First FinalFantasy XIII pic

[ProtoJoe]

Yea, they just had the square-enix conference at E3 and they have announced FF XIII for the ps3! And this is supposedly one of the first pics out of that conference....





I hope to dear god that how this isnt another FFX revist, and if it is....PLEASE NO SINGING!!

[ProtoJoe]

another pic

[Kaizen]

finally a fantasy hottie that looks bad w00t

[shivadee]

well.......another madass rush to the Square Enix booth to watch first footage trailers for this. WOHOOOO!!!!!

[W1nTry]

So we'll get that for the PS3 in 2008? I am a fan of the FF series... but I mean the wait is killing me here... and let's not EVEN talk about X2.... somethings are better left UNdone.

[Xenos]

X-2 looked like a barbi dressup kinda thing so i never bothered at all with that one lol

well ff13 looks promising i must say, looks like there going more sci fi with this one as well (at least from what i see in the pics so far)

even all these next gen titles i'm still more interested in the dawn of mana title thats coming out....

[TinyGrasshopper]

Have you guys seen the trailer. It's mother freekin awesome!!! Finally, a proper butt-kicking female star in FF. When you looked at the trailer it's much more action-oriented gameplay. Hopefully that'll make a bit more accessible.

[TriniXaeno]

looking like my kinda game!

* [X]-Baego goes to download trailer.

[Ultima]

Square's gone nuts.

Well okay, not really. Just smart business sense. They know FF is one of their main staples, and they know now that, given nearly any given scenario, players are going to want "more" than is available in any single game.

However, there is a bit of a risk here. They're basing this, I presume, on the success of the multiple efforts within select FFs (namely FFVII and FFX). However, those two are also two of their top most beloved entries in the series (the only other one on par being VI, and VI wasn't in a position to be takewn advantage of on current gen/next gen systems); FFXIII will be a brand new scenario. They're banking on the the game being sufficiently well received that players will go out and buy another game based on it, which presumably will be released within a relatively short time after the first one (six months? A year? Depends on their fiscal policy; I can't see them releasing them simultaneously, because they would cut into each other's sales). Granted, it's probably a safe bet, but you never know.

So the Kingdom Hearts team is making the main FFXIII? That doesn't make sense to me. I would think that the other FFXIII (which I henceforth dub FFvXIII), where Nomura is director, would be handled by the KH team. I dunno about the "extreme action elements". IIRC they said something similar about FFX-2 what with Yuna's jumping and running, but it was all automated. But we shall see...

Damn. Nomura's handling haracter design for both games? He IS a machine. At least the character design will be consistent, if no doubt homogenous. I still like his still, so no problems there.

I just hope that, since there are two games more or less in simultaneous development, they don't shirk on the development of either game. No splitting up one game into two to charge twice the price kinda crap. And I'm hoping that some of FFXII's battle elements get included in at least one of the games.

[Ultima]

You mean I'm the only here one who read this? Where are you guys getting your info from?

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6149412&pid=928790

[ProtoJoe]

Actually, the MAIN FF XIII is being done by the team that did FFX and FF XIII is done by the ppl that did advent children and Kingdom hearts. And its pretty much two sepreate games you know, you make it sound as though its the same thing.

They even stated that its two different games set in the same world, but seem form a different perspective. So I imagine something drasitc is happening in that world, and in each game the protagonists would be seeing it differently and dealing with it differently.

And seriously, Ultima, stop talking as though Square-Enix is some amature company who is now introducing a franchise.... You can assume as much as you want, but that does not mean that they dont know what they are doing.

[Ultima]

ProtoJoe:

> Actually, the MAIN FF XIII is being done by the team that did FFX and FF XIII is done by the ppl that did advent children and Kingdom hearts. And its pretty much two sepreate games you know, you make it sound as though its the same thing.

SOrry, that post of mine was copied from another message board, where it had been stated that the KH team was doing the main XIII which, as I said, "didn't make sense to me".

> They even stated that its two different games set in the same world, but seem form a different perspective. So I imagine something drasitc is happening in that world, and in each game the protagonists would be seeing it differently and dealing with it differently.

DUnno. The official site (http://na.square-enix.com/e306/titles/fabula/) says "each title in the project features different characters, different worlds, and different stories". It's difficult to say what the actual direct links between the games will be at this time.

> And seriously, Ultima, stop talking as though Square-Enix is some amature company who is now introducing a franchise.... You can assume as much as you want, but that does not mean that they dont know what they are doing.

Excuse me? When did I state anything of the such? I think you need to re-read my post. It has been commented upon elsewhere about Square's newfound emphasis on polymorphic material, and it is not unwise to assume that it's based on the success of their Compilation of FFVII project and FFX/FFX-2.  My only concern, and it's not even a huge concern, is that Square used polymorphic content based on two of the top three most beloved entries in the FF series. This is going to be based on a new entry. There is a risk, even if it's pretty small, that XIII won't be as well received as they would like, which would sour the response for subsequent follow up games.

Not all the FFs have been equally well recevied you know. I doubt you'll be seeing a Compilation of FF IX project any time soon, if ever.

[Kenji]

Hey anybody know what the combat system is going to like. The FFXII and FXIII didn't say much but i hear its completely different from your standard RPG fair.

[shivadee]

the combat system for 13 has not been decided. What was shown at E3 was only a concept idea. Basically string attacks together to create combo's and so on. However it looked like a full on FMV with tagged on battle system settings, which were not detailed atall. But 13 is in its VERY early stages of production. Only FMV's for eye candy are available now.

[EmpireKing]

its a shame that its on the ps3...that means the only way i can play it is in a gaming cafe sumwhere.. SADD