"President Takayuki is here."
The people who were chatting heard the sound of the door opening and quieted down one by one.
Although there were no strict rules against slacking off during normal tis, Takayuki was easy to talk to, as long as everyone completed their assigned tasks within the specified ti. Occasionally slacking off wasn't a big deal.
But this ti, Takayuki had gathered them together with great seriousness.
Before they gathered, they had already learned that they would be working on the developnt of Final Fantasy. In fact, so mbers of the teams had been temporarily reassigned to work on related developnt of this ga.
However, those assignnts were not official until now when Takayuki had finally gathered them together with such gravity.
Such emphasis was rare.
There was a mont of silence, and Takayuki prepared to break it.
"Don't be too nervous, everyone. This ti, it's just like before. Just complete your respective tasks and develop the ga."
As he spoke, he gestured for the temporary assistants at the door to co in.
Soon, two young n wheeled in a cart carrying two boxes of bound papers.
"This is the developnt plan for my new ga this ti. And my goal this ti is not limited to just your three ga developnt teams. The engine developnt team and special effects production team in the U.S. will also cooperate fully with your work."
Takayuki picked up one of the A4-sized booklets from the cart and instructed the assistants to distribute them.
So of the more clever employees imdiately stepped forward to help distribute these booklets, and within five or six minutes, the booklets had been distributed to everyone present.
The whole eting room was filled with the sound of pages turning as everyone earnestly examined the new ga developnt plan.
Previously, there was a similar process whenever Takayuki wanted to develop a new ga, but this ti, the thickness of the plan was noticeably greater than before.
This indicated Takayuki's great emphasis on this new ga developnt. He probably intended to invest even more of his energy into this new ga developnt.
Takayuki, holding the booklet, explained, "This contains the initial frawork of the plot. The ga's background is set in a steampunk and near-future technological era, which will include familiar Final Fantasy elents such as crystals, chocobos, and adventuring on a large map."
"So far, the construction of the ga world in this plan is still at a relatively early stage. What I need from you now is to enrich the story background based on the frawork I provide."
These people were carefully examining the contents of the new ga developnt plan. The plan had outlined the general worldview of Final Fantasy 7 in detail, and the additional details to be added were mainly about the culture, social structure, and other minor details, all of which were emphasized as necessary settings in the docunt.
Everyone was sowhat surprised to see this.
Because before this, most of the Final Fantasy story backgrounds were mostly set in a dieval context, with at most a bit of technological foundation added. Moreover, Takayuki rarely demanded such detailed depictions of the story background.
It seed that Takayuki really intended to completely construct a fictional worldview and then fill it with various logically consistent fantasy elents.
The plot designers felt a bit of a headache at this requirent, as it was quite different from the work they had done before.
It seed that they would have to settle these settings first.
"If there are any questions, feel free to ask now, and I'll personally explain more details about these requirents."
Apart from detailed descriptions of the settings, the plan naturally also included information about the gaplay itself.
This ti, the entire map would be much larger than before, larger than any other role-playing ga ever made.
So, there were more requirents.
The level designers and gaplay designers had to figure out how to expand the ga map without making the whole world feel dull.
They couldn't let players feel that the whole world was too empty.
And they couldn't just fill it with a bunch of ubiquitous question marks, like the open-world gas that would beco popular in the future.
They had to ensure that every area of the large map had its unique content, making the world look more realistic.
The plot designers had a headache just a mont ago, and now the level and gaplay designers were starting to feel a bit overwheld.
Filling a large map with countless entertainnt options? It was insane. Even if they could actually do it, the capacity of this ga would probably skyrocket, wouldn't it?
Now, their ga console... Oh, right, the new GS1 console had suddenly jumped from the re tens of gabytes of capacity of the original SFC to over 2GB.
Moreover, with the future expansion of technology through discs, this capacity could continue to double or even more.
So, it seed that they really could do a lot now.
In the past, they had always tried to create as much rich content as possible within the limited space of the ga.
In the early days, they had to rack their brains to save resources for just a few KB of capacity.
However, this ti, the GS1 had directly increased the once very precious capacity content by dozens of tis, giving them the feeling of upgrading from a bird gun to a cannon.
"President, I have a question."
At this mont, Uesugi raised his hand.
Takayuki looked at him. "Go ahead."
"President, there's so much content in this ga. Won't players feel overwheld by it all?"
Hearing this question, others also raised their heads.
In fact, they had similar thoughts just now.
Before this, no matter how frantically they saved resources within the limited space, the overall flow of the ga was just so much, and couldn't be further enriched.
Unless you wanted to play several tis through, adding more content by yourself. But those people were generally true fans, and they couldn't just cater to true fans.
Upon hearing this question, Takayuki smiled. "How big do you think players' threshold is?"
"Well..."
Uesugi thought carefully for a mont, then shook his head. "I don't know. I just subconsciously feel like there's too much content in this ga."
Takayuki said, "Actually, it's not enough."
A ga truly bursting with content would probably be a massively multiplayer online role-playing ga.
Like World of Warcraft.
Compared to World of Warcraft, single-player role-playing gas like Final Fantasy 7 were still sowhat lacking in content.
But since World of Warcraft players could accept it, Final Fantasy 7 players naturally would as well. It's just that the people in this world didn't know it yet.
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