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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII announced for 2013 [Up3: Famitsu Details]
- Thread starter Kagari
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Uhm..
Also, did they state that the 2013 window was for worldwide or Japan, or just leave it out. I have a feeling if this is coming out Q4 2013 for Japan, it'll come out early 2014 for US/EU.
You missed the joke bro. EDIT: Read his entire post wrong. I thought he was saying they should've made the release date 13-13-13 so the game doesn't come out. Damn.
You missed the joke bro. EDIT: Read his entire post wrong. I thought he was saying they should've made the release date 13-13-13 so the game doesn't come out. Damn.
What's the thirteenth month? Um nevermind.
it's 2013 everywhere. could be different months though.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Honestly think so as well. It makes the most sense, to have time for pre-production and all. I think that is why XIII-2 was outsourced or at least the partial reason. They've probably had a lot more time developing this, I mean using place holder textures and whatnot.
Exentryk
Member
They make an open world that people would enjoy exploring, but put a timer mechanic so they can't do that? Wth?
Who wants to play as only Lightning for the whole game? >_>
Reading about cover mechanics is the pits. I don't want to play Assassin Creed or those sorta games. I want to play a Final Fantasy game with menu based combat damnit.
Who wants to play as only Lightning for the whole game? >_>
Reading about cover mechanics is the pits. I don't want to play Assassin Creed or those sorta games. I want to play a Final Fantasy game with menu based combat damnit.
Seriously. I'd be less miffed if it was purely a cinematic trailer, but gameplay? Come the fuck on.
This might be cool if they have entirely different weapons to change up the playstyle instead of it being like "Sword that does good fire physical damage" or "Sword that does good magic damage." And they give us enough slots to save these so we don't have to swap between too many.
...This transformation sequence better be skippable like X-2's. or else that's gonna get annoying.
Called it! But yeah, this is something we really have to see in action. Unless they're trying to go for what was shown in the original '06 E3 trailer...
I feel fortunate that my extent of dipping into Suikoden is the first game and my interest in picking up a non-bank breaking copy of II someday.
SpaceBridge
Member
Is SE announcing anything at PAX?
I'm very firm and certain that this game will not come out before August.
XIII-2 had 18 months of ACTUAL dev time if I recall. This doesn't include Pre-production, pre-dev. LRXIII will have less time than that. if you think that this bodes well for the game OR that it'll come out earlier than August then I question your statements.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
well, the game sounds... kinda cool... but the title is lame.
Another avatar bet?
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
I kindof think so too. Lightning's overall goal is to stop armagedon, and that certainly does play into the end of XIII-2. But I do have to wonder how
Caius and the stuck in purgatory Sarah
What would really suck is if they just moved on without tieing those loose ends, because the characters in that game could have easily had their personal stories wrapped up very neatly if Square Enix didn't have plans for them in the future. They could have left the cliffhanger only about lightning, and the overall state of the world instead.
Fimbulvetr
Member
FFXIV and their Eidos stuff, most likely. I doubt anything from LR is gonna be there.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
@miladesn: thanks; sounds pretty logical.
Huh, didn't notice overclock before... it does seem to sort of work similarly, only this one's fixated on freezing time to hit things quick (and just seems like a super-stagger), while the other one filled a gauge to unleash blows.
Is that the Spaceport?
Lightning strikes me more like a Uranus World Shaking/Space Sword Blaster or a Jupiter Flower Hurricane/Sparkling Wide Pressure type of person.
Huh, didn't notice overclock before... it does seem to sort of work similarly, only this one's fixated on freezing time to hit things quick (and just seems like a super-stagger), while the other one filled a gauge to unleash blows.
Why can't Noel get his own game?
airmangataosenai
Member
The first page of this thread sums up everything wrong with GAF. This game sounds amazing and had half of those people taken the time to actually read it instead of trying to be "First" they would've realized it too.
Do you really want to go up against me again, kayos??
No seriously, they wanted to call it XIII-3. The game went through a variety of name choices.
If you read the rest of the thread, you would've gotten more insight that they're not entirely wrong.
I do. You say Q3 Japan, right? I say Q4 Japan.
SpaceBridge
Member
Hmm..so they decided that it is ok to just talk about it, showing as few concept arts as they can, make a statement about better communication with the fans, and cut the gameplay video for the 99% that may want to know more about the game.
Dat Logic. I don't even know why they bother to make a live stream.
Fuck. I can't even recognize my own posts because of this damn avatar. Not even one day and I'm suffering more than I did with the other one. FML.
Wait. I was talking about LRXIII coming out in Q4. Not Type-0.
prepare for disappointment. Type-1 will come before Versus
Wait. I was talking about LRXIII coming out in Q4. Not Type-0.
prepare for disappointment. Type-1 will come before Versus
@_@
SpaceBridge
Member
Kinda hoping on NA release announcements for Type-0 or Bravely Default.
Tabata actually was on Sqeuni Chan thing today about Future of Final Fantasy, anybody saw that?
yeah, really FF13-2 alway looked shit, from the very first teaser and that armor and feathers, I wanted to believe but I knew it was shit. looking forward to see their Light redesign here, that should give some clue about the mood of the game I guess.
StuBurns said:
yeah, really FF13-2 alway looked shit, from the very first teaser and that armor and feathers, I wanted to believe but I knew it was shit. looking forward to see their Light redesign here, that should give some clue about the mood of the game I guess.
Lightning is the only important character. Only HER happiness matters.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Versus will be a next gen game at this point. lol
I H8 Memes
Member
Any word on which platforms this will be on?
7echnicolor
Member
Seriously.. I'm pretty confused too.
No. It'll come out for PS3. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they released a premium version of it a year later for the PS4.
PS3 360
Lol. True enough. I'm just going to say Serah and Noel jump 300 years into the future and meet Lightning there using some historia crux paradox effect crystal magic moogle power. I hope SE doesn't steal my idea.
encephalon
Member
This sounds like ideas that could have gone into making an interesting new IP ...
Tomorrow.
Who cares? More or less everyone. People are losing their shit over next to no information, plenty seem to have missed they arent showing it because its alpha footage. If they had shown it all they would have got was people whinging that it looked shite, with the fact it was alpha footage lost in the shitstorm. People complaining about lack of footage is always going to be a smaller percentage than people put off the game because their first impression was shitty alpha footage.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You've never experienced the lousy Smarch weather?
Toriyama wants you to see Lightning change clothes as many times as possible and you will like it!
I get the feeling they won't give us a ton of slots, but considering that Lightning seems to be the only main character, maybe they might let us save more customization options. Or maybe they might give us something akin to Garment Grids, which would be pretty neat. I certainly hope the weapons/armour change resistances on top of giving Lightning certain skillsets. I don't want it to be completely elementally/stat-based. That would be very boring.
I think this is starting to become the case, myself. But even back then, I wasn't sure how the ATB progression worked. I just think it might hinder how quick you can attack because you're essentially doing it in 'rounds' rather than fluidly attacking and recovering in terms of an action game/ARPG.
Konami seems to not want to finish the overarching narrative of the Suikoden series and instead feels the need to pump out games in a universe that some people don't really care for as opposed to moving on with the numbered series.
Hey, wait a minute...
Someone doesn't learn from his mistakes!
Angry Fork
Member
So is this DLC or some sort of PSN/Live game or something? Or it's a full 60$ deal?
Fimbulvetr
Member
I wish. Type-0 is looking iffy and I'm guessing Bravely Default, if it is gonna be localized, would only be announced for the west after the Japanese version is already out. Or maybe it'll be like the 4WoL situation, but I don't really remember what that one was like.
I got my days mixed up :x
Sapphire Dreams
Member
I never asked for this...
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
It's obvious they wanna sell this game to non-XIII fans by not calling it XIII-3 and introducing with it gameplay mechanics that don't have anything to do with XIII. It'll be interesting to see how the marketing will be done.