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The Official Final Fantasy XIII TRIAL VERSION Thread
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Ether_Snake
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neojubei said:
Don't make Sazh angry. I take such bad shots with my camera, sigh. I love Sazh's design and Lightning's but I hate Snow's design. Damn homeless person.
Damn that looks so damn fucking nice.
Unknown One
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:lol I can't help itHK-47 said:
Lightning seems like Cloud from the beginning of FF7 to me.
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I like the close up camera. Man I'll spend the whole game just looking around.
But seriously, I want to see the game for myself, the lighting on the characters looks "special", like they're doing something I've never seen any other game do, and I'm wondering what it is. The shading and the lighting looks really unique on a technical level, but it can't be that "unique".
Are there no direct feed screens from the demo, like a lot?
But seriously, I want to see the game for myself, the lighting on the characters looks "special", like they're doing something I've never seen any other game do, and I'm wondering what it is. The shading and the lighting looks really unique on a technical level, but it can't be that "unique".
Are there no direct feed screens from the demo, like a lot?
xs_mini_neo
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neojubei said:
Don't make Sazh angry. I take such bad shots with my camera, sigh. I love Sazh's design and Lightning's but I hate Snow's design. Damn homeless person.
Snow's the one with the blonde whiskers, right? lol Why is his name snow? Is it because he's white? lol So Lightning is named that because she flies around with lightning... Is Sazh japanese for black?! j/k I see that apparently this guy is modeled after LIONEL RICHIE. Says Kitase. lol So he will have the most lines in the game and will be different from every other character in the series...
Sazh is a singer, confirmed.
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I like Snow's design.
BTW it looks to me like the shadow maps are REALLY high res, that's why the shadows look so good on the characters.
BTW it looks to me like the shadow maps are REALLY high res, that's why the shadows look so good on the characters.
â Narayan
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LET'S COMPLAIN ABOUT EVERYTHING!
WHY ISN'T THIS GAME OUT YET?!
WHY AREN'T THEY WORKING ON FINAL FANTASY XIV?!
WHY IS LIGHTNING'S HAIR PINK?! THAT SHIT ISN'T REALISTIC AT ALL!
LOST ODYSSEY IS A VIDEO GAME?! FUCK THIS!
WHY ISN'T THIS GAME OUT YET?!
WHY AREN'T THEY WORKING ON FINAL FANTASY XIV?!
WHY IS LIGHTNING'S HAIR PINK?! THAT SHIT ISN'T REALISTIC AT ALL!
LOST ODYSSEY IS A VIDEO GAME?! FUCK THIS!
Ether_Snake
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Why are the psy-ops different now? Did they change the design for good or what? I liked the former one. Or is it just the train scene that is different?
But it's really the first time I see this, and I wonder how they can do it. It's not just a question of high res shadow maps, there is something particular about the shadows, they look so precise, like it's raytraced. That's why I want up-close direct-feed shots:|
Kagari said:
But it's really the first time I see this, and I wonder how they can do it. It's not just a question of high res shadow maps, there is something particular about the shadows, they look so precise, like it's raytraced. That's why I want up-close direct-feed shots:|
xs_mini_neo
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HK-47 said:
Well if Sazh is the next Lionel Richie, then progress has finally arrived.
Maybe Lightning is his groupie? Speaking of her...did anyone else notice that HER FACE NO LONGER LOOKS LIKE A TRANNY VERSION OF CLOUD IN AC??? I find that promising. It means they are LISTENING.
U K Narayan said:LET'S COMPLAIN ABOUT EVERYTHING!
WHY ISN'T THIS GAME OUT YET?!
WHY AREN'T THEY WORKING ON FINAL FANTASY XIV?!
WHY IS LIGHTNING'S HAIR PINK?! THAT SHIT ISN'T REALISTIC AT ALL!
LOST ODYSSEY IS A VIDEO GAME?! FUCK THIS!
It's a dirty job...
So I played some FFXII today and I really like the character designs. What happened to Akihiko Yoshida? Is he still at Squenix?
AND WHEN WILL THEY START TALKING ABOUT FFXIV =(
I'm so hyped for some news on the new Final Fantasy :/ What other scriptwriters/storycreators do they have but Nojima now that the Gooch and Matsuno are gone?
AND WHEN WILL THEY START TALKING ABOUT FFXIV =(
I'm so hyped for some news on the new Final Fantasy :/ What other scriptwriters/storycreators do they have but Nojima now that the Gooch and Matsuno are gone?
Awesome, awesome demo.
The intro video when you put in the demo really gets you in the mood for it, and it doesn't disappoint after that. I like the characters so far, and that can really make or break a game for me. I like that they didn't go with the generic 'tough guy' for the black dude. Snow is cool, bare-knucklin' it is always fun.
I'm really interested to see how the character customization works and what kind of sphere grid/materia/license board system they come up with.
I like the battle system, though I hope that there's a 'wait' mode or something in the retail release. I found myself not even looking at my HP, because my support character just automatically healed me most of the time. Battles move a nice pave though, rarely exceeding 1:00 (except for bosses, duh)
The levels, corridor-ish as they may be in the demo look amazing, and the atmosphere is striking. The lighting, backgrounds, transitions into battle, special effects, etc. are jaw-dropping. It's amazing that it's not even the final build of the engine. Hopefully any hitches will be ironed out and a HDD install (should) help some of the loading times, but I thought they were pretty minimal, even running off the BD-ROM.
The presentation values are unrivaled imo. The combination of graphics and sound in the demo blows away every HD game I can think of. Maybe it just appeals to my tastes more than a Gears or whatever does, but it's phenomenal. I just had some friends over and they were asking me how I got a hold of it. They were really excited when I told them it was coming out on both systems too. I hope this game can help expand the JRPG market in the West and prove that more classic-style gameplay is still viable.
The music is just amazing though, and the Vs. trailer's is just as good. Speaking of which Vs. looks badass too, a strange style of game I think, but I'm very interested.
ACC is great too, THe FF retrospectives and whatnot are nice, haven;t checket out the Denzel anime yet though. overall totally worth my $80
The intro video when you put in the demo really gets you in the mood for it, and it doesn't disappoint after that. I like the characters so far, and that can really make or break a game for me. I like that they didn't go with the generic 'tough guy' for the black dude. Snow is cool, bare-knucklin' it is always fun.
I'm really interested to see how the character customization works and what kind of sphere grid/materia/license board system they come up with.
I like the battle system, though I hope that there's a 'wait' mode or something in the retail release. I found myself not even looking at my HP, because my support character just automatically healed me most of the time. Battles move a nice pave though, rarely exceeding 1:00 (except for bosses, duh)
The levels, corridor-ish as they may be in the demo look amazing, and the atmosphere is striking. The lighting, backgrounds, transitions into battle, special effects, etc. are jaw-dropping. It's amazing that it's not even the final build of the engine. Hopefully any hitches will be ironed out and a HDD install (should) help some of the loading times, but I thought they were pretty minimal, even running off the BD-ROM.
The presentation values are unrivaled imo. The combination of graphics and sound in the demo blows away every HD game I can think of. Maybe it just appeals to my tastes more than a Gears or whatever does, but it's phenomenal. I just had some friends over and they were asking me how I got a hold of it. They were really excited when I told them it was coming out on both systems too. I hope this game can help expand the JRPG market in the West and prove that more classic-style gameplay is still viable.
The music is just amazing though, and the Vs. trailer's is just as good. Speaking of which Vs. looks badass too, a strange style of game I think, but I'm very interested.
ACC is great too, THe FF retrospectives and whatnot are nice, haven;t checket out the Denzel anime yet though. overall totally worth my $80
inner-G said:Awesome, awesome demo.
The intro video when you put in the demo really gets you in the mood for it, and it doesn't disappoint after that. I like the characters so far, and that can really make or break a game for me. I like that they didn't go with the generic 'tough guy' for the black dude. Snow is cool, bare-knucklin' it is always fun.
I'm really interested to see how the character customization works and what kind of sphere grid/materia/license board system they come up with.
I like the battle system, though I hope that there's a 'wait' mode or something in the retail release. I found myself not even looking at my HP, because my support character just automatically healed me most of the time. Battles move a nice pave though, rarely exceeding 1:00 (except for bosses, duh)
The levels, corridor-ish as they may be in the demo look amazing, and the atmosphere is striking. The lighting, backgrounds, transitions into battle, special effects, etc. are jaw-dropping. It's amazing that it's not even the final build of the engine. Hopefully any hitches will be ironed out and a HDD install (should) help some of the loading times, but I thought they were pretty minimal, even running off the BD-ROM.
The presentation values are unrivaled imo. The combination of graphics and sound in the demo blows away every HD game I can think of. Maybe it just appeals to my tastes more than a Gears or whatever does, but it's phenomenal. I just had some friends over and they were asking me how I got a hold of it. They were really excited when I told them it was coming out on both systems too. I hope this game can help expand the JRPG market in the West and prove that more classic-style gameplay is still viable.
The music is just amazing though, and the Vs. trailer's is just as good. Speaking of which Vs. looks badass too, a strange style of game I think, but I'm very interested.
ACC is great too, THe FF retrospectives and whatnot are nice, haven;t checket out the Denzel anime yet though. overall totally worth my $80
To be fair, comic relief black guy is about as cliche as tough, angry black guy
Rahxephon91
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I want to know this toilikeme said:
Ether_Snake
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Next FF is Rapture, at E3!
You guys, what happened to impressions?? :lol Just finished the demo. So here's mine:
- The camera tried it's hardest to give me an epic headache. It mostly worked. Zooming in and whipping out. Felt like it was all over. The camera controls are ok, but I hope they can smooth the panning.
- Combat is fun, at first. Launches are cool, but I don't see how they do anything significant, other than look fancy. By the end of the demo, I was doing the dreaded FF attack button smash. But it might be because of that headache :lol
- Magic isn't overly damaging, but it's fun to chain it in attacks. The -aga level spells do decent damage and the spell animations are nice. I still think Lightning should be able to cast lightning first! And I never had to cast Cure. Seemed Team Nora and Sazh took care of that so it wasn't a concern.
- All the main characters seem very well developed and likable. SE has some magic talent when it comes to character development. I love Lightning. It's nice to have a female lead who isn't a damsel in distress or chasing after some quite curmudgeon.
- Miss the battle fanfare, but I know it's omitted for the demo.
- Baby chocobo is CUTE!
- It really does feel like X in controls and combat, with the exception of the ATB. I didn't feel like the speed of XIII was all that fast. It seems like it is, but there's not any real danger. I never died or took any major hits, despite not knowing what I was doing in the beginning. I thought X-2 was much more frantic and deadly if you weren't paying attention.
- Snow is a powerhouse. He was hitting in the 400 to 500s. Lightning never got near that. And he didn't seem to have any downfalls. His speed and range seem normal. He's fun.
- Graphics and music are top-notch. But I didn't really expect less.
And I'm reposting my ACC impressions to go with this.
- Loved the movie! Truly is an improvement on the original in every way (except for my next point)
- Vincent's shoes are still stupid.
- Cloud's bond with Denzel and Marlene is sweet.
- Geostigma is disgusting. The vomit dude looked like something out of Resident Evil.
- 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 ode to the early part of FFVII with
- Holy crap at the Seph/Cloud fight! Poor Cloud
- And Cloud started an old-school Omnislash!
- The camera tried it's hardest to give me an epic headache. It mostly worked. Zooming in and whipping out. Felt like it was all over. The camera controls are ok, but I hope they can smooth the panning.
- Combat is fun, at first. Launches are cool, but I don't see how they do anything significant, other than look fancy. By the end of the demo, I was doing the dreaded FF attack button smash. But it might be because of that headache :lol
- Magic isn't overly damaging, but it's fun to chain it in attacks. The -aga level spells do decent damage and the spell animations are nice. I still think Lightning should be able to cast lightning first! And I never had to cast Cure. Seemed Team Nora and Sazh took care of that so it wasn't a concern.
- All the main characters seem very well developed and likable. SE has some magic talent when it comes to character development. I love Lightning. It's nice to have a female lead who isn't a damsel in distress or chasing after some quite curmudgeon.
- Miss the battle fanfare, but I know it's omitted for the demo.
- Baby chocobo is CUTE!
- It really does feel like X in controls and combat, with the exception of the ATB. I didn't feel like the speed of XIII was all that fast. It seems like it is, but there's not any real danger. I never died or took any major hits, despite not knowing what I was doing in the beginning. I thought X-2 was much more frantic and deadly if you weren't paying attention.
- Snow is a powerhouse. He was hitting in the 400 to 500s. Lightning never got near that. And he didn't seem to have any downfalls. His speed and range seem normal. He's fun.
- Graphics and music are top-notch. But I didn't really expect less.
And I'm reposting my ACC impressions to go with this.
- Loved the movie! Truly is an improvement on the original in every way (except for my next point)
- Vincent's shoes are still stupid.
- Cloud's bond with Denzel and Marlene is sweet.
- Geostigma is disgusting. The vomit dude looked like something out of Resident Evil.
- 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 ode to the early part of FFVII with
Avalanche being somewhat responsible for killing Denzel's family
- And Cloud started an old-school Omnislash!
Till Seph stabbed him in the chest
xs_mini_neo
Banned
Schrade said:
Translucent tits.
This thread is now complete.
Ether_Snake
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Why are the psy-ops different in the game? They aren't white and yellow anymore. Or is it just the train sequence?
timetokill
Banned
Great so now they added a "where all the white women at" aspect to Sazh's character....
Do we have a translation available for the Versus trailer (it's pretty old by now right)?
The trailer looks pretty impressive on Blu-Ray, but for some reason the lighting is a bit distracting to me. Noctis' shadowing is pretty good, but Stella just seems like she's permanently illuminated, I dunno.
Btw Kagari, as FF13-Net pointed out, S-E has new wallpapers on the Japanese site that you could link to in the OP:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1920x1080.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1280x1024.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1280x800.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1280x720.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1920x1080.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1280x1024.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1280x800.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1280x720.jpg
The trailer looks pretty impressive on Blu-Ray, but for some reason the lighting is a bit distracting to me. Noctis' shadowing is pretty good, but Stella just seems like she's permanently illuminated, I dunno.
Btw Kagari, as FF13-Net pointed out, S-E has new wallpapers on the Japanese site that you could link to in the OP:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1920x1080.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1280x1024.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1280x800.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/A_1280x720.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1920x1080.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1280x1024.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1280x800.jpg
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/wp/B_1280x720.jpg
timetokill
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HK-47 said:
I actually do think this is an interesting discussion. Sazh is really cringe-worthy to me. As soon as I saw the chocobo in his afro I had to shake my head.
I was only half-joking when I said they should use Chris Tucker to do his VA. His character comes across that way completely, a little wired and not exactly smooth. He's playing Tucker's character to Lightning's pissed-off version of Jackie Chan. The "atatatatata" sound or whatever it is that he's making when he's falling would be so easily translated to a "whoa-whoa-whoa!" sound from Tucker. And Tucker has sort of become the embodiment of the comic relief black guy.
I just wonder if they'll bother to give the guy a real love interest this time. We don't really see black characters with living love interests in JRPGs.
