E3 2017: Final Fantasy XV VR: A Waste Of Development Time

<p>Sony had their &&num;8220&semi;huge&&num;8221&semi; press conference at E3 recently and I&&num;8217&semi;m not going to sugar coat anything right now&comma; but it was a big let down&period; All we saw were re-hashes of games that were already announced with no release date attached to them&period; Sure a third remake of <em>Shadow of the Colossus<&sol;em> is cool&comma; but man are they turning <em>Shadow<&sol;em> into <em>Skyrim<&sol;em>&quest; Does that game need to be everywhere at all times&quest; <em>Monster Hunter<&sol;em> looks cool&comma; but it has never been a franchise that I&&num;8217&semi;ve dived into&semi; maybe this will allow me&period; The biggest slap in the face was the fact that there was no <em>The Last of Us 2<&sol;em> anything anywhere to be seen&period; THAT was the game that I wanted to have news on&semi; everything else is just filler to me at the moment&period; Then came the uninteresting VR sections and what might be the biggest waste of development time in video games history&semi; <em>Monsters of the Deep&colon; Final Fantasy XV<&sol;em>&comma; developed by Square Enix&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"bP&lowbar;OZsUQwEs" title&equals;"Monster of the Deep&colon; Final Fantasy XV - PlayStation VR Announcement Trailer &vert; E3 2017"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;bP&lowbar;OZsUQwEs"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;bP&lowbar;OZsUQwEs&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Monster of the Deep&colon; Final Fantasy XV - PlayStation VR Announcement Trailer &vert; E3 2017"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What in Gods name were they thinking&quest; VR hasn&&num;8217&semi;t even taken off yet&comma; and they are wasting precious developers&&num;8217&semi; time by making a game where you can sit with &&num;8220&semi;Bros&&num;8221&semi; and fish&period; I can&&num;8217&semi;t even right now&period; Instead of putting this manpower towards the <em>Final Fantasy VII <&sol;em>remake or possibly <em>Kingdom Hearts III<&sol;em>&comma; they didn&&num;8217&semi;t put time into&comma; you know&comma; games people actually care about&period; They wasted time on a fishing game that about thirty people will play because they can AFFORD PSVR&period; What a waste of time&comma; talent and money&period; This would have been a good idea if the PSVR was in more homes and if people were more willingly to accept it&period; That may not be now Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s new Xbox One X and the still highly expensive PS4 Pro are vying for gamers&&num;8217&semi; dollars&period; Now they have to choose from three things to purchase&comma; and I know that on the bottom of my list is VR&period; Even with a Skyrim based VR incoming&comma; why didn&&num;8217&semi;t Todd Howard put his smarts into beginning development of Elder Scrolls VI instead of a 100 hour plus RPG VR game&period; Spending over 100 hours in that VR rig sounds like a great idea right&quest; But I digress&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;m here to dig into Sony and Square Enix&&num;8217&semi;s bad management of development time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Everyone that I know who is a big gamer is clamoring for a release date on <em>Kingdom Hearts III<&sol;em> and <em>Final Fantasy VII Remake<&sol;em>&comma; neither of which have been given information on at E3 at the time of writing this &lpar;Kingdom Hearts 3 received a new trailer at the Orchestra event&comma; but it still didn&&num;8217&semi;t receive information at E3&rpar;&period; Some of my buddies don&&num;8217&semi;t even care about <em>Kingdom Hearts III<&sol;em> anymore because of the insanely long gap between announcement and news&period; Personally I still have some <em>Kingdom Hearts<&sol;em> games to beat&comma; so I&&num;8217&semi;m not as gung ho for any news on it&semi; I want to know about <em>Final Fantasy VII<&sol;em>&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s the game that I want to enjoy without having to find disc 3 and jerry-rigging my PS1 to work&period; I want to experience Cloud&&num;8217&semi;s story in stunning HD quality on my PS4 before I die of old age&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t forget though&comma; I can go fishing with Prompto&comma; after I shell out three hundred bucks or so for a VR rig&period; Yippie&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;126697" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-126697" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-126697" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;13163823&sol;FinalFastasyFishing&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-126697" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Monsters of the Deep<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Square Enix&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m an old school gamer so I remember a lot of the games that Square made before they merged and became Square Enix&&num;8217&semi;s final form&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;remaster-parasite-eve&sol;"><em>Parasite Eve<&sol;em> <&sol;a>is the game that I have the most love for&semi; it is my favorite Square Soft title and I think it is an underused and very abused franchise&period; Why couldn&&num;8217&semi;t they make a proper sequel to this game&quest; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;retro-review-3rd-birthday"><em>The 3rd Birthday<&sol;em><&sol;a> just didn&&num;8217&semi;t cut it for me and I want to see what Aya Brea is currently doing in New York City&period; If I wanted to spend hours fishing in a video game&comma; I would pop in <em>Animal Crossing<&sol;em> or <em>Ocarina of Time<&sol;em>&excl; This is just one franchise that needs to be reborn and they have countless others&colon; <em>Vagrant Story<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Secret of Mana<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Chrono Trigger<&sol;em> and so on&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m sure every gamer&comma; even the younger ones&comma; would enjoy seeing sequels to these titles&period; The people who worked on this VR spinoff are obviously talented&comma; so why squander their talent on something that could prove to be a big waste of time&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What would you like to see Square Enix do with its development time&quest; Let me know in the comments or on Twitter&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;&commat;Superjerry13">&commat;SuperJerry13<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;