Tabata confirms VERSUS XIII is Shelved

Versus XIII NO FURTHER INFORMATION, Tabata confirms. The project appears to be dead.

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As Tabata said, they weren't looking into copying exact scenes and events from Versus XIII to Final Fantasy XV, but they focused on carrying over ideas and concept that would fit the team's vision of what FFXV was going to be. "Of course, we wanted to keep as much stuff as possible from the Versus XIII project, but we thought the quality of the game was more important than remaking certain scenes".

When asked about the Versus XIII protagonist, Stella Nox Fleuret, the Final Fantasy XV director explained that there's no point on talking about her anymore. "We will talk about Versus XIII in the future if we think it would benefit the fans or us, but there are currently no plans to keep releasing information about this project".

Final Fantasy Versus XIII was revealed at E3 2006, and after a troubled non-development process, was officially rebranded as Final Fantasy XV during Sony's conference at E3 2013. A year later, Tetsuya Nomura (Kingdom Hearts series, Final Fantasy VII Remake) would step down from directing the game as Hajime Tabata took the leading role. Now, 10 years later, they must be forgotten.

Good.

fuck you.

versus 13 was the better game

Want me to translate that whole interview for you? I have nothing better to do at the moment.

Stay delusional Nomura-cuck.

>he thinks nomura is bad
Go away kiddo

yeah it'd be amazing

just DO IT

>he didn't want a dark final fantasy game

Final Fantasy shines the most when it's dark.

Look no further than final fantasy tactics on the ps1. It's a very beloved game and it wouldn't be the case without its dark tone

Why would they make and show the 2013's trailer if they're gonna axe the whole thing? This is the most hurt part for me.

>Versus XIII
>You fight your way out of an enemy infiltration and experience the loss of your home

>FFXV
>you push a car while stand by me plays, do fetch quests, and read a newspaper

THANK YOU TABATA

JPGames: I've been watching all FF Versus XII and FF XV trailers again yesterday. I would really like to know,if there's a chance gibt, that you'll ever tell us more about the role of Stella in the story of FF Versus.

Tabata: There are currently no plans to disclose these informations. Would there be some sort of advantage or bonus for the players, fans or for us, then we'd consider it. But currently there are really no plan, to unveil more information about the Versus-Projekt.

JPGames: Over the year many scenes have reached a kind of cult-status. For example Noctis sitting on his throne, looking bored, standing at the top of a stairway, facing an army or using his swords to fight what is probably Ravus. Is any of that still in FF XV?

Tabata: When we had to decide, what we could keep from Versus, our focus wasn't on singular scenes. We were thinking about what would benefit the game and fit with the game we wanted to make. Of course we wanted to keep as much as possible, when we changed to FF XV. But the quality of the game as a whole is more important to us than individual scenes.

JPGames: Will al three songs by Florence + The Machine be featured in important scenes of the game?

Tabata: They've released a CD?

JPGames: Only digitally.

Tabata: Ah, I see. As of now, not all three songs are in the game, but they will be. They'ss be on the disc, but we'll be using them for bonus content, which will expand the game later on. They'll be featured in the big package (Note: No, this wasn't any less vague in german).

On one hand I appreciate how Tabata can get a game out within the average human's natural lifetime, but on the other hand I don't particularly like what he's done with v13.

I don't like what he did in general. Even if it was it's own game without any backstory, it's mediocre and tries to appeal to western audiences way too much

"Experiencing the loss of your home" wouldn't mean too much if it was right at the start of the game. Don't get me wrong, it would be miles better than just reading about it in a newspaper but it's not you'd get to know anything about Insomnia other than it being Noctis' hometown. Something like KH1's opening where you get to explore a bit before shit got real would be better than either of those IMO.

I thought this was made clear years ago when Versus became XV and they had to redesign Stella and Noctis' father

Isn't that only normal? Versus was part of the FNC mythos, of course it had plot points that had to be changed.

JPGames: You've said one of the main reasons for the delay was, that not every player had internet access. So, can you confirm that there will be no Day One Patch in november? Also, don't you find it a bit odd, that this was announced shortly after the announcement of a Season-Pass which will only be available for people with internet access?

Hajime Tabata: I think there is a bit of confusion because of that announcement. I wanted to say that everything we were planning for the Day One Patch, should be on the disc already when it is being shipped. That's the teams opinion and my own. These things are important and necessary for the game and we simply didn't want to only include them in a patch.I don't mean to say that these patches are a bad thing, but that FF XV will most definately gain a lot from that delay. These were my thoughts. Everything else will be as usual. All bonus content will be available to fans.

Daily reminder that Iris is the only good thing about FFXV.

b-but sonyggers spent 10 years putting that on the upcoming games for the ps3

>All bonus content will be available to fans.
*with purchase
I still can't believe the DLC shit doesn't come with the $300 collection.

JPGames: Can you tell us a bit more about the AI system? WHow exactly can the player control the AI of Noctis' allies?

Tabata: You're probably referring to the Ability-Call-System. It doesn't change the AI much, but it allows for more combinations and techniques between the characters. You compose those and they are available afterwards. It's no full control over their AI.

Remember to thank tabata

>The project appears to be dead.
Versus became XV. Are you underage?

>When asked about the Versus XIII protagonist, Stella Nox Fleuret,

Man Versusfags need to kill themselves already.

Versus wasn't even 25% of a game. Fuck off.

JPGames: I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to play the first three hours of FF XV and a few things stuck out to me.Monsters seem to be very rare. I've been running around for minutes without finding an enemy. Will that be different in other areas or will those also be empty?

Hajime Tabata: I'm not entirely sure, which area you're referring to, but we don't get to hear very often, that the game was too empty. Nonetheless we're still working on balancing it and this is one of the things we're currently working on. Problems that don't make the game unplayable but hurt the experience.

Geez xv-kun

The Invasion was a pretty big scene from what we know about it. We atleast know there would be a scene of Noctis being driven to the party and the party scene would have atleast included the Stella convo and something related to the bros and Noctis walking around.

The Invasion itself involved quite a bit as well. and the scene with Noctis and Ignis plotting their next move and then the scene with the bros looking on their burning city as they have to leave it to go after the crystal suggests there would have been some downtime to get you emotionally invested and it wouldn't have just been straight fighting the whole way through.

>Versus became XV.
No, Versus Project was murdered, Tabata came in with his fanfics and stole ideas from Nomura's files and Square slapped "XV" on it

>Versus
>Meaningless buildings to you break around you as you fight Niflheim soldiers then leave the city and going on a roadtrip on their quest around the world.

>XV
>You build familiarity with the party through teamwork only to later learn of the invasion on your home, by which point you then take on Niflheim soldiers fighting to try and get into the city only for it to be in vain, creating a more emotional investment, then proceeding on the roadtrip on their quest around the world.

So not only did Tabata create a better intro but more emotional pathos too.

>but we don't get to hear very often, that the game was too empty.
kek

Tabata could come to XV-kun's house and tell him that Versus isn't XV and he would still deny it lol

I bet you most of versus is still there, just modifyed.

>emotional pathos
Nigger keep your fucking thesaurus, the gameplay looks boring

>Versus Project was murdered,
No, it became XV in 2012 when Nomura and Tabata together changed it to XV.

>Tabata came in with his fanfics and stole ideas from Nomura's files and Square slapped "XV" on it
Tabata was a fan of Versus and Nomura asked him onto the team. Both of them made changes together from Versus to XV in 2012 and 2013.

JPGames: The poor graphics also stuck out to me. Especially plants look very weird and the graphical quality varies significantly from scene to scene. Will you be working on it in the next months?

Tabata: It's really difficult to answer that. Simply speaking, it's always about the balance between graphical quality and playability.In the coming months we really have to look at the things we need to prioritize. We can't exclusively focus on the graphics, because that would negatively impact other elements of the game. All things considered it needs to be a great gaming experience with strong gameplay and that's certainly what we're going for.This balance is very important.

Tabata has said himself that the things important to Versus are still in XV and has also stated that they are still following Versus story as much as possible. XV is only not Versus XIII in name only.

Even fucking FF7 changed more during development than Versus to XV did.

>I've been running around for minutes without finding an enemy. Will that be different in other areas or will those also be empty?
>I'm not entirely sure, which area you're referring to, but we don't get to hear very often, that the game was too empty

Holy fuck this is gold. Tabata on full damage-control because he's not being interviewed by a paid shill for once.

If it was such a big deal I wonder why they couldn't have kept in XV somehow.

Spin it however you want but learning about the event that starts the game's plot from a newspaper in a hotel room is pretty dumb.

>square enix will die in your life time
welp that's an unexpected turn of event.

They literally don't know what they should focus on
If they had actually decided on a fucking combat system long ago, they wouldn't have this problem now and if they wouldn't have built an engine that is made for super computers

Excuses: The Interview

Except even that guy is full of shit. I've seen a bunch of chapter 1 videos on Youtube and there is scorpion monsters, Sabertusks and shit everywhere.

So what, the guy didn't get an encounter for 10 seconds and it's suddenly empty?

Sorry, left out the other half of Tabatas reply!

Tabata: The reason for the way the plants look is very simple: Far away details and the resolution impact each other. We could increase the resolution of distant objects, but we'd have to remove other objects on the screen or lower the framerate. It's important to consider this. An unfortunate choice, but we know our priorities and we know what kind of game we're trying to make and that's what is important.

Noctis is supposed to be kept in the dark, the fact that he finds out in such a low key way despite his status is supposed to be a driving point in making Noctis feel like shit.

>Even fucking FF7 changed more during development than Versus to XV did.
Tell me more about this.

What kind of game are they trying to make?
A game that has very low settings graphics, still uses dynamic resolution, still can't keep 30fps, has mediocre gameplay and an empty world filled with fetch quests?
Jesus christ

JPGames: Were older character designs made by Tetsuya Nomura?

Hajime Tabata: They were made by Yusuke Naora.

>They literally don't know what they should focus on
He literally just said they are focusing on balance.

Do you even fucking know anything about game development?

Not happening

FF7 project was first raelly close to DD6 in term of graphic identity and gameplay.

Probably because they changed the game into some generic clusterfuck coming of age story. It's not like you need good writing in a rehash.

Versus had a specific story that called for the Invasion to be important. XV is no longer that story so they turned it into a movie so they could appeal to normies and also so they could say "atleast we tried" to Versus fans.

Nah, even if FF15 is the last FF. Square Enix will survive just making mobile games. Their mobile games make more money than their console games

Do you?
He just says what the interviewer wants to hear

>Noctis is supposed to be kept in the dark
That's fine but the player should at least have hints of something being wrong.

their last hope is FF7 remake, cause after all those years even 15 million FF15 will not generate profits.Going full mobile is the same as being dead, since they become non/v/ related.

JPGames: The minigame A King’s Tale was announced a few weeks ago and the fans seemed to like the look and the opportunity to play as King Regis.It's supposed to be a preordert bonus for certain buyers. I have a question about that:Do you think it's fair that passionate fans,who bought the so called Ultimate Collectors Edition are being left out?

Tabata: I really understand why fans would thing that way,but the situation is, that this minigame was made because of a deal between us and a certain retail chain. Because of that not every store can offer that preorder bonus. But I'm happy to see that people are interested in it. Unfortunately there is nothing more I can say about this right now. But I really do understand the fans.

FF7 was originally a story about Detective Joe, a hot blooded man from NYC with the setting being 1999 real world. The story was going to be a murder mystery.

Then that changed a lot and many of things currently in teh game showed up, the MC became Cloud but the main heroine of FF7 was a girl named Tifa but she was the character of Aeris, and she was Sephiroths sister. Later on they created a new childhood friend character for Cloud and gave her the name Tifa and the design, then the Sephiroths sister character was renamed to Aeris and then later on no longer was Sephiroths sister.

And now FF7 is completely different thing entirely, with Cloud Strife the "Ex soldier" trying to stop Sephiroth and prevent the meteor from destroying the world while his childhood friend tries to help him out of his mindfuck, and Aeris is a girl he meets who Sephiroth kills.

Compare to Versus and XV which have the same story premise, setting, characters (minus one character slightly changed into a different one), even the fucking animations are the same.

Noctis's home kingdom of Lucis is invaded by Niflheim, Emporer Iedolas pulls a gun on king Regis. Niflheim steal the crystal and Noctis is now exiled, now on the run Noctis alone with Gladio, Prompto and Ignis go on a roadtrip to try and gain the power to take down Niflheim and take back their home. Along the way Noctis interacts with a blonde Nox Fleuret girl from Tenebrae.

Yusuke Naora also did the CGI face portraits from the 2013 trailer.

>I understand the fans but I'm not going to do anything about it
>pls accept my feelings of undersanding
>i'll take ur money in exchange
>prz understand

So basically they cut all that out for muh road trip, chocobos and camping

JPGames: Chapter 0 is giving us some insights into the end of the story. Will we get spend a few hours with the older characers or are they just going to look like that by the end? Is there going to be a timeskip in the story or are they slowly going to age over its course?

Hajime Tabata: That's obviously a big spoiler. I want you to experience and enjoy these things for yourselves. But I can disclose, that we will get to see these characters over the course of the story at different times. In the anime we see them as children and at school, iin the game as young men. We want them to feel like real people, real characters who have their own stories. We want to give them life with this sense of realism. that's all part of the creation of these characters.

>we had to decide what was important
>so we cut all of it and turned it into a WRPG

It was always a roadtrip.

The shit we saw in the 2008 trailer wasn't even part of the actual game, just the CGI concept and that CG wasn't even going to be used in the game even if it was still Versus.

Numorafags BTFO

>waaah you don't get to fight niflheim soldiers in a linear street waaah the game is suddenly a wrpg now!?

Calm down kiddo

JPGames: What can you tell us about the antagonists? We haven't heard much about them yet and the Final Fantasy series has a lot of iconic villains. Is the game gonna have any of those?

Tabata: I can assure you that we have a really clear plan,when we're gonna release information about the gameand it will be very clear who the enemies are and what they're planning. There are little hints in the anime and in Kingsglaive. The information you're looking for is there. you just have to find it.

Literally fuck off Nomurakun.

Nomura is a character designer. He didn't design older Noctis and co. it had nothing to do with him. He did however design the characters from the 2013 trailer along with some Italian guy and then the CG team did their thing. Nomura doesn't make CGI portraits you dumbass.

>The information you're looking for is there. you just have to find it.
is he for real with this

JPGames:Thank you very much for that interesting interview, Tabata-san! We from JPGames.de want to assure you, that we know, what a difficult decision that delay has to have been for you but you do have our respect and our full support.

That's it, folks.

This. Games change in development all the time, we just usually don't see it. And for good fucking reason.

Oh look it's xv-kun, how about you fuck off faggot and thundercunt yourself, Tabata hiself siad so you lying cunt

>Nomura is a character designer. He didn't design older Noctis and co. it had nothing to do with him.


Yusuke Naora didn't design Gladio, Ignis or Prompto either even though their faces in the chapter 0 are the same face they always have. But that says that Naora did design them three along with Noctis, which just means he was as much involved in their design as he was in the 2013 CGI portraits.

What Naora is is the art director and he is in charge of character models, he is also the one who did the CGI face renders from the 2013 trailer.

And the full interview. Hope I could help you!

Trying too hard Nomurakun.

Post yfw Versus XIII becomes the new FFVII remake that fans won't stop begging for.

Versusfans are literally cancer. Because 99% of them do nothing but spout headcanon and lies.

They changed directors and made a completely new story. No one is saying Versus would have been exactly the same as from start to finish in development, but the new director states multiple fucking times that it's a completely different game with only a few base elements being modified and kept to fit with his completely new fucking scenario. Are you retarded? Do you not realize how it's not even remotely the same as "durr typical development changes"

Most games don't show you trailers for 7 fucking years of a game and then completely cut that all from the game because of a director change.

I don't know how many times Tabata has to say it's not the same game before people finally get it.

And you reply to every single one of them like it's your duty

No, you're cancer XV-kun. because 90% of XV threads are just you arguing with trolls.

Honest question
Does XV-kun hate every single game that isn't Final Fantasy XV? Cause it really sounds like it

>and made a completely new story.
There is 5% difference between Versus and XV story.

>but the new director states multiple fucking times that it's a completely different game
No he states that they kept as much as possible of Versus story in XV and that the things important to XV are in XV, but that XV is a much bigger game than Versus was so it has more things to it too. When he says it's not Versus it's because he is director of the game called Final Fantasy XV, not Versus XIII.

>ame with only a few base elements being modified and kept to fit with his completely new fucking scenario.
Completely false, practically everything we ever knew from Versus is in XV with the exception of Stella and only the original intro, where those events still happen in the game anyway on it was slightly modified.

Versus and XV are barely any different, again even fucking FF7 changed more in development than Versus to XV did. I don't know how many times it needs to be told to you that Versus became XV before you finally get it.

So all you said was that it's me stomping Versusfags.

Yeah lets pretend it's not FF15.

What are these faggots, and better off YOU faggots doing? It's the same damn game.

>the Final Fantasy XV director explained that there's no point on talking about her anymore
Shame nobody wants to talk about Luna either, you fucking hack director.

Yeah xv-kun STOMP them SQUASH them!

Doesn't the fact that Stella just met Noctis in V13 and Luna already knows him since forever in XV change a lot?

Fuck off Antikun.

Oh no here comes the collage image spam

>n-no stop calling out the shitposters they dindunuffin!?

SQUASHXD GET EM ECKS VEE KUUUUN XD

I just got tired of responding to you because you clearly have a mental disorder and regurgitate the same shit every thread even when you get proven wrong. It's like arguing with a brick wall.

It only changes the relation with Noctis and the main girl. Also we see Noctis running alongside the little girl in the 2013 trailer as kids so that change was already made when Nomura was around.

XV-kun got perma-banned awhile back. All the name-calling going around now is just falseflagging

Stop responding to it. Responding only feeds the autism.

>when you get proven wrong. I
Sorry but you are the same faggot that seriously tried to say that Prompto was a fugitive with a bounty when that has never once been a fact and is literally made up bullshit from years ago? That was never once said by Nomura yet you defend that shit, it gets pointed out that was bullshit but then you still have the gall to act like I was proven wrong. Fuck off.

>Tabata in charge of not revealing what a mess of shit the game is
Holy shit Tabata really has no clue what he's doing with this. Just a few months before release and the story is still barely comprehendible.

SeeTry applying some logic retard.

Noctis is seen running along side the little girl as kids in the 2013 trailer so Noctis's relation with the main girl was already changed by XV when Nomura was still around.

Why though?
You won't change anyones opinion, you won't change the sales, you won't change the game, you won't change the threads.
People that mention V13, will mention it again, People that shit on the game will do it again and most likely even more, the more you reply to them.
Why do you feel like you have to reply to every single post?
Misinformation? Headcnaon? Who fuck gives a shit except for you, noone will suddenly change their mind or follow your way.

You're on Sup Forums, do you really think they'll just follow you like sheep if you say the same shit to them over and over again?