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Storm Rider:
This is especially notable since the higher-ups at Square Enix have specifically been referring to potentially shopping Final Fantasy to Western devs. There was that aborted action game that GRIN was making before they got shut down that is widely rumored to have been a spinoff in the Final Fantasy XII universe, but Wada and Kitase have been mentioning a potential Western-developed Final Fantasy even more recently than that. That coupled with the supposed Obsidian-Square Enix collaboration has led some people to conclude that the 'Project X' referred to in that tweet will be, if not Final Fantasy XV (which seems unlikely, just because of the sheer amount of outcry that would inevitably occur on both sides of the Pacific), a major entry in the Final Fantasy series that Square will get behind in a big way.
I'm still slightly skeptical, to be honest. I can see how it would make sense from SE's perspective, but I can think of very few things further outside Obsidian's wheelhouse than Final Fantasy. The idea of Chris Avellone writing for a Final Fantasy kind of makes my head spin, since it would presumably be his 'turn' since AP's done and John Gonzalez is the creative lead on New Vegas. Then again, I guess it worked for Star Wars.
Johnny C:
Mostly I just hate Twitter speculation, and that one tweet in particular is intensely vague, deeply vague. I'm just not a fan of playing connect-the-dots, you know?
Alex C:
I don't mind playing at connect the dots if it's a small enough forum with relatively reasonable people. Such things mostly bother me when people turn it into a dick waving contest and start defending their pet theories despite having so li'l information to work with.
Anyway, I nearly got excited about the twitter and then I remembered that all of the stuff Square can get rights to that I'm actually interested in are all old Eidos brands that are already being resurrected in some form or other. Avellone writing for a Deus Ex game coulda been fun. Oh well. At least there probably won't be any strangely informative blind chicks running around this way.
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 06 May 2010, 11:55 ---Mostly I just hate Twitter speculation, and that one tweet in particular is intensely vague, deeply vague. I'm just not a fan of playing connect-the-dots, you know?
--- End quote ---
Absolutely. Like I said, I still think the rumor is on pretty shaky ground. There's certainly a decent amount of anecdotal evidence, but it's very tenuous. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised either way. I will say that Square has been very open about wanting to farm out their properties, and Final Fantasy in particular, to Western development studios, and Obsidian is basically the only notable Western RPG studio not already owned by a big fish like Bioware and Bethesda. A Western Final Fantasy doesn't explicitly prevent Square from partnering with another publisher like EA or Bethesda, like we've seen with Tecmo partnering with Nintendo and Microsoft, but at that point the profit structure is not as much in their favor so I doubt they'd bother.
Johnny C:
For sure. I mean, what I can see is that Square wants a bigger chunk of market share nowadays than the RPG market share, and while Obsidian doing something Final Fantasish might be a really good way for them to hook their way into the market in a place nobody's really at right now, they might also just want to publish an Obsidian game beacuse it is a game that they're interested in publishing, in a field where they'd maybe like to take a bite out of someone else's market share.
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