Versus XIII Gameplay: Why Did Square Enix Even Bother?

Hellsvacancy - 64 days ago

They probably just wanted 2 show people that Final Fantasy Versus is alive and work is bein done 2 it rather than release no footage 2 hav people sayin things like "its never cummin out" and things like that

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mephman - 63 days 23 hours ago

Yea, that's more than likely the reason, but Agito is in the same situation and they showed an awesome trailer for that.

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Noct - 63 days 23 hours ago

Nomura said in the last Famitsu issue that there will be a media and information blow out for VersusXIII very early next year.

No point hyping a game that will most likely release Winter 2010 or Spring 2011...especially considering XIII is yet to release.

Patience is needed.

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gintoki777 - 63 days 23 hours ago

why did you bother making this article F U!!!!!!

its simple why they did to show the game is still being worked on and that it is progressing

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Anorexorcist - 63 days 23 hours ago

So no drastic conclusions should be made on the potential of the final Versus XIII product.

"All it did was succeed in making people worry about a product they thought was going to be stellar."

Yeah...maybe for the idiots who don't understand the concept behind "Work-In-Progress"

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MEsoJD - 63 days 23 hours ago

wheres the leaked footage???

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Cold 2000 - 63 days 23 hours ago

I dont even know why they bothered making a FF13 spin off in the first place.

Rather than this whole Versus thing they should have just focused on FF13 then after that move on to a true sequel that would be FF15 (since FF14 is a MMO).

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Hellsvacancy - 63 days 22 hours ago

Versus 13 looks (from wot ive seen) FAR more appealin (2me) - FF13 looks 2 girly

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LittleBigSackBoy - 63 days 22 hours ago

i'll be getting both FF13 and vs 13 day 1. i'm pretty sure i'll enjoy vs 13 more, since i like KH more than FF.

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Cold 2000 - 63 days 22 hours ago

FF13 is too girly ?

Thats weird nobody said that about the far more "girlier" FF10.

And whats so much more appealing about Versus ? The fake *ss dark emo jap look ??

Anyway I guess it comes down to personal taste. I personnaly prefer FF13's look though a bit too westernish/sci-fi for my likes.

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MAiKU - 63 days 22 hours ago

"I dont even know why they bothered making a FF13 spin off in the first place.

Rather than this whole Versus thing they should have just focused on FF13 then after that move on to a true sequel that would be FF15 (since FF14 is a MMO)."

You don't really know because you only paid attention when the pilot game was announced for 360.

You probably don't even know that these 3 games (main, versus, agito) are not the only games to be part of final fantasy 13.

And you probably didn't realize that this isn't a real spin off since the whole thing started as a "project" entitled the Fabula Nova Crystallis.

The difference here from projects such as the Ivalice and FFVII compilation is that the project idea was first and not the game.

EDIT:

I'm terribly sorry someone was ignorant enough to disagree.

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callahan09 - 63 days 22 hours ago

And why do I care what this website thinks of the footage? I'd like to see the footage for myself before I go on complaining about how crappy it looks.

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Cold 2000 - 63 days 22 hours ago

geez dude I Ive been following FF13 since the first trailer in 2005 (or 2006 cant remember).

They should simply go back to handling FF like they did in the PS1: that is one FF.Then a sequel. No online, no sub par FF7 spin offs, no dumb FFX-2 crap etc etc.

edit: By the way I didnt disagree with you

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WMW - 63 days 22 hours ago

its not like those games you mentioned because like MAiKU said it was never a spin off it even has its own team if they removed 13 from the title you wouldn't even think of FF13 when looking at versus. plus versus seems like it will be much better then FF13 with kingdom hearts combat system, darker world characters and story, and they said they are going to have action scenes like advent children aslo the trailer for versus looks way more interesting then FF13 so it is in no way a spin off.

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MAiKU - 63 days 22 hours ago

I could care less if it was you who disagreed. The end point of my statement after the edit was directed to those who disagreed, it'd be a different matter if i said that to you.

The point is, FF13 was not planned alone... to call FF13 versus a spin off would just be a "technical" classification of it since the main FF is only those with Final Fantasy and roman numberal.

But for what is now currently 3 games is part of a single project SE is currently taking up.

All FF13 games revolve around the Fabula Nova Crystalis idea or concept. But they are in no other way part of each other except for maybe the usual FF fan fare such as chocobo or moogle.

I full heartedly disagree that the next MMO of FF should be given it's own roman numeral. It wouldn't hurt to say Final Fantasy XI-2 and reserve the XI for all FF online games.

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Ravage27 - 63 days 20 hours ago

you claim that you have been following the news, in that case you would have known that Versus has as much to do with 'spin-off' as 360 with 'reliability'. Why are you even feigning interest for something you can't play anyway?

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Alvadr - 63 days 14 hours ago

I really wouldnt be suprised if this game gets cancelled in the end.

The game was announced years ago and we havent seen anything at all, SE arnt pushing it one bit. Doesnt look good.

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MAiKU - 63 days 13 hours ago

Oh my yes, that's a good thing to o. Especially since they spent all that money working with a clothing design company, have all that cutscene work (and i don't mean cgi) done, voice acting, they should just bail with that being done.

What they saw was the battle system still being created. Motion capture still being processed. And early non battle to battle modes.

They are not going to jump ship with this, Tetsuya Nomura is one of the directors of this game, and as you can see he's currently working with KH birth by sleep and FF13 and maybe even agito. When one lets up or is finished he might be putting more direction into versus. that's my theory at least.

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Kain81 - 63 days 10 hours ago

it was the main Final fantasy 13, but later they choose to change that, cause Final fantasy vs13 was more mature than usal final fantasy games, so they decided to call it Final Fantasy VS13..."
this is it what i had read in a Magazine 2 years ago
i dont know if it was true, but was plausible

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Bodyboarder_VGamer - 63 days 8 hours ago

FFX far more girly than FFXIII? Are you kidding me?

Just with Serah and Vanille FFXIII is automatically the girliest FF game yet... And not to mention that the principal character's a girl and the same with the antagonist. Did you even watch the latest trailer of FFXIII? That was the very definition of emo, FFX never went that far into that sh1t.

And if you like the Starwarish setting of FFXIII then you must have loved FFXII, worst FF game yet...

I think you're defending this game too much because it is on the X360 while PS3 owners get both. I could say that FFvsXIII looks more interesting but that's my opinion.

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ThanatosDMC - 63 days 4 hours ago

I cant wait for a more mature Kingdom Hearts type of gameplay! There was blood on the trailer, right?

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mephman - 63 days 23 hours ago

There is probably somewhere on YouTube that has it, but Square Enix were pretty strict about stopping people from recording, taking pictures, or even breathing.

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Bubbles - 63 days 23 hours ago

ur comment is hilarious becuz that sounds exactly like sumthing Garth'll say lol

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Hellangelzx - 63 days 22 hours ago

"even breathing."

You had me laughing there hahaha.

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4pocalyps3 - 63 days 23 hours ago

"I HOPE it would be a disappointment"

fixed

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callahan09 - 63 days 22 hours ago

You haven't even seen the footage.

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mfwahwah - 63 days 16 hours ago

Disappointment? Who's disappointed?

Nobody outside of SE has actually played the game yet...

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Whitefox789 - 63 days 22 hours ago

Did I see some blood when Noctis impaled his sword into one of those guards?

Dark gritty goodness, just like Nomura wanted KH 2 to be

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Noctis Aftermath - 63 days 17 hours ago

I've seen this trailer before, but i don't remember seeing the blood when he stabs that soldier (3:03 in the video).

People have been complaining about JRPGs getting stale, well this might change them from now on, games like uncharted, mass effect, gears of war, god of war, have show that western audiences want to have full control over there character and not have turn-based action, if the gameplay is based on kingdom hearts but modified for an older audience (example: blood effects and more attacking options) it will be an awesome game.

Also, to the people complaining about the game looking bad, ITS IN DEVELOPMENT, why do you think this trailer wasn't shown to the public? it's not ready to be show, hence why this guy is crying about how it looks. With work on 13 finishing up aswell as other projects (KH:BBS) alot of people will switch over to work on Versus.

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Whitefox789 - 63 days 22 hours ago

FF 13 is exclusive to PS3 in Japan so no problem there

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Noctis Aftermath - 63 days 16 hours ago

LOL@people disagreeing, while i will buy 13, versus has got my full attention and that's something 13 lost with me two times, first when it went multiplatform and then when some of the characters were shown.

I've gotten older from when i played the previous FF(never played XI or XII) games and quite frankly i want a JRPG thats more bloody, more violent, has more freedom and isn't bound to the confinements of your typical JRPG.

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TheReaper42 - 57 days 13 hours ago

the people disagreeing only has 1 console.. if you can even call it a "console" or "heater" take your pick.

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Shadow Man - 63 days 23 hours ago

unlike Heavyrain no gameplay at all, NO AI AT ALL!

Just an interactive HD screen saver. ((x)) ((o)) ((<)) ((>)) ((YLOD))

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Saaking - 63 days 23 hours ago

Nobody gives a sh1t about Alan Wake. There hasn't been a single mention of it since e3.

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Light Yagami - 63 days 23 hours ago

Heavy Rain is an HD Simon Says game.

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Veneno - 63 days 23 hours ago

and Nobody has said anything about Alan Wake since the weak E3 showing?

damn it you beat me to the punch saaking.

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The-Warranty - 63 days 22 hours ago

Why is he agreeing with himself?

EDIT....haha 6 disagrees in only 2 minutes lmfao

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Anorexorcist - 63 days 22 hours ago

"Why is he agreeing with himself?"

You might as well ask a dog why he eats his own sh*t.

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Masamori Sumimura - 63 days 22 hours ago

I agreed with him in case you want to know.

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LittleBigSackBoy - 63 days 22 hours ago

because we have the better version of it...? 0.o

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The-Warranty - 63 days 22 hours ago

But we have it too...................on one disc.

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sanad - 63 days 2 hours ago

Seriously stop complaining about changing disc unless you only played a PS3 every good RPG since PSX uses multiple CD's, no one cries with FFVII why should start crying now? MSG4 had a mandatory install every 5 hours and i didn't said it was bull sh!t.

Seriously that Fact is useless.

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