Kingdom Hearts 4 was revealed at the KH 20th Anniversary Event Game set in Quadratum (Verum Rex). No platforms announced.
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there's way more to that though, yes it's extremely edgy but under that there's some legit good stuff! Also that special ending is what led to the first Nier too
I believe in spring 2024.
I think Square Enix is past their major development issues. XVI will be out in the next 12 months with VII Remake-2 and KH4 in late 2023 to spring/mid-2024.
I think Square Enix is past their major development issues. XVI will be out in the next 12 months with VII Remake-2 and KH4 in late 2023 to spring/mid-2024.
I don't know, I want to believe this comes out late 2023 or early 2024...but after KH3 development cycle and remembering how long it was from "We're making the world selection right now" untill release of the game, I can't believe we will see this before 2025.
An example:
https://www.khinsider.com/news/New-Kingdom-Hearts-3-Details-from-Dengeki-Playstation-3341
This is from 2013...
An example:
https://www.khinsider.com/news/New-Kingdom-Hearts-3-Details-from-Dengeki-Playstation-3341
This is from 2013...
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Final Fantasy XVI: 2022
Final Fantasy VII Remake Part Deux: 2023
Kingdom Hearts IV: 2024
Believe.
Final Fantasy VII Remake Part Deux: 2023
Kingdom Hearts IV: 2024
Believe.
with Forspoken pushed back, FF16 looks more like a 2023 title. FF7R Episode 2 could also be 2023 if 16 is early enough
It'll probably be our traverse,hollow bastion/twilight world.
If they do push XVI it to 2023 then I suspect it would be for marketing purposes rather than development time. IIRC, we got word that both Forspoken and XVI were planned for a 2021 release previously until COVID realities hit. That, combined with Yoshi-P planning the next XVI event in spring after saying he wanted the next reveal to be close to release, really makes me lean toward a winter/holiday 2022 release for XVI.
But, hey, we'll see!
Aren't they "expecting" forspoken to be a new big thing? They not gonna put ff16 in November a month after it
Yeah that's my guess. Part of me wonders if it could be a big open world and you travel to the Disney worlds through different parts of the city.
These two aren't really related. Both were originally scheduled for 2021 before development delays (largely due to COVID).
They said the next XVI showing would be when it was close to release and then they announced a showing for this spring. It's closer than most realize. If it does end up 2023, it'll likely be in the first quarter.
unless the game is coming in the middle of summer, there won't be any time left in 2022 for 16 to release
Hoping that it's not as early as III was when they announced it, but I'm not confident in that either. Especially since they're already saying they're going to change engines (yes it's just moving "up one" but still that's gonna break stuff and their work is really early)
Sure there will. XVI can absolutely be a November title. Nothing wrong with releasing it a month or so after Forspoken.
So one the things I really they do for KH4 is to try and do an overhaul of the whole localization process.
KH in general may not have the best written dialogue as we all know but imo this issue is amplified like 10x more
because of the really bad VA direction.
Take Riku as an example played by David Gallagher, he was quite awful in KH3 but honestly I don't think it's 100% his fault, I've looked up some of his relatively recent permofrmances in other media and he's definitely not that bad.....meaning that something is going horribly wrong with the VA's direction.
And tbf Riku is not the only one, other VAs in KH3 were not that good either but RIku's case obviously sticks out more than the others...
KH in general may not have the best written dialogue as we all know but imo this issue is amplified like 10x more
because of the really bad VA direction.
Take Riku as an example played by David Gallagher, he was quite awful in KH3 but honestly I don't think it's 100% his fault, I've looked up some of his relatively recent permofrmances in other media and he's definitely not that bad.....meaning that something is going horribly wrong with the VA's direction.
And tbf Riku is not the only one, other VAs in KH3 were not that good either but RIku's case obviously sticks out more than the others...
I really don't understand why this happened with KH3 since the voice director seems to be the same?
I even think it's same voice director who did FF7R, and I think FF7R's English VA was received much better than KH3.
Personally I play JP voice version these days so I don't really know much about English voice post-KH2 but some of the clips I saw of KH3 Riku was terrible...
that just feels like a vote of no confidence to me. even before Forsoken releases FF16 will consume the oxygen and people will just wait for the "main event"
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all I know is…
...no...
No...this is too good to happen>
Like....fucking TWEWY with AAA graphics?
LIke...no...nonononononono, don't bring that hope here.
stripping TWEWY of it's style would be a crime. don't bring that criminal shit here
all I know is…
I hope this happens in full AAA visuals
At least quadratum in night mode looks pretty good with the all the neon signs.
If they were in quadratum the style would be lost completely and I do not want that, as much as I would love for them to show up. I wanted them to before the reveal of 4 but if they would look like how Sora does in this world then FUCK no
Don't know what everybody else on and don't care lol bring them ppl here they made a promise 😭. Reunite with them sora!!
If you know, you know
I have blank , what are they referring to?
Their language has always been weird. Nomura said KH3 had "a ways to go" back in 2017 which had people thinking the game was still years off but soon after they gave it a 2018 release window (prior to the delay). So "early" isn't quite the pre dev or conceptually stage some seem to believe.
We know in 2020 they were recruiting for their new HD title, and Nomura has stated work began shortly after ReMind. So they should be at least a year into active development.
We were still getting concept art and the Osaka team was still determining worlds in 2014/2015, and didn't get out first in engine "gameplay" until mid 2015. With KH4, they have an established base and in engine "gameplay," and the leaked target date of 2023 (pre COVID). I'm being optimistic but I think there's ample reason to believe 2024 (3-4 year dev cycle) is reasonable.
It's become a tradition now that when a new KH game is announced (hell I would any SE game for that matter) meme posts start piling up, joking about how may years it's gonna take.
So I think it's a good time to post the following tweet in order to have an overall perspective on how long it actually takes for a KH game to be released.
So I think it's a good time to post the following tweet in order to have an overall perspective on how long it actually takes for a KH game to be released.
When Square Enix shows what is clearly a concept trailer and then straight up says development is still early, past experience generally proves that yes, it's gonna be forever before it releases
KH3 has more depth and scale with its worlds and assets, as well as a restart in a new engine where everything had to be rebuilt instead of there being shared assets and animations, that I'm more than willing to cut it some slack.
SE was hiring for KH4 in 2019 but Covid would have slowed them down during 2020 and into 2021 but that's still 2-3 years total of dev time before the announcement was made.
At least KH4 was announced with a long in-engine trailer that looked good. KH3 was announced with barely anything with a concept that changed (remember when the power of waking was the Key to Return Hearts?)
Hopefully the 2-3 years under its belt will have the length of time between announcement and release closer to KH2.
Sorry my post wasn't directed at you, it was about those joke posts you see everywhere on twitter like "See you in 2038".
Hell even 2028 is highly unlikely imo, KH4 is not gonna take as much time as time took KH3.
Now that KH3 got made, they have a base game to iterate on just like when they made the older KH games. Ofc each individual game will take longer than before but not as long as it took to make KH3. Hence them being able to make multiple spinoffs already on top of the main one.
Absolutely. Not having to make models for Donald, Goofy, Mickey, the rest of the main cast, items like the Keyblade and other weapons etc. as well as a whole bunch of animations will definitely help. BbS and DDD being able to take things from previous games was no doubt very useful. They're not having to test and develop absolutely everything.
Remember the what the dev team had to go through for KH3 development, changing the engine and learning UE4 while developing the game.
https://www.kh13.com/news/edge-maga...the-switch-to-unreal-engine-4-and-more-r2799/
KH4 won't have this sort of thing taking up the development time, at least to this extent.
https://www.kh13.com/news/edge-maga...the-switch-to-unreal-engine-4-and-more-r2799/
KH4 won't have this sort of thing taking up the development time, at least to this extent.
S-E is not going to allow these characters touch any big budget world anytime soon.
I don't think there is that much copium. Even the poll mostly says 2024/2025, and I think most of people who say 2024 probably thinks near end of 2024, and probably won't be surprised if it was 2025 either (at least that's how I feel)
I know the English PR says it's early but just because it says early doesn't mean like it started few months ago or anything. We know this game has been in development at least since September 2020, so 2024/25 release doesn't seem that unreasonable.
It's more like people saying 2027/28 onward for release that's just annoying me.