

This happens to many games mid-dev, but Forspoken basically appears to be a particularly extreme case, where it really went through the wringer in terms of changing and morphing."Įven Yoshida himself said that they'll need more than 10+ years if they want to make a compelling open world for FF16. "People have said to me the original pitch/plan is unrecognizable in the product as it is now. "One thing I will say about Forspoken, since I'm not reviewing it & RPG Site hasn't had code, is - this is a game that for better or worse really changed form multiple times during development, esp. Not to mention according to insider(Alex Donaldson) Making an open world game in 4-5 years from scratch is just ridiculous. The thing about Forspoken is that, luminous team overestimated their capabilities.
