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Tetsuya Nomura draws an artwork for FFXI.
- Thread starter Dark_castle
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Hero Prinny
Member
Does this guy do anything else besides do drawings? Go finish up kh3 for gods sake. (I'm just kidding BTW, it looks nice)
Me too. It makes me think that this pic could be applicable for when the servers are taken down, too. Put a few teardrops in the eyes of the people....... Good night, sweet timesink.
The Elite
BOSS
It's weird to be looking back on it. I remember seeing the leaked artwork from the announcement many years ago. I think it was 99? When the announced FFIX, X and XI at the same event.
I remember running the benchmark program to see how it was going to perform on my evga geforce 6800 ultra, lol.
Canis lupus
Member
This is why his games never get finished is it?
Pinko Marx
Banned
Man... the art style in XI is leagues ahead of XIV. Especially when it comes to armor design.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
ah, Nomura why don't you do a FFIX drawing
Probably because he has nothing to do with FFIX, whereas he was the original character designer for the FFXI Humes, Elvaans and Zilarts:
Here's also a concept art he did that was only used in the first FFXI announcement trailer in 2000:
And here's one he did for the game's 10th anniversary:
that is precisely why it would be so interesting to see his take on it!
Anyways, thank you for some really nice drawings!
No.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Ah, the last sketch looks great. Shame it wasn't made into a full coloured concept art.
Dead Prince
Banned
square probably also replaced him with another team and he's just using this to distract us until they finalize it.
Glorious Ownage
Member
Great looking piece. Brings back some awesome memories. I have a feeling no game will ever capture me again like ffxi did
Ugh this makes me so nostalgic for XI. Why couldn't XIV have been XI-2 like it should have been? My veins ache for XI, but I miss the days when everyone was exping everywhere and having a 75 or 2 was a big deal. I miss the days when Windurst, San'doria, and Bastok were full of people crafting and questing and the AHs in those places were viable shopping destinations and people were shouting for 2-3 fights and teleports.
I remember walking to Maze of Shakhrami for one of my earliest exp parties (a famous Maze Maker party) and seeing a 75 RDM on a chocobo and shitting myself. I didn't have a chocobo license at this point, or a subjob. I hadn't even been anywhere other than Windurst. At one point, I asked a friend of mine where "the next town was," because I thought the game was structured like a typical JRPG and you were supposed to go from town to town.
EXP parties may have been boring back in the day, but I always liked them because they were the perfect pace to talk to your party or LS while you killed stuff. One of my absolute favorite things about XI is that it was always a very social game, and nothing since has had that same vibe.
I remember walking to Maze of Shakhrami for one of my earliest exp parties (a famous Maze Maker party) and seeing a 75 RDM on a chocobo and shitting myself. I didn't have a chocobo license at this point, or a subjob. I hadn't even been anywhere other than Windurst. At one point, I asked a friend of mine where "the next town was," because I thought the game was structured like a typical JRPG and you were supposed to go from town to town.
EXP parties may have been boring back in the day, but I always liked them because they were the perfect pace to talk to your party or LS while you killed stuff. One of my absolute favorite things about XI is that it was always a very social game, and nothing since has had that same vibe.
JadedWriter
Member
I love his artwork. Is he going to be doing a Play Arts Riddler or Bane figurine next week?
Glorious Ownage
Member
100% agree. Had a talk with a friend recently where we were feeling super nostalgic about that game. Really miss it. Seems times a changing don't know if there will ever be another game like it again.
A remake of an ongoing MMO?
no, he's just signaling Tanaka to find a good worthy position for him with Gungho.
Ongoing, yet stagnating. A remake can increase subscription numbers. It doesn't have to be a full blown remake, but having graphics on par with FFXIV.
Trust me, this will never happen. first, it would then occupy the same space that FFXIV is trying to capture - FF-mmorg with sexy graphics. second, FFXI can be used to win over those gamers unable to play FFXIV for hardware reasons.
Overall, FFXI is a cheap way of bringing in extra £ without having to do anything more than simple upkeep and small PR adventures to reclaim lost players by playing on nostalgia.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Ohh, I didn't even notice the Tarutaru in the smaller pic.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
Looking at this picture, I kinda think this is what FFVII's world would've looked like during it's medieval period. Interesting, though, I'm not much for Nomura's more modern art, but I'd LOVE a medieval FF game that delves HIGHLY into his medieval-inspired art.Here's also a concept art he did that was only used in the first FFXI announcement trailer in 2000:
I also remember that video that showed other areas of FFXI(early build). There were some really colorful, pastel-looking fantasy towns and floating balloon cities(which I think will eventually be used in FFXIV, given some of the concept art).
Tetsuya Nomura is far more versatile than people give him credit for.
As for the people saying he should be working on KH3... really? You think that because he drew one piece of art, that means he's slacking on KH3? Yeesh...
Glad to see him keep doing promotional images for the series. This reminds me of some of his Dissidia work.
Not up to his usual standard IMO
The faces esp
Don't even look like he drew them
Now these are great :0
The faces esp
Don't even look like he drew them
Now these are great :0
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Nomura is the guy in the middle, we just see his back, a man about to leave to some place. He's surrounded by his friends at SE who are there to see him off, hoping he finds a better place.
Lumpy Onion
Member
I personally prefer Akihiko Yoshida. But they are both super.
And I dunno, this XI pic isn't really that interesting to me visually.
how does his burning anger fit into all of this?
This made me laugh more than what it should have.