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MEVIUS FINAL FANTASY First Look (Up: F2P confirmed, Mitsuto Suzuki composing)
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I agree that being F2P with this level of production values should make people cautious about it. To be profitable, they're going to need a lot of people playing it to want to spend money on it somehow.
In theory, the game could well be designed like Terra Battle, where players who don't want to pay anything can just keep playing a little every day in the morning and evening, and have enough stamina to clear the story at a pace which feels satisfying. But Terra Battle is a super cheap game made by like... 5 people. While this is supposedly a huge undertaking by S-E's internal staff and contractors. Not sure if it'll balance out, especially when they're also going to limit the audience by only supporting higher end devices.
Terra Battle made me feel BAD if I hadn't paid at least a few bucks. That's how F2P should be. I played around 3 weeks straight on a daily basis which is crazy considering that I normally stop playing F2P games after an hour or so because the games feel so shallow and, as I said before, like gambling machines.
EDIT: Okay, I'm not sure anymore if my tablet could handle Mevius :/ Other 3D games like Dead Trigger looked and ran really good, though.
All the screens from the recent Famitsu/Dengeki article for the game is now officially online: http://www.4gamer.net/games/285/G028552/20150326005/
It's Toshiyuki Itahana doing the character design IIRC.
MagnaderAlpha
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F2P? Eh, I'm not sure I want to get this or not...
... okay, now I KNOW I'll never play this. People loved FFXIII's battle system, but I HATED the whole "break/stagger" thing(and if I could put a massive accent on how much I hate it, I would).
Excellent point!
On a side note, this seems almost like a reinterpretation of the first FF. Just read up on the story and it seems like a reimagined take on the base premise of the original(summoned "heroes of light" showing up, world threatened by Chaos and his forces of evil, and Princess Sarah of Cornelia).
... okay, now I KNOW I'll never play this. People loved FFXIII's battle system, but I HATED the whole "break/stagger" thing(and if I could put a massive accent on how much I hate it, I would).
Excellent point!
On a side note, this seems almost like a reinterpretation of the first FF. Just read up on the story and it seems like a reimagined take on the base premise of the original(summoned "heroes of light" showing up, world threatened by Chaos and his forces of evil, and Princess Sarah of Cornelia).
It doesn't just seem that way, they said they wanted to go back to the series' roots. It's all but a remake of FF1, according to Kitase.
http://blog.jp.square-enix.com/sep_japan/2015/03/000946.html
They've officially announced this Thursday's stream on their site now. The title of the presentation suggests that they will probably be announcing the service start date for the game, which should be soon.
The development staff guests are producer Yoshinori Kitase, project leader Naoki Hamaguchi, and production producer Hironori Okayama. Hamaguchi is a programmer from the FFXIII team and the main programmer of Lightning Returns.
They've officially announced this Thursday's stream on their site now. The title of the presentation suggests that they will probably be announcing the service start date for the game, which should be soon.
The development staff guests are producer Yoshinori Kitase, project leader Naoki Hamaguchi, and production producer Hironori Okayama. Hamaguchi is a programmer from the FFXIII team and the main programmer of Lightning Returns.
Now if only Toriyama would be appointed as the main director for the Mevius sub-series and kept away from FFXVI
The livestream is up on Youtube. Haven't watched it, yet. Kitase is hosting.
https://youtu.be/z2jI3y1gTP0?t=7m14s
https://youtu.be/z2jI3y1gTP0?t=7m14s
KojiKnight
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Such skill, much strategy.
That said, I'm slightly more optimistic about this after Record Keeper turned out to be a pretty good game.... but holding any 'action' game in a vertical position looks terrible.
Eh...
To be fair, if you're trying to say "lol, plays itself": you could do the same with any FF
I could make the same gif with someone playing FFXV and button-mashing Square/X.
Battle system looks to be something new.
I'm guessing, but it looks like you'll tap to attack, swipe to dodge left or right, and tap a button to switch between 3 "classes" depending on what crystals are at the top of the screen. The more of a color you have, the stronger the ability is that you use when you activate that class.
That's just my guess.
Edit: Whelp, watched the video above. Neeeeeeeeeeeevermind.
I'm guessing, but it looks like you'll tap to attack, swipe to dodge left or right, and tap a button to switch between 3 "classes" depending on what crystals are at the top of the screen. The more of a color you have, the stronger the ability is that you use when you activate that class.
That's just my guess.
Edit: Whelp, watched the video above. Neeeeeeeeeeeevermind.
To be fair, if you're trying to say "lol, plays itself": you could do the same with any FF
I could make the same gif with someone playing FFXV and button-mashes Square/X.
you don't need to mash, you can just hold square for FFXV
The battle system seems somewhat interesting but there needs to be more than what they showed today.
you don't need to mash, you can just hold square for FFXV
The battle system seems somewhat interesting but there needs to be more than what they showed today.
Couldn't you hold X in older FFs, too? Not sure, right now. I think you can in FFX-2 at least. And in FFXII you don't even have to press any button. In FFXIII you could not watch the screen and just press X most of the time. You can do this with pretty much any FF, really.
You know what the only one was where you had to be on your toes for basically every battle? Lightning Returns. Limited healing items and the fear of losing a precious hour of your in-game time when you die made every battle exciting. At least if you try to do every sidequest possible in your first play-through like I did.
Best FF battle-system.
Come at me.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1022176
Please move discussion of the stream to the actual thread. Thanks.
Please move discussion of the stream to the actual thread. Thanks.
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