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[No_Style]

I saw the scans. Wow. Missions = hunts. Confirmed. Pulse = FFXII.

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[7Th]

Latest scans are awesome.

The lack of Vanille summon news is bonkers though.

At this point, it's pretty obvious Vanille's summon will be tied to whatever that "dark resolve" of hers is supposed to be.

 

[Crash Station]

I saw the scans. Wow. Missions = hunts. Confirmed. Pulse = FFXII. Confrimed. Drooling commencing. Confirmed.

Awesome! Hunts were one of the few things I liked about XII.

 

[polyh3dron]

A western song is a decent addition, and will probably also serve the purpose of enhancing their advertising of the game here and in commercials. I guess most of the shock came from it being from Leona Lewis. But I wonder what they will do for the other games in the ffxiii universe, would versus be highlighted by the use of a "male singer group"

Justin Bieber CONFIRMED

 

[jiggle]

wow those notorious monsters look so fucking good

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Awesome! Hunts were one of the few things I liked about XII.

Wow I guess they will have some trophies/achievements involving hunts then...

 

[lorddarkflare]

nvm

 

[HamPster PamPster]

Any word on how fighting the SOTC size monsters will work?

You're not just going to be hitting their foot I hope. Maybe something like

Spoiler

oh go play the end of FFVII already you jerk

where you can use all your party members in one fight

Seeing them run through the plains in the trailer with the huge monsters walking by reminded me of what I wanted out of FFXII. It was great walking out into that first area and seeing the T-rex (until you realized that they had about 10ft of walking space). Also, going back later in the game and smacking the T-Rex around was fun too

 

[Neil]

Holy cow, you can actually fight that thing!?
Great scan

 

[TheChillyAcademic]

So does that huge quadruped have some structure on its back?

Hmmm.

And that's a big fucking Catuar.

 

[∀ Narayan]

You could make a case for Vanille since she's the biggest mystery.

But Snow is a total jackass. I'm hoping they subvert his happy-go-shonen personality, but right now he is my least favorite.

Aye.

Sazh is alright.

Also, holy fuck Chocobos are HUGE in this game.

 

[Lady Bird]

So we can confirm this game is taking stuff from last gen FFs and(hopefully) improving on it?

X: Sphere Grid
X-2: Battle System, Job System
XI: ????
XII: Profit(Marks/Hunts, AI Control)


Summons are a mix of X(actually useful) and XII(time limit).

FFVIII: Weapon Remodeling
FFX: Sphere Grid
FFX-2: Evolved ATB, Dresspheres
FFXII: Gambits, No Random Battles, License Grid, Mark hunts, Weather Effects

 

[ZephyrFate]

I can't wait to ride hippie chocobos.

 

[Vamphuntr]

At this point, it's pretty obvious Vanille's summon will be tied to whatever that "dark resolve" of hers is supposed to be.

Pretty much this or

Spoiler

she doesn't have a summon at all and ends up betraying you. Or she dies trying to 'tame' her summon (her darkness) and she is then replaced by Serah in a typical Final Fantasy Plot Twist TM

Maybe they realised that they have to stop spoiling the whole game before it's released.

 

[Kagari]

New areas shown look really similar to one of the lands in White Knight Chronicles :lol And the behemoth from the 2006 trailer

19 page feature in next week's Famitsu as well.

 

[Shadowlink]

I saw the scans. Wow. Missions = hunts. Confirmed. Pulse = FFXII. Confrimed. Drooling commencing. Confirmed.

What?

New areas shown look really similar to one of the lands in White Knight Chronicles :lol And the behemoth from the 2006 trailer

19 page feature in next week's Famitsu as well.

The game releases next month in Japan. You don't need to look at those scans. Just wait a few weeks.

 

[SolidSnakex]

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20091119_329880.html

 

[Shadowlink]

So can we confirm Hope is Shia Lebouf?

 

[hypostatic]

Aye.

Sazh is alright.

Also, holy fuck Chocobos are HUGE in this game.

I don't really like them. I prefer small, cute chocobos.

Wow, that's weird.

 

[TheChillyAcademic]

Absolutely gorgeous, haters be damned.

 

[Kagari]

Some of the environments looks really really good. They clearly spent more time on some more than others.

 

[jiggle]

hawtness!

 

[Vamphuntr]

From these screens it seems the menu screen have only enough room for 5 party members/ portraits. So who is gonna bite the dust ? Any screens of

Spoiler

Vanille and Fang in the same party?

 

[Shadowlink]

I could of sworn I saw this place in OOT, or it looks like the place.

 

[Plywood]

From these screens it seems the menu screen have only enough room for 5 party members/ portraits. So who is gonna bite the dust ? Any screens of

Spoiler

Vanille and Fang in the same party?

The submenus could just get shortened down, if you look you'll see that there would be plenty of space if not for the spacing of the submenus.

 

[rataven]

Game looks so good. Some of those environments are massive. And I love Alexander.

From these screens it seems the menu screen have only enough room for 5 party members/ portraits. So who is gonna bite the dust ? Any screens of

Spoiler

Vanille and Fang in the same party?

I think Fang joins the party last/later in the game, so it could just be that we haven't seen as much from that section.

 

[Rpgmonkey]

Some of those areas are quite pretty.

From these screens it seems the menu screen have only enough room for 5 party members/ portraits. So who is gonna bite the dust ? Any screens of

Spoiler

Vanille and Fang in the same party?

Recent Jump scan has a screen with all six together.

 

[7Th]

Any screens of

Spoiler

Vanille and Fang in the same party?

Yes.

Regardless, I doubt they're going to kill any character. They can't with only 6, that would really limit the gameplay.

 

[brandonh83]

The menus are so nice.

 

[Vamphuntr]

Some of those areas are quite pretty.



Recent Jump scan has a screen with all six together.

My precious theory shattered

 

[Rpgmonkey]

So you can have two of the same Optima in you active party. Cool.

What's Auto Clip?

 

[7Th]

So I take it all of these screens are from late into the game? Because it looks like the player is already able to change the party leader at will...

 

[Vamphuntr]

So I take it all of these screens are from late into the game? Because it looks like the player is already able to change the party leader at will...

I think it's from some debug code. I mean the clock in the menu shows a playtime of 11 minutes. And they have all around 300 hp.

 

[7Th]

I think it's from some debug code. I mean the clock in the menu shows a playtime of 11 minutes. And they have all around 300 hp.

Just noticed that. Hope you're able to change party leader at will by the end of the game, though.

 

[Nemo]

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20091119_329880.html

godDAMN, I've said it before but exploring will be this game's highlight for sure.

 

[∀ Narayan]

I don't really like them. I prefer small, cute chocobos.

Wow, that's weird.

I like Final Fantasy XII's chocobos the best. I don't really mind the ones in this, it's just that I've never seen them so big before.

 

[orioto]

I try and try again to be impressed by this game but i fail every time

 

[Amir0x]

I saw the scans. Wow. Missions = hunts. Confirmed. Pulse = FFXII. Confrimed. Drooling commencing. Confirmed.

The third good thing I've ever heard about FFXIII development so far, hurray!

+ Masashi Hamauzu
+ No Random Battles
+ Hunts

Can we go for four?

 

[Fimbulvetr]

The third good thing I've ever heard about FFXIII development so far, hurray!

+ Masashi Hamauzu
+ No Random Battles
+ Hunts

Can we go for four?

Considering the environments look even larger than XII, you may be able add exploration to your list.

 

[Ganondorfo]

The third good thing I've ever heard about FFXIII development so far, hurray!

+ Masashi Hamauzu

I know that uematsu doesnt work anymore for square-enix, but still I hoped that he composed the whole ost.

 

[TheChillyAcademic]

The third good thing I've ever heard about FFXIII development so far, hurray!

+ Masashi Hamauzu
+ No Random Battles
+ Hunts

Can we go for four?

Careful now, folk might think you actually like this game! :{

 

[Kyzer]

It's already been said that when Fang joins your party the menu makes room for her portrait. What are you guys talking about?

 

[BlazingDarkness]

DAMN this game looks amazing, everything just kinda pops
Really nice environments

 

[B.K.]

I know that uematsu doesnt work anymore for square-enix, but still I hoped that he composed the whole ost.

He's working for them again. He's working on the soundtrack for Final Fantasy XIV and has two more unannounced titles that he's working on for them.

 

[Teknoman]

Man...just like FFVII...going to really have a hard time deciding who to use in my main party.

Theres not a switch party member mid battle option like X right?

 

[I should be doing hw]

They clearly ran out of polygons on the rings for Hope's Transformer :lol

 

[matmanx1]

I'm really liking the amount of Hiragana and Katakana in the menus. At least those are easily readable!

It's the voiced story elements I'll be missing the most info on and I can pick that up when we get the English release in March. It's going to be very difficult not to spoil too much of the game for myself when it arrives next month.

Oh and Hunts, Cactaurs and Behemoth's = AWESOME!!

 

[Amir0x]

Considering the environments look even larger than XII, you may be able add exploration to your list.

I don't think the environments look larger, I think they've just managed to remove more of the need to load between areas. At least, that's my uneducated guess - I've only seen the same few areas and none of the little load beads between as yet, so I assume it's a matter of the PS3 allowing them to render more shit on screen at once.

 

[brandonh83]

Truthfully I am not expecting the quantity and the size of the environments of FFXII. I just simply do not think that will happen. I think it will be big enough, but if it's anywhere close to being as huge as FFXII my mind will explode. A couple of epic looking field shots doesn't mean the entire game is going to be that big, at least, it doesn't completely ensure it so I'm not getting my hopes up.

 

[Amir0x]

I think if they managed to make a world with dungeons and world exploration as vast as FFXII, I might be able to at least enjoy some aspect of the game, whereas before I assumed I would hate everything.

The story and characters are still obviously going to be like putting my balls between a vice and squeezing tight until they pop, and then pouring acid directly on the wound before feeding my flesh to a piranha, but this is a positive development.

Cautious Optimism +10