Game Design
When working as the game designer of a Final Fantasy game, Hiroyuki Ito avoids making it story-driven; he instead balances the story and event scenes with the gameplay. He further clarified his philosophy in the Final Fantasy XII Scenario Ultimania:
"For me, the most important element of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore a vast world, visit various towns and dungeons, talk to numerous NPCs, customise the equipment and abilities of their character, collect a wide variety of items, battle many different types of monsters, and engage in optional side-quests and mini-games. The story and event scenes are also important, but they should be balanced with these aspects of RPG gameplay."
Hiroyuki Ito's philosophy on the game design of a RPG.Hiroyuki Ito believes that the most important element of Final Fantasy is keeping the games fun to play, no matter how much the technology in the industry improves. He also believes the most notable aspect of the Final Fantasy series is the sense of accomplishment the player feels after finishing the game and seeing "The End" on the screen. He believes the level of accomplishment the player feels is directly proportional to how much fun they had while playing and how much gameplay and story content they went through in order to complete the game.
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Famous quotes containing the words game and/or design:
“My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say “I do not play bridge” is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn’t “at all a good player, in fact I’m perfectly rotten,” is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)