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Square Enix Jump Festa 2013 Lineup
- Thread starter Kagari
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Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Yeah, I'll cook something up in a sec.
luckyboyceo
Member
We haven't actually gotten any real updates on FFXHD, correct? Wasn't this announced well over a year ago?
Like Square feels the need to update in a year. Unless you count Wada promising it isn't dead, it's been longer than that since we had an update about Versus.
The Praiseworthy
Member
I'm really excited for Lightning Returns.... Hope the release date isn't a full year ahead.
Perhaps they want to show something else than CG sequence..
Perhaps they want to show something else than CG sequence..
You know, I have to second Kagari's earlier sentiments: I, too, have come to miss the days of closed megatheater hijinks. Back then we were all so full of hope and excitement.
Look at us now. Square might as well announce that it isn't doing anything for Jump Festa and our reactions could be no different. We're gathered here today in memory of Square Enix, a company that used to make video games.
RSLAEV
Member
CosmicGroinPull
Member
You forgot to add that Lightning is a cardboard figure in Toriyama's mind because the way he writes her certainly doesn't lead me to think otherwise.
Castor Krieg
Banned
Project development at S-E must be a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
Conrad Link
Member
SE have decided its too hard to make Versus and they've handed production of it over to Platinum Games.
sublimit
Banned
10/10
badcrumble
Member
Ehh, I feel like it wouldn't work quite so well. FFX-2 did very little to let you mix and match job abilities; you mainly just switched between jobs. Very very different from FF5.Dark Schala said:
I'd rather see an FFT sort of adaptation, letting you equip more different types of abilities at once (one action ability, one reaction, one passive, and so on).
So set it up like a Paradigm deck. You have preset class set-ups you switch between in battle with the R-Trigger.
So like, you start the fight as a Red mage with dual wield and !Mix, but you've also set up Ninja with !White and counter as a back up, and you switch between them on the fly.
That'd be pretty sweet.
walking fiend
Member
holy fuck! we are getting a 3rd installment in FF XIII?! just, WOW!
nelsonroyale
Member
I am playing FFXIII-2 at the moment. Not a very compelling game. Not particularly interest in the sequel. Hopefully FFXIII will disappear into oblvion after this.
This is a pretty shoddy line up.
This is a pretty shoddy line up.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
Yeah, I'm not compelled to unwrap my copy of it either. I'm still getting the third one so that I can line them up on my shelf.
Squaresoft has been the most disappointing dev this gen IMO. How hard is it to give your fans what they want? (aka not more FF13)
KH's PS2 engine basically is FFX's with a few extra bells and whistles. Porting KH to HD basically means free FFX HD. Plus I'm pretty sure they've already mentioned the KH port started first, even though they announced them in reverse order.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
Lack of Versus XIII at this point was expected, it's pretty obvious the game faced serious issues and problems during development, so much that it could end up being moved to next-gen consoles or released just at the last moment in early 2014.
That said, pretty interesting line-up from them compared to TGS. Lightning Returns, Kingdom Hearts HD and Dragon Quest VII are all three titles I'm looking forward too and definitely buy when out. I can't find another developer that in the same year (2013) will release 4 (counting ARR) must-have titles for me. Pretty satisfied overall, I don't get what people complains about when it comes to quantity and quality of their upcoming games.
That said, pretty interesting line-up from them compared to TGS. Lightning Returns, Kingdom Hearts HD and Dragon Quest VII are all three titles I'm looking forward too and definitely buy when out. I can't find another developer that in the same year (2013) will release 4 (counting ARR) must-have titles for me. Pretty satisfied overall, I don't get what people complains about when it comes to quantity and quality of their upcoming games.
nelsonroyale
Member
The time travel based structure of the game means the game is generally less linear, but it also leads to the narrative being even more loose and garbled, world design is pretty superficial, it is just not very immersive or grounded, monster capture is a pretty shody replacement for summons, leveling up consists of spamming X, and visuals are downgraded from FFXIII overall. It ain't bad but it is in the bottom two FFs I have played (the other being FFXIII, no surprises).
Is that how it works.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
Yes and it's quite ambitious too.
I want you to write the plot of the next Final Fantasy.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
That doesn't sound very promising. It was one of the weak points of FFXIII for me.
Canis lupus
Member
Have they forgotten about FFX? Did they forget they ever announced it?
CosmicGroinPull
Member
Opus Angelorum
Member
That PSVita support.
Straight Right (ME3) is working in a SE game port for Wii U, so FFXIII was a possibility.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
FFX HD collection probably became something else, perhaps a X+X-2 combo, or a X+XII combo or who knows, even a Type-0+X HD combo. I'm pretty sure S-E wants to jump on that wagon and will do it before the end of the generation.
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Does anyone even still care about Kingdom Hearts anymore?
That is to say, does the series still do comparable sales to what it used to?
I feel like we've all smarted up to Kingdom Hearts at this point.
They don't sell as much as the first, but since they've mostly stuck to cost-effective games it isn't a problem for them. Same reason for the FF13 sequels, they don't sell that much but they don't *need* to sell that much.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Its hard to really tell since all the main games have been handheld lately and western handheld market is what it is. They have done ok numbers tho apparently the 3DS one was disappointment in japan sales.
KH1,5 will be interesting. If it does well it surely shows the franchise is alive and kickin on the home consoles. Then again it's only a HD collection tho knowing the KH fanbase I expect them to eat that shit up.They desperately need new fans too since the narrative is very hostile for newcomers and the old fanbase has probably somewhat outgrown the series since KH1 and 2.
sublimit
Banned
Probably but al least it will not feature any more Lightning either.
Zeouterlimits
Member
So what exactly is happening with FFX HD? Too few people?
Napalm_Frank
Member
FFXIII-4 Lightning strikes thrice will be their main product. Sure bet.
Once again, porting Kh or FFX is basically equivalent. They get KH to run, FFX will run, nearly free of charge. They started on KH first even before they announced FFX. Odds are it was an attempt to show they can still do FF games that aren't FF13. As for people, those remakes essentially being ports mean they need very few. Reportedly, two persons are working on KH.
Napalm_Frank
Member
FFX needs more work tho since it has prerendered stuff in the backround, is multiplat (at least for now lol) and is very FMV heavy compared to KH if they are touching those.
sublimit
Banned
Lightning Returns is going to bomb so hard that they will not even dare to call her name ever again in SE offices,so it's safe to say the XIII fiasco will be over after LR.
The multiplat thing is irrelevant. You can bet they're already adapting the FFX/KH engine for multiple platforms already, and that the FMV will be a minimal effort thing; they certainly won't rerender it, at best they have hi-res sources collecting dust somewhere they can use. back when they made them it was a multi-contractors effort, they won't redo the rendering and postprod for the kind of project where they have two programmers for the port.
People though X-2 and then XIII-2 would bomb. We all know how that went.