I am happy things have calmed down.
I was afraid a mod was going to lay the smack down..rotfl...
Western style rpgs have sadly surpassed Final Fantasy.
How long has Toriyama been there ? At Square ?
With Sakaguichi and Matsuno gone I guess he feels he's the big cheese still left standing...and that's why he's so arrogant.
Maybe he would be happier just making a game for a Japanese audience.
Maybe making a game that has to appeal to westerners..who also are exposed to games like Mass Effect...the GTA games, Fallout, etc etc etc..maybe competing with them has gotten too hard.
Maybe what Japanese fans like no longer jives with what experienced western rpg fans like.
Hope that isn't true but maybe it is.
Western fans are more sophisticated and have more rpg choices than they have in the past.
This silly western game, Red Dead Redemption or whatever it is called.It's an rpg.It got good reviews from what I have heard.
The characters are more mature than what you generally see in a FF for example, the plots more complex, more to do even though the game is also allegedly linear. But the reviews I read didn't seem to mind that.
Maybe Toriyama and Kitase can learn something from western style rpgs..if they want to.