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[Jeels]

Then don't move the camera. It's not like they're forcing you to direct the scene yourself.

That would make for a pretty hilarious Trophy.

 

[Fimbulvetr]

That would make for a pretty hilarious Trophy.

Pervo - Angled the cutscene camera behind Serah's ass more than 10 times.

 

[badcrumble]

Pervo - Angled the cutscene camera behind Serah's ass more than 10 times.

as if the camera won't do that on its own

 

[Despera]

Are we taking about full control over the camera during cutscenes, or a slight tilt a la ZoE and SoTC.

Because if it's the regular tilt, then I don't see how this makes news.

 

[dramatis]

Are we taking about full control over the camera during cutscenes, or a slight tilt a la ZoE and SoTC.

Because if it's the regular tilt, then I don't see how this makes news.

They're desperate to prove that they're making things interactive.

However, making interactivity doesn't mean making gameplay.

 

[ScionOfTheRisingSun]

Dammit man. Bioware didn't invent dialogue choices.

Also the game was originally developed by Quest and Bioware's first game hadn't even been released by the time TO was made.

Perhaps the black venemous irony seeping out of my post was too subtle afterall.

 

[xion4360]

Are we taking about full control over the camera during cutscenes, or a slight tilt a la ZoE and SoTC.

Because if it's the regular tilt, then I don't see how this makes news.

Its not clear if they are talking about cutscenes, or Live cutscenes.

My guess its probably the Live Cutscenes, short event scenes during which you can keep moving. If it's regular cutscenes, then maybe a DMC4 style slight pan and zoom

 

[Kyon]

or maybe it's like the MGS4 controls

 

[chri5t]

Are we taking about full control over the camera during cutscenes, or a slight tilt a la ZoE and SoTC.

Because if it's the regular tilt, then I don't see how this makes news.

I'm hoping full control, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

 

[Perfo]

or maybe it's like the MGS4 controls

Yeah... I expect too something like that, or more like The Last Story. An option in my opinion not needed at all.

 

[Crimson-Legend]

Can not wait.

 

[Diablos]

Looks like XIII-2 is coming to North America in January.

http://www.1up.com/news/final-fantasy-xiii-2-slated-january-release

The sequel to Final Fantasy XIII will be in the hands of North American gamers in about six months' time. Square Enix has announced XIII-2 will be out in North America sometime in January 2012.

Following the very linear XIII, the sequel is said to be more varied and open. Director Motomu Toriyama told Famitsu after E3 that, whereas XIII was story-driven, XIII-2 is "player-driven. The player actively explores the world, and events take place based on his actions. It's made to allow a lot of choices to be made by the player. Compared to XIII, we're using very few prerendered scenes; it's mostly realtime."

Players will be able to finish its story in about 40 hours, although producer Yoshinori Kitase has said they will then be able "to replay the game in a new sort of way," something that "will be a different system" from the standard New Game+ option.

"We'll also be upping the number of minigames," Kitase explained. "The linearity of XIII meant that there weren't a lot of extra features like that, but we're really putting a lot of different stuff into this one. It'll mark a return to the sort of vast mix of gameplay seen in previous FFs."

XIII-2, which is headed to both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, was previously slated for a North American release this winter. Japan will be getting it a month sooner, in December, which is a noticeably smaller gap than the three months North American gamers had to wait after XIII was already available in Japan.

Great news! Not sure why they can't aim for a simultaneous NA/JP and even EU release, but one month isn't that bad. This game keeps sounding more and more promising as well. I'm optimistic.

 

[Pooya]

there is a thread for it already
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=437670

 

[sixteen-bit]

bah, beaten