A Pleasant Chat with Tanaka

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Strawberrie
Published: September 3, 2009Posted in: DevelopmentTags:
A Pleasant Chat with Tanaka

Over at the Zam, Corinth and Elmer have a dialogue of an “interesting” conversation about the video. Well, they can’t rip or type out the video, so they rather have a “conversation” about the video instead :D cleaver way of doing it =)

I’ll highlight a few lines which I thought worth taking note of. Afterall, its just a conversation between Hamamura Hirokazu and Tanaka Hiromichi (or Corinth and Elmer XD)

Elmer: According to Tanaka, a high fantasy is one where the races, city-states and societies are all fleshed out thoroughly and intrinsically tied into the game and its story — instead of pushed to the background, I suppose.

Corinth: Now that I think about it though, I think he was making a distinction awhile back between FFXI and FFXIV, saying they were trying for high fantasy this time. But FFXI has in-depth story-lines for races and cities as well. Perhaps some of that technology factor is still a part of high fantasy after all.

Elmer: And he compared it to FFXIII a lot too, which always made me think technology. But apparently it has a lot to do with realism as well — as in developed so much as to be comparable to our own world, in terms of history and culture.

Corinth: You can see that built into the story already with references to different clans for each of the races as well as the fact that Hyurans speak a variety of languages.

Another one :D

Elmer: Hamamura asks him a lot of general questions about FFXIV as well, and it’s funny how often Tanaka doesn’t even know what to say. For example, Tanaka says the keyword of FFXIV is “growth” as we all know. So Hamamura asks, “What exactly do you ‘grow’ in FFXIV?” and Tanaka is like, “I dunno, lots of stuff.” …and they just burst out laughing.

Haha, I can’t stop laughing at that one! Well anyway, for the full transcript you can read the rest on FF14 – Allakhazam.

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Strawberrie is one of the original members of the Food Taru conspiracy, a White Mage at heart, and the author of a very well-known blog of Tarunation.