3-d field info? (where to find/how to edit)

[Contra]

No, the original makers of Xenoears got *fired* from Square on account of budget cutbacks (Thank you, Spirits Within) and the fact that Chrono Cross bombed (Kind of like John Romero and his baby Daikatana. Got him fired for incompetence.) Yes, Xeno and Chrono were mostly the same development team. They formed there own company, Monolith, and Square wouldn't sell the Chrono series rights, obviously, but they would sell the Xeno- rights, as Xenogears never really made them a lot of money. At least, that's how I've come to understand the story. I will admit that there is a chance I'm wrong. Either way, it is true that from the very beginingg Tetsuya Takahashi admited that because of assertions from Square, Xenogears was not the game he wanted it to be, but that really isn't the reason they left square. This is all possibly a reason that the game Chrono Break was cancelled, losing the development team.

And personally, I have a hard time thinking of FF7 as an unfinished game. Things like Xenogears, yeah, I'll buy it. Not a main series FF. That's the Squeenix cash crop, always has been. I honestly think they would delay a game for a year before they would let it out unfinished, but that's just me.

-Contra

 

[Micky]

No, the original makers of Xenoears got *fired* from Square on account of budget cutbacks (Thank you, Spirits Within) and the fact that Chrono Cross bombed (Kind of like John Romero and his baby Daikatana. Got him fired for incompetence.)

Please don't compare Chrono Cross with Daikatana. Yes, it is weaker than Chrono Trigger, but it is still better than some of Square's recent FF output.
(On the other hand, Xenosaga is weaker than Xenogears, but that must have been discussed to death in other forums already... )

To get back on topic, is it possible that the FF7 worldmap uses some kind of LOD system? Halkun mentioning a "tree" structure reminds me of ROAM. On the other hand it could be some form of compression, that stores delta values instead of absolute values at each leaf.