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Luminous Engine Technical Director Yoshihisa Hashimoto Leaves Square Enix
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I think that FFVII tech demo is 2006 was made using some kind or early Crystal Tools but I'm not sure, I may be totally wrong.
Agreed
artsi
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I'll wait for official information from SE before drawing any conclusions regarding the state of Luminous.
Maybe he left for personal reasons, directors are human too, situations change and stuff happens. In the end he's just one man with a title in a huge company, and might've been replaced already.
I agree but I'm not sure SQEX would tell everyone that their engine is "dead" after all they said about it. Even assuming that the engine is "dead" I'm sure it was not 100% wasted time though.
Hah, imagine.
E3 2015.
FF7 Remake Teaser. Logo and text only.
Fans go crazy.
10 years later. FF7 press only gameplay teaser.
Please be excite.
FF7 Remake Teaser. Logo and text only.
Fans go crazy.
10 years later. FF7 press only gameplay teaser.
Please be excite.
Triggerhappytel
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Squeenix: in order to make some money please sell Eidos to a decent publisher, or let them buy back their independence.
artsi
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Probably not, but it'll be clear that Luminous was scrapped if they announce that they've licensed UE4 for future games, or something like that.
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Deleted member 20920
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The demo will be "included" with the 4K version of Lightning Saga: Children of Lightning, the 3rd part in a trilogy about Lightning's new life in post LR.
That depends on how well documented UE4 is for the Japanese. UE3 had very bad and limited documentation in Japanese when SE used it for Last Remnant and that resulted in a badlly made 360 version and Japanese fans still constantly voting for The Last Remnant (PS3 Version) in the Famitsu weekly chart for Most Anticipated Game.
1.21Gigawatts
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Nachtigall ik hör dir trapsen.
Yeah exactly.
He was lead director of the Hedgehog engine which was first used in Unleashed, and that came out in 2008, he then left Sega in 2009, and later Generations used the Hedgehog engine in 2011 without him, I think people are jumping the gun thinking him leaving Luminous means the engine is dead, because the Hedgehog engine didn't die after he left Sega either.
CoffeeExpress
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Obviously something like UE is just too mature and well documented to compete with their own inhouse Luminous engine...
This just stinks of bad management and stubbornness
This just stinks of bad management and stubbornness
JordanN
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It was?
I remember this game got wailed on for having no grass (the infamous "lawn mower fantasy")
FFXIII was the most jarring game from a technical point of view. The game looked amazing at times and then, out of nowhere, there would be places that looked like crap compared to anything else. Lightning's model was really impressive in-game but there were times in cut scenes where the quality of the model would differ greatly. Some environments had great textures and then there were some small areas or just stones, or w/e that would have poor PS2 quality textures.
Sorry man, after that TLG thread and now this, I can't help but thinking that you truly are a masochist.
True
Yeah I got bored and irritated by The Last Remnant almost instantly, even the camera movements were terrible to me.
Anyway does anyone expects something new from Nomura this week at SDCC?
Bad grass and fingers yep. Apart from that it was amazing imo.
Hoffen wir mal nicht
Man, even though we know for so long that barely anyone of the old, golden era staff is even at SE anymore it's still makes me sad to see it crumble slowly but surely. It's been a part of my life for as long as I can think...
Well, maybe this news isn't as bad as we think. I'm sure we'll see a FFXV trailer at Gamescom next month. Or at TGS at the latest.
BELIEVE.
He's going to be on the same radio show he was on just weeks before the Versus/XV re-reveal last year too, so I expect nothing more than a "please look forward to future updates (laughs)".
Vinterbird
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I don't think selling the only successful part of your company is the smart move.
Hoffen wir mal nicht
Man, even though we know for so long that barely anyone of the old, golden era staff is even at SE anymore it's still makes me sad to see it crumble slowly but surely. It's been a part of my life for as long as I can think...
Well, maybe this news isn't as bad as we think. I'm sure we'll see a FFXV trailer at Gamescom next month. Or at TGS at the latest.BELIEVE.
TGS for sure imo. Gamescom looks silly since they skipped E3 but who knows... Square is such a troll company sometimes lol.
Please be excited for FFXV new infos soon --> No news for 1+ year lol
Edit:
I don't even know if Eidos can be considered the "most successful" part of the company or even "successful". I loved their DE: Human Revolution but keep in mind they were losing lots of money before Square Enix acquired them. Don't know too much about Thief but I guess it wasn't that profitable.
Edit2: Plus I believe Square Enix helped Eidos/Crystal Dynamics a lot with their project (Visual Works and stuff)
Poetic.Injustice
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Another year of that would be laughable indeed.
Haha, yeah. I was thinking "Is this a big news"? Bam. Three mods in a row.
UnlovedJew
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If he was the dude who made the Hedgehog Engine look that good last gen and was going to revolutionize the looks of FF the same way, then this shit is terrible. Luminous was one of the best looking things a few e3s ago. :/
Samurai_Heart
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Any news whether he is making a new company or joining another?
BruiserBear
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Has a single game been shown running in real time on the Luminous engine?
That guy seems to be quite the talent. Wonder what that will mean for ffxv
Isn't ffxv using the engine? There's some real time gameplay of that.
Edit:my mistake apparently is the luminous engine only used for lightning in that game
lol, that's what I was thinking
Edit:my mistake apparently is the luminous engine only used for lightning in that game
The story of Square Enix must be more tragic. Therefore a Pachinko company will buy them and just make Final Fantasy themed Pachinko machines.
Stone Ocean
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Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
Considering it's more than one year that we don't hear anything about it I don't think it's out of possibilities. If adopting 3rd party engines can speed up their development problems I'm all up for it.
AmaterasuOni
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No! One of my favorite studios. I really hope this isn't going to mean doom for FFXV and KHIII. I've always thought Japanese leadership is really tight, but it seems that most of these studios are ran like some anarchic movement.
AmaterasuOni
Banned
I went on Facebook to see the post for myself...
Eh, "thanks for the cum!" Erhm, ok.
Damn, I totally forgot about the Luminous Engine. I've been highly impressed when I saw the presentation back then at E3 2012. It got me very excited about the next generation of consoles.
I just hope that the engine and the corresponding games won't suffer from this. Also, good luck to the guy.
I just hope that the engine and the corresponding games won't suffer from this. Also, good luck to the guy.
I went on Facebook to see the post for myself...
What a nice birthday present.
I went on Facebook to see the post for myself...
Bing joke wrote itself there.
You mean Final Fantasy XIII-4 Lightning Strikes AgainNot before they release FFXV/KH3...
I went on Facebook to see the post for myself...
Bing Translate at its best
I went on Facebook to see the post for myself...
Wat
It's the same with the Jap->German translation as well
That birthday was probably nuts
I went on Facebook to see the post for myself...
Oh boy.
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