GRIN says SE sucks..

[Mack]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...quareenix.aspx

I guess they were contracted by SE to work on a FF esque project before SE pulled out? well this is what they had to say:

According to the founders of Swedish developer GRIN, working with SquareEnix was an incredibly frustrating task. They were working on a Final Fantasy project called "Fortress," and Ulf and Bo Andersson clearly aren't happy with their experience.

"We wanted to come in and revolutionize Final Fantasy, which is exactly what they need," said the brothers. "The latest version sucks of course." At one point, SquareEnix requested the Anderssons send the code via fax. "It is as silly as it sounds. It is an impossible requirement, you can not send ascii or binary codes on the fax. It is backward. Really retarded. It was almost a criminal activity."

SquareEnix thought that their concept art didn't look like Final Fantasy, so the brothers decided to test them by sending concept art from Final Fantasy XII. As they had before, they responded with "It does not look like Final Fantasy."

GRIN may be six feet under now, but their former staffers have formed other studios since the closure. It's possible we may see what they've been working on at E3.

Here is the tech demo for the game in subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzdzYbEWOg

I just saw it for the first time and tbh it looks horrible imo.

[Vesperia]

Oh, I wish the article was longer.

[Verecund]

Actually, for a video game that's pretty decent. :P The maps are great, the models are lower poly.

[Cairdeas]

You know I keep seeing people bring up fortress as if it was authorized by SE. But I've never seen any documentation from SE about it.

[Gramul]

Looks like that bad communication thing Square was talking about.

Hope they get their shit together.

[Randis]

"We wanted to come in and revolutionize Final Fantasy, which is exactly what they need,"

"We wanted to come in and westernize Final Fantasy, which is exactly what we needed coz we hoped to use SE as a jumping board for our startup. They terminated the contract and we are MAD now,"

fixed.

Seen the techdemo video of Fortress, was not impressed

[Cairdeas]

fixed.

Seen the techdemo video of Fortress, was not impressed

neither was I.

[Nuru]

fixed.

Seen the techdemo video of Fortress, was not impressed

I think that fix you made was more of how it went.

There is something similar to this, like the CCorporation making a .Hack Online game, and CCorp. is taken directly from the .Hack series. If the developers of this MMORPG were to make it nothing like .hack, this same shit would happen.

[Balbanes]

fixed.

Seen the techdemo video of Fortress, was not impressed

Hey, I recognize these guys! They're the ones who sold me that bridge!

Sending program code via fax? You'd have to be pretty dim to believe something like that.

[viion]

And people tell me not to say mean things...