Chapter 250 Is It Better to Buy than to Make? Ninth Update

This time Zuo Zhen doesn’t plan to make too many adjustments to the plot, and just lets the Japanese team figure it out on their own.

However, Zuo Zhen plans to let people at his company headquarters handle the technical issues regarding game mechanics, gameplay, and procedures.

The Japanese side only needs to be responsible for the plot, optimization of the overall game, etc.

With the few employees still remaining here, it is basically not a big problem for them to do such a thing.

At the same time, Zuo Zhen has another small ambition.

Now that telephone communication is relatively smooth, Zuo Zhen wants to try cross-border communication development.

From this point on, a game team that can cooperate in cross-border development has been formed. This is also one of the trends in large-scale game development in the future.

Developers from different regions are also influenced by different cultures, thus bursting out with unique inspirations, which also makes it easier to add more details to the game.

Zuo Zhen looked at the deputy director in front of him and said: "We don't need to say more about the login platform. The garbage performance of NGS is definitely not enough. This time our main platform will definitely be Sega, and our direct competitor should be Brave Dou A dragon."

"Dragon Quest, this is the king of role-playing games." The deputy commander said with some yearning.

The third part of Dragon Quest will be released this year. If I hurry up and hurry up, I guess it will only be released early next year.

In Zuo Zhen's memory, Dragon Quest 3 should be the breakout work of this series.

Early sales directly exceeded 3 million, becoming a national role-playing game in Japan.

"President, will our Final Fantasy development idea be more competitive than Dragon Quest 3?"

"It's hard to say, the market is changing rapidly, but all we have to do is try our best. At least I think this game is interesting enough and is the best it can be in its current state."

The gameplay of Final Fantasy 2 has been relatively complete, and it should be regarded as being separated into two different tracks from Dragon Quest.

The gameplay of Final Fantasy is not the same as the simple turn-based system, so it is not necessary to compare Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.

Of course, Zuo Zhen cannot control what the public and the media think.

They are probably going to use it for comparison. That is their own business and Zuo Zhen has nothing to do with it.

For now, he just needs to do what he can as well as possible.

"First of all, let's confirm the image quality. The image quality of the game must be comparable to my Heavy Duty 2. Have you played Heavy Duty 2?"

The deputy director immediately nodded and said: "Of course, President, your heavy-duty mechs are now also the benchmark for role-playing. I even think that heavy-duty mechs are more fun than Dragon Quest."

This is not flattery from the deputy chief, he really thinks so.

The gameplay of Juggernaut is more interesting than the traditional gameplay of upgrading and killing monsters like Dragon Quest, and there are various plot endings to choose from, giving players a certain degree of freedom.

In Heavy Duty 2, the picture quality is already comparable to that of the original Sonic the Hedgehog. It looks like a cartoon. The only thing that makes Zuo Zhen a little regretful is that Heavy Duty was made in order to catch up with the launch of the game console. It's more urgent.

Originally, there were some plot cutscenes planned, but we had no choice but to abandon them for the time being.

But when it came to the development of Final Fantasy 2, Zuo Zhen already had enough time.

Now Komura Yuo will no longer rush Zuozhen to develop games quickly.

At present, many game manufacturers have begun to jump from NGS and other platforms to develop simultaneously.

Even if NGS angrily curses some developers as traitors, these developers don't care.

The company itself is ultimately profit-driven.

Some threats no longer have much meaning when they are profitable.

As for the real game, it is now a Sega card. Players do not mind if the development of games on this Sega card is slower, but they must ensure that the quality of the game is good enough.

So this time Zuozhen plans to develop Final Fantasy 2 carefully.

The graphics should be comparable to works such as Sonic the Hedgehog. Secondly, the action scenes of the characters, and the interpretation of the game's cutscenes.

Zuo Zhen remembers that the earliest cutscene interpretation in the Final Fantasy series seemed to be the sixth one, so he can be considered to have brought this forward.

"There are cutscenes and various gameplays. Can you fit so much content into it, President?"

Hearing Zuo Zhen's description, the deputy minister was a little yearning and a little worried at the same time.

Zuo Zhen laughed and said, "Are you still worried about this?"

The deputy commander suddenly remembered the last work of the real game.

Overlord of the Three Kingdoms, this game has more content and details than Final Fantasy.

Then you have figured out how to make the actual game, so what else does Final Fantasy have to worry about?

"And, actually, I'm thinking that maybe I can consider putting a little more pressure on Sega."

"Added pressure? Added pressure to what?"

"Now the large-capacity game cartridges severely limit my performance. I have to find a way to get Sega to bring down the cost and price of large-capacity game cartridges."

Beat it down?

The deputy chief still didn't understand some of the vocabulary that Zuo Zhen occasionally used, but he could roughly understand that Zuo Zhen wanted Sega to find ways to reduce the cost of flash memory.

This touched on the knowledge blind spot of the deputy minister, so he could only echo it from the sidelines.

If he remembered correctly, Zuo Zhen remembered that the development of science and technology in China at this moment was actually not much worse than abroad.

At least the gap is not as big as that of later generations after the 21st century.

At this moment, some motherboards and other products developed by China are more or less usable.

But another thing happened in this era, and that was a saying that had been passed down orally for a long time in China.

It is better to buy than to build, and it is better to rent than to buy.

Zuo Zhen didn't know where this word started to spread.

But he knew that since such a statement was made, most domestic companies have begun to follow this principle.

First of all, foreign products were indeed very competitive and cheap at the time.

Moreover, there are relatively mature industrial chains abroad, and the quality is slightly better.

Over time, obtaining a large number of overseas orders can strengthen itself in a similar way to war to support war, and more funds will be invested to develop new products and new technologies. In the end, the gap with domestic companies will become wider and wider.

If possible, Zuo Zhen would still like to reverse this situation slightly.

At least in this era, there shouldn't be a big gap if people in China produce things like flash memory chips.

But we have to wait until we return to China to investigate this matter carefully.

Right now, we need to finalize all the development details of Final Fantasy 2 first, and let the team in Japan establish good contact with the country.