearts too much to leave the company.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Shit, I was hoping that SE would make a comeback this gen. 
JordanN
Banned
Only a FF7 remake can save them now.
Long have I believed they wouldn't remake it unless they're on their last legs. Looks like they're heading there now.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
I don't like the sound of this.
Well at this point i can only hope for Nomura and all the other incredibly talented developers to leave SE and find a company, or even found a new one. At this point is only wasted talent.
And iirc this engine was supposed to refresh and modernize SE's console output lol.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
So how long before SE poops out FFXV and KH3 and goes the way of Crytek?
Uh oh...let's just hope this means that the engine is completed and the remaining staff knows it well enough to handle any problems that might occur.
bahahahaha not gonna happen, actually: Kingdom Hearts III, Final Fantasy XV and Final Fantasy Type-0 HD coming to you on UE4....in 2020
Yes. He's a programmer from Sonic Team who originally worked on all the Chao simulation stuff for the Sonic Adventure games, then he led the technical team that built the Hedgehog Engine, and he directed Sonic Unleashed. He's definitely talented, and seemed to have the right ideas about what Luminous needed. The Luminous team at S-E also seemed pretty diverse, with team members from outside of Japan too.
Too bad nothing came out of it.
Black Republican
Member
why wasnt this engine used for F13? what replaced it?
Luminous came after Crystal Tools IIRC
I think you are thinking of Crystal Tools here.
But, man, what's going on with Square? Seriously.
FFXIII used the Crystal Tools Engine not the Luminus Engine.
edit:beaten...
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Wouldn't that actually be significantly cheaper than trying to make their own clusterfuck engine for like 2 games per generation?
zerokoolpsx
Member
They haven't used their Luminous Engine since the Agni demo.
Him leaving is huge.
Him leaving is huge.
I'm still hoping that but so far I've only seen people leaving the company.Shit, I was hoping that SE would make a comeback this gen.
Nah I disagree, they just need to release godly-tier games. FF7 remake is a hard task imo and I think there were also tons of threads about this.
Oh come on Square Enix is not that bad and we don't know why so many people left the company recently. Naoki Yoshida for example did an amazing job at Squeenix.
DaSorcerer7
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FFXV -- 2018
at the earliest
HalfwayOrb
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Basileus777
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Why can't they use the engine work of their western studios? Crystal Dynamics has their own engine right?
I believe they have a giant problem implementing things. They may have amazing ideas but it's pretty useless if you can't bring them into a game.
They surely have amazing people still working there but come on everyone knows they basically spent an entire generation releasing FFXIII sequels (I loved XIII BTW) while they were working on their "huge" and "amazing" engine.
I really hope they'll fix their things and make a comeback soon. Unfortunately we already know FFXV and KH3 won't be released anytime soon and Type 0 looks like a rushed announcement just to please few fans who wanted to see FFXV at E3.
Edit:
I think someone said in the past that it's kind of hard for Japanese Developers to use western engines. They're probably made for different kind of games and maybe they also lack japanese documentation (yeah I know japanese know english too).
I may be wrong though.
tearsofash
Member
As long as I can still play FFXIV and maybe one day FFXV.
At least he has a new job, though.
At least he has a new job, though.
Well he was talented, shouldn't have been hard for him to find a new job.
Yes but i thought the predicament was
Crystal tools was being made » used in ff 13 » crystal tools was a giant turd because of poor management » then they moved people from crystal tools to luminous
Memory is fuzzy anyways
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