New Final Fantasy 13 Footage

[-Seraph-]

Wait...whats wrong with the setting? Futuristic cyber punk'ish setting, and that is only pulse and not the rest of the world.

Characters I wont bother arguing as everyone if different in that regard, and I'd rather keep my mind open until we DO get some plot detail instead of presuming anything.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Wait...whats wrong with the setting? Futuristic cyber punk'ish setting, and that is only pulse and not the rest of the world.

Characters I wont bother arguing as everyone if different in that regard, and I'd rather keep my mind open until we DO get some plot detail instead of presuming anything.

A setting that has been done so many times before that all originality has been drained from it. No to mention seeing somebody fight with a sword in this type of environment looks out of place, to say the least.

Also I can assume form this trailer that the game will be about overthrowing an oppressive futuristic government thats main force consists of idiots in power armor. Idiots who have guns yet almost never use them outside of cut scenes.

 

[Avida]

God i cant wait for this, it looks fantastic, also, YAY arial combat!

 

[the captain]

The new take on the turn based system looks cool. When is the official US release date?

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Wow...this is just as much some fanboy v.s troll thread then anything halo i've ever seen on the escapist. Anyone have anything of substance to bring to the table, other then it looks cool or i don't care. It's gonna be just like 7 .<
Here's a link with some actual info http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3173735

It all looks good to me. pretty stoked you can cue up 3 moves, though an AI controlled team pleh..so close to hearing everything i wanted to. Please let there be an option post demo to control your party 100%. That really bothered me with 12. Either be turnbased or real time..dont try to please everyone. I'd be throughly impressed if they could pull both off at the same time and make it actually work. I beg you. Other then that i think for a turnbased game as being something thats been done a thousand times in the past, i think it looks fresh fast and gorgeous.

 

[-Seraph-]

Wow...this is just as much some fanboy v.s troll thread then anything halo i've ever seen on the escapist. Anyone have anything of substance to bring to the table, other then it looks cool or i don't care. It's gonna be just like 7 .<
Here's a link with some actual info http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3173735

It all looks good to me. pretty stoked you can cue up 3 moves, though an AI controlled team pleh..so close to hearing everything i wanted to. Please let there be an option post demo to control your party 100%. That really bothered me with 12. Either be turnbased or real time..dont try to please everyone. I'd be throughly impressed if they could pull both off at the same time and make it actually work. I beg you. Other then that i think for a turnbased game as being something thats been done a thousand times in the past, i think it looks fresh fast and gorgeous.

Thanks for the useful info. The No MP, EXP, and level up thing sounds cool. Am I seeing a rebirth and more refined version of Final Fantasy 2's stat system, because if so, FUCK YEA!! Oh and don't worry there most likely will be a means of dictating what your comrads do in battle, they did it in FF12, the star ocean games, they aint gonna be stupid enough to leave it out of this. At least you can switch from character to character in battle so the AI is a bit negligible.

 

[Internet Kraken]

As for the demo....ME WANTZ NAO!!! The game looks flat out beautiful, and those videos most likely don't do the visuals full justice.

Of course the game LOOKS good. When you have a ton of money to blow on making one game you can make any cinematic cut scene look epic.

However pretty graphics doesn't convince me of the games quality in the slightest. What does is the combat, and am I the only one who's worried that most of that video shows the cut scenes rather than the combat?

I don't agree either that it mostly showed cut scenes. I will agree however that it did show a lot of cut scenes and that they were abhorrently long, which is usual for JRPGs. They looked cinematic and epic, almost in a "popcorn" sense, but, again, that only seems to highlight the flaw that there are simply too many of them and they're way too long.

I mean, I remember way back when on the SNES. Japanese creators were some of the most innovative with using the limited resources they had to tell story. Now they're just fodder for UnSkippable.

Yes the first time I went on that website I only noticed the first video. I didn't see the second one which contained most of the actual gameplay.

So an error on my part.

 

[MarsProbe]

Ah, I hate the principle character already, and that was the good part.

While the opening sequence was predictably shiny (as well as totally predictable) the ingame movement seems awful stilted to me.

Also, the linearity. I don't know if that's more insulting or the fact that they actually provide you with an area map. Just in case you have trouble travelling in a straight line.

 

[Charli]

Y-you can't be serious when asking if the main character is a girl or boy...y-you just can't be...Long pink hair, female voice...breasts..come are people seriously that dense? Sorry if I sound like an asshole but COME ON!! if you can't tell you really got issues.

Kuja.


No really 8/10 people couldn't tell. Unless you are a frequenter of Square's, it is alarmingly difficult to tell.

Aaand again, when Square actually re-develops some style in their characters for the main Final fantasy series I'll care, because really they all look boring, beautiful, typical fashion victims with little expression... Here's to 14 meeting my unreasonable expectations because I'm giving this a miss.

 

[Caimekaze]

A girl. Pretty sure her codename is lightning. Looks like a remade general Celes to me. which isn't a bad thing at all. Wait wtf...and afro...with a chicken?!? baby chocobo maybe...Doesn't matter best turn based combat i've EVER seen. I just got a little tingly

Serah. 'tis her actual name.

And for those who claim she looks the same as Cloud/like a boy, and for those who deny it...

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/1/15/Animated_dyke.gif/180px-Animated_dyke.gif

 

[-Seraph-]

Where did you hear her real name was Serah might I ask. Oh and LOL at the pic, but then again I am not surprised when Square said that Lightning was supposed to pretty much be the female version of Cloud.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Where did you hear her real name was Serah might I ask. Oh and LOL at the pic, but then again I am not surprised when Square said that Lightning was supposed to pretty much be the female version of Cloud.

Which is pathetic and it only shows how bad the plot is. They aren't even attempting to make new characters, they're just repackaging old ones with a new makeover.

Now don't get me wrong, I can tolerate a bad story if the game is fun to pay However FF13 is a game that has incredibly long cutscenes that interrupt gameplay. So if they are going to waste my time on these cutscenes then they better be about a good story.

 

[Meta Like That]

I'm gonna have to call out the fanboyism here as well. This looks like the equivalent of a michael bay movie. Maybe worse 'cause it pretty much caters to the Japanese/fan market. Even the j-pop battle music annoys the shit outta me. The most I'll play is the demo off XBL for nostalgia's sake.

 

[-Seraph-]

Oi... oi vey.

You just keep on being you -Seraph-.

What are you on about, jeez.