I am amped for the Final Fantasy XV demo, Episode Duscae. It will be great to see what the game is like now that it’s finally emerging from development hell. It was important to game director Hajime Tabata to show off this piece of the game for the fans. However, it is having an impact on total game development.
Tabata spoke to IGN and wanted to reassure players that development is making good progress. He now estimates that the game is 60% complete. However, back in September he told us the game is 55% complete, so is the game development stuck in a rut? Well, no, it’s actually just about the demo.
It’s about 60 percent now. People may look at that and say ‘well, you’ve only done five more percent!’ but it’s actually a lot more complicated than that.
In some ways I’m being very conservative in my estimates there and not wanting to put out too big a number. Developing big games on a large scale like this… it’s not very even in terms of each area of the game being created, so you have uneven development processes where some things are nearly done, and others are still at prototype stage.What we’ve tried to do for the demo is we took what we had ready by last autumn and had some teams spend some time to make sure it’s optimised to show to the public now. The order in which you develop something obviously isn’t going to see you complete something and then move onto the next thing, so some things in the middle of development had to be shoved forward to be ready for the public and that’s what we’ve done with the demo.
But because of the way development works, now we’ve seen a solid milestone, and using that it means the end is in sight in some ways. After that’s released and we continue on with development there may be times where we move on with massive leaps and bounds, so the overall number shoots up by 10 percent at a time. I think we’re looking at a much faster development in the near future.
Okay, so the focus is on the demo at the moment, but once that’s released into the wild, the full game will bounce back into normal development and speed up. Sounds good to me. I just wonder how much longer we have to wait. We don’t even have an estimated release date yet, although we should probably get more news in time for E3, right?
Last Updated: February 27, 2015
Pariah
February 27, 2015 at 11:34
#StayStrongUmar
ReaperOfSquirrels
February 27, 2015 at 11:37
Most used hashtag on LG
RinceThis
February 27, 2015 at 11:52
Ain’t that the truth!
Umar
February 27, 2015 at 11:43
LOL Thanx for the constant support.
Umar
February 27, 2015 at 11:44
The ATR showed some gameplay in the caves…needless to say I was turned on.
Admiral Chief
February 27, 2015 at 11:47
Pity about their emo looks
RinceThis
February 27, 2015 at 11:53
It’s a FF game, they NEED dem looks!
hubble19
February 27, 2015 at 12:26
Every time I see their hairstyles, I strengthen my resolve to never buy this for my fiance. For some reason it just completely pisses me off.
SargonTheBatpandaOfAkkad
February 27, 2015 at 11:49
I have never liked these Final Fantasy games. 😛
Pariah
February 27, 2015 at 11:50
Batpanda? WTF dude, who are you? I don’t even…
SargonTheBatpandaOfAkkad
February 27, 2015 at 11:52
Stay abreast of current developments, young padawan. The people of lazygamer (okay – two people – but still) decreed that I should be the Dark Batpanda. Akkad needs a hero. Who is cute, plushy, eats much bamboo, and can kick ass.
Pariah
February 27, 2015 at 11:53
O_o That’s cute.
Teehee.
RinceThis
February 27, 2015 at 11:54
Like? http://i.imgur.com/thBCiHj.jpg
Pariah
February 27, 2015 at 11:56
LOOOOOOL!
SargonTheBatpandaOfAkkad
February 27, 2015 at 12:07
I told Barry to delete this security footage! Look. Let me explain… *disappears in a cloud of bat-nibbled bamboo
RinceThis
February 27, 2015 at 12:09
You get back here and account for your actions! Just because he was using Windows Vista doesn’t mean you can go off like that!
SargonTheBatpandaOfAkkad
February 27, 2015 at 12:13
If you install Windows Vista or Windows 8.. then.. you have FAILED THIS CITY.
Oh. Wait. Wrong hero… Uh..
RinceThis
February 27, 2015 at 12:17
Just make sure you leave the cake alone! http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–rvqa5U-K–/194p30f9p5pnvgif.gif
ReaperOfSquirrels
February 27, 2015 at 12:15
Vista? Only OS that deserves that reaction is Windows ME (Yeah I went there)
Umar
February 27, 2015 at 11:57
Dungeon gameplay:
http://youtu.be/ExfN-qTW-d8?t=4m18s
Hammersteyn
February 27, 2015 at 12:03
WANT!
Umar
February 27, 2015 at 13:43
SO BADLY!
Umar
February 27, 2015 at 11:58
I can honestly say I don’t much doubt anymore when it comes to this game. It’s gonna be amazing.
RinceThis
February 27, 2015 at 12:01
I think we need to get a stamp of Umar made up for these sorts of article.
ReaperOfSquirrels
February 27, 2015 at 12:16
They just need to Photoshop #StayStrongUmar into every header 😛
Umar
February 27, 2015 at 13:45
LOL…….Think I’m gonna change my fandom to CoD rather!
Nikola
February 27, 2015 at 12:33
I love the FF franchise but this new one really does not do it for me from the little I saw of course usually I would pre order it buuut man the main characters look like a boy band!!
Umar
February 27, 2015 at 13:45
Haha, so true, but hey, they were teased to have some really deep characterization, especially Noctis. We’ll hear more about the characters in the coming months. But watch the gameplay videos that has been released, it’s shaping up to what could be an utterly amazing entry into the franchise.
Nikola
February 27, 2015 at 15:36
Cool will check out the vids for sure didn’t follow it much once I saw the characters, hoping it will be good though haven’t had Final Fantasy fun in a long time like the last one I REALLY loved was the one on PS2 ff12 since then not one I really enjoyed even tried the online one didn’t like it:(
Dutch Matrix
February 27, 2015 at 16:04
Nikola.
Please. My lungs are begging you, please invest in some periods and commas in your comments?
Man/Woman, reading your comments leaves me all out of breath 🙂
Dutch Matrix
February 27, 2015 at 12:55
Nikola said it best: I kind of feel like Backstreet’s Back should be blasting in the background of that header image.
LoL. Dolph Lundgren, even when caught smiling looks more manly than all those sissies combined…
Dutch Matrix
February 27, 2015 at 13:04
I mean seriously. Look at the coiffure of that dude on the right hand side, behind the car. I guess yelling “Not the Face! Not the Face!” is his favourite thing to scream during a fight?
And what’s with skinny on the left? Well, I suppose he has a use: Even if it simply to be used by the enemy to beat the other three to death with.
Goal9
February 27, 2015 at 13:22
Hopefully whatever feedback they get from the demo they’ll implement into the full game.