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Technically it looks quite nice, but aesthetically I hate just about everything I see here.

It's a typical Final Fantasy trailer.

Graphically stunning, with "gameplay" that clearly is hiding something and a story and setting that make you hate the world.

Speaking of FF games...

I noticed that FFXIII is now up for pre-sale on Steam.


Why?

Because Tomb Raider told Square that the PC isn't a dead market.

 LordofHats wrote:
Because Tomb Raider told Square that the PC isn't a dead market.

I would have thought that Deus Ex: Human Revolution tipped them off to that.

That car, on this road? That makes the rest of the game seems realistic .

That looks almost as dumb as FFXIII.

Are they going for a GTA + Final Fantasy thing?

I'll be honest... the trailer did make me want to check it out.

If I have to be stuck playing that dbag, I'll just skip it and play a better game that lets me customize and make someone more interesting.

 Melissia wrote:
If I have to be stuck playing that dbag

Who is a douche? There is no indication on which one is the main character. Even though they seems pretty much interchangeable to me.

Noctis (the main character). To be fair, while his initial trailer appearance years ago was pretty BA, he does seem like a sort of douche

I really don't know what it is with devs and not wanting you to play an honestly nice person, instead preferring to write a "jackass who supposedly has a heart of gold but really just comes off as being a jackass" type character.

Anti-heroes aren't any less cliche, or any more cool, than less grimdark heroes...

Call me odd but I'm fairly optimistic about this. I've always kind of liked the royalty on the run plot and I like the idea of the road trip feel so if they run with it for a while that'll be good. Apart from some of the hairstyles, I actually like the character designs shown here. They feel more subdued than the last few entries in the series, without all the belts and odd cut-outs. Even the giant monster and the glowing magic fountain somehow feel more grounded than is typical for the series. It's clearly got a more modern-world feel to it, which they haven't done since 8.

I really actually kind of like what we're seeing here, which I'll admit isn't much.

Me personally, I'll be interested in FF again when it goes back to more traditional Turn Based combat. That's when JRPGs were good.

 Chongara wrote:
Call me odd but I'm fairly optimistic about this. I've always kind of liked the royalty on the run plot and I like the idea of the road trip feel so if they run with it for a while that'll be good. Apart from some of the hairstyles, I actually like the character designs shown here. They feel more subdued than the last few entries in the series, without all the belts and odd cut-outs. Even the giant monster and the glowing magic fountain somehow feel more grounded than is typical for the series. It's clearly got a more modern-world feel to it, which they haven't done since 8.

I really actually kind of like what we're seeing here, which I'll admit isn't much.

Probably helps most of the work for the game was initially done by the same team that made Kingdom Hearts. Those were some guys with a damn fine eye for visual design.

You guys remember when Final Fantasy was a JRPG and not the latest Soul Reaver game?

Pepperage Farm remembers.

 Chongara wrote:
It's clearly got a more modern-world feel to it, which they haven't done since 8.

Eh...

The tech level in the brief "inside the city" glimpse looked roughly equivalent to that of Cocoon in FFXIII.

Of course, since this was originally planned to be connected to FFXIII somehow (and might still be), that similarity in tech levels might be intentional.

"connected to FFXIII"

Hrm, I wonder if it's possible to murder the concept of a game that has already been made...

What's up with S-E and their obsession with FF13? We've gotten like three FF13 games, already...

That was the best title for this thread ever.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
What's up with S-E and their obsession with FF13? We've gotten like three FF13 games, already...

FFXV was originally called Final Fantasy XIII Verses. Apparently, they decided this wasn't going to work, because the name FFXIII kind of fell flat, and the game kept having minor delays (it's the reason it's taken so long to get Kingdom Hearts III) so they rebranded the game as Final Fantasy XV.

 LordofHats wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
What's up with S-E and their obsession with FF13? We've gotten like three FF13 games, already...

FFXV was originally called Final Fantasy XIII Verses. Apparently, they decided this wasn't going to work, because the name FFXIII kind of fell flat, and the game kept having minor delays (it's the reason it's taken so long to get Kingdom Hearts III) so they rebranded the game as Final Fantasy XV.

The maker also kinda has this thing for Lightning, trying to push her as the "Face" of final fantasy so hard.

You'd think that after the fifteenth people would realise that the fantasies really are not that final.

 Ashiraya wrote:
You'd think that after the fifteenth people would realise that the fantasies really are not that final.

You'd think after the second one people would have stopped making that joke.

My Dad actually refused to buy me Final Fantasy X when it came out, on the grounds that the game company was lying to its customers by claiming that every iteration of the game was the "final" one. lol

 Melissia wrote:
That looks almost as dumb as FFXIII.

I'm really hoping that FF will never reach the heights of horrible that was 13.. but this game may surpass it.

Hey look, another Final Fantasy game that-

Oh wait, who gives a gak.

The FF series is one of those things where you watch it hoping for the best but expecting nothing, or less than nothing.

Honestly I just want a sequel to FF9 at this point.

Or you know. The full remake of FFVII that everyone keeps asking for, and is pretty much assured to make a profit, that Square refuses to give us