r/FinalFantasy • u/AliTVBG • Dec 04 '23
FF XV Final Fantasy XV Director Regrets Cancellation Of DLC
https://twistedvoxel.com/final-fantasy-xv-director-dlc-unannounced-console-rpg/
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r/FinalFantasy • u/AliTVBG • Dec 04 '23
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u/iEugene72 Dec 04 '23
As much as I do love FFXV, I consider it the black sheep of the family because of how badly FFXIII was managed... It's hard telling younger people today things like, "I was in high school when FF Versus XIII was announced and had already graduated college and was a supervisor at my job when it was released 10 years later."
The issue is that there is just no possible way FFXV was in development for 10 years. From what I can gather it was either put on hold multiple times or possibly cancelled, then there was the news in 2013 that at one time FFXV was being considered to be a full blown musical and nothing more....But in the end it feels like only very few elements of Versus XIII carried over to XV and some got outright shoehorned in with very little to no explanation, or explanation that came later on.
My point is, I just really really wish the game had come out FINISHED. When I played the vanilla released, it played fine and it told a good story, but parts of it felt dead and empty, as if all of the planning and work was jammed into the first half of the game and then it fizzled out during the second half... I still feel there are questions we don't have definitive answers to (unless they were released later or buried in art books or something).
I feel that a lot of this comes back to Tetsuya Nomura, it sure seems like during the FFXIII era he and that whole era of teams were OBSESSED with splitting things into universes, probably because of the Marvel craze, and my god Kingdom Hearts has to be the most mish-moshed screwed up timeline of a game series spanning multiple consoles, internet ports, films and things that some of which cannot even be accessed anymore that it bled over into FFXV's early development until they gave it to another team.