Quote Originally Posted by Bastian View Post
I thought I read about some FF that had parties of more than five where you didn't actually control what the individuals did but set up strategies so that if someone died they would swap out with one of the other ten or whatever. Or some such weirdness.
Nope. Such an FF title apparently only exists in your imagination.

Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon
Also from his dialogue it seemed being the head of Square was one of his last resorts. I just personally think to be in a position that high you have to had been inspired to do so for a while.
I didn't get the sense that Square was a last resort for him at all. I got the sense that early in his career he was simply someone who had an idea of where he wanted to get to in his career but didn't really have a sense of the how, or what industry would appeal to him. And the idea that you need to want to be in game development for a long time before you can be there. Many people stumble into things they're great at as much by accident as by design. Note that I'm not saying that's necessarily the case here, but saying you have to want it for quite a while is a load of hooey.