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The Official Final Fantasy XIII TRIAL VERSION Thread
- Thread starter Kagari
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Just finished the movie. Loved it! Herere some thoughts. Next, the demo.
-Vincent's shoes are still stupid.
-Cloud's bond with Denzel and Marlene is actually sweet and not creepy.
-I lol'ed at Loz. "Bang! Bang, bang, BANG!"
-Cloud seems to have his badassery back. He enters the fight before Bahamut actually fighting the other monsters and rescuing Tifa, not just moseying up on his bike.
-Cloud is really, really,
hot
-The motorcycle through the helicopter!
-They should have included another summon. Leviathan would have been fitting.
-Interesting touch with
-Holy crap at the Seph/Cloud fight! Poor Cloud. Parts of that scene were nicely redone, not so dark.
-And Cloud started an old-school Omnislash!
-Vincent's shoes are still stupid.
-Cloud's bond with Denzel and Marlene is actually sweet and not creepy.
-I lol'ed at Loz. "Bang! Bang, bang, BANG!"
-Cloud seems to have his badassery back. He enters the fight before Bahamut actually fighting the other monsters and rescuing Tifa, not just moseying up on his bike.
-Cloud is really, really,
really
-The motorcycle through the helicopter!
-They should have included another summon. Leviathan would have been fitting.
-Interesting touch with
Avalanche killing Denzel's family
-And Cloud started an old-school Omnislash!
Till Seph stabbed him in the chest
Hmmm Advent Children was quite good. I'm glad Square fleshed out some of Denzel's background and the fight scenes were damn good. The motorcycle battle....oooooohhh haaaaa. I loved it. For fan service and for a video game movie, it is a cut above the rest.
Love the theme song "safe and sound".
ending credits = AWESOME.
Love the theme song "safe and sound".
ending credits = AWESOME.
SolidSnakex
Member
jett said:
Yep, if there are any changes then they're so minor that they really don't make a difference.
Now if only Square would release those gameplay screenshots of Versus that were included in the Cloud book. The game seems to be much further along that many think.
neojubei said:
Yeah, I liked the new staff roll music more than the old one. Seeing the pretty scenery in hi-def was wonderful too, and Cloud on his bike really blends in well.
I think they removed the quick shot of Aerith in the field though! At least I never noticed it.. D:
I heard they were sticking a new staff roll theme in for the international version. Boo-urns.
BlazingDarkness
Member
SolidSnakex said:
hasn't the development been going since XIII's started?
SolidSnakex
Member
BlazingDarkness said:
This is what Nomura said in November of 2006
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/744/744822p1.html
BlazingDarkness
Member
SolidSnakex said:
ah i thought so
that's really good, once FFXIII hits the wait for Versus XIII will seem really short (i'm guessing about a year between them)
APZonerunner
Member
New cut of AC is a huge improvement. Amazed it isn't on a million illegal websites by now. Perhaps the demand isn't as insane as we thought. Not for the movie, at least.
Digital-Hero
Member
HK-47 said:
I've never read your ripping on X-2, so all I went on is with what you said:
"Shame on thee.
Stop playing SoZ is start playing some X-2 on the fly job change goodness"
SolidSnakex
Member
BlazingDarkness said:
It'll be interesting to see how they'll both turn out since both teams have said they're going to try to max out the PS3.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/837/837350p1.html
TheJollyCorner
Member
are you guys that ordered with play-asia able to track your order?
It says mine shipped on the 15th, but I have no fucking tracking number. -_-
It says mine shipped on the 15th, but I have no fucking tracking number. -_-
Alrighty, finished the demo.
Impressions:
Pretty short (45 min with all cutscenes) and very easy. Didn't die once and using the combos was mad easy. Had a fun time juggling the enemies around and the bosses pose no threat since I had my allies and myself to heal whenever.
Graphics are very nice and the facial animations are excellent! But i did notice some framerate stutter and slowdown in a few in-game cutscenes. Pretty sporadic, hopefully they'll be gone in the final release.
Music is nice, particularly the battle music that everyone has been raving about. I like it too although the regular dungeon music was boring. The audio is excellent cuz if you have a 5.1, there's sounds coming from every channel with explosions and planes flying around you. Very well done. The voices fit the characters well and they sound excellent.
Overall, great lil demo. I'm looking forward to the retail game now.
btw, I'm a new fan of Snow. He seems pretty cool.
Impressions:
Pretty short (45 min with all cutscenes) and very easy. Didn't die once and using the combos was mad easy. Had a fun time juggling the enemies around and the bosses pose no threat since I had my allies and myself to heal whenever.
Graphics are very nice and the facial animations are excellent! But i did notice some framerate stutter and slowdown in a few in-game cutscenes. Pretty sporadic, hopefully they'll be gone in the final release.
Music is nice, particularly the battle music that everyone has been raving about. I like it too although the regular dungeon music was boring. The audio is excellent cuz if you have a 5.1, there's sounds coming from every channel with explosions and planes flying around you. Very well done. The voices fit the characters well and they sound excellent.
Overall, great lil demo. I'm looking forward to the retail game now.
btw, I'm a new fan of Snow. He seems pretty cool.
xs_mini_neo
Banned
Himuro said:
Your definition of linear here is not the same as theirs. FFX-2's was non-linear when it came to what mission you wanted to do first. It did not really have non-linear exploration. You were revisiting the same linear environments from FFX. So FFX-2 wasn't very non-linear. In some ways it was, but mostly it wasn't.
FFXII's environments were non-linear because you could sneak your way into areas you were not meant to go to until later in the game. There was a sense of exploration and a few branching paths. It wasn't a perfect representation of non-linearity, but it is at least a good example of what they are 'bitching about' here. There were dungeons that involved turning left or right to go into other areas, where FFX had a bunch of walk-left-and-right-in-a-straight-line areas.
gregor7777 said:
I don't see why since it is different from the usual turn-based style. I like it.
gantz85 said:
So these geniuses took into mind a black character who can use guns, dance, and likes chicken enough to hide one in his fro as a-ok for American audiences? Why stop there. Did they forget the kool-aid and watermellons? *rolls eyes* And SE did such a fine job with Fran and Reddas... I guess it's back to Barret/Wakka style racist stupidity again. Thank you Nomura. You really can tell a fine story.
Ether_Snake
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Bah you know they'll port it eventually
SolidSnakex
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xs_mini_neo said:
Aside from you completely overreacting to Sazh, what the hell does Nomura have to do with the story to XIII? The designers of the game tell him what type of character they want and he draws it. And that ends his involvement with XIII.
TheJollyCorner
Member
xs_mini_neo said:
are you fucking serious?
How can people be so goddamned thin-skinned sensitive?
xs_mini_neo
Banned
SolidSnakex said:
I'm not raging here. I'm just saying. It looks bad. You know how RE5 did? Well not as bad as that, but the stereotypes get really old. Nomura designs most FF characters. You telling me he didn't design this one?
EDIT: I don't buy it. He worked on FFVII and FFX, which both contained stereotypical characters. They don't have someone who writes all the stories of every FF to blame it on.
Indeed, Nomura didn't write the game, or come up with the characters. It's just the designs, which are fucking slick.Kagari said:
And there is nothing wrong with the character either. Having a chocobo in his hair is kind of cool, it's cute, the little kid likes it. It almost certainly has a deeper meaning, probably relating to his family.
I think some people act offended because they feel they should be or something. This is not racist.
BudokaiMR2
Member
xs_mini_neo said:
I always say this to retarded fucking overly PC people.
What in the fuck is the matter with liking chicken, dancing, kool-aid, and watermelon!?!?!??!?!
On the other hand I think there is something wrong with YOU
What do you guys think of this chick playing an FF13 cover (battle music)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0J7BiMONs
with her violin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0J7BiMONs
with her violin
BudokaiMR2
Member
HK-47 said:
And what is bad about a stereotype of loving a bunch of mad awesome things?
I just see it as an example of good taste!
Ether_Snake
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Summons are the main story point of FFXIII, directly related to Cocoon somehow (see the logo). Maybe the Chocobo is a summon or something important. Animals seem to only come from the world below (forgot the name), maybe Sazh protects it.
And err, last I checked Osaka Whore also used guns.
And err, last I checked Osaka Whore also used guns.
SolidSnakex
Member
xs_mini_neo said:
I just said he designed Sazh, but the designers tell him what type of character that they want. He has nothing to do with the story, that's Toriyama's area.
As far as how he looks and his background, so what? Very little is still known about the character and you've already drawn the conclusion that he's some giant stereotype. Yeah he has a afro, big deal. What type of hair would he need to have to not come off as being offensive to you?
xs_mini_neo
Banned
Kagari said:
It really does seem like it though.
Ether_Snake
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neptunes said:
That's pretty cool. The girl looks good too
Digital-Hero
Member
neptunes said:
That was an awesome link man. She even did the FF6 Decisive Battle song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGIIix5Fs-s&feature=channel
I don't really see THAT much of problem with Sazch except I have a HUGE feeling he'll be the only black person in the entire game like they did with barret :/ I mean what happened? Even if his home town/family may of gotten destroyed and everyone killed it still makes no sense that only about 3 or 4 blacks exists in the entire world of FFVII. So other than that I can only guess that having dark skin and extremely curly balled up hair is an extremely rare recessive trait in the FF games.
CrimsonDarkness
Member
xs_mini_neo said:
Oh fuck here comes the bogus cries of racism. Man this is getting really annoying.