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Kagari · Jan 25, 2011

Versus:

* The actual battle screen in the final game will show character names.
* Some areas regarding how the battle screen shows commands will probably change for the final.
* Magic has different effects depending on the character who uses it.
* A young blonde male character shown in the magazine's screenshots is good with guns. He alone has aiming controls and can aim for enemy weak spots.
* When other characters use guns, they have just a normal lock-on.
* The game has a large number of weapons. Main character Noctis can use them all.
* Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations.
* There are more party members than the four shown in the magazine. However, the game doesn't have a massive number of party members.
* Main character Noctis is not "cool." He's just a normal youth. He feels "I am strong," but he's not as strong as he thinks.
* Some segments of the trailer show natural landscapes. These are like the fields you encounter in other games. The game will have time progression: morning, afternoon, evening and night.
* Contrary to some theories, the dragon rider character who appears in the trailer is not heroine Stella. Nomura says he wouldn't show Stella in such a state. The character you see in that sequence is an enemy.
* You can steal army vehicles for your use. You can ride air ships, cars and Chocobos.
* The blonde character shown in the trailer is Noctis's friend. The other two characters are friends from Noctis's childhood. The person with glasses is like Noctis's tactician.
* You'll recall that someone in the trailer says "You're not fit to be king," or something to that effect. This statement is not directed at Noctis. (I think everyone assumed it was!)
* Nomura says something along the lines of: This year, we have Type-0 and XIII-2, so please forget about Versus for a while. He asked that people be patient and understand that they're trying to do something incredible.
* At the earliest, we could see more from Versus XIII at E3.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/01/24/flying_get_d_style/

XIII-2:
-ATB returns
-Won't feature jpop feel like X-2.
-Difficulty selection
-Other characters will return, but expect them to be different.

* XIII-2's story begins in Gran Pulse after the ending of XIII.
* The story will feel like it expands out from the after story that was included in the booklet with Xbox 360's Final Fantasy XIII International.
* Outside of Lightning, other characters will appear in the game in unexpected forms. Some will see major changes.
* XIII-2 is a full sequel. You'll learn some of the things that took place in the background scenes of XIII.
* The story will be more dark and mysterious than XIII's.
* The story will focus on the goddess Etro.
* The game will not have the pop feel of Final Fantasy X-2 (I think this means no dancing Lightning booooo)
* The battle system will be an evolved form of XIII's ATB system.
* They're listening to opinions both inside and outside of Square Enix and from outside of Japan regarding characters, story and interface.
* There may be a difficulty setting.

Type-0:

* The keyword for the battle system is "Magic in Action." While you have weapons, magic is main.
* A main concept is "It's not necessary for everyone to gather." The game has a multiplayer system that can be enjoyed by solo players too.
* You can join other players' games for three minutes. While you can extend this, Type-0 is not the type of game where you play together with other players continuously.
* The game will have 12+2 main characters. This means that in addition to the 12 main characters, there will be two characters, Makina and Rem, in a different framework (I'm not sure what that means). These 12+2 characters will be your controllable party.
* You can have up to three characters out in battle simultaneously. Once someone dies, other members will come out to help.
* Until you come to the battle field, you move around the world map and execute a strategy.
* As you play on your own, other players will gradually take part in the battle.
* When you help other players, you earn points.
* In general, your full party heads to the battle field together.

And more from Famitsu probably tomorrow

-Pyromaniac- · Jan 25, 2011

I've still yet to hear any bad news on this game <3

Can't wait.

StuBurns · Jan 25, 2011

Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

Jerk · Jan 25, 2011

Could this be the Final Fantasy that we have all been waiting for?

I say nay, but only because I do not want to raise my hopes.

H_Prestige · Jan 25, 2011

I wonder if that dragoon woman ends up joining the party.

RustyNails · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

Sounds like it. Sounds like old-school Final Fantasy, as a matter of fact.

RoboPlato · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

I assume it'll just mean that they're in cutscenes even if they aren't in combat. Probably just an awkward translation.

-Pyromaniac- · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

I believe that's right, which hopefully implies (and I think it does) on the fly party changes.

Angelus Errare · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

Tales of type convos?

Jerk · Jan 25, 2011

H_Prestige said:
I wonder if that dragoon woman ends up joining the party.

She better.

Fimbulvetr · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

Probably scripted conversations while running around like Uncharted and FFXIII.

But in FFXIII only people in your current active party could make comments.

leng jai · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

I think it means for stuff outside of battles, such as cutscenes and talking to NPCs.

H_Prestige · Jan 25, 2011

If Nomura really wanted to play the nostalgia card, there should be secret party members a la FF7.

Fimbulvetr · Jan 25, 2011

Jerk 2.0 said:
She better.

And then she turns out to be Fang!

ZOMGTwist

Jerk · Jan 25, 2011

Fimbulvetr said:
And then she turns out to be Fang!

ZOMGTwist

o_0

I need a new pair of pants.

Rpgmonkey · Jan 25, 2011

Sounds like the typical vague information they've been giving on these games for years now. Meh.

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

Gonna quote this because everyone else did.

esbern · Jan 25, 2011

this looks like the beginning of the final fantasy cycle.

"looks like a return to form for FF, characters might not cry every 5 minutes" -----> "two 15 year old boys who like Bright Eyes are forced into your party" -------> "...Online" ------> "Gaf threads about hating JRPGs"

Big One · Jan 25, 2011

He alone has aiming controls and can aim for enemy weak spots.

Sounds like the mechanics in The Last Story. Man, Nomura is going to be late on that...

Nakazato · Jan 25, 2011

the more i see this the more i kinda want this game to have online co-op

7Th · Jan 25, 2011

Going by this information, we can probably say that the game still has a long way to go.

-Pyromaniac- · Jan 25, 2011

7Th said:
Going by this information, we can probably say that the game still has a long way to go.

I think we knew that a while ago.

StuBurns · Jan 25, 2011

Thanks for the replies guys, I think that's probably the case. It's true of all the Final Fantasy's really though, seems odd to point it out.

Big One said:
Sounds like the mechanics in The Last Story. Man, Nomura is going to be late on that...

Yeah but people are going to actually play this game.

Teknoman · Jan 25, 2011

Nakazato said:
the more i see this the more i kinda want this game to have online co-op

Lets let them make sure they get HD towns among other things first.

Dead Prince · Jan 25, 2011

LOL talking party during battle fml.

Blast Processing · Jan 25, 2011

RustyNails said:
Sounds like it. Sounds like old-school Final Fantasy, as a matter of fact.

I guess you could consider FF7 old school at this point, but ugh.

There being a "battle screen" at all is enough to turn me off of a JRPG these days. What are you thinking for the transition this time? Screen shatters? Fuzzy wipe? Negative colors then fade to black?

Kagari · Jan 25, 2011

Blast Processing said:
I guess you could consider FF7 old school at this point, but ugh.

There being a "battle screen" at all is enough to turn me off of a JRPG these days. What are you thinking for the transition this time? Screen shatters? Fuzzy wipe? Negative colors then fade to black?

Erm, there is no transition. Like Kingdom Hearts.

StuBurns · Jan 25, 2011

Blast Processing said:
I guess you could consider FF7 old school at this point, but ugh.

There being a "battle screen" at all is enough to turn me off of a JRPG these days. What are you thinking for the transition this time? Screen shatters? Fuzzy wipe? Negative colors then fade to black?

I really doubt there will be battle transitions, more likely the HUD will just come up when an enemy is present.

EDIT: Beaten.

H_Prestige · Jan 25, 2011

Blast Processing said:
I guess you could consider FF7 old school at this point, but ugh.

There being a "battle screen" at all is enough to turn me off of a JRPG these days. What are you thinking for the transition this time? Screen shatters? Fuzzy wipe? Negative colors then fade to black?

No transitions. It's like KH and FFXII.

MrDenny · Jan 25, 2011

Hope stella joins the party.
Maybe noctis and her are the only ones who can summon.

Dali · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

Sounds like you may have a max of three, with possibly one or two that have no combat abilities. They show up in cutscenes and talk to npc's but don't participate in combat when they are part of your party? I dunno. Sounds like some sort of escort mission type stuff to me, but maybe I'm misunderstanding.

Metalmurphy · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
Thanks for posting, what does this means?

"Your battle party can have up to three members. However, the members who aren't taking part in the battle will join in on conversations."

Does that mean you'll go around with more guys, but while three are fighting the rest stand around chatting?

In the stream video they appeared to be talking about the plot during combat and not just random chatter, seems like a way to move the story forward, but if you don't have a character in the party and he's supposed to talk, he talks anyway. At least that's what I think it'll happen.

Tylahedras · Jan 25, 2011

Lock on shooting? Sounds fantastic, just like the last game that had it. cough* Dirge of Cerberus cough*

-Pyromaniac- · Jan 25, 2011

I'll paste the info that comes after that for the hell of it:

- Main character Noctis is not "cool." He's just a normal youth. He feels "I am strong," but he's not as strong as he thinks.
- Some segments of the trailer show natural landscapes. These are like the fields you encounter in other games. The game will have time progression: morning, afternoon, evening and night.
- Contrary to some theories, the dragon rider character who appears in the trailer is not heroine Stella. Nomura says he wouldn't show Stella in such a state. The character you see in that sequence is an enemy.
- You can steal army vehicles for your use. You can ride air ships, cars and Chocobos.
- The blonde character shown in the trailer is Noctis's friend. The other two characters are friends from Noctis's childhood. The person with glasses is like Noctis's tactician.
- You'll recall that someone in the trailer says "You're not fit to be king," or something to that effect. This statement is not directed at Noctis. (I think everyone assumed it was!)
- Nomura says something along the lines of: This year, we have Type-0 and XIII-2, so please forget about Versus for a while. He asked that people be patient and understand that they're trying to do something incredible.
- At the earliest, we could see more from Versus XIII at E3.

StuBurns · Jan 25, 2011

Tylahedras said:
Lock on shooting? Sounds fantastic, just like the last game that had it. cough* Dirge of Cerberus cough*

The 3rd Birthday was the last SE game with it. Cough away.

EDIT: Stella is the heroine? This game is baffling.

H_Prestige · Jan 25, 2011

Nice to have confirmation again on day/night cycles and airships. Also chocobos.

-Pyromaniac- · Jan 25, 2011

H_Prestige said:
Nice to have confirmation again on day/night cycles and airships. Also chocobos.

indeed. And once again the endless stream of great news continues and worries me lol. Too good to be trueeeee.

Tylahedras · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
The 3rd Birthday was the last SE game with it. Cough away.

Fair enough I guess I should amend that to the last SE game that I played that had it. And no I'm not rooting against them, I love FF games.

want more XII

Kagari · Jan 25, 2011

StuBurns said:
The 3rd Birthday was the last SE game with it. Cough away.

EDIT: Stella is the heroine? This game is baffling.

She's always been the heroine.

jiggle · Jan 25, 2011

dragoon is jihl

-Pyromaniac- said:
- You can steal army vehicles for your use. You can ride air ships, cars and Chocobos.

heard about airship/car but not chocobo until now
so yay

StuBurns · Jan 25, 2011

Kagari said:
She's always been the heroine.

She's always been shown as antagonistic.

Rpgmonkey · Jan 25, 2011

This year, we have Type-0 and XIII-2, so please forget about Versus for a while.

I lol'd so hard

Dali · Jan 25, 2011

-Pyromaniac- said:
I'll paste the info that comes after that for the hell of it:

Main character Noctis is not "cool." He's just a normal youth. He feels "I am strong," but he's not as strong as he thinks.

Click to expand...

A million bucks at one point he says something to the effect of "I must protect what's important to me..." or "I want to be stronger to protect [blah blah blah]". Something involving the word "protect" and something important to him that may or may not need his protection.

Resilient · Jan 25, 2011

Hopes for this being the game of the generation are high. Sounds better everytime there is more revealed.

StuBurns · Jan 25, 2011

Dali said:
A million bucks at one point he says something to the effect of "I must protect what's important to me..." or "I want to be stronger to protect [blah blah blah]". Something involving the word "protect" and something important to him that may or may not need his protection.

Considering he's basically in charge of protecting the last crystal, something of huge importance to that world, I'd say that's a safe bet yeah.

EDIT: The XIII-2 news is lame though.

matmanx1 · Jan 25, 2011

Read the post, went to read the Tales thread and popped back out to see this one had had it's title changed. Nice edit.

Anyway, more info on FF is always a welcome thing. Thanks for the update.

Oh and it looks like 2012 confirmed, eh? Oh well.

H_Prestige · Jan 25, 2011

Rpgmonkey said:
I lol'd so hard

2012: This year we have Type-1 and XIII-3, so please forget about Versus for a while.

Jerk · Jan 25, 2011

No J-Pop theme?

The return of the ATB system is much appreciated though.

Dead Prince · Jan 25, 2011

difficulty selection for XIII-2?

StuBurns · Jan 25, 2011

DMPrince said:
difficulty selection for XIII-2?

They added that to XIII in the Japanese 360 release.

TheChillyAcademic · Jan 25, 2011

"Forget about versus..."

Sigh.

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