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FFXII News Coming At Square Enix Event
Gamespot is reporting on the upcoming Square Enix Summer gaming event at the end of July. From the article: "As expected, the most anticipated stage presentations at the event will be the two planned for Square Enix's upcoming role-playing game, Final Fantasy XII. On day one, series' music composer Nobuo Uematsu will discuss the game while showing off some new footage. The company will also be making a major announcement about FFXII."
When I first got involved with QNX, I was looking for a better platform than Mac, Linux, or Windows. Each had had severe disadvantages that I'm sure we're all familiar with by now: Mac runs only on proprietary Apple hardware, Linux is a mess of spaghetti code not ready for a production environment, and Windows is a security and stability nightmare. After having spent years working with these shortcomings of the Big Three operating systems, I discovered and installed QNX.
My initial impression of the OS was that while small, fast, and efficient it lacked applications, drivers, and a polished interface. Booting it alongside Linux and Windows for novelty, I watched for improvements to the platform. When QNX 6.1 was released it became the only operating system on my hard drive. I finally had an truly efficient system that took full advantage of my hardware without the bloated overhead that Linux and Windows had.
This trend continued by leaps and bounds about a year later with QNX 6.2 and again the next year with 6.2.1. Another year and QNX 6.3 introduced an updated GUI and polished multi-processor support. A year after that and QNX 6.3 Service Pack 1 pushed the platform ahead even more. It was around this time, however, that I heard whisperings of a major upgrade to the platform, but all lips seemed sealed tight about the project save for its codename, Project: Overfiend.
It was then that I decided to became an official QNX beta tester and received copies of the beta software soon thereafter. It looked like a move forward for the platform like 6.3 had been from 6.2.1 the interface became even more polished, the install easier and faster, driver support increased, and more development tool packages added on. After a couple more pre-release builds, however, several changes caught my eye that didn't quite seem to make sense.
For instance, what purpose was there in renaming the kernel file from "vmqnx" to "hentaix?" And why was there now a service named tentacle_rape running in the background, visible in the Process Viewer? Other differences were more visible alongside the older wallpapers there were now graphics, drawn in anime style, of the Voltron team eating a girl cut into sushi, and another of the Power Rangers having sex with Rita Repulsa while Lord Zed looked on.
Even more disturbing were the animated icons of spikey-haired, cartoonish faces splitting themselves open to reveal penis-headed tentacle beasts. What does such an image have to do with a real-time embedded operating system? My curiosity got the better of me when the default cursor changed to a cartoon penis complete with shorn scrotum and what appeared to be ejaculate dripping from the head. I emailed the developer team feedback on these new, outlandish changes.
A week later I received a letter from QNX Software Systems explaining that I had been removed from beta testing and a refund check was in the mail, but that I still had to abide by the non-disclosure agreement I had signed or face possible legal action. I emailed both the legal department and the development team asking why I had been terminated from the developer's program but never heard from anyone at the company again.
All I can say at this point is that I'm completely mortified. I can not fathom why such changes, simply disastrous to the operating system, are being made in the first place or why the legal department is trying to hush them up. No serious developer in his right mind would ever run a product that included porn in its operating system, which means suicide for QNX Software Systems and future versions of the QNX operating system. This is sheer madness.
I urge any and all QNX developers aware of these changes to come forward now QNX's customers, as well as the general public, have a right to know that their investment is being prepared for a shameful flush down the industry toilet. Whatever got into QNX that steered it toward Japanese hentai porn is wrong and must be stopped as soon as possible. For the future of QNX and the jobs and products that depend upon it, I implore you to take action and save QNX from itself.
Thank you.
So? Final Fantasy is dead.
.hack ripoff.
No one cares any more.
FFXII will be combining the worst elements of FFTA and FFXI. I'd be more interested in news of FFXIII being an actual RPG, and not a
Most fans who live in Japan would probably pay twice the entry fee just to see Nobuo Uematsu let alone get the chance to be present to hear a press release first hand or try out games like Grandia 3 before its released.
i never played FF games before FFXI (MMORPG), and as a hardcore ffxi player i'm wondering if anyone knows if S-E is planning another MMORPG?
ffxi is 3+ years old now and any new MMORPG they announce could be seen as the beginning of the end for FFXI.
Final Fantasy 11 is and was the only game that is online. Every other from 1 - 10b and now 12 are all single player rpgs This isn't compition just another sequal While final fantasy is a good game series i wish they would start another one as they are sort of plowing final fantasy into the ground i mean come on ff12 is realtime action not turn based. The begining of the end i say for the series. -Jayson
...will be that they are no longer going to make Final Fantasy titles thereby ending the horrendous rape they commit each time they've attempted to create a new one since Final Fantasy 7. I mean, seriously, let it go. It's obvious that Square-Enix doesn't know what gamers want out of Final Fantasy anymore. The thing is, if they would have called 8-11 something else, it would not have been so bad. It's the same principle as that movie they did a few years back: The Spirits Within. If they'd left the words "Final Fantasy" out, I would not have been so disappointed. There is a delicate formula involved in creating a work worthy of that name, and someone obviously lost it long ago.
I have to admit it and come clear right now. I don't know roman numerals. I just don't. So please Final Fantasy, I realize they make you look cool and it's essential to your brand image, but for my sake USE REGUALR GOD DAMN NUMBERS. Thank you.
there will be two versions of FFXII, one for PS2 (the version they have been working on) and one for PS3 (a quick port with highly improved graphics and the same gameplay)...SE was irked when Sony announced the release date for the PS3 around the same time that SE was going to release FFXII for PS2. This is just a way to make the best of a less than ideal situation...
http://chrono.posterous.com/
I am sorry! But I cannot read english! Stupid Square Enix! Why don't you just use REGULAR OLD GOD DAMN SPOKEN LANGUAGE! I mean, c'mon here!
Damn the world for expecting moderate intelligence from someone as smart as I!
They're actually quite easy.
So, if you have III, it's 1+1+1=3. If you have LXVI, it's 50+10+5+1=66.
Where it gets mildly confusing is when you have a lower-value numeral preceding a higher-value one, as in the case of IV or XL. In these cases, you read it literally as "1 before 5 (4)" and "10 before 50 (40)".
For practice figuring these things out, all television shows have a production date at the end (usually following the credit rolls). Present shows are easy (MMV -- 1000+1000+5=2005), but try those from the 80s or 90s. For example, MCMXCVII = 1000 + 100-before-1000 (900) + 10-before-100 (90) + 5 + 1 + 1 = 1997.
Hope I haven't confused you further.
But Maaa! Everyone else has a