Thread: 1UP.com's new interview with Yoshida regarding 2.0

Its a pretty good interview.

But why didn't they slip the new shiny screen shots into the article? It sends a strange message, Hey guys this game is picking up steam in its turn around. Here is some eye candy that you saw two years ago to help get you excited.

the interview was pretty decent, we got some nice bits of information
but i didnt like the attitude of the guy to be honest, calling the game dead right of the bat which is just not true, interrupting yoshida one time with a needless snarky remark (which wasnt completely accurate either)
and i really wonder why he chose pics from the 1.0 launch when we just got nice new material
it just rubbed me the wrong way...

Originally Posted by Hyrist

Actually, as a counterpoint - that would be the perfect kind of content to empasise the 'Class' aspect of the current system. More flexiable classes could split into groups to advance through a multi-section dungeon.

Again, assuming my wish of people being locked into their jobs upon entry so that this community can actually learn to work with what they have becomes true, that's not really going to fly.

The only crux on this matter really is the time limit effecting loot. If they were to make a 'point total' sytem in which the highest tier drop-rate could be achieved without the timely clear bonus, then the system would be perfect. But that's a different issue.

This has more to do with loot and dungeon design. I'd hope they'd do away with the silly timers, abolish speed runs altogether while putting in timed events in dungeons where appropriate.

As far as saying FFVI dungeons are a bad thing to implement into an MMO, I can't disagree stronger. In fact, I was about to make a thread suggesting that they do this kind of 24 man dungeon.

My point comes entirely from how parties would split themselves up while still working with a reasonable raid composition. Granted, this entirely falls on class design, ability spread and DPS, which I'd like to see addressed first. You seem to also miss the fact that the Lowest Common Denominator in FFVI was the fact that everyone could learn the same magic, which means that regardless of character you could have someone in charge of heals or have everyone able to heal, buff and so on. And I mean heal/nuke/cast reliably without stat limitations and discrepancies in MP pools.

Originally Posted by Madruk

An interview that doesn't ask asinine questions? What happened here?

Too stunned by 2.0 and lost for words apparently LOL

Originally Posted by Firon

Well the writer is in my ls he said he wanted to see the game but he forced him self not to look to ask more questions. He said Yoshi-p would start playing the game he would turn his then try to sneak a peak then Yoshi-p would say look he's looking! XD.

One thing we have learned from both of these interviews is that yoshida is a jokester. I still love that the rock on the left is implemented bit from the eozreapeida interview. I Just wonder why the old images were run along with the 1up article instead of the new stuff that came out of e3.

Let the him know he did a damned good job with his questions though.