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The Official Final Fantasy XIII TRIAL VERSION Thread
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stuburns said:
Yeah, Versus XIII is unreal. My most anticipated game of forever, for certain.
Watching that video in higher quality, you can notice the insane amount of graphical detail... the clothing and hair movements... they're simple amazing :O I suspect it'll release in Japan Winter 2010 at this rate.
Kagari said:
Indeed, I watched the cam version posted earlier in the thread and I wasn't really impressed with the content, I think the last trailer was a lot better, but seeing it direct feed now, it's really stunning. Looks incredible. Can't wait for the BluRay to get here.
As for the release, I really have no idea, I'm hoping it'll be fall 2010 worldwide, but I think that'd be a stretch.
They're the worst with their teasing, people were shown some exploration gameplay (not any combat) last year, and we have those mood board scan things that show a few in-game environments, but we've really seen next to nothing about it.Kagari said:
I was hoping we'd get a new trailer with ACC that showed some hint at gameplay. At the moment we can only speculate what the game really is, at the moment, from what they've said it's inline for being the game I've been wanting for years, but who knows. It could literally just end up being a pretentious KH, not that it would be terrible if it was, but disappointing.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
I know I'm unrealistically getting my hopes up here, but this had better include redoing all lip-synching to match the English dub. This wasn't such an issue back on the ps2 and whatnot but now that we have games where real-time cinemas might as well be movies, dubbing goes from barely noticeable to bad-foreign-film when you can see how drastically the mouths don't match up.
In today's international day and age there is no excuse! The dialog should be recorded in English and Japanese simultaneously and two lipsync tracks should be made along with them!
RpgN
Junior Member
Kagari said:
I hope they will be voiced better than XIII's characters. Nothing is wrong with them on the first glance, but they sound so generic and anime like, I was hoping for more. Though Sazh's voice is pretty unique, others fit to their roles. But I thought FFXII created a new standard with the voice and localization. Plus I have been spoiled with Yakuza 3 and Kenzan's voice actors, surely SE could do better or at least on par? Lol or maybe it's just me feeling that way?
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Wow, watching that FFXIII Demo...
FUCK me that's amazing :lol
FUCK me that's amazing :lol
donkey show
Member
Gah, why must I wait until tomorrow to get my copy? =( But I'd like to swing a Cloud Black PS3 if possible.
RpgN
Junior Member
Kagari said:
Is he that bad? :lol
On FFXIII, that kid is such a chicken and lazy, the one from Nora team. Really hilarious, that girl could easily kick his ass.
stuburns said:
You mean the ingame models or just the intro? It does have its own style which is a good thing to me.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
for some reason i kept getting the shin megami tensei (specifically raiduo) vibe in the agito trailer at the beginning where the weird- rendered guy is giving a speech or somethin'.
I can never really correctly break down a turn-based battle system until I play it.... but I'm watching those videos, and it looks like you basically queue up a series of commands and then the game will perform them? Is that right?
sechsterangriff
Member
The piano strokes in the stage music are giving me a very nice FFX feeling... 
You know I preordered from NCSX back in January (still have the e-mail), but it seems that I don't even have an actual account with them. No email/password combination works and the password reminder doesn't even send anything.distantmantra said:
Hopefully I'm still counted as a preorder :/.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
HK-47 said:
Droids? Being concerned with lips and faces?
Nonsense!! :lol
Himuro said:
FFX-2 had a non-linear mission structure; its level design was still extremely lazy boring corridor shit. These are two entirely separate types of game elements and as such, each can be independently judged. FFXIII may have linear corridor dungeons and non-linear mission structure too, for all we really know. So your point here makes less and less sense as it goes on, basically just devolving to limpdicked defense now.
I liked FFX because there were things other than lazy boring corridor dungeon design that were good about it. I suspect even if FFXIII follows that crap design exactly, there will still be things appealing about it. Just like even though FFX-2 had terrible level design and a storyline that set back the women's rights movement 100 years, it still had a rad battle system.
The demo merely suggested that the game takes after FFX in design. Even though FFXII's demo was 'linear', you could tell from the way they roped off the segments that it was intentionally limited. You could not see that in this demo. Clearly, this part of the game is meant to be played in this corridor dungeon with no deviation. It worries me that it is so reminiscent to FFX's design, not that it needed to be said for the hundredth time.
So for clarity: Nobody is saying "OMG EVERYTHING IS DEFINITELY CORRIDORS NOOO WHY". They are saying "the demo seemed to indicate more FFX-like crap corridor design, that's worrisome. Can't pass final judgment obviously, but I hope it's not like that."
After all, everything in this thread - positive or negative - is being judged off very early material.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Kagari said:
The new trailer is amazing, I am SO hyped for Agito. Do we know if the plot is still the same as what was initially announced? I thought that originally the narrative was supposed to follow kids at a military academy of some sort and involved using cards. I wonder if this is still the case? Game looks absolutely amazing as well.
Just watched the demo, gameplay looks alright but I don't moonspeak so I didn't know what was going on with the attack moves and spells etc.
Clearing up a few things though:
- Only one character was being controlled in the demo? otherwise it sure looked like a mess.
- You'll be able to control a whole party later on right?
I really like the futuristic level and monster design. Lightning and Snow looked decent but the other party members looked stupid to be honest.. what's up with the whore waving her ass around during battle? I sure hope we won't be seeing more of them after this part of the game.
Clearing up a few things though:
- Only one character was being controlled in the demo? otherwise it sure looked like a mess.
- You'll be able to control a whole party later on right?
I really like the futuristic level and monster design. Lightning and Snow looked decent but the other party members looked stupid to be honest.. what's up with the whore waving her ass around during battle? I sure hope we won't be seeing more of them after this part of the game.
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
Damn, that's pretty. Just watched someone play through the demo. Damn, that's pretty.
Doesn't look progressive in any other way, not that I expect FF to be.
Like the heroine! Please tell me that's not a dude. The black guy with the bird in his afro...why is he dancing to a funk groove in the background during battle animations when he's not getting knocked around? Gotta love the Japanese.
Doesn't look progressive in any other way, not that I expect FF to be.
Like the heroine! Please tell me that's not a dude. The black guy with the bird in his afro...why is he dancing to a funk groove in the background during battle animations when he's not getting knocked around? Gotta love the Japanese.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Is the scene between Stella and Noctis all in game engine? If so that is absolutely ridiculous lol
Wow good stuff. Versus looks awesome. My excitement for that game is just edging past XIIIs. This is really Nomura's baby, without any SE powers-that-be pressure or Disney obligations to fulfill.
Hadn't paid much attention to Agito up until now, but that looked pretty amazing too. My faith in SE has possibly been restored.
Hadn't paid much attention to Agito up until now, but that looked pretty amazing too. My faith in SE has possibly been restored.
VegaShinra
Junior Member
That's right; fuck cellphones SE. Agito looks amazing.