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The Official Final Fantasy XIII TRIAL VERSION Thread
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And also I feel even more certain that Lightning will be the antagonist in the game (at some point) because we have still seen no main "bad guy", something usually revealed early on.
Nah, come on, remember the Squarenix patented formula of "you have an initial villain and then you discover that the real villain is another person behind the scenes".
Nah, come on, remember the Squarenix patented formula of "you have an initial villain and then you discover that the real villain is another person behind the scenes".
Ether_Snake
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Female Sephiroth? Bah.
BlazingDarkness
Member
the scenery where that long haired woman is shown seems really different too, it looks like a castle of some sort
She might be a good guy, who knows. You could be right about Lightening, I think that'd be very cool, we know we'll be controlling multiple 'teams' at different times. Starting the game as her till she kills someone important who is good, then playing from the other side would be awesome I think. But when I first saw that trailer, and saw her, I thought she was going to be the antagonist for the majority of the game.Ether_Snake said:
brandonh83
Banned
Ether_Snake said:
female Sephiroth would be fine as long as she has more character than a cardboard box like male Sephiroth.
Squall5042
Member
DieH@rd said:
Thank you!!
FutileHeroes
Member
This looks amazing!! I must order a copy. I have one question though, it's probably been answered many pages ago, but i don't have the patience to go back through this entire thread. Are the discs region locked? or region free? I'm UK based, so I don't want to order and it doesn't work etc.
MassiveAttack
Banned
20193 said:
Region free.
FutileHeroes
Member
Thanks very much! 
*goes off to order*
EDIT: I just found a guy selling copies of the Trial Version on ebay for $60. Worth the purchase?
^ Ignore my idiotic comment, I just realised how much the movie costs... *slaps head*
*goes off to order*EDIT: I just found a guy selling copies of the Trial Version on ebay for $60. Worth the purchase?
^ Ignore my idiotic comment, I just realised how much the movie costs... *slaps head*
<lighing rant from me, as usual>
I finally got some time today to take a good hard look at our videos. Shame on me I know. Anyway, while I'm rather impressed as a whole by the game, especially the realtime cutscenes, the lighting during the fights *really* annoys me. While "ambiant" light is good to great, if something besides the flames emits a light during the fight, it has no consequence on the rest of the scene. Look at the "missing" part of our videos, the boss fight. The boss has different stages where he glows and stuff. Now look at the ground around him. It never changes color.
It's a detail no doubt, but you know (or not) me and I'm the worst lighting whore on this forum. So it really bugs me.
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I'm also disappointed it's not a real turn based game, but that's a completely different story
I finally got some time today to take a good hard look at our videos. Shame on me I know. Anyway, while I'm rather impressed as a whole by the game, especially the realtime cutscenes, the lighting during the fights *really* annoys me. While "ambiant" light is good to great, if something besides the flames emits a light during the fight, it has no consequence on the rest of the scene. Look at the "missing" part of our videos, the boss fight. The boss has different stages where he glows and stuff. Now look at the ground around him. It never changes color.
It's a detail no doubt, but you know (or not) me and I'm the worst lighting whore on this forum. So it really bugs me.
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I'm also disappointed it's not a real turn based game, but that's a completely different story
Ether_Snake
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Blimblim said:<lighing rant from me, as usual>
I finally got some time today to take a good hard look at our videos. Shame on me I know. Anyway, while I'm rather impressed as a whole by the game, especially the realtime cutscenes, the lighting during the fights *really* annoys me. While "ambiant" light is good to great, if something besides the flames emits a light during the fight, it has no consequence on the rest of the scene. Look at the "missing" part of our videos, the boss fight. The boss has different stages where he glows and stuff. Now look at the ground around him. It never changes color.
It's a detail no doubt, but you know (or not) me and I'm the worst lighting whore on this forum. So it really bugs me.
</rant>
I'm also disappointed it's not a real turn based game, but that's a completely different story
That was to be expected. If it was all "real" lighting it would be much uglier. They need to bake a lot of the lighting and use custom ambient lighting per character/enemy to get it really nice. Otherwise it would look as bad as most other games out there. Making it so that when a boss "glows" lights the scene is practically impossible with current tech. You'd need real-time global illumination or some such. They are doing a pretty slick job IMO in a way that most won't notice.
flabberghastly
Member
I'd like this if they do it with a bit of moral ambiguity, not the typical hamfisted melodrama that Final Fantasy tends to give us. One of the finer points of FFXII's story that I appreciated was the use of Vayne as a foil for Ashe. If they could accomplish something like that except take it a step further, making Lightning a supposed antagonist for a portion in the middle to late-middle of the game, it could be brilliant.Ether_Snake said:
jump_button
Banned
HK-47 said:
well we only really see inside the Cocoon so who know what outside?
BlazingDarkness
Member
well given that Pulse has dinosaurs and shit, you can definitely expect there to be a handful of weird and wonderful races
H_Prestige
Banned
I really hope this wasn't the entire CG opening for the game. It was really lackluster compared to previous games.
DarknessTear
Banned
H_Prestige said:
I doubt it is, but it's definitely at a quality not worth bitching about.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
rataven said:
"Welcome to Corneria!"
"Please save my daughter Sarah!"
"I, Garland, will knock you down!" *dies in four hits*
Okay, Garland alone makes it memorable.
TheJollyCorner
Member
no love for FFX's opening?
I put it second to FFVIII's (with FFVI's in 3rd)
I put it second to FFVIII's (with FFVI's in 3rd)
I haven't watched the dub yet, and I don't know if I ever will. :|
I briefly switched to english during the last fight when Cloud says "I feel sorry for you, there is nothing I don't cherish!" It just sounded wrong, like he was sitting a booth reading a line instead of soaring through the air. Maybe it was the mixing. The lip syncing was particularly bad too.
I briefly switched to english during the last fight when Cloud says "I feel sorry for you, there is nothing I don't cherish!" It just sounded wrong, like he was sitting a booth reading a line instead of soaring through the air. Maybe it was the mixing. The lip syncing was particularly bad too.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
HK-47 said:
Seeing as you yourself are a non human, I would expect such bias -.-
::flips through spellbook::
And mark my words people, that isn't the full intro!!
blindrocket
Member
I remember back in the say when my local game stores imported Japanese PlayStations and Japanese Final Fantasy VII and demoed it. I don't see that happening nowadays. FF doesn't seem to have the same mainstream appeal it once had. Or maybe I'm wrong...
EDIT: Oops, wrong roman numeral.
EDIT: Oops, wrong roman numeral.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Nikorasu said:
Would not surprise me. A soft fade in of the FFXIII logo as the camera pans high above our characters, light piano echoing softly in the background.
I can see it now.
flabberghastly
Member
The best intro is still this. After rewatching that just now, however, I realized that the opening visuals and voiceover of FFXIII seem to parallel it -- which makes me appreciate the new one a bit more. It's almost as if FFXIII's intro is a gloriously HD, ménage-à-trois lovechild of the FFVI (mentioned above), FFVII (train), and FFX (cityscape) intros.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
flabberghastly said:
P.S. FFVIII's opening cinematic was gorgeous. Other than that, I've always thought the Fire Cavern journey robbed the intro of all the oomph it could have achieved. It's my most disliked opening act in the series after FFIII's (Famicom).
flabberghastly
Member
I just mean the very opening of each -- the scenery with a bit of voiceover narration. That's it.Himuro said:
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Himuro said:
While Im sure it is part, if not most, of the intro, there is no way in Hades that's the whole thing. And do we know specifically that the title will be broken into chapters? I know it worked in the context of the demo, maybe the beginning of the game as well, but the entirety of the game?
I suppose its possible.