Another Final Fantasy XIII Trailer-but this one shows battle

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:38 am

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44895.html

The battles look really cool! This could beak me out of my RPG burn-out. I love the science fiction atmosphere as well!

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:30 am

It looks cool indeed. Now, not to be a party pooper, but most characters look like re-mixed and re-matched versions of other Nomura designs. I can see a Wakka-Raijin, Zell-phiroth, Yuna-Rinoa, and Shinra-Quistis. Guess originality is overrated at Squeenix.

GrimoreLibrarian · Post by **GrimoreLibrarian** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:43 am

I will only play it if it doesn't have random battles.

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:39 am

I'm still pretty skeptic about this.

Shalashaska · Post by **Shalashaska** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:27 am

Well it definately looks....pretty I guess. I'm a HUGE fan of the Final Fantasy series but I too am still kind of skeptical about this one. FF Versus XIII looks more interesting IMO. At the rate things are going we probably wont see gameplay from that for another year though.

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:33 pm

Yes, 2 days ago I was actually random browsing square-enix.co.jp till I noticed a countdown
clock with 32 min still left, so I waited and... I was amazed! Finally a gameplay trailer and it shows the battle system too!

And, I must say, the battle system looks very good IMO. Could be fun.
Very unexpected.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:38 pm

GrimoreLibrarian wrote:I will only play it if it doesn't have random battles.

+1 !!

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:20 pm

Except half of the cast has replicated FFX from the looks of it.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:37 pm

Shame to see they've gone back to turn based battles. Final Fantasy XII may have had an extremely weak story, but in terms of gameplay, it was by far the strongest FF to date. I can see XIII turning into another cut scene watcharama like X was.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:54 pm

Specineff wrote:It looks cool indeed. Now, not to be a party pooper, but most characters look like re-mixed and re-matched versions of other Nomura designs. I can see a Wakka-Raijin, Zell-phiroth, Yuna-Rinoa, and Shinra-Quistis. Guess originality is overrated at Squeenix.

My favorite new character is the helghan soldiers

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:47 pm

Yeah, they definitely look like helgan!. I don't understand what's so bad about the game having random battles-Dragon Quest VIII had them, and it was a beautiful and very fun RPG.

Will Square-Enix even be able to pull off a 360 port, given that the storage space on DVD's is a lot less then that of Blu-Ray DVD's?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:16 pm

hey is that sum jin-roh influence

again

I didn't know anything about the varieties of FF XIII; it all seems rather complicated.

LtC · Post by **LtC** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:02 pm

MX7 wrote:Shame to see they've gone back to turn based battles. Final Fantasy XII may have had an extremely weak story, but in terms of gameplay, it was by far the strongest FF to date. I can see XIII turning into another cut scene watcharama like X was.

Turn based isn't neccessarily bad if it's just well made and isn't too simple like FFX had. Valkyrie Profile 2 has a great battle system and I ended up making 3 playthroughs into the game just because of the battle system. It took me all those 3 runs to actually fully understand and master it and unlike FFXII the game actually became more fun at that point, crazy combos ftw. Difficulty being raised after every playthrough made it a lot more interesting as well, I wonder if they'll be adding an option for choosing difficulty for FFXIII but I doubt it since only FF game that had some sort of difficulty rank has been VIII so far and that was only based on your lvl :/.

No random battles? That's good, it was always so irritating to get into random battles when you don't want to. I always prefer to play JRPGs with as low level as possible so I wouldn't become too easy at any point.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:56 pm

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:
Specineff wrote:It looks cool indeed. Now, not to be a party pooper, but most characters look like re-mixed and re-matched versions of other Nomura designs. I can see a Wakka-Raijin, Zell-phiroth, Yuna-Rinoa, and Shinra-Quistis. Guess originality is overrated at Squeenix.
My favorite new character is the helghan soldiers

and some awesome side boob you got there

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:13 am

I thought that was supposed to be a dude the first time I looked.

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:34 pm

At first she looks like one of Nomura's androgynous men. I don't really like his character designs.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:54 pm

goddamn the characters suck.. why the hell have they snowed in on the j-pop-queer-eye-androgynous look?

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:10 am

anyone esle think the guy looks like curt cobain.

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:01 am

^The hair maybe. The guy in the video is on roids or something.

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:07 am

MX7 wrote:Shame to see they've gone back to turn based battles. Final Fantasy XII may have had an extremely weak story, but in terms of gameplay, it was by far the strongest FF to date. I can see XIII turning into another cut scene watcharama like X was.

Opposed to an AI watcharama? In my experience automatically casting Berserk and Haste on one guy does 99% of the battles in the game.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:18 am

Oh, look, another Final Fantasy movie is coming out. Shame they haven't fixed those broken DVD menus that keep popping up on occasion. Have to keep hitting X to get rid of them.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:50 am

goddamn the characters suck.. why the hell have they snowed in on the j-pop-queer-eye-androgynous look?

b/c it's square-enix

Aquas · Post by **Aquas** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:10 pm

I gotta say the battles, though turn based, look pretty fluid and fast-paced. It looks like this game is going towards cyberpunk. The characters seem to be standard fare... I like the designs, though, especially chocobo fro man Sazh (who isn't seen in this trailer.)

The fanboy in me hopes it's something like FF7 in scale, heh.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:05 pm

Strider77 wrote:
goddamn the characters suck.. why the hell have they snowed in on the j-pop-queer-eye-androgynous look?
b/c it's square-enix

Exactly, you expected to be able to distinguish sexes?

I wonder how good this game will be without Sakaguchi at the helm, since he's over at Mistwalker.