duckroll said:
Or Deep Dive is the real proto-VersusXIII. I honestly hate the entire OrgXIII and World That Never Was part of KH in general. Hopefully with Versus Nomura can focus these ideas into a game where they actually fit in without being stupid.
Quite possible. Not to dip back into the 'how long' for Versus, that video is at least an indication of the direction he wanted to go. Maybe it was always more to his personal taste.
Castor Krieg said:
I on the other hand think that it's the opposite - office politics made S-E split this into FFXIII and VersusXIII to avoid constant comparisons between the two. My guess is a lot of people that worked on FFXIII (Kitase, say hi!) would be pissed if Versus became FFXV. Its most likely success (from what it looks like) will probably catapult Nomura to 2nd-in-charge to Wada. Way above Kitase and others.
Never underestimate Japanese tendency (or just general corporate culture) to backstab someone.
I think SE specifically put the two games together for people to compare. They're both called FFXIII, one is white, one is black, they both have promo shots of their protagonists on chairs in rooms reflecting the difference in tone, they were announced on the same day for the same platform, Nomura has made some pretty bitchy comments about Final Fantasy having gone in a direction he didn't care for. Even the title, versus, in opposition to. The games were meant to seen as two stabs at the next real entry I think. They just didn't expect FFXIII to be so poorly received, and for whatever reason, presumably Versus was meant to ship between XIII and XIII-2.
One thing that works against it being XV though, is I believe Nomura said he didn't intend to direct another Final Fantasy after this one. If this is really going to be a single aside for the series, giving it such prominence might not be wise.
Ultimately SE will do whatever the public demand. If Versus blows up, sells great and is reviewed very strongly, there won't be another tube RPG with a mainline number.
