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The Official Final Fantasy XIII TRIAL VERSION Thread
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Kingsora
Would rather have no penis than have to show his to a medical professional
Well the next parts are coming I guess, he only uploaded it like an hour ago, so...BlazingDarkness said:
Oh well the first 15 minutes than: http://ps3life.nl/nieuws/3354-gameplay-video-en-nog-meer-screens-van-final-fantasy-xiii/ :lol
RpgN
Junior Member
Kingsora said:The first 40 minutes of the FF XIII demo: http://ps3life.nl/nieuws/3354-gameplay-video-en-nog-meer-screens-van-final-fantasy-xiii/
So actually the whole demo
I'm so jealous of you guys! The videos look so gorgeous! The atmosphere is totally FFX with the movement/dungeons of FFXII! Have fun with the demo. Winter 2009 baby!But where is some Agito footage?
BlazingDarkness
Member
Gackt was miles better VA than whoever the english guy wasDieH@rd said:
BlazingDarkness
Member
i imagine there'll be a little bit extra CG at the beginning, explaining what Pulse is etcYoboman said:
BlazingDarkness
Member
stuburns said:
yeah i think that would make more sense
kinda like FFVII where it starts with a bang, and then slows down a little
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
agito trailer anyone ?
BlazingDarkness
Member
dont think anyone captured it =/chandoog said:
Himuro said:
It's a worry of how the game looks from the demo, no one can make a final judgment on how it'll be for the entire game. As a demo, you can only judge what you see. My initial judgment is "I hope the rest of the game isn't boring corridor shit, like it was in FFX. This looks a lot like Zanarkland."
Simple observations and concerns, Himuro.
BlazingDarkness
Member
the corridor parts had loads of scripted explosions and stuff, so i can see why they limited the players movement there
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
BlazingDarkness said:
it also had a bunch of FFX-2 style jumping moments as well, looks to me like the level design is going to be similar to FFX / X-2 as in long narrow walkway and corridor's and such (with added jumping ability from FFX-2).
also i have a question, during the battles it seemed like the player was able to move his charater in any direction slowly, was that really the player doing it ? or is the player's role just to input the command and anything else happens itself ?
near
Gold Member
So it looks like when you engage one or several enemies at once, and the battle commences no other enemie/foe can enter that same battle. I don't think I really like that, what I loved with FFXII was that while you was in a battle, if a foe was near by they could just join your same battle making it more of a challenge, especially if you was on an open field. I don't really see a point in adding a gambit system now. Though it does look decent, and I feel they're going in the right direction.
BlazingDarkness
Member
chandoog said:
you can move the character around freely during battle
flabberghastly
Member
Amir0x and others who've mentioned the Zanarkand beginning of FFX have really nailed it. I thought of that the entire time I was watching it. Moreover, Cocoon is seeming more and more like Sin/Dream Zanarkand. Combine this with the ridiculously linear environment and the ATB combat system complete with transitions and post-battle statistics, and all I see is a regurgitation of the past. After FFXII, I was looking for something a bit more experimental.
Also, Sazh seems like he'll be this game's Zell for me. I have no idea what he's saying, but nonetheless he's already annoying. Frankly, I'm tired of JRPGs (and all other genres, for that matter) mistaking caricature and exaggeration for characterization.
That said, I find Lightning and the setting appealing, so all is not lost.
Also, Sazh seems like he'll be this game's Zell for me. I have no idea what he's saying, but nonetheless he's already annoying. Frankly, I'm tired of JRPGs (and all other genres, for that matter) mistaking caricature and exaggeration for characterization.
That said, I find Lightning and the setting appealing, so all is not lost.
Dabookerman
Member
I take it no HD video of this yet?
flipping_heck
Member
Anyone ripped the battle theme musics yet?
darkwings said:
If you played the previous FF games, FFX was very linear in comparison.
That's the only thing that worried me in the demo as well. I didn't like the linearity of the areas in FFX and I really hope in FFXIII we aren't going back to that.
Everything else look great. Lightning, Shaz and Snow look like good central characters (better than the rabble from XII and X anyway) and the combat is a step up. 1 year is so far off!
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
FFChris said:
God damn I loved FFX.
"This...is your world now."
*cry*
*reaches out hand to TV*
They've said the demo is more linear than most the game will be, if you think of FFX, a lot of the later environments had a much more open design, even though it was all linear.FFChris said:
I think it's safe to say there is no traditional world map in FFXIII, I think we'd have seen it by now, we've already seen a bit of FFVersusXIII's and they haven't shown shit on that game yet.
flabberghastly
Member
I don't think anyone has claimed that because the demo is linear the entire game will be linear. Obviously, some sections can be linear while others are not. But, considering this game's pedigree, seeing such a linear environment in the demo does, obviously, cause some concern for people, myself included.Himuro said:
I hope they prove our worrying ill-founded.
Demos cannot be non-linear. Their purpose is to show some features and let you see some cutscenes and gameplay. They cannot have full world map and stuff like that.
Saying that the Demo is linear is like asking why the Demo does not contain all the characters playable and the whole game
Saying that the Demo is linear is like asking why the Demo does not contain all the characters playable and the whole game
Himuro said:
Should I not be saying a bad word about this demo that some of you guys have spent rediculous amounts of money on?
Yazus said:
The parts of the demo I watched were literally straight line paths with landscapes you can't reach in the background, just like FFX, which I didn't enjoy the structure of. Everything else about the demo I liked.
flabberghastly said:
Well put.
flabberghastly
Member
That's beside the point. This game is, by all estimation, extremely unlikely to have a world-map, and will obviously use a setup similar to FFX and FFXII. The problem for those of us who are wary of the linearity is that we do not want this demo environment to be indicative of the other environments. This wasn't the case with FFXII, but it was, basically, the case with FFX.Yazus said:
furrygiblets
Member
FUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK
What did i miss?
What did i miss?
flabberghastly
Member
Obviously we can't grasp the entire design of the game from the demo, but what we do have references to are how this was accomplished in the past. Many of these same designers worked on FFX, and we all know what they chose to do with the environments in that game.stuburns said:
What we're expressing is simply a matter of the impressions that the demo had upon us. No one has claimed that this is how the game will be.
Unfortunately, I never played FFX-2, so I can't comment. I've intended to for years; I might need to now, at least for comparative purposes.Himuro said:
Future PhaZe
Member
So are you capable of controlling your allies with this battle system?
flabberghastly
Member
Yes, but not in the demo.Dark FaZe said: