FINAL FANTASY CREATOR THINKS HD GRAPHICS ARE 'EXCESSIVE' FOR VIDEO GAMES
Read what Sakaguchi has to say.

Posted by James Widdowson on Feb 8, 2012 13:52 (106 days ago)
Hironobu Sakaguchi, the legendary creator of Final Fantasy, thinks that HD graphics are too excessive for video games. In a recent interview which sees him talking about his latest escapade, The Last Story, he states that developers spend too much time trying to make games look as good as they can be and spend less time on what really matters.
 
 
His statement reads as follows:
 
"Now that high-quality graphics rule supreme, you can reproduce what you want to communicate visually, but at the same time, I don't know how to put this, but there's an element that's slightly excessive about it all...You end up communicating too much to the player."
 
"This is why I now feel that we're at a turning point. With this title, I pressed reset and returned to the basics of what a game is. I started by spending a lot of time considering just what it means to tell a story in a game. But it went beyond simply considering the story side of things - I looked again at the fundamentals on the system side too.
 
"To be honest, I think that the HD images which have become mainstream in the TV industry are, for me personally, still rather over the top for the world of video games. There's a tendency for developers to allow all their energy to be diverted into maintaining the high quality of the graphics."
 
Maybe it was this view that lead Sakaguchi to develop The Last Story for the Wii instead of the Xbox 360 like previous Mistwalker releases. The Last Story hits European shores on February 24, with a North America release still unannounced.
 
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Feb 12, 2012 10:05:57 (102 days ago )

James Widdowson
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@DefyTheFallen: Oh, I completeley agree with you. As a concept I adore HD. I mean, who doesn\'t want games to look as good as the can possibly be? But yes, a lot of development teams put graphics over everything, and that\'s when the problems arise.
Feb 12, 2012 09:09:02 (102 days ago )

DefyTheFallen
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 I can see where he\'s coming from, in my opinion story, characters, plot and gameplays hould come first. But it\'s allways ncie to have a good looking game, and saing \'HD\' is excessive is too much of a broad term. It\'s more the developers fault for trying to squeeze more out of the current gen consoles than they should be able to that they forget to focus on what really matters.    And it all depends on the type of game anyway. as Marc1k1 said, FF13 is a good example of paying too much attention to the visuals rather than what makes a game a \'game\'. But for some games that have very unique graphic styles, e.g Bastion, that wouldn\'t be nearly as good with a different art direction, despite the interesting story mechanics. 
Feb 10, 2012 10:02:08 (104 days ago )

Marc1k1
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 Good on him! I agree completley.   FF13 is a great example, No good characters or plot but pretty visuals.
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