2009-10-30 16:50:28

more new screens
http://www.gamekyo.com/newsfr33475_final-fantasy-x...

2009-11-06 16:27:25

may import this for my ps3?

2009-11-13 16:41:12

Mark your calendars peeps. March 9th for US release of FF13. date is likely same for europe as Square is attempting a simultaneous launch (still to be confirmed though)
http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/13/final-fantasy-xiii...

2009-11-13 16:50:45

Hmm I may hold up on importing the JP version seeing as there is only a 3 month wait.

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2009-11-13 17:45:12

It's official people! March 9th it is for US/EU yay!!!!!!
http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/13/square-officially-...

2009-11-13 17:52:24

So i get DA.O now, ME2 in Jan and FF in march, good RPG times.

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2009-11-15 11:03:29

Another summon is revealed in these screens for Hope
http://www.gamekyo.com/newsfr33668_final-fantasy-x...

Dont like the summons very much to be honest

2009-11-15 12:12:00

Ugliest chocobo in any FF game so far, why the hell does it have long rabbit ears.

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2009-11-15 12:32:47 In reply to Jollipop (2009-11-15 12:12:00)

lol! I couldnt care less about the chocobos to be honest. The summons are hedious though.....

2009-11-15 23:04:04 In reply to alimokrane (2009-11-15 12:32:47)

um .. ok

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2009-11-15 23:54:11

No, Jollipop is right. Those Chocobos look like No-cobos.

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2009-11-16 00:28:51

More like booc..oo....ooo.. no I've got nothing.

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2009-11-19 18:31:13

bohooooo. just read Kotaku's impressions of the game only to find out that you ONLY get to control ONE character during battle :S
http://kotaku.com/5406876/final-fantasy-xiii-impre...

2009-11-20 02:02:59

This was known all along I thought.

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2009-11-20 11:34:59 In reply to Jollipop (2009-11-20 02:02:59)

Not to me mate. I am quite disappointed with this to honest. I like to have my control. I can expect this from games like Star Ocean, Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery....etc but not from Final Fantasy. Xii Took control out completely and this one goes and does this :S

2009-11-20 17:14:35

40 screens of FF13 here,

Some of them new. Some of them OLD
http://worthplaying.com/article/2009/11/19/news/70...

2009-11-21 00:25:33

Well yea, traditional turn based games are all but dead now, and anyone who tries "sakaguchi" gets the shit kicked out of their games.

I can't see the FF series going back to the old school ATB gameplay that it used to be so well known for, too bad really.

Saying that I have played the FF13 demo and its not so bad, you are way too busy with one character to beable to control 3, I still get the feeling that the gameplay will become very tedious by the end of the game though.

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2009-11-21 04:17:22

Were BD and LO actually slammed for their combat systems though? I thought LO had excellent combat, it was just that the stuff around it was pretty awkward. Stealth bits and.. falling into pits and.. looking for keycards and.. god, I wanna rip my clothes apart just thinking about it.

Oh yeah and the insanely melodramatic story delivered in cutscenes where the editor was like "I could edit this, or.. not. Okay I won't.".

Persona 4's combat is slightly better paced, but the systems are of comparable depth. I really think most reviewers were just put off by the context LO's battles were presented in. At least that's my gripe with it, but the combat still had me trucking through it to the very Turtles-esque ending where they somehow found a loophole in their own logic within the span of a final battle.

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2009-11-21 15:39:08

Nah many reviewers complained that the combat was dated (which it was) but that was kind of the point, but it still got bad reviews because of it.

The only problem with the stealth bit and puzzle aspects which you mention were the fact that you still had random fights during those phases which became incredibly irritating, yes it was bad game design, however these parts were fairly small in number across the whole game and the only one that I remember with anykind of dislike was the mansion part.

Persona 4 had two features in its game play you could take each turn across all characters or set it so the other two characters took their own turn (which from what i remember was the default setting), so depending on who you ask criticism could be different depending on how they played it.

FF13 plays out similarly to one of the options you get in Persona 4, I do agree with Alimo that it is short sighted to not add a slower take turn per character option though, at least for older fans of the series that remember how 7-10 played, but SE have pretty much said before that FF games are about the new generation on JRPG fans not the ones that made the series a success.

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2009-11-21 16:37:48

I do agree that turn based is turning away quite a few gamers but the thing is FF is moving so much away from its roots and loosing what made it appeal to million before.

FF7 sold MILLIONs and it had turn based combat, FF12 sold Millions but less than FF7 anyway.They think they are making it appeal more to the mainstream but they are lossing traditional gamers too which kind of renders the process pointless.

2009-11-21 16:58:11

A monster escaped from Shadow of the Collossus into Final Fantasy 13. Scan here:
http://www.ffring.com/news/Final-Fantasy-XIII-peti...

2009-11-22 05:04:15

The lighting looks quite good from those scans, hmm still debating to import it or not.

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2009-11-22 05:14:23

While I can in turn appreciate appreciation for classic turn based combat (hey, that could be mistaken for a palindrom by.. people who don't know what that is) I'm more excited about learning new combat systems with each RPG I play. I am very, very excited about Final Fantasy XIII and I reckon the combat looks awesome.

If you really like turn based stuff though there is an extensive back catalogue of great RPGs to play. Sure some of them look a bit rough nowadays, but if you play them for their gameplay you can still enjoy hundreds of hours of the kind of RPG combat you prefer. I think it would be rather awkward if the series synonymous with JRPG didn't keep attempting new challenges.

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2009-11-23 16:31:42

Final Fantasy 13 rumour of a controllable Weather system: Apparently the game let's you change weather allowing changes in the levels to occur and new monsters to appear. This will be announced with a new trailer which will be released this wednesday

Source (in french)
http://www.ffocean.com/component/content/article/2...

2009-11-25 10:36:33

Launch Trailer in japanease
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/

WOW just WOW, wait for the 2nd half ot the trailer. I am so glad I dont understand what's going on because it seems there are a LOT of spoilers in the first part buy MY GOD the combat looked amazing and CG unmatched as always :)