TheBaronOfNA
Banned
More Lighting. Can we call her Poochie now?
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII announced for 2013 [Up3: Famitsu Details]
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Nope. I've never lived through a mega leap year to experience it!
CielTynave
Member
Incidentally, I'm remembering that the more action-oriented approach is what I was hoping they'd do with 13-2. Better late than never, I suppose.
nelsonroyale
Member
Yeah, I would have prefered that to be honest...but its close...they are dropping everything but lightning world wise (well almost). She hasn't been developed as a particularly interesting character, but her design is a good one, and at least she is pretty self sufficient and together...better than if they made Hope the main character at least
A lot of people did though.I never asked for this...
A lot of people asked for THIS game? With this short of a cycle? I think a lot of people asked for a sequel to XIII-2 but not THIS particular game.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
This a new IP in the end. Why people complains? Yes there's Lightning ok... but what else is familiar to you? The world is completely new, so the gameplay mechanics, concepts, ideas ecc.
Ties with the precedent two games will probably be kept to minimum.
Also stealth-game's actions for Lightning? Lol. They're trying hard to make a jRPG look modern finally
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
But I only care about how the games play.
Maaan... if only people didn't care about the superficial stuff so much. Heh.
That name belongs to Shadow the Hedgehog, Takashi Iizuka's favourite character, sorry.TheBaronOfNA said:
This a new IP in the end. Why people complains? Yes there's Lightning ok... but what else is familiar to you? The world is completely new, so the gameplay mechanics, concepts, ideas ecc.
Ties with the precedent two games will probably be kept to minimum.
Also stealth-game's actions for Lightning? Lol. They're trying hard to make a jRPG look modern finally
FFVII technically had stealth.
SpaceBridge
Member
Well SE has been getting better at releasing their games in the west close to their Japanese release dates. I think Duodecim was out in NA a month after the Japanese release. So, if they were going to announce a release date for BD PAX would make the most sense to announce it at. And the 3DS is a healthy platform now.
Im still sore about Type-0 though.
This a new IP in the end. Why people complains? Yes there's Lightning ok... but what else is familiar to you? The world is completely new, so the gameplay mechanics, concepts, ideas ecc.
Ties with the precedent two games will probably be kept to minimum.
Also stealth-game's actions for Lightning? Lol. They're trying hard to make a jRPG look modern finally
Wut?
An open world Action-RPG featuring Lightning? Yes, lots of people asked for it. In fact, a lot of people thought FFXIII-2 was going to be that.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Somewhere else, in a place forsaken by God, someone has started writing a ShadowXLighting Crossover Fanfic.
Nope.
Fus-Roh-DAH!
The part where you walk through some cars and soldiers? wow lol The more you know...
I mean you were attacked in the first corner, hows that stealth? hahah
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
This barely even qualifies as a sequel. Such an obvious cash-in to sell a completely different game with an unlikeable character from an unlikeable game.
Outsourcing situation is unknown.
we don't know yet but probably.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
There have been stealth mechanics in many RPGs including Final Fantasy. The Last Story kind of shows that. Even getting pre-emptive strikes in FF13 required you to stealth around a little. Then there's Xenoblade where there were different ways to rouse the enemies (ex: if they see you, if you make too much noise when approaching it, etc.). Edit: Final Fantasy VII had a good example of a stealth section in Midgar.This a new IP in the end. Why people complains? Yes there's Lightning ok... but what else is familiar to you? The world is completely new, so the gameplay mechanics, concepts, ideas ecc.
Ties with the precedent two games will probably be kept to minimum.
Also stealth-game's actions for Lightning? Lol. They're trying hard to make a jRPG look modern finally
This doesn't sound like a new IP, btw. It's just a new game with new mechanics.
I wouldn't be surprised... -_-TheBaronOfNA said:
We don't know. As of now we assume internal.
I don't see Versus coming out in 2014 either. LOL. If they do not know show anything decent this year, I'm just going to assume 2015.
The thing I like the most about the concept of this game so far is that sounds like no one from XIII/XIII-2 will show up, that's a good thing, maybe they can make new NPC characters instead, I take new & bad over old & bad anyday
You didn't like Noel? T_T
nelsonroyale
Member
The thing I like the most about the concept of this game so far is that sounds like no one from XIII/XIII-2 will show up, that's a good thing, maybe they can make new NPC characters instead, I take new & bad over old & bad anyday
Yip, this is a good direction
The thing I like the most about the concept of this game so far is that sounds like no one from XIII/XIII-2 will show up, that's a good thing, maybe they can make new NPC characters instead, I take new & bad over old & bad anyday
Agreed.
Jesus Christ kayos, 2015? LOL
NemesisPrime
Banned
Right... WHO demanded it????
I wanne know... come out and show yourself!! Don't worry... we won't hurt you (a lot).
I wanne know... come out and show yourself!! Don't worry... we won't hurt you (a lot).
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Believe
The thing I like the most about the concept of this game so far is that sounds like no one from XIII/XIII-2 will show up, that's a good thing, maybe they can make new NPC characters instead, I take new & bad over old & bad anyday
Right... WHO demanded it????
I wanne know... come out and show yourself!! Don't worry... we won't hurt you (a lot).
This argument is getting kind of ridiculous at this point. Really.
Versus 10th Anniversay baby!
Not one bit, him and Serah ruined the game for me, I think I whined about that too much on twitter last year
I hope he's dead, along with Hope, Serah and everyone else, and really dead I mean, they can use that for character dev for Lightning too I guess lol. don't think they can possibly survive XXX years later even after going through that chaos thing and world falling apart. maybe Fang and Vanille that were crystals survive somehow, I guess Snow has a chance too being a l'Cie :XBurnOutBrighter
Banned
Not one bit, him and Serah ruined the game for me, I think I whined about that too much on twitter last year
Wow. I think you're the first person I met that hated Noel. Mind telling me why?
Neko Mimi Mode
Member
I got BoF: Dragon Quarter vibes reading the OP.
Regardless, it's just another desperate attempt to force feed Lightning to the masses. YOU WILL LIKE HER.
More convoluted nonsense introduced to the fairly straight-forward world and story of XIII further alienates those who actually enjoyed it. Lightning has gone from moody "worst birthday ever" former soldier to a technobabble deity, fighting mega-demons pulled out of Motomu Toriyama's ass.
Who wanted this? Maybe as a stand alone game with different characters and a different setting. Can anyone honestly say this will not further increase apathy to the Final Fantasy brand from those who just want to move on from Pink Cloud?
Regardless, it's just another desperate attempt to force feed Lightning to the masses. YOU WILL LIKE HER.
More convoluted nonsense introduced to the fairly straight-forward world and story of XIII further alienates those who actually enjoyed it. Lightning has gone from moody "worst birthday ever" former soldier to a technobabble deity, fighting mega-demons pulled out of Motomu Toriyama's ass.
Who wanted this? Maybe as a stand alone game with different characters and a different setting. Can anyone honestly say this will not further increase apathy to the Final Fantasy brand from those who just want to move on from Pink Cloud?
WrenchNinja
Member
Why are they so serious? They keep talking about Lightning as if she was a real person?
What the hell are they talking about? When did she fight against destiny? Courageous and elegant? Did I play a different game?
Tizoc
Member
Pretty sure Lightning is popular in Japan, her characterization as a tough older sister must have appeal over there.
At any rate I don't care about Lightning but the concept for this game...is prob. what the original FFXIII should've been like.
I think the concept is interesting and I really hope they pull it of.
...but just to be on the safe side I'm gonna wait for impressions first. To me FFXIII is a prototype, FFXIII-2 is a Beta.
Is anyone else reminded of Nier? If only because it's an action adventure game starring 1 playable character.
Oh and FFXIII Versus seems like it's gonna be a Next Gen title by now, but I ain't in a hurry to get a next gen console.
At any rate I don't care about Lightning but the concept for this game...is prob. what the original FFXIII should've been like.
I think the concept is interesting and I really hope they pull it of.
...but just to be on the safe side I'm gonna wait for impressions first. To me FFXIII is a prototype, FFXIII-2 is a Beta.
Is anyone else reminded of Nier? If only because it's an action adventure game starring 1 playable character.
Oh and FFXIII Versus seems like it's gonna be a Next Gen title by now, but I ain't in a hurry to get a next gen console.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Toriyama wants you to love her as much as he loves her. :3
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
Maybe they should actually finish the games they're working on before announcing the next one.
there were a few reasons.
first his appearance was really bad, him next to Serah with that terrible outfit too was really off putting to say the least. who thought that was a good idea? I like how they got feedback about FFXIII designs and ended up with those? I like to see the thought process behind that, I think one of the reasons the game sold bad were because of the pretty bleh image of those and them the only characters with monster capturing was quite a bit turn off for a lot of people from what I was reading last year too. when people were submitting questions foe the dev team last year, more characters were always the most asked one and what they were concerned about, because I think the two they had were pretty bad. I think Kagari can vouch on this one.
when I played the game he was better than i thought but he ended up being boring and worthless again, when a character says protect protect protect these days I drop him/her off a cliff at once
looking forward here to see if they screwed up the Lightning character here or not, because she was bad too, not to mention her 3D model being incredibly ugly.
well, Maaya Sakamoto is somewhat popular, so probably more of that.