I totally agree and I'm happy he made that decision.
Yeah, I remember reading the interview where Tabata said the story focus would get more tight the closer to the end, which frankly I feel is a real good design choice actually.
That reminds me - I heard this piece of news that FFXV's first half is more open world, while the latter is more linear. Not to the point of XIII-linear, but just more focused on the story. This makes sense, IMO, because as much fun as I had in games like Morrowind, it really would have helped immensely had there been some more focus as the story progressed. I mention this because I've heard many people complain that No Man's Sky is so overwhelmingly huge.
The fun turn we had on the panel, and I've been kind of thinking about it more, is how games like No Man's Sky with its world generator may change RPGs. It kept coming up, as well as classifying the difference between an RPG and an adventure game.
Wow. Drama always sucks, but yay for all the rest! Too bad you couldn't get into too much detail at the panel, but it's still great that fun was had by all
Eh... not the most pleasant of weekends due to drama and hotel roommates, not to mention that I got talked into modeling for a cosplay contest which ended up devouring all of my time so I saw very little of the con it self. I did get my panel, but my co-host decided to take a free trip to Scotland for the two weeks prior to the con (around the time I found out we would have the panel) so we really couldn't discuss what we wanted to talk about and basically spent 90 minutes dicking around and talked about JRPGs. Granted, I feel like we have really good chemistry in our discussions and we're both pretty funny when we need to be, but I still wanted to have a more intellectual discussion and I can't really do that with him sometimes. The audience was entertained at least. I also I got dragged into watching a nerd burlesque show, which was entertaining.
Oh right! How did that go for you?
Not a whole lot, I've been at my convention all weekend and I was only playing Ruby and MGSV before that.
Yeah, well, what can you do. We get good music in DQ and that's all that matters. It's a shame we're not getting the best possible product here, but we'll make do, I think. So, anything interesting you're playing right now?
Well that sucks to learn. Well, I guess there is a reason why he's not really as well known as Nobuo Uematsu, who always seems to be a very cheerful guy.
