Adult characters don't resonate with what Squeenix believes to be their target audience. Remember how Basch was originally supposed to be the main character of FFXII? Nixed in favor of Vaan due to internal concerns that the fans might not want to play as a grown-up.
XBLA, PSN, Steam, $20. I'd double-, if not triple-, dip.
Maybe you forgot you could edit your gambits, which meant you can set them to do the minimal things like casting cure while you come with creative ways to take out enemies. There were all kinds of things you could try, like playing single member only, or using measures and magic, or messing with enemies via status effects. Gambits were only as automated as you construct them to be, so your complaint that they are incredibly automated is invalid.
It's XII without zones, not giant character walking over a miniaturized map. That's sounds like an improvement to me.
You're trying to make it seem like your opinion is the opinion of the majority of potential FF buyers. It's pretty clear even with a superficial glance around different forums that people don't hate Versus XIII's character designs and there are quite a lot of people who already like many of them, some of them people who hate some of XIII's characters with a passion. I mean, there are far more Noctis & Stella avatars used around the web than there ever were for anyone from XIII (except maybe Lightning, at one time). What's really so bad about this kind of character design that it would bring up some ZOMG BAD ANIMUUU WON'T BUY reactions from people who might be even remotely interested in a Final Fantasy game?
No, it's more like XII's, but with some improvements that the better technology makes possible (like the whole no loading screens other than maybe when switching between bigger areas or moving from field to city, being able to fly & drive around etc.). They BEGAN the project with testing a more old school world map (though, still much bigger in scope than something like FFVII), but IIRC they changed their mind already during the pre-development phase and decided to go with a more FFXII like approach where fields are in the same scale as the cities/dungeons.
Well, it was 3 years of development with a mid-sized team (if I'm not completely wrong, didn't Nomura say the team has been around 40-50 members strong until ~Summer 2011 or so, when they started to build up the size of the team for the final crunch phase in development). That's kind of small for a game of this size, so it's not all doom & gloom when it has taken this long.
I agree with this. The writing and characters in FFXIII was something awful and I am not a picky man when it comes to stories or characters. Stop it with the fashion show, overly elaborate feminine hairstyles for the guys, stop with the emo characters, stop with the cars, jets and guns.
I don't get the Nomura hate. Nomura made a new IP which was a blockbuster (Kingdom Hearts) which has a strong following. What did Toriyama do?
You forgot about Vaan. See, that's how unmemorable he is.
Seriously, I like the world of FFXII but not the gameplay. Slighty dumbed down world of FFXII + FFXIII's tweaked battle system will do wonders.
