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[LiK]

WHAT IS THIS?

boobs

 

[Dark Schala]

Damn, Shenmue 3 for Dreamcast lookin' SICK

Ohhhh shit.

 

[shinobi602]

Christ, looks worse than I thought. Lol

 

[brandonh83]

I'm just not quick to judge is all. I've tended to have fun with the finished products, and don't see a real reason to write something off before I actually play it.

Same here. Of course I'm not watching this trailer thinking "wow this game looks so nice and polished" clearly there's some work to be done, but it won't be out for a while yet.

 

[raven777]

Dang. The town looks like shit. 13/13-2 environments looked pretty good too, unless I am remembering it wrong.

pretty good? It looked gorgeous, especially XIII.

 

[Esura]

WHAT IS THIS?

It's pure, unfiltered beauty before you.

 

[Lady Bird]

Toriyama is a poor director, but I was actually hoping the production values and the new game mechanics would salvage this project into something decent.

Outside of music, is there even anything that saves this trailer?

1. Whatever could be good out of the art style is unfulfilled.
2. Character design is terrible.
3. The battle UI is as much of a mess as Lightning's clothes.
4. The combat looks pretty much like FFXIII's without the extra dynamic of party mechanics.
5. The technical stuff is horrendous and looks worse than the ps2-era FF games.
6. More immersion-breaking Chocolina shops?
7. More poor writing from Toriyama and Watanabe as expected. Poorly-written "poetic" dialogue full of nonsense. Story events completely disjointed from the prequels. Over-reliance on long-ass monologues to tell everything. And ridiculous, immersion-breaking decisions like
8. ... our armored-stripper-goddess Lightning putting sunglasses on.

The trailer was an unexciting mess of different, unpolished stuff all thrown together.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

This game's art direction is a total mess, and I already think the XIII series has bad art direction. How did they go from Academia to this?

 

[Truckondo2.0]

Why are there photos hanging up outside

Maybe they're trying to design that club from the movie "Night at the Roxbury"

 

[zroid]

man... that outfit...

it's slightly less bad than I was led to believe from famitsu, at least, but that isn't saying much

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Why are there photos hanging up outside

They are from past FF games so NPC can see in misery how much of a shitty game they belong.

 

[Jeels]

Same here. Of course I'm not watching this trailer thinking "wow this game looks so nice and polished" clearly there's some work to be done, but it won't be out for a while yet.

This game will be out before the holiday 2013. The idea that it is early in development is a fallacy.

 

[chrono01]

 

[Wilsongt]

Finally saw the trailer... Eh... Assassin's Creed much?

 

[Mr. Fix]

pretty good? It looked gorgeous, especially XIII.

XIII definitely looked better than 2. They're keeping up the tradition.

 

[ffdgh]

WHAT IS THIS?

http://i.imgur.com/C79BE.png[IMG][/QUOTE]

Her Battle Ready Armor?

 

[Supermanisdead]

Does the person on the left have a tail?

Oh no.... oh no!

 

[Thoraxes]

Same here. Of course I'm not watching this trailer thinking "wow this game looks so nice and polished" clearly there's some work to be done, but it won't be out for a while yet.

Exactly.

 

[MagiusNecros]

 

[Wazzim]

Why has it been taken down :-/

 

[Resilient]

Thread title change?

Lightning Returns (to last gen) trailer

 

[Infinite]

Any one saved the trailer. The youtube one and GT one is down

 

[Poyunch]

So um anyone have a mirror? Both videos are down?

 

[Stark]

The city part of the trailer was the most disappointing thing about it. It looks low quality/flat. Though it's an early trailer, so I am hopeful they'll fix/improve that, since the city is a pretty important part of the game, one would expect.

Yeah, I'm not too worried on that. They've shown things change and improve as time goes on from the previous game launches. It looks like they decided to show us alpha footage though.

 

[brandonh83]

This game will be out before the holiday 2013. The idea that it is early in development is a fallacy.

And it's holiday 2012. There's no possible way that they could clean the game up before then? That's a year away give or take.

I'm just not going to condemn the visuals based on a short trailer a year before the game comes out. If the game comes out and it looks exactly like that, I will be shocked and will gladly eat some crow.

 

[Drencrom]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=34539450&postcount=724

Shit, this really makes the trailer look like utter dogshit. What the fuck happened to SE?

 

[raven777]

Any one saved the trailer. The youtube one and GT one is down

http://youtu.be/ajSAdgXU1ts

 

[SDBurton]

I'm just not quick to judge is all. I've tended to have fun with the finished products, and don't see a real reason to write something off before I actually play it.

Call me optimistic, but I like to think that all games will be good before they come out. It's only after i've finished that I start really shit-talking/praising something with actual conviction.

+1

 

[pieatorium]

I like how whenever a game has questionable textures and framerate everyone just thinks about Vita haha

 

[suzu]

pretty good? It looked gorgeous, especially XIII.

I never looked too closely at environments unless they are totally butt ugly or really good looking. All I remember from 13-2 was that Academia looked great.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Trailer in a nutshell:

 

[MechaX]

Oh God I forgot Chocolina made her return

Please, no more of her

 

[Jeels]

And it's holiday 2012. There's no possible way that they could clean the game up before then? That's a year away give or take.

I'm just not going to condemn the visuals based on a short trailer a year before the game comes out. If the game comes out and it looks exactly like that, I will be shocked and will gladly eat some crow.

I can't wait.

 

[Reveirg]

I love how NeoGAF is going completely crazy about how supposedly bad this is, but everywhere else I look (gaming sites/facebook comments..) most impressions are either good or balanced.

I guess I'll stay clear of XIII threads on GAF for the future, it's just gratuitous bashing all the time =/.

 

[Exentryk]

Toriyama is a poor director, but I was actually hoping the production values and the new game mechanics would salvage this project into something decent.

Outside of music, is there even anything that saves this trailer?

1. Whatever could be good out of the art style is unfulfilled.
2. Character design is terrible.
3. The battle UI is as much of a mess as Lightning's clothes.
4. The combat looks pretty much like FFXIII's without the extra dynamic of party mechanics.
5. The technical stuff is horrendous and looks worse than the ps2-era FF games.
6. More immersion-breaking Chocolina shops?
7. More poor writing from Toriyama and Watanabe as expected. Poorly-written "poetic" dialogue full of nonsense. Story events completely disjointed from the prequels. Over-reliance on long-ass monologues to tell everything. And ridiculous, immersion-breaking decisions like
8. ... our armored-stripper-goddess Lightning putting sunglasses on.

The trailer was an unexciting mess of different, unpolished stuff all thrown together.

Ahaha! This.

Except the combat, which is an improvement since it offers control over movement. Taking away the party dynamic is to its detriment however.

 

[brandonh83]

I can't wait.

Whatever gives you satisfaction.

 

[paperheart]

That trailer did nothing for me. FFXIII was the last Final Fantasy game I played, and it looks like it will be that way for a good while. *sigh*

 

[raven777]

I never looked too closely at environments unless they are totally butt ugly or really good looking. All I remember from 13-2 was that Academia looked great.

Academia looked great, but thats about the only environment that looked great from XIII-2.

Almost everything from XIII looked great.

 

[i-Lo]

I dare anyone to justify how that is remotely good.

Damn, Shenmue 3 for Dreamcast lookin' SICK

Xbox 1 port?

Seriously guys?

Well yea.. the AF is well... bad and sparse population is evident. But it really doesn't look like it belongs in the last gen. Of course, I don't know how much of it is actually final but it does look worse than FF13's city modelling.

Why are there photos hanging up outside

Which ones?

 

[Kokonoe]

WHAT IS THIS?

Sexualized female Sephiroth meets Cloud X Gundam.

 

[MagiusNecros]

I love how NeoGAF is going completely crazy about how supposedly bad this is, but everywhere else I look (gaming sites/facebook comments..) most impressions are either good or balanced.

I guess I'll stay clear of XIII threads on GAF for the future, it's just gratuitous bashing all the time =/.

Heathens blinded by light I say.

 

[Jeels]

I love how NeoGAF is going completely crazy about how supposedly bad this is, but everywhere else I look (gaming sites/facebook comments..) most impressions are either good or balanced.

I guess I'll stay clear of XIII threads on GAF for the future, it's just gratuitous bashing all the time =/.

I'd check out other Final Fantasy related threads on GAF. Lot's of positive opinions on both past and upcoming Final Fantasy games. Stop trying to act like GAF is a hivemind. The negative opinions on Lightning Returns will be reinforced by its sales.

 

[Fimbulvetr]

Does the person on the left have a tail?

XIII-2 introduced a group of furries that exist outside of time and space.

 

[Beth Cyra]

I love how NeoGAF is going completely crazy about how supposedly bad this is, but everywhere else I look (gaming sites/facebook comments..) most impressions are either good or balanced.

I guess I'll stay clear of XIII threads on GAF for the future, it's just gratuitous bashing all the time =/.

Why did it take you this long to learn that Gaf threads for XIII in general tend to be much more negative then anything else?

 

[R_thanatos]

I'm surprised that people aren't complaining about the return of chocolina... yet.

was she confirmed ? to return ? if she does then the plot will be really ...well weird then

 

[LuuKyK]

I love how NeoGAF is going completely crazy about how supposedly bad this is, but everywhere else I look (gaming sites/facebook comments..) most impressions are either good or balanced.

I guess I'll stay clear of XIII threads on GAF for the future, it's just gratuitous bashing all the time =/.

It really is unfair. But you should help me defend it here instead. Its hard being 3/4 members only. :s

 

[Pooya]

Outside of music, is there even anything that saves this trailer?

Yes.

good news:

"Final Journey of Lightning"

last game!!

 

[HawthorneKitty]

Heathens blinded by light I say.

Welp, I guess this game automatically has great music.

 

[Chatin]

I'm hyped. Curious how the male VO is related to the story.

 

[Beth Cyra]

Sexualized female Sephiroth meets Cloud X Gundam.

Jihl was both sexy and pretty classy.

Also outside of the Shield being kinda Wingy I don't really get the whole Gundam vibe from Lightning.