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Lightning Returns trailer
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Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Ohhhh shit.
shinobi602
Member
Christ, looks worse than I thought. Lol
brandonh83
Banned
Same here. Of course I'm not watching this trailer thinking "wow this game looks so nice and polished" clearly there's some work to be done, but it won't be out for a while yet.
pretty good? It looked gorgeous, especially XIII.
WHAT IS THIS?
It's pure, unfiltered beauty before you.
Lady Bird
Matsuno's Goebbels
Toriyama is a poor director, but I was actually hoping the production values and the new game mechanics would salvage this project into something decent.
Outside of music, is there even anything that saves this trailer?
1. Whatever could be good out of the art style is unfulfilled.
2. Character design is terrible.
3. The battle UI is as much of a mess as Lightning's clothes.
4. The combat looks pretty much like FFXIII's without the extra dynamic of party mechanics.
5. The technical stuff is horrendous and looks worse than the ps2-era FF games.
6. More immersion-breaking Chocolina shops?
7. More poor writing from Toriyama and Watanabe as expected. Poorly-written "poetic" dialogue full of nonsense. Story events completely disjointed from the prequels. Over-reliance on long-ass monologues to tell everything. And ridiculous, immersion-breaking decisions like
8. ... our armored-stripper-goddess Lightning putting sunglasses on.
The trailer was an unexciting mess of different, unpolished stuff all thrown together.
Outside of music, is there even anything that saves this trailer?
1. Whatever could be good out of the art style is unfulfilled.
2. Character design is terrible.
3. The battle UI is as much of a mess as Lightning's clothes.
4. The combat looks pretty much like FFXIII's without the extra dynamic of party mechanics.
5. The technical stuff is horrendous and looks worse than the ps2-era FF games.
6. More immersion-breaking Chocolina shops?
7. More poor writing from Toriyama and Watanabe as expected. Poorly-written "poetic" dialogue full of nonsense. Story events completely disjointed from the prequels. Over-reliance on long-ass monologues to tell everything. And ridiculous, immersion-breaking decisions like
8. ... our armored-stripper-goddess Lightning putting sunglasses on.
The trailer was an unexciting mess of different, unpolished stuff all thrown together.
XANDER CAGE
Member
This game's art direction is a total mess, and I already think the XIII series has bad art direction. How did they go from Academia to this?
Truckondo2.0
Member
Maybe they're trying to design that club from the movie "Night at the Roxbury"
Relaxed Muscle
Member
They are from past FF games so NPC can see in misery how much of a shitty game they belong.
This game will be out before the holiday 2013. The idea that it is early in development is a fallacy.
XIII definitely looked better than 2. They're keeping up the tradition.
Supermanisdead
Member
Oh no.... oh no!
Exactly.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Yeah, I'm not too worried on that. They've shown things change and improve as time goes on from the previous game launches. It looks like they decided to show us alpha footage though.
brandonh83
Banned
And it's holiday 2012. There's no possible way that they could clean the game up before then? That's a year away give or take.
I'm just not going to condemn the visuals based on a short trailer a year before the game comes out. If the game comes out and it looks exactly like that, I will be shocked and will gladly eat some crow.
Shit, this really makes the trailer look like utter dogshit. What the fuck happened to SE?
pieatorium
Member
I like how whenever a game has questionable textures and framerate everyone just thinks about Vita haha
I never looked too closely at environments unless they are totally butt ugly or really good looking. All I remember from 13-2 was that Academia looked great.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Trailer in a nutshell:
I can't wait.
I love how NeoGAF is going completely crazy about how supposedly bad this is, but everywhere else I look (gaming sites/facebook comments..) most impressions are either good or balanced.
I guess I'll stay clear of XIII threads on GAF for the future, it's just gratuitous bashing all the time =/.
I guess I'll stay clear of XIII threads on GAF for the future, it's just gratuitous bashing all the time =/.
Exentryk
Member
Ahaha! This.
Except the combat, which is an improvement since it offers control over movement. Taking away the party dynamic is to its detriment however.
brandonh83
Banned
paperheart
Banned
That trailer did nothing for me. FFXIII was the last Final Fantasy game I played, and it looks like it will be that way for a good while. *sigh*
Academia looked great, but thats about the only environment that looked great from XIII-2.
Almost everything from XIII looked great.
Seriously guys?
Well yea.. the AF is well... bad and sparse population is evident. But it really doesn't look like it belongs in the last gen. Of course, I don't know how much of it is actually final but it does look worse than FF13's city modelling.
Which ones?
WHAT IS THIS?
Sexualized female Sephiroth meets Cloud X Gundam.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Heathens blinded by light I say.
I'd check out other Final Fantasy related threads on GAF. Lot's of positive opinions on both past and upcoming Final Fantasy games. Stop trying to act like GAF is a hivemind. The negative opinions on Lightning Returns will be reinforced by its sales.
Fimbulvetr
Member
XIII-2 introduced a group of furries that exist outside of time and space.
Why did it take you this long to learn that Gaf threads for XIII in general tend to be much more negative then anything else?
R_thanatos
Member
was she confirmed ? to return ? if she does then the plot will be really ...well weird then
It really is unfair. But you should help me defend it here instead. Its hard being 3/4 members only. :s
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Welp, I guess this game automatically has great music.
Jihl was both sexy and pretty classy.
Also outside of the Shield being kinda Wingy I don't really get the whole Gundam vibe from Lightning.
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