Board 8 > New FFXII Zodiac Age interview reveals details; confirms Hiroyuki Ito is alive

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https://www.finaland.com/?rub=site&page=news&id=6078

Long, decent read. Here's a snippet.

FF World: Hiroyuki Ito has helped supervising The Zodiac Age. It's been a while since he has worked on a new major title. Any idea what he's up to?

Kato: Sorry, but that's a secret. (laugh) Mr. Ito was very much involved in the rebalancing for the International Zodiac Job System version of the game. He used his experience and know-how as a battle designer to make that really great. Obviously, in translating that into a new version with The Zodiac Age, he was being consulted on every point. We talked to him a lot about what changes and enhancements we can make. He really helped out and was very much involved in this one too.

FF World: Was it his idea to add the ability to unlock a second job?

Kato: The idea of having a second job was actually something that most of the team wanted to do. When we started out trying to work out the best way to do the remaster, the original design team from FFXII sat down together and we played through both the original and the International Zodiac Job System versions of the game. Most people's opinion was that it would be great if we could add another job and select from two of them. When we put that down and decided to do it, we worked out a number of ways that we could do that, and consulted with Mr. Ito at that point to find out what would be the best way to implement it, what would be the easiest and most fun way to add another job. It was a group decision, but he did help in how this was realized.

Finaland: With the new generation of console players and the coming remaster The Zodiac Age, does the idea of expanding the Ivalice universe with other games come to your mind?

Kato: After we've released The Zodiac Age in July, we really want to sit back and watch the feedback from the players, to see what people liked about it and what they want to see from the future of Ivalice. Based on that, we'll think about what we want to do with the world of Ivalice in the future. If people like it, there's a good chance something could happen. Of course, it has to be a big call, and if you guys can help by creating a buzz around it, that would be amazing.

FF World: Final Fantasy Tactics!

Finaland: This year is the 20th anniversary of Tactics!

Kato: (laugh) It is. We haven't thought about it.

FF Dream: To complete this question, has working on a dense universe like Ivalice given you and your team the desire to create a similar universe in the future?

Kato: There are different approaches than you can take regarding what you do with your next project. You're right, Ivalice is a very detailed world that has a lot of depth, but it depends if people want us to make another game in Ivalice or not. Another way of thinking what to do next is asking yourself what kind of gameplay experience you want to give people. Very often, we start designing new games from that idea. The new hardware available now, like the PS4, allows us to do what we haven't been able to do in the past.

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Thanks for sharing

Edit: I'm super excited for the game
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will buy inevitable pc port day 1
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Whoa, hello, second job? What's this?
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Two jobs...here we go again, Economy . right back to this Shit

Oh hell yes double jobs

Now to figure out which job combo corresponds to the characters as they are in Revenant Wings
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SupremeZero posted...

Whoa, hello, second job? What's this?

It was revealed in the last round of previews.
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Since it seems like some of the known features aren't too well-known on B8, I suppose I should mention that IZJS changed the loot so it's no longer random. @LeonhartFour Not sure if you knew that, or if I told you, or what. But it's neat.
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It feels weird that this is one of the biggest reasons I want a PS4.
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I'm so glad Itou-san is alive. Too bad SE will never make another FF again.
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Very excited to see if I can play this game without getting bored.
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Shaduln posted...

Very excited to see if I can play this game without getting bored.

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Yes but are the voice samples uncompressed
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Already played this and it looks similar to a PC version with HD res.

Amazing game my fav FF game by a mile. Spent over 200 on this. Anyone who hasn't played it should get it.

KingButz posted...

Yes but are the voice samples uncompressed

of course. They are much better in this version.

They tried to fit 12 into a 4.7GB PS2 disc the first time around. dind't even bother to use Dual Audio when other big games used it.

KingButz posted...

Yes but are the voice samples uncompressed

yes
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Jeff Zero posted...

Since it seems like some of the known features aren't too well-known on B8, I suppose I should mention that IZJS changed the loot so it's no longer random. @LeonhartFour Not sure if you knew that, or if I told you, or what. But it's neat.

You did tell me that once before, yeah.
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Januzaj_Dragon posted...

KingButz posted...

Yes but are the voice samples uncompressed

of course. They are much better in this version.

Wait, is this for real? I watched a trailer and it still sounded compressed to hell. If they actually have uncompressed audio sign me the hell up.
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Ok this is all fine and dandy, but can we get an option to switch to Ashe's first character model?
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I've googled extensively and didn't see anything at all that points towards the audio being uncompressed. Why'd you get my hopes up like that, man? :/
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I haven't found anything definitive, but there's a vid in this topic y'all can listen to in order to gauge the quality.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/191202-final-fantasy-xii-the-zodiac-age/74830836
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http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/05/16/final-fantasy-12-the-zodiac-age-hand-on-preview-better-with-age

http://m.ign.com/videos/2017/05/16/final-fantasy-12-taking-down-an-elder-wyrm

http://m.ign.com/videos/2017/05/16/final-fantasy-12-18-minutes-of-trials-gameplay
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