Seven years and a month after it was first announced in E3 under the name Final Fantasy Versus 13 , Final Fantasy 15 finally had its first "real" debut trailer revealed at the LA Convention Center last week; However, as director Tetsuya Nomura revealed to Famitsu magazine in this week's issue, the decision to rename the project got its start a lot earlier than you'd think.
By that time, a fair amount of time had already passed since the announcement and Versus was a well-known title, so it wasn't a given that this would be 15 ; it could have still been Versus. As Nomura said, the final decision to switch to FF15 was made around two years ago. Why wait until now to mention that to the public, though? We worked together with assorted other divisions to get it announced at this E3.
As for that shift in platform to the PS4 and Xbox One, "there are several reasons," he explained. This meant that the lifespan of the current generation of consoles was starting to pose a problem to us. If we were a year later, other companies will have more time to research the next generation, and releasing the game against their products on the older generation could have caused us to look inferior when people inevitably compared us. Nomura and his team also found themselves hitting a wall graphically with the PS3 and However, the assumption was that we'd go ahead with a current-gen release, so went through a trial-and-error process to do as much as we could.
So we built an alpha version about a year ago, and the company response was 'If you remained bound to the current generation, will it will be the product you envisioned? A fan wanted to know why Tetsuya Nomura got removed as the director for the game. Hazmer gave this answer on Nomura: He has to pay full attention to Kingdom Hearts III, another game that is in dire need for release, so the company has left the rest of the production of FFXV to my director Tabata-san.
Talking about sharing the engine, Merceron said that he advised the company to avoid sharing between companies or internally between games until the engine had been finalized with the released game: this resulted in Luminous Studio being restricted to what would become Final Fantasy XV during development, while other ….
According to the developers at Square, they say that Lightning is the most powerful, but that was before FFXV came out. Without a doubt, Noctis is the most powerful character in the Final Fantasy series. Like many of the soldiers the team has been fighting for the entire time of their journey, Prompto is a Niflheim Magitek creation.
He was created from the work toward using the demons as soldiers and has no family outside of that which he has created with Noctus. Released in Japan in December and international in March , it is the thirteenth title in the mainline Final Fantasy series.
It has since been delayed to April 10th, Nomura explained that players won't be able to warp freely to every spot but will be able to warp to the location where the sword is placed but is limited to an attack gauge. This is one area that is being tested on so it's a matter of time to see if this all makes it into the final product.
Summon beasts are in the game and will have to be defeated to be used. Nomura has also said that the game may have Sixaxis support.
Its isolation is due to the city's resistance; to protect itself against invading heretics. The official trailer starts with the words, "This is a fantasy based on reality.
Very little information regarding the plot of the game has been revealed since E3 ; however, Square Enix representatives have commented that Versus may be the darkest Final Fantasy game yet. Screenshots from Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu , have revealed a large city reminiscent of Tokyo which showcases a recreation of the real-life Shinjuku, surrounding Square Enix's office, in game.
Noctis has three companions who have been revealed in the video game magazine Famitsu. He uses throwing knives in battle. The second is a bulkier man with long dark brown hair and a scar on the left side of his face, named Gladiolus voiced by Hiroki Yasumoto. In the January trailer, he's seen wielding a long two-hand sword. The third is a younger, blond-haired man named Prompto voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara , who is seen carrying a shotgun and teasing Noctis.
Unlike other characters, he can target weak spots on enemies with his precise aiming. These three people are Noctis's friends; they speak casually and amicably with him, and they also accompany him during his travels.
Another character, shown in a white robe, is seen facing off with Noctis. Noctis approaches the character with intent, implying that they are enemies.
Soldiers have been seen in the trailers as well. These unknown warriors wear medieval-styled armor but carry assault rifles that resemble modern automatic weapons. He possesses the same weapon-manipulating powers as Noctis, and is shown fighting another man, thought to be Stella's father or grandfather, the king of Tenebrae. The music is being composed by Yoko Shimomura , [ 2 ] with a theme song, "Somnus", performed by American singer Andrea Hopkins.
Nomura stated in May that absolutely nothing had been done on the actual scenario and that the team had yet to start actual work on the game's story. However, he also said that he had the plot worked out for some time in his mind and he was in the process of discussing the plot and concept with his staff.
Reports of June that Final Fantasy Versus XIII had been put on hold so that the Versus team could assist work on the main title, Final Fantasy XIII , were later debunked by Square Enix, stating that this was a mistranslation of an interview from Famitsu [ 40 ] and misinterpretation of the article, and that both games are moving along at their original schedules; occasionally, Versus developers would assist with Final Fantasy XIII development.
When asked by a Square Enix investor at a shareholders meeting about a possible Xbox port, president Yoichi Wada stated "We'll be looking into it internally until right before the formal announcement.
He is not specific, leading to speculation that the title is related to the next-gen Final Fantasy tech demo shown below. He says that the date has been set for the next big reveal. In addition, the game drops the PS3 and goes next-gen multiplatform, now coming exclusively to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. No specific release date is given, but it is not soon , whatever it is.
June Shortly after the re-reveal, Square Enix provides new art and character info. June A year after the announcement of the name change, fans were hoping to see the game reappear at E3. That didn't happen, with Hashimoto explaining that fans will have to wait until after E3 for more information.
The first was the changing of the director role ; Hajime Tabata took over for Tetsuya Nomura as the head of the project. February Square Enix releases new screens for the upcoming demo. For the first time, we get some solid, playable proof that this game is moving along toward release. After so many years, the public has its first playable taste of Final Fantasy XV. May Square Enix announces plans to release a substantial update to Episode Duscae, adding new combat options and quests.
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