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[Pooya]

Could they fit all the XIII fans in there?

I'm sure they know how many people they've invited

 

[SniperHunter]

If this looks AWESOME, I will beat Final Fantasy XIII and buy XIII-2 ASAP.

 

[Einhander]

Stoked to find out what this ends up being. What if it ends up being a strategy RPG? That would explain the chess board.

 

[michaelius]

Stoked to find out what this ends up being. What if it ends up being a strategy RPG? That would explain the chess board.

Looking at SE output it would be for ios anyway

 

[AB12]

If this looks AWESOME, I will beat Final Fantasy XIII and buy XIII-2 ASAP.

Consider yourself lucky for having not touched anything XIII related. Stay away.

 

[Exentryk]

So this guy's posting an article following the announcement it appears, and here's what he's had to say:

Alex Donaldson ‏@APZonerunner
At about 10:30pm EST/3:30am GMT tonight (ish) we'll have two articles on the future of FF13 to coincide with announcements from Japan.

With that said, here's three little hints.

EDIT - What do you guys think?

Lightning Returns as the lead character, single player game (?) and the fight against Bhunivelze?

 

[Angelcurio]

Whatever it it, i just hope it brings a somewhat nice conclusion to the Lighting saga. My mind is still dizzy after finishing XIII-2 a couple of days ago and seeing its insane ending.

 

[Deleted member 20920]

So this guy's posting an article following the announcement it appears, and here's what he's had to say:

Alex Donaldson ‏@APZonerunner
At about 10:30pm EST/3:30am GMT tonight (ish) we'll have two articles on the future of FF13 to coincide with announcements from Japan.

With that said, here's three little hints.

Lightning returns is the title. It'll be an action rpg where you control Lightning alone and you play through a single day/month/year like Majora's Mask? (That screenshot is from MM right?)

 

[Cjdamon042]

Lightning returns is the title. It'll be an action rpg where you control Lightning alone and you play through a single day/month/year like Majora's Mask? (That screenshot is from MM right?)

I'm betting something like this, which could be cool I guess.

 

[Pooya]

That's Lightning...

 

[SniperHunter]

Consider yourself lucky for having not touched anything XIII related. Stay away.

I was actually enjoying it before I got stuck during Vanille's eidolon fight

 

[Seda]

APZ, you tease.

Kagari has also been throwing around Batman references. Too bad I havent seen most of the movies or anything.

 

[YAWN]

Here's my guess -

Lightning Returns

Some sort of strategy game

She travels back in time to the first day of the 13 days in FFXIII

Hmm...

 

[dramatis]

So this guy's posting an article following the announcement it appears, and here's what he's had to say:

Alex Donaldson ‏@APZonerunner
At about 10:30pm EST/3:30am GMT tonight (ish) we'll have two articles on the future of FF13 to coincide with announcements from Japan.

With that said, here's three little hints.

EDIT - What do you guys think?

Lightning Returns as the lead character, single player game (?) and the fight against Bhunivelze?

APZ's sphere of influence is spreading.

Solitaire hints more strongly at lolGREEgame rather than single player game.

 

[Shamdeo]

APZ's sphere of influence is spreading.

Solitaire hints more strongly at lolGREEgame rather than single player game.

Fortunately a GREE game is not the case.

 

[Seda]

My speculation:

Batman Returns -->

-Lightning's back.

I don't really know what else this could mean. I'm not too familiar with Batman.​

Solitare -->

-No party members, just Lightning is playable.

or

-Card game!

When I think of solitare, I think of single player card game. I don't really know what else it could mean.​

Majora's Mask -->

-Must travel backwards (and forwards?) through time to prevent some disaster (the world turning into Valhalla or something)

Time travel is probably important...​

 

[APZonerunner]

lol

There's one other major thing, but I can't think of a way to hint it without it being fucking obvious, so I'll leave it.

 

[duckroll]

lol

There's one other major thing, but I can't think of a way to hint it without it being fucking obvious, so I'll leave it.

I like Barbie.

 

[YAWN]

lol

There's one other major thing, but I can't think of a way to hint it without it being fucking obvious, so I'll leave it.

Cacoon = The moon?

 

[Seda]

lol

There's one other major thing, but I can't think of a way to hint it without it being fucking obvious, so I'll leave it.

You tease!

 

[LiK]

Sora will arrive to save everyone...duh

 

[Shamdeo]

lol

There's one other major thing, but I can't think of a way to hint it without it being fucking obvious, so I'll leave it.

Perhaps a clue~
lies within XIII-2~

Or what came after...

 

[Exentryk]

My guess:

Batman Returns --> Lightning's back.
Solitare --> No party members, just Lightning is playable.
Majora's Mask --> Must travel backwards (and forwards?) through time to prevent some disaster (the world turning into Valhalla or something)

No party members, if true, is a deal breaker for me. Really really sucks.

 

[APZonerunner]

Sora will arrive to save everyone...duh

Bingo! It's actually an FF/KH cross over.

Spoiler

This is not true

I'll be really intrigued to see people's reactions.

 

[Macstorm]

As much as I complained about the characters in FFXIII, it was the lack of development that I had issue with. George R. R. Martin spends more time developing prologue characters he's going to kill off than the cast of FFXIII got. If Lightning's the only playable character?

diehardbailout.gif

 

[Blablurn]

Sora will arrive to save everyone...duh

Sora is everyone

 

[StoppedInTracks]

So this guy's posting an article following the announcement it appears, and here's what he's had to say:

Alex Donaldson ‏@APZonerunner
At about 10:30pm EST/3:30am GMT tonight (ish) we'll have two articles on the future of FF13 to coincide with announcements from Japan.

With that said, here's three little hints.

EDIT - What do you guys think?

Lightning Returns as the lead character, single player game (?) and the fight against Bhunivelze?

Triple Triad returns ?!?

OMG!

 

[duckroll]

I'm pretty excited to see what they show off tomorrow, visual wise. The concert art in the XIII series has always been amazing, and I'm sure we'll see some of that tomorrow.

 

[Exentryk]

I mean, how boring was it when fighting with Lightning alone in RoTG? They'd have to make it an action RPG to be interesting.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

The MM moon refers to the night. Noctis means "of night" in Latin.

Lightning cameo in Versus?

 

[Exentryk]

Triple Triad returns ?!?

OMG!

I'd buy the game for Triple Triad.

 

[APZonerunner]

I'm pretty excited to see what they show off tomorrow, visual wise. The concert art in the XIII series has always been amazing, and I'm sure we'll see some of that tomorrow.

Yeah, me too. FF13 has, I think, one of the strongest worlds in the series artistically. Characters less so, but the world of cocoon and pulse is still really beautiful.

 

[Shamdeo]

Yeah, me too. FF13 has, I think, one of the strongest worlds in the series artistically. Characters less so, but the world of cocoon and pulse is still really beautiful.

Kamikokuryou is an amazing artist -- from Cocoon to Pulse to Archades and Rabanastre.

 

[Trigger]

I mean, how boring was it when fighting with Lightning alone in RoTG? They'd have to make it an action RPG to be interesting.

Same.

 

[duckroll]

Yeah the art director is really the main guy pulling his weight on the XIII projects. Everyone else should really buck up.

 

[Shamdeo]

I like Barbie.

Teacher Barbie is hotter than Babysitter Barbie.

 

[King of the Potato People]

I guess…

Batman Returns means:

Lightning has a dark knight suit.
Loads of Cait Siths find Serah and bring her up as a bit of a psycho.
One of the main villains is a bird character (Chocolina)

 

[LiK]

Yeah the art director is really the main guy pulling his weight on the XIII projects. Everyone else should really buck up.

don't forget the music guy too

 

[duckroll]

don't forget the music guy too

But he left the company! Lol.

 

[Shamdeo]

don't forget the music guy too

Or rather, guy(s).

 

[Reveirg]

No matter what they announce tonight, chances are both the artwork and music will be amazing. The XIII series was fantastic in theses regards, we have to give them that.

 

[Deleted member 20920]

Kamikokuryou is an amazing artist -- from Cocoon to Pulse to Archades and Rabanastre.

His drawing of blonde Serah and Lightning (if I'm remember correctly) was also really good. I don't how/why they turned the Lightning armour into such a bad character model in XIII-2

This guy needs his own art book!

 

[sublimit]

I don't think this needs its own thread so i'll just post it here.

"Congratulations on the 25th anniversary. Please wait for his turn to appear."
http://andriasang.com/con2j8/nomura_noctis_drawing/

 

[APZonerunner]

Music-wise, I really do wonder who'll do the music for FFXV when the time comes. I imagine somebody is already 'signed' to that project... so will it be internal or will they hire in Uematsu or Hamazu or someone else no longer with the company?

Ishimoto's time to shine?

 

[Seda]

Music-wise, I really do wonder who'll do the music for FFXV when the time comes. I imagine somebody is already 'signed' to that project... so will it be internal or will they hire in Uematsu or Hamazu or someone else no longer with the company?

Ishimoto's time to shine?

Sekito or bust

 

[Aeana]

Music-wise, I really do wonder who'll do the music for FFXV when the time comes. I imagine somebody is already 'signed' to that project... so will it be internal or will they hire in Uematsu or Hamazu or someone else no longer with the company?

Ishimoto's time to shine?

The obvious answer here is Mizuta. Especially since he's the best composer SE has now.

 

[duckroll]

Music-wise, I really do wonder who'll do the music for FFXV when the time comes. I imagine somebody is already 'signed' to that project... so will it be internal or will they hire in Uematsu or Hamazu or someone else no longer with the company?

Ishimoto's time to shine?

I think that who the composer is depends a lot on who is directing the game. Without knowing who is heading the project, it's impossible to tell who could be composing since there are too many variables.

 

[LiK]

But he left the company! Lol.

PACK IT UP, kill this game nao

 

[APZonerunner]

The obvious answer here is Mizuta. Especially since he's the best composer SE has now.

Will probably end up on XIV though, right? Plus the new XI expansion. The MMO world has kept Mizuta busy for a while now.

Sekito would be great, especially if he and Ishimoto worked together.

I think that who the composer is depends a lot on who is directing the game. Without knowing who is heading the project, it's impossible to tell who could be composing since there are too many variables.

I'm working on the assumption it's Ito, since he's been deadly quiet. It only makes sense. Will be very surprised if it's not him. That's one reason I guess them ponying up for Uematsu is a (slim) possibility, as those two have worked together before, and IX is arguably some of his finest work.

 

[Aeana]

Will probably end up on XIV though, right? Plus the new XI expansion. The MMO world has kept Mizuta busy for a while now.

Sekito would be great, especially if he and Ishimoto worked together.

I don't think he'll end up on FF14. They'll most likely keep using Uematsu for that, unless he starts refusing.
Mizuta hasn't been that busy, else he wouldn't have done Final Fantasy Dimensions.