https://www.sbs.com.au/popasia/blog/2018/01/11/final-fantasy-xv-director-hajime-tabata-future-series
"Initially, I wanted to make everything open world," Tabata tells SBS PopAsia. "However with this being our first attempt at creating an open world, we realised that would be impossible when taking into account the amount of time required in developing the technology and contents for that."
"In game development, it's always essential to clarify what we're going to, or not going to, implement from both a technology and work-based perspective. So the moment I decided that we were going to make Final Fantasy XV an open world, I had to make the decision to remove Nifelheim from that open world."
Personally, I will say this again and again: making XV Open World was a giant mistake. Even people who like/love the game... I think most who like/love it, like/love it in spite of the Open World, not because of it.
Thoughts?
"Initially, I wanted to make everything open world," Tabata tells SBS PopAsia. "However with this being our first attempt at creating an open world, we realised that would be impossible when taking into account the amount of time required in developing the technology and contents for that."
"In game development, it's always essential to clarify what we're going to, or not going to, implement from both a technology and work-based perspective. So the moment I decided that we were going to make Final Fantasy XV an open world, I had to make the decision to remove Nifelheim from that open world."
Personally, I will say this again and again: making XV Open World was a giant mistake. Even people who like/love the game... I think most who like/love it, like/love it in spite of the Open World, not because of it.
Thoughts?