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Double Growth
I suppose the XV thing is wishy-washy given the Versus connection, but everything I've read is how they basically abandoned nearly everything about Versus.
He was obviously serious. Dude first brought it up in discussion at E3 2013 and was still talking about it four years later.Oh come on. He was obviously joking.
It does, but that's beside the point. The point is that the game had been announced seven years earlier and was contractually obligated to be released within the next three years -- and Nomura was still whimsically considering and reconsidering the story he wanted to tell with the game.ChipNoir said:Besides, even if he was serious, the idea has potential...
I suppose the XV thing is wishy-washy given the Versus connection, but everything I've read is how they basically abandoned nearly everything about Versus.
I don't think I'd want Nomura being sole director, if the current Kingdom Hearts saga is any precedent to go by.
He has good concepts gameplay-wise and is amazing in terms of creative concepts and battle scenario work, but when left alone to direct entirely... To me, things go sideways. Also, Nomura's visualization of characters in their storyline, versus how the other writers perceive said characters, tend to be different. So yeah.
I don't think I'd want Nomura being sole director, if the current Kingdom Hearts saga is any precedent to go by.
He has good concepts gameplay-wise and is amazing in terms of creative concepts and battle scenario work, but when left alone to direct entirely... To me, things go sideways. Also, Nomura's visualization of characters in their storyline, versus how the other writers perceive said characters, tend to be different. So yeah.
He was obviously serious. Dude first brought it up in discussion at E3 2013 and was still talking about it four years later.
It does, but that's beside the point. The point is that the game had been announced seven years earlier and was contractually obligated to be released within the next three years -- and Nomura was still whimsically considering and reconsidering the story he wanted to tell with the game.
There's a reason the game almost got scrapped altogether. Mismanagement on someone's part is to blame.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nomura coming in with that suggestion was the straw that broke the camel's back. Tabata had just been assigned as co-director in 2012, then became the sole director at the end of 2013.
Ohhhh, this fits with the "look for announcements running up to E3" comment.
Also, what kinda nerdlord is waiting around checking out source code?