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Square Enix post job listing for Level Planner for FF7-R (Update)
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Well to be fair, the last trailer we got was 3 years ago. That doesn't exactly scream confidence in it releasing anytime soon.
So far, it's a lot like Versus where it was announced in 2006 and then basically nothing except for a random short trailer a few years later.
I guess ppl do have a right to be a little upset/ skeptical at this point.
I need to see this. Someone, please.
"The legend meets its match. But... The world is ever changing... For the sixteenth coming."
FINAL FANTASY XVI
Basically it seems like they're saying "we've looked over what we've done already and while it's kind of cool I guess, we need to aim for something better to please the fans so we're hiring a variety of new employees into core positions(including level planners, battle planers, designers, and engineers) to help out and improve the product"
Not so much "hasn't started" but more like "unsatisfied with what has been done"
The only reason why this is news worthy is because we are so starved for information.
Everyone on here saying this is a normal part of development is right. Go look st all the game companies releasing a game in the next year and see how many positions they have open. This is nothing new. There would be hundreds of threads if one got created for every position that opened for every unreleased game lol.
Everyone on here saying this is a normal part of development is right. Go look st all the game companies releasing a game in the next year and see how many positions they have open. This is nothing new. There would be hundreds of threads if one got created for every position that opened for every unreleased game lol.
Not too fussed on how long this takes now. It's obviously not coming any sooner than 2019. And maybe even later. Since PS5 is likely to be here by 2020 at the latest, they should just take their time and make sure to have a PS5 version ready because I'll just play it on that. No need to rush. I'm sure it'd make a good launch title.
Some quality leadership on display by Nomura and Kitase. I'm sure they're the ones who wanted to work with CyberConnect2 so good job. Put one of your flagship titles in the hands of developers who haven't shown themselves to be worth that kind of risk. Then suffer a setback and take more time.
Couldn't this just as well be for future FFVII-R titles as the first episode? I'm not saying it's not going through some sort of development issues, but this doesn't necessarily have to be read as "they haven't finished planning out the first release." Not to mention all the fact that it doesn't mean they don't already have multiple people working in such a role.
I wonder if this is another way of saying "we want someone to come up with exciting set pieces."
I wonder if this is another way of saying "we want someone to come up with exciting set pieces."
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Don't blame the title for people's inability to read the thread. Or their complete and total lack of understanding of game developement. Or their stupid hateboner for Square Enix built on many popular misconceptions and myths that leads to poorly thought out kneejerk reactions in these threads.
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Agreed.
"Harhar we haven't seen anything in 3 years about the game, we're not gonna see it in 10 years harhar, typical Square Enix blah blah blah ain't I clever?"
It's getting tiresome.
Guys, they're working on it. Obviously we don't know how it looks like and everything but they're working on it. Let's stop with the constant 10 years joke.
Oh my god the over dramatic reactions and overused jokes.... seriously chill guys :/
Hiring more planners durning the development could simply means they are trying to speed up the process... how could some make this a very negative evil deed that the game is in development hell and it will come out after 10 years or so?
Stop the negativity this is getting silly :/
Hiring more planners durning the development could simply means they are trying to speed up the process... how could some make this a very negative evil deed that the game is in development hell and it will come out after 10 years or so?
Stop the negativity this is getting silly :/
Why are some here soo defensive about a game that was announced almost 3 years ago with not much infos and sight of a release date? this is a bad thing from SE and of course you will expect some negative reactions.
next time Square should not announce games soo damn early so they won't this kind of negativity.
next time Square should not announce games soo damn early so they won't this kind of negativity.
Except this isn't a bad thing and is a normal part of game development.
don't know what all this outrage is about? I mean, knowing Square they are probably doing this in the least orthodox way possible. I don't think it means much. Except that we're not seeing it this E3 lol
Exactly. Everyone reacts differently.
But the simple fact is we haven't seen anything new from this game since Obama was in office.
I think some slight negativity isn't exactly unwarranted here.
in my opinion it is a very bad thing and not a normal part of game development, announcing a game that hasn't even started much of the development.
Well, there were screenshots in January 2017, and Nomura claimed he had a trailer ready but wasn't allowed to show it. I think the move in-house slowed things down a little, but nothing catastrophic. If you believe certain rumors then the development has been going fine since September. For all we know the game is in a fit enough state to show off right now, but they aren't doing it because they want to focus on KH3 this year.
EDIT: Actually nevermind, I realize that I read the first post wrong. But in any case, the negativity to this specific thing is overblown because it in no way shows that they haven't done much development like some people in this thread suggest.
Guys, level planning is an iterative process that happens throughout most of development.
The worst possible way to design anything in games is to draw up a plan and treat it as being immutable. Design is always a moving target.
The worst possible way to design anything in games is to draw up a plan and treat it as being immutable. Design is always a moving target.
I wasn't talking specifically about this job listing, I'm just talking about the negative reactions they are getting these days in general including from this thread.
If they didn't announce the game way too early you wouldn't see these kind of reactions.
maybe you are right about this one kinda overblown, including my reaction lol but i don't blame the fans for all of this tho.
i hope we see it in a good shape this e3 and we get at least some kind of release date infos, if not.. oh boy.
As long as you know they are still working on it, why is there some type of hypothetical deadline? What is with the gaming community and the inability to wait for things.
It's not only about the waiting they have pulled this stuff on us since pre-PS3 era. We got burned by that and hard to trust Square Enix's development cycle if they announce 6-7 years in advance.
Dwayne Johnson will mocap for Barret?
But what exactly is the burn here, especially if everyone is used to these long dev cycles? The only thing I can think of is if they announce they are working on a game, you assume it will be released on a current gen console, buy said console specifically for that, and then a decade later the game comes out on a next gen console. Otherwise, it's just typical SE at this point.
Best scenario:
Let it cook in development behind the scenes and nobody knows about it until it's ready for reveal.
I can wait 8 or even 9+ years to hear nothing about this project until it's officially announced. Nobody will complain and marketing is much more active. Not like FFXV terrible active time report showing same stuff at every single event and try some German beer is more important than the game.
FF fans will find anything to bitch about. Any little thing. The brand is on such a high pedestal that everything related to it must be perfect and pure and 'true to the name' or it is trash and the IP is failing. This is how the fandom feeds itself.
But if stuff is actually taking this many years, isn't it likely something would just leak anyway? In addition, considering this thread is about a job posting mentioning the title by name, it would be a lot harder to put up some descriptions if they were totally secret during the majority of development.
Not really.
Big example:
LocoRoco team at JAPAN Studio hasn't released a new game in 9+ years since LocoRoco 2. The creative director is now coming out of the hole since last year and confirm 2018 announcement for the world.
Amazing how this hasn't been leaked yet? Especially announcement aimed at worldwide when most of that gets leaked in the west. Look at Monster Hunter World, they kept quiet about it behind the scenes for 4+ years until its announcement.
You can keep leaks being locked out. It doesn't have to necessary be leaked.
