Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII details from the latest Famitsu

Kalowest - 63 days 1 hour ago

I second that

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Ace_235 - 63 days 1 hour ago

ffXIII was always a must buy for me even when i didnt own a next gen system lolz.

but im excited to see versus battles system at E3 10

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Noct - 63 days 1 hour ago

All the info translated from Famitsu.

Nomura (VsXIII)
- Footage at TGS was for internal previewing purposes, so there's not actually a character that is shimmering white, it just didn't have textures. Behemoth was also displaying without textures.
- (w/ regard to the ginormous monsters seen in the trailers) they were testing to see the limit of how big the monsters could be. I guess they're referring to hardware testing
- (Q: Can we really fight enemies like that? It's hard to imagine) I can see how it's hard to imagine. Even I'm wondering if it can be done, which is why we're trying to do it.
- Playstyle can be categorized as an extension of the Kingdom Hearts system, but we're trying to make it feel like the nostalgia of traditional FF mixed with something new.
- Heavy focus on level design.
- Experimenting with having a portrait window of Noct at the bottom right so that you can see his emotions all of the time, but when the other party members are on the screen it feels weird, so we're probably going to remove this.
- Window idea was brought up because they wanted it to be a way to understand what your other party members are doing on their own
- Aiming for the type of buddy A.I. such as in western FPSs, where they act on their own but you get the feeling that they're teammates working in unison with you.
- All clothing is asymmetrical
- Noct doesn't wear a necklace or earrings, the ring he wears on his right hand (which is story related) is his only accessory.
- The ring is important, so on his left hand he wears an open fingered glove.
- Noct maybe rides a bike. I imagine not the kind that ***** stole
- In order to make it difficult to tell the difference between pre-rendered CG and real-time footage, they pay attention to the most minute details down to the wrinkles in boots.
- The game looks unbelievable and thought it couldn't be achieved according to Nomura.
- Stuff that wasn't in the test will be revealed bit by bit next year, perhaps as early as E3

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Noct - 63 days 1 hour ago

Heres all the FFXIII info translated

I ripped this all from Gaf.

FF13 Interview
Toriyama
- Fang is physically stronger the Lightning and more strong-willed than Snow.
- (Other main characters?) An FF mainstay (laughs) coughCidcough
- Bahamut's element is not specified
- Conceptually, Bahamut's style can be considered "Aerial Raver" (probably referring to the 2d fighting game style) in which using great mobility and power, he launches opponents into the air and juggles the **** out of them.
- Sazh's summon is female. She has fun while fighting casually.
- Palmpolm (location in trailers?) is crystallized because a battle between Snow + Shiva and a certain other individual took place previously.

Nomura (FFXIII)
- Before the scenario was complete, Fang was a male character.
- After making her female, in order to avoid too much similarities with Lightning, they made Lightning less sexy and Fang more sexy. Damn you Fang!
- (Nomura himself?) has nothing to do with character weapons. ambiguous Japanese pronouns ftl
- For FFXIII, transforming weapons are also a key concept as well as summons.
- Ultimate decisions for voice casting was up to Toriyama.
- Sazh was originally intended to wear a hat over his afro.

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Noct - 63 days 1 hour ago

Agito XIII

Agito XIII
- The multiplayer shown at TGS was mostly legitimate battle footage
- Very difficult at the moment
- Constantly updating the battle with new short missions is a key point to Agito
- Up to you to decide whether or not to accept the new objectives. If you don't respond within a certain amount of time, it will assume you accepted them.
- Next year is the year to start looking forward to stuff. Media blitzing like this year was XIII's year, I imagine

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Sigh - 63 days 1 hour ago

wow man exciting stuff you've got there. Argh I can't wait for this final fantasy to come, of course 13 will be great, but I'm more in favor of versus 13--always was when both of em were announced, especially when 13 was said to be "exclusive" at the time.

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Yarite - 63 days 1 hour ago

Before someone starts crying that we haven't seen any actual gameplay videos yet I would like to remind everyone that we didn't get the first public FFXIII gameplay vid until February this year.

My guess for Versus is we will get constant in-game images and news starting early next year and then the first gameplay demonstration/trailer at E3.

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gintoki777 - 63 days 1 hour ago

of course everyone is more interested in final fantasy versus 13 weve been saying this since the first trailer came out

It is because the characters are more appealing and the theme is more mature THAT IS WHY PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED!

Am I right lol

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Ravage27 - 62 days 22 hours ago

really depressed at how long i've to wait for Versus, fingers crossed for a mid 2011 release.

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shadow2797 - 62 days 20 hours ago

@gintoki777

Actually, I'm more interested in Versus because of the battle system, but those are good reasons too. ;-)

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ThanatosDMC - 62 days 8 hours ago

Versus it is for me... i cant wait for that mature Kingdom Hearts type battle. It was what FF12 should have been not that MMO style.

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foxtheory - 63 days ago

The more they delay details about it, the more nervous I get. But if FF13 does well on the PS3 (which it should), I think that the development of FFv13 will be more reassured.

I'm crossing my fingers that they stick with it! FFv13 is my most wanted game at the moment!

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chrisulloa - 63 days 1 hour ago

HALO 1
HALO 2
HALO 3
HALO ODST
HALO WARS

OH LOL POOR DROIDS!

See it's stupid right?

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ZombieAutopsy - 63 days ago

You're a terrible troll.

MS owns the Halo IP so of course itll only be on MS consoles.

Sony doesnt own the Final Fantasy IP so when it come exclusively that actually says something.

.........POOR BOT

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chrisulloa - 63 days ago

Does it matter really? It's an exclusive. If you say, OH WELL THIS DEV PREFERS US OVER YOU! Than I could just through Valve at you, but then I'd put myself down to your pathetic level. Calling me a bad troll when your pathetic arguments make no point.

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ZombieAutopsy - 63 days ago

calling me pathetic when you just threw out Halo an MS owned IP being exclusive compared to a Third Party Owned IP being exclusive...HA. Whatever im not saying that either console is better but to say my argument had no point just shows either A. You're too young to even understand what i was trying to say or B. You're just a troll and wouldnt even try to think what i was saying. Yea agree you could just say go look at Valve but then your just changing around what you said in your first post to try and not look so ignorant.

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AverageBOT - 63 days ago

chrisulloa just shut it we all know your a huge troll that would would bend over if ms asked you tooo and Zom owned you botch.

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Ceekay - 62 days 23 hours ago

@chrisulloa

If you wrote Mass Effect or Splinter Cell I would actually be a little jealous.

But Halo? Come on, that's the most boring junk ever. Halo ODST will be BOTY (boredom of the year). Nothing to be proud of.

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NecrumSlavery - 62 days 23 hours ago

And that it uses the WHITE Engine, a superior engine designed to utilize the power of the cell.

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