In the 2020 ambitions article, he said the following:
Great to see him get back on his feet so fast and not get lost to mobile.
Great to see him get back on his feet so fast and not get lost to mobile.
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Hajime Tabata (FFXV) studio JP Games expanding, aiming for AAA
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"JP Games" may in fact be the least creative name for a development studio I've ever heard. Hopefully their actual projects are a fair deal more exciting than that name.
He's working on a paralympics sports rpg so that's something
Crisis Core, Final Fantasy Type-0, and releasing FFXV in the half-done state it was when it launched.
The last part of your sentence is making me thinking of poor Hironobu Sakaguchi...
cc is ok I guess.
So I'm kinda confused if we should be optimistic here for a AAA game.
It might be shocking to hear to some people around here, but Type 0 has its fans and FFXV was liked by many and in my opinion a solid game.
edit: nvm, didnt know he co-directed it.
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He did more than that, he pulled it out of development hell and released a game that both reviewed well and sold a ton (almost 9 million copies).
The guy gets shit done.
If Sony or whoever wants to fund a high budget JRPG then Tabata is who they should be contacting.
That's exactly who was on my mind when I typed it :(
Now I want Hajime Tabata to host a traveling reality TV show called "Unfuck This Game"
Crisis Core felt rushed, was however an enjoyable time with a nonsensical story.
Type-0 felt rushed, I had my fun with it's flawed gameplay. Story seemed interesting but in the end felt unfinished and unpolished
XV felt rushed and unfinished and got parts of it's story rectoned post released... I hate it...
With that being said, those Para Athletes deserves the spotlight ! I really hope that he can give them Justice. I want this game to be a success and I'm rooting for it.
Type-0 felt rushed, I had my fun with it's flawed gameplay. Story seemed interesting but in the end felt unfinished and unpolished
XV felt rushed and unfinished and got parts of it's story rectoned post released... I hate it...
With that being said, those Para Athletes deserves the spotlight ! I really hope that he can give them Justice. I want this game to be a success and I'm rooting for it.
IIRC, that was his first project and he was being fucked around by toriyama and Nomura
He didn't want the clothes thing either
Ah nvm then
Holy shit, this dude always gotta deal with shit
Crisis core should have just been a decent Zack prequel but Nomura wanted gackt in it
Thrid birthday he was being dicked around
And XV was a disaster with almost a decade of trailer hype from versus13 which never had a concrete plot
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Sure will be nice to see what he comes up with when he doesn't have to clean up Nomura's mess.
I really hope him and Nomura don't have any bad blood between them. Though I wouldn't be surprised if there was
I always wandered what Nomura thinks of XV and Tabata Noctis but looking at Verum Rex, I assume he's not too fond of it.
Type-0's plot was significantly more nonsense than Crisis Core and XV put together. I don't have a lot of sympathy for the guy. It's clear he's a hard worked but every game he's ever been involved in has suffered from a lot of similar issues.
I'm sure Nomura has something against Square-Enix in general.
They took the decision to remove him, not Tabata. Although he seem disappointed with XV
The 3rd Birthday is a lot of fun gameplay wise, I just pretend there is no story whenever I replay it. Starting from scratch on the hardest difficulty is sooo challenging, I love it.
But yeah, he's pretty bad.
But yeah, he's pretty bad.
With the lack of exclusive japanese games MS should bank roll this. Even if bad. Just need some of that type of content.
He "pulled it out of development hell" because he was forced to. He had a concrete deadline. The story was botched to hell and back and was never fixed. Chapters 1-8 are a horribly written joke and Chapters 9-14 are like Cliff's Notes of Cliff's Notes of Cliff's Notes of Cliff's Notes.
Game still has tons and tons of problems, even after 2 years of updates. Lots of fundamental flaws with the battle system. I don't think he should be commended for just throwing something out the door bc he was forced to. I like XV now, but to praise Tabata for how he handled XV? Absolutely not. None of the trailers for the game are remotely accurate aside from Uncovered and onwards. Does that seem like a director that "gets shit done" to you? A director that throws out a shitload of work because he's prioritizing the wrong things? His priorities were completely out of wack, regardless of the dev situation and the annoyances of the Luminous engine. His team had no experience with open world games and he still made that the absolute top priority, and he knew he had a strict deadline. And remember the E3 Titan demo? That was universally panned and it was completely unchanged for the full game? And then there's shit like the food, though to be fair I'm not exactly sure if that was resource-intensive. And then once released, he and his team basically started treating the game like a test run for their next game. I could only imagine how great XV would be if Tabata wasn't so fucking stubborn about making XV open world, along with prioritizing animations over everything else battle system-wise.
That said, I'm cautiously optimistic towards what he's creating. I like Type-0, but only because I use the Arena glitch to avoid the horrible grind and because I used Japanese voices.
All his games are extremely flawed, but I think he has some potential
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Not really interested in the mobile game, but glad to see that he has plans to work on a AAA game.
I think he just wants to do his own thing right now. He said he got plenty of offers from other studios when he left Square.
Dunno about not wanting it, but he's correct about Nomura being the one who came up with the idea. Talking about the clothes thing.
