New FF Game Trailers and...um..huh?

[Smeghead]

So two new trailers for Final Fantasy games were released, first off: Final Fantasy Type-O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfbeXCoBx48

Looks like FF12 at first but…huh? What is this? Why all the dark and brown colors? And blood… all this blood.. Seriusly? There is blood everywhere in a FF game?

I think the developers has spent too much time playing Dragon Age before making this game. I think the Type-O stands for the blood type of all the people they kill. Why not just call this game by a better name? How about FF-EMO?

Second up is FF Versus XIII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZvdT3QS4k

And it looks…um…wow, that cinematic looks… ..awesome…wow… I mean what could g-ha! (video at 1:13). What is that!? Did the animators go on holiday and leave the animation of that woman up to some interns? She looks like she was taken directly from a FF8 cutscene! She doesn’t seem to fit in at all. Almost like someone drew a stick figure on the Mona Lisa!

The cutscene seems more like the cutscene from a Yakuza game… well if you overlook that in the gameplay footage there are mechs, monsters and what seems more like a God of War game then a FF game.

I hereby rename this game FF-Monster Mech Yakuza….God of War. Or FFMMYGOW. It really rolls off the tongue.

Ok So I shouldn’t really criticize the games already, but I think they deserve a bit of pre-emptive criticism for the horrors that were FF13 and FF14.

[Darkobra]

Those graphics are absolutely stunning in FFvsXIII. (Going to be one big-ass box or very tiny writing on the spine.) But is it going to be a finished product or are we expecting the same quality of XIII in terms of gameplay and world exploration?

I actually noticed there that XIII vs seems to have a bit of Vincent Valentine's Dirge of Cerberus going on too with the gunner and the combat does look improved. But Final Fantasy has always been about story and exploration for me too so I hope they do something amazing to revive my love.

Type-O looks a little like a watered down version of Crisis Core. I'm not sure I'll be interested in that one.

I won't be letting the Final Fantasy fanboy out yet. XIII killed that and put a nail in the coffin for me. We'll see what the critics say. And I won't be reading reviews from the "We get rich by giving good reviews on bad games!" sites. I'll be waiting for word from the LRR forums and the overall verdict here.

[Vaughn]

FFVS XIII Sorta looks like a Kingdom Hearts with all of the Disney torn out of it.
I never really minded the disney, but always thought not-disney would improve it significantly for me.
This here be my happy-face. =D

[Matt]

FFVS XIII Sorta looks like a Kingdom Hearts with all of the Disney torn out of it.
I never really minded the disney, but always thought not-disney would improve it significantly for me.
This here be my happy-face. =D

Probably related to the fact that it's being made by the kingdom hearts team.

-m

[EikoandMog]

I get it! It's Type-O because it has blood in it.

Honestly, Type-O doesn't look very interesting to me, something about the whole darker and edgier thing that I really don't get. Versus XIII looks pretty good though.

[Gordon Fearman]

Isn't it Type-0?

[MattAn]

Isn't it Type-0?

Thank you! I was actually scrolling through and thought.. Wait, O? When did that happen? Considering there's Type-1, Type-2 & Type-3 trademarked as well.

I don't fear teh Gordon.

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

So what you're saying... is that it was just a typo?

Thank you. Thank you very much.

I'm here all week. At least until I get shot.

[MattAn]

So what you're saying... is that it was just a typo?

Thank you. Thank you very much.

I'm here all week. At least until I get shot.

OH GOD THAT WAS BRILLIANT HAVE A COOKIE <3

[Gollom]

FFVS XIII Sorta looks like a Kingdom Hearts with all of the Disney torn out of it.
I never really minded the disney, but always thought not-disney would improve it significantly for me.
This here be my happy-face. =D

Probably related to the fact that it's being made by the kingdom hearts team.

-m

Good. Kindom Hearts was fun. Final Fantasy XIII not so much. If this is what they mean by future Final Fantasy games being "non-traditional" then I'm okay with it.

Not sure what to make of Type-0(Typo?). What we see of the world looks interesting, but it's hard to tell how the gameplay mechanics work. Also, I am immediately put off by the fact that I thought the character doing all the gameplay fighting was a woman, until it spoke. Par for the course, I know, but it was still really jarring for some reason.

[Jack]

Both games look interesting. I'll be taking a look at both of them closer to release to decide if I should purchase them.

What really confuses me is why they still use swords when they have guns. Machine guns, no less! Have they ever explained this in any Final Fantasy?

[ANeMzero]

Both games look interesting. I'll be taking a look at both of them closer to release to decide if I should purchase them.

What really confuses me is why they still use swords when they have guns. Machine guns, no less! Have they ever explained this in any Final Fantasy?

Mainly it is an aesthetics thing. Swords give a very different feel to a character than guns, and makes them appear more "noble" or "honorable." Also, swords give the animators a lot more options to keep stuff interesting. Guns really can only be used a couple of ways.

So for the sake of keeping things interesting Final Fantasy, along with many, many other video games, choose to keep guns balanced out with swords for the sake of diversity.

[Smeghead]

Oh, would you look at that, it is an 0 not an O

My bad. Guess i was just so caught up in the horriable pun that I missed that

Edit: yay, 1000 posts!

[MaximusXIII]

What really confuses me is why they still use swords when they have guns. Machine guns, no less! Have they ever explained this in any Final Fantasy?

Because they are fucking awesome! I take it you haven't seen the first trailer for versusXIII which involves the main character taking down a massive bunch of machine gun wielding soldiers using all these swords... *sigh* it was sweet.

[Jack]

Mainly it is an aesthetics thing. Swords give a very different feel to a character than guns, and makes them appear more "noble" or "honorable." Also, swords give the animators a lot more options to keep stuff interesting. Guns really can only be used a couple of ways.

So for the sake of keeping things interesting Final Fantasy, along with many, many other video games, choose to keep guns balanced out with swords for the sake of diversity.

Because they are fucking awesome! I take it you haven't seen the first trailer for versusXIII which involves the main character taking down a massive bunch of machine gun wielding soldiers using all these swords... *sigh* it was sweet.

Regardless of how cool they look and provide interesting combat, it still doesn't really make sense to choose a sword when you're in a gun fight. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I know if I was up against a group of twelve and they all were packing heat, and I had to choose between a gun or a sword to defend myself, I would choose the gun.

[Darkobra]

I'm pretty sure if I was up against twelve guys with guns all by myself, the only thing I'd be choosing is my coffin.

[Gollom]

Regardless of how cool they look and provide interesting combat, it still doesn't really make sense to choose a sword when you're in a gun fight. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I know if I was up against a group of twelve and they all were packing heat, and I had to choose between a gun or a sword to defend myself, I would choose the gun.

You can accept that it's a video game about bulemic teenage girls pretending to be men fighting other bulemic teenage girls pretending to be men, with magic, summoned creatures the size of an office building and airships larger than New York with no obvious means of levitation, but the whole "swords against guns" thing is where you draw the line? You should play FFVIII if you haven't already. Features all of the above, but the swords are also guns.

I'm pretty sure if I was up against twelve guys with guns all by myself, the only thing I'd be choosing is my coffin.

Also this.