legacyzero
Banned
Ugh..
Please tell me I'm the only one that thought that trailer was dreadful.
Please tell me I'm the only one that thought that trailer was dreadful.
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Lightning Returns trailer
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decoyplatypus
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Who the hell designed those battle menus?
zerokoolpsx
Member
Framerate is baffling; if that's NOT somehow an encoding issue or whatever that's hilariously bad, but it's bad to the point where I can't imagine that's accurate. Also stripper poles.
Aside from that the story and way XIII-2 ended was such complete and utter nonsense that their setup for this game/narration is pointless as I have no understanding of what's going on or why I should give a fuck. I love stupid ridiculous bullshit like some of the stuff in XIII-2, Asura's Wrath, etc but XIII-2 was just mostly nonsensical, and the last 20 minutes of that game are just baffling.
Aside from that the story and way XIII-2 ended was such complete and utter nonsense that their setup for this game/narration is pointless as I have no understanding of what's going on or why I should give a fuck. I love stupid ridiculous bullshit like some of the stuff in XIII-2, Asura's Wrath, etc but XIII-2 was just mostly nonsensical, and the last 20 minutes of that game are just baffling.
I can't get over how bad that tree looks and how awful and self aware trolling that sunglasses scene is, why you show that in the first trailer of your game anyway?!! the whole trailer was awfully edited shit together. IS this how you reveal your game? regardless of budget and everything, you might want to have decent presentation here at least, this somehow passed their PR and thought it was good..
Remember when SE used to make great trailers? it's like that was forever ago now. so depressing.
Remember when SE used to make great trailers? it's like that was forever ago now. so depressing.
Yes, 90% of people in this thread seems to have the same opinion as you.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I watched the trailer, but not in a good way
sublimit
Banned
It's as if they made that scene just for the gifs lol.
StunandStab
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Just imagine all the screenshots people will take of Lightning on the poles when the bikini DLC is released.
By better do you mean normal, or just not as bad?
I like Lightning fine.
This trailer was godawful. The best character in the world can't save bad framerate, a dull/bad looking world, an embarassing outfit and a plot that is utterly fucking nonsensical at best.
I think just showing a CG trailer with no gameplay would've been better than this. At least that would've had people somewhat excited with hope. This? Hope pretty much removed hope.
Fucking dammit. What have we done to deserve this? Seriously.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
VeryGooster
Banned
Linked already?
Polygon seems to have it up still: http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/19/3786606/lightning-returns-final-fantasy-13s-first-trailer
Will wait for $20 price maybe.
Polygon seems to have it up still: http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/19/3786606/lightning-returns-final-fantasy-13s-first-trailer
Will wait for $20 price maybe.
Edag Plata
Banned
Her jumping around the town looked like one of those tech demos they showed off before Gamecube came out where it's an open space but nothing's going on there. Obviously it's graphically better than gamecube, but the music was all exciting and stuff but...nothing was really happening.
It looks normal to me, yes as in not as choppy at all.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I watched the trailer, but not in a good way
lol amazing
FF8 so ahead of its time
Wolves Evolve
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That town looks terrible. The city in Gravity Rush is so much better designed, and in some ways, the textures are better. I remember when FF meant this high water mark for quality and production, underneath which highly tuned gameplay would sit. All we have here is a character in a lifeless, Faberge egg world.
legacyzero
Banned
Stefan;45601078 said:
Oh, thank God.
Why is Square-Enix doing this? Like, who even asked for this? LOL
Supermanisdead
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popgaf is all about pokemon gifs at the moment. 56k friendly.
sublimit
Banned
Oh i didn't noticed the red ledge and ladder.
How dare you. HOW DARE YOU.
I was just expecting a totally different combat system, since they said it was going to be an action RPG.
Why would you think that...?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I watched the trailer, but not in a good way
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RyougaSaotome
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This is the best reasoning I've read for anything today. I can't help but imagine you in a giant pool of candy canes with a computer on top.
I am amused.
Back on topic: wish I could find a working version of this trailer. Just got out of teaching class and I'm dying to see what the wreckage is like.
you know it's true.
No. The reality of this game selling relatively well make me sad.
Lightning is going to bless us
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Battle transitions are a perfectly valid design choice. Hell, I missed them in XII (among other things).
They're not gonna do that anyway. This is what they have, in both languages, and they sent it to the press. If they felt they needed to say that, they would have to start.
RustyNails
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It's because they milked the FF7 cow dry and want a new set of udders. The only problem is, the demand for Cloud and post FF7 games was mostly fan-driven. This Lightning business is pushed by Square Enix into our throats because their upper management sees green.
I'm going to buy two copies in honor of you.
Axelstream
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lol
seriously though, that was way worse than i thought it could possibly be. costume looks bad in motion, framerate is ass, and holy shit the textures and colors and lighting are poor. even the art direction that looked great in the scan somehow looks terrible here.
there's some kind of disconnect between this and those screens in the scan. there has to be. because... what in the fuck.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
I'm gonna post for Luukyk.
Luukyk: That was the most amazing trailer ever. All hail the true goddess Lightning! :3
Luukyk: That was the most amazing trailer ever. All hail the true goddess Lightning! :3
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I watched the trailer, but not in a good way
So this is the answer to the franchise's current state. The devs Junctioned some GFs years ago and forgot how to make good games.
Earlier details led me to believe that the combat system would be a significant departure and more like an Action RPG where you can freely move around and stuff. But this looks exactly like FFXIII's combat, except using face buttons rather than menus. FFXIII's combat was fun, but I doubt that it will be as enjoyable with just one character. Better be more to the combat than that.
And her outfit is horrible. Can't be said enough. Wish they would just give Lightning back her look from the first game, since making a new outfit that looks good is apparently too hard.
And her outfit is horrible. Can't be said enough. Wish they would just give Lightning back her look from the first game, since making a new outfit that looks good is apparently too hard.
AlphaDragoon
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Toriyama and two people in this thread are like the only people who ever wanted 2 games with Lightning, let alone three.
Most of us just want the madness to end. I would much rather have another Noel game if we have to keep beating the dead horse that is the XIII games.
Neither did I.
Oh, and speaking of Deus Ex, Adam Jensen's glasses are better.
Please forget about it.
Supermanisdead
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Mother Lightning save us.
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