168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy has changed a lot over the years, as the latest entry in the series is obviously inspired by more realistic fantasy. It's no secret that Western fantasy giants like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lord of the Rings and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game of Thrones have played a huge part in the development of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 16, but it turns out that producer Naoki Yoshida wanted to nail the vibe down so bad that early developers working on the title were actually "required" to watch HBO's hit series.
According to an interview wi♛th , the team working on Final Fantasy 16 had to "look to the west" for inspiration regarding more gritty, medieval fantasy as "that type of stuff does not exist where we live in Japan." As a result, the team ended up focusing on Western media that fit the bill, and Game of Thrones is arguably one of the most influential pieces of fantasy that the West has ever produced.
However, instead of dr☂awing inspiration from a distance, Yoshida wanted the core teams of devs that began working on Final Fantasy 16 to really get stuck in and absorb the general feeling of Game of Thrones, so made it a requirement for everyone to watch the show.
"We wanted to create something that really resonated with a lot of people," explained Yoshia. "And when we saw how Game of Thrones, and before that the🦹 Song of Ice and Fire series, has really resonated with players, we knew that this was something that we wanted to do as well. When we first started creating the game, we had our core team of about 30 members very early on buy the blu-ray boxset of Game of Thrones and required everyone to watch it, because we wanted this type of feel."
It's no surprise that the team working on Final Fantasy 16 has gone to such lengths to envelop themselves in that kind of fantasy genre. I think pretty much everyone saw the Game of Thrones inspirations during the game's intitial few trailers, even before it was officially confirmed that the show played a huge part in development. Still, it's fun to imagine a room of game developers sitting through such a cultural phenomenon in the West as part of work. Perks of the job, eh?
As for other inspirations, while Yoshida doesn't outright state that Lord of the Rings plays a part as well, he does admit that there's one scene in the game that shares some similarities with the scene from the Fellowship of the Ring that includes Gandalf's tussle with the Balrog. Yoshida also explains that he read the novels when he was younger and has seen the movies, so maybe there was some unconscious inspiration going on.