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Alekzan

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Guys, can anyone give a link on that big article about final fantasy with all main and important stuff members. I forgot the name an cant find it >.<
 

llazy77

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A video going through Nomuras latest interview. And this is what Ive been saying all along and Nomura admits it, it is not his fault for the delays on his games it is square enix's fault. This is why Versus XIII never got off its feet and took so long. Nomura would've finished it, if square actually let him. And not took his staff to work on XIII and XIV at that time.
 

Jenova

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That's not definitive proof. He could be just defending himself. It's a matter of he said/she said if we're being honest until more conclusive information comes forward.

However, knowing Square-Enix's and their previous bumbling it's highly possible Nomura is telling the truth. At least the management has changed from the XIII/XIV days as Yoichi Wada is no longer in charge. Furthermore, if you do think Nomura is telling the truth then his alleged "anger" is at Square-Enix upper management. Not Tabata as some have theorized here. Tabata didn't take Versus away from Nomura and move him on another project. Upper management did. Anyway, it will be interesting to see if more developments about this will come out. Nomura may get more vocal as his does press tours or someone else reliable may corroborate his version of events. If there's one thing for certain, this Versus drama isn't going away anytime soon it seems.
 

Nova

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Only vapid degenrates would cling to the belief that Nomura would ever hold a grudge towards Tabata, the latter literally outright said last year that Kitase and Nomura + their passion within major projects they were involved in were his biggest influences on getting a good sense of Sakaguchi's expectations in a FF title.

People really need to stop projecting their personal feelings on Nomura as if they speak for the man.

@Storm Yeah, here is what he mentioned in his words.

Nomura on How Long Development is Taking

“A lot of people have been mentioning and making it sound like ‘Oh, Nomura’s taking too much time,’ and it hurts,“ Nomura said. He continued that the decision to switch development to Unreal Engine 4 was made by those higher up than himself after about a year of development, which caused extensive delays. Certain timing and resource-related challenges within Square Enix also played a role.

“There was a decision made to change to an external [engine]…Unreal Engine 4,” he said. “So we switched over to that. Unfortunately there was a bit of time that needed to be rewinded and started over. So there was a bit of a setback there, but it was a decision that the company had to make, so it was inevitable.”

He continued, “We had a plan of the period that it’s going to take for us to create the content at the start of the project, and we laid out, after such and such years, we would need to add more personnel resources. We had submitted it to our headquarters and had it approved, but internal personnel is very limited, and there are various different projects that happen within our company, so unfortunately timing did not work out. So we had to make due with the timing that was appropriate for the company…the company makes the decisions, so unfortunately sometimes it is out of my control.”

Nomura emphasized that the long development period was not a result of development problems or decisions made by him or his team. “I wanted to emphasize that it wasn’t a problem on our development teams,” he said. “It just happened that way, and there were some decisions that the company had to make, and it just didn’t work out for certain timings that we were hoping to hit.

“It’s kind of out of my hands. I mean, yes, time has passed. But it’s out of my hands.”

http://gematsu.com/2017/07/tetsuya-...blade-transformations-dlc#wsKlHLkdq2A9usLE.99
 
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Jubileus

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Very interesting. Taking the issue of Tabata and Nomura aside, I've long seen that Square does have staffing and management problems.

As a whole, I do think the company needs to work on its management side of things because the way they're handling their projects and marketing events aren't really that great...
 

SonOfEtro

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Very interesting. Taking the issue of Tabata and Nomura aside, I've long seen that Square does have staffing and management problems.

As a whole, I do think the company needs to work on its management side of things because the way they're handling their projects and marketing events aren't really that great...
Maybe now they're more willing to collaborate with descent outside studios, things will look up. I mean, we got Nier Automata out of their new approach to game and franchise management.
 

Alekzan

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Lets not go ahead of all this and starting to pity him. For all ppl with logical and cool mind, everything was clear from the start during those dark times and even now. Sure part of problems are up to the heads of SE and management department. But another part belongs to those who are in the head of that same project. And taking this interview it look not in preety light, like someone of us see it and trying to convince others.
Nomura by saying this words already prepared safe board for him just in case. Before the project even saw the light, the captain already trying to blame others but not himself. And thats, if you ask me, well, not a very good. So if the game will have a problems, or cut conntent, or anything else, and the game will have this for sure, we must blame someone else, but not him. If we were pirates, we would already sent that 'captain' to feed sharks. Before somene will argue, ill say this: I wouldnt had any problems with that interview, if he would said this some time after release the game, but not DURING IT.
And the most important thing, when ppl blaming Nomura for his fails, his fanboys like blind hamsters trying to protect their saint god, but when they starting to blame, for example, Tabata, they are like crazy saying burn him, kill him, fire\discharge, cause he ruined and destroyed work of our saint. Why only Tabata? Everyone else blame too then. If you treat Tabata or others in that way, expect others to treat Nomura in the same way, cause Twelves see, he deserved this too.
P.S. there is one big difference between Tabata and Nomura, which makes first more in a good light, not only like a specialist, but like a person\man in general. At least in my own eyes.
 
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Storm

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about the discussion: all in all, even though Square-Enix might be the bigger culprit i'm sure nomura also had his part. It's funny when his fans try to defend him while they blame tabata for everything considering he also had to submit to whatever decisions the company made (just like nomura); clear case of double standards.
 
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FFXV made it to Famitsu's poll top 20 RPGs

https://twitter.com/bk2128/status/887719888302727169

1. Persona 5
2. Dragon Quest 3
3. Chrono Trigger
4. Nier Automata
5. FF VII
6. Dragon Quest 5
7. Suikoden 2
8. Nier (Replicant)
9. Persona 3
10. FF XV
11. Xenoblade
12. FF X
13. Xenogears
14. Persona 4 Golden
15. Dragon Quest 4
16. FF VI
17. Mother 2
18. FF IX
19. FF VIII
20. Witcher 3
 

llazy77

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FFXV made it to Famitsu's poll top 20 RPGs

https://twitter.com/bk2128/status/887719888302727169

1. Persona 5
2. Dragon Quest 3
3. Chrono Trigger
4. Nier Automata
5. FF VII
6. Dragon Quest 5
7. Suikoden 2
8. Nier (Replicant)
9. Persona 3
10. FF XV
11. Xenoblade
12. FF X
13. Xenogears
14. Persona 4 Golden
15. Dragon Quest 4
16. FF VI
17. Mother 2
18. FF IX
19. FF VIII
20. Witcher 3
wtf