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Lightning Returns trailer

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Looks alright, although I'm not a huge RPG guy. It does bother me that they keep putting versus on the backburner while new games pop up left and right. I wish they just put the resources necessary to finish the bloody game instead of funding new ones.

I might check this out though. Lightning is hot.
 

Reveirg

Member
It really is unfair. But you should help me defend it here instead. Its hard being 3/4 members only. :s
I have in the XIII-2 threads!!

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?
I already knew it... but I love NeoGAF for a lot of other stuff so I stick with it... and inevitably get drawn to these XIII threads -.-


was she confirmed ? to return ? if she does then the plot will be really ...well weird then
0:54 in the trailer.
 

CronoShot

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Was that Hope narrating? Do we have word of any other characters appearing, or is it just Lightning?

And god damn, that looked like absolute shit. Story snippets, Lightning's design (seriously, WTF), visuals, everything.

Remember when Lightning dressed somewhat normally (at least by Square/Nomura standards)?

FFXIII-Lightning_CG.png

Apparently Square doesn't. She looks like she's wearing some sort of leather fetish outfit.
 
Wow. This looks like utter garbage.

I really liked 13 for what it was, and heavily enjoyed 13-2 despite it being too easy. I thought the reaction to those two were a little overblown...

but this looks like shit. Just utter shit.
 

Beth Cyra

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Was that Hope narrating? Do we have word of any other characters appearing, or is it just Lightning?

And god damn, that looked like absolute shit. Story snippets, Lightning's design (seriously, WTF), visuals, everything.

Remember when Lightning dressed somewhat normally (at least by Square standards)?



Apparently Square doesn't. She looks like she's wearing some sort of leather fetish outfit.

It's Hope's voice actor using the exact same voice with no change from the Adult Hope of XIII-2. It's Hope.
 

Metroidvania

People called Romanes they go the house?
Can't wait for the eventual Deal with it Sunglasses reverse-gif.

Other than that, an odd mixture of what looked like quickswapping KHII style mappings and FFXIII's roleswapping. Town looked boring as shit, and the platforming looked hokey.

Not too optimistic at this point :/
 

Reveirg

Member
The art direction is all over the place. What happened, Kamikokuryou?

Really?

I don't agree at all. I think the art looks great. Definitely different from what we're used to see in FF, but in a good way. The color palette is reminiscent of Shadow Hearts... a bit of FFVIII too. Definitely rings with my tastes.
 

Lady Bird

Matsuno's Goebbels
It's as if Nomura made an idiotic design on purpose to fill whatever idiotic visual requests he has gotten from Toriyama. Or he simply doesn't cares anymore about FFXIII.

Someone must interview Nomura and ask what was the motivation behind how Lightning's new design turned out.
 
FF XIII and XIII-2 are two of my favorite games this gen. And I dunno, this looks kinda shoddy from what I am seeing. I will certainly be buying it and probably enjoying, but they aren't making this look very good based on the trailer. So much recycling too.

Still my most anticipated game though.
 
I was a fan of XIII and XIII-2. They weren't great games, but I enjoyed the visuals of the first and the combat system in both.

This just looks awful.
 

Beth Cyra

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It's as if Nomura made an idiotic design on purpose to fill whatever idiotic visual requests Toriyama demanded from him. Or he simply doesn't cares anymore.

Someone must interview Nomura and ask what was the motivation behind how Lightning's new design turned out.

I know some people dislike Nomura art but this does seem over the top for the man. Even more so coming off Stella and the men from Versus, sure they maybe all models but they still look good and their clothes quality. Hell everyone from Type 0 looks good as well.

This shit is just wow, and I say this as a huge Nomura fan.
 

RPGCrazied

Member
And this couldn't be DLC for XIII-2 how come? The UI hardly changed, and it looks like its reusing monster models from the other 2 games.

I'll get it, but defiantly not day 1 like the last 2 games were.
 
Well at least now we know how this shit will be made in 1.5 years. Hopefully by the time it makes it over here next gen hype will crush it.
 

Jinfash

needs 2 extra inches
It's the end of the generation and SE still can't deliver consistent frame rate on its in-house engine. Money well spent.
 
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