TCP Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 (edited) "It's been a long time coming... almost there" Edited September 18, 2014 by The Cowboy Poet 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 (edited) The game looks fun, but the cast looks awful. Well, the character design in general. A J-pop rock band! Although I guess it could be worse: could look more like KH. Edited September 18, 2014 by Saturnine Tenshi 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Yeah, those dudes look like real douchebag J-bros. I mean, *fuck* that hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Those combat animations... O.O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturnine Tenshi Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Exactly what I was thinking, GOH. But like Ethan said, those combat animations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 She looks kind of creepy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Might be the uncanny valley. I'm cautious... don't get hyped. I got hyped by XIII and came out disappointed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Well the combat animations look janky, especially that dodge/sidestep move. Not great. On the other hand, I really like the premise. Bromantic roadtrip? Those are both good ideas! The roadtrip thing is smart because it gives a context to the old JRPG party trope. With the move to realistic graphics just "mash all the characters into a single model and wander the overworld with them" thing doesn't work so well. Having a central vehicle for the four of them gives a rational reason for this game to do what JRPGs always do anyway. Sure makes more sense than "and then the group of heroes walked to literally every inhabited point on the globe". And the bromance idea is also a good idea I think. See, JRPGs are all about a group of young people traveling together but the relationships between those characters are nigh indistinguishable. Childhood friends, "old" mentor characters all the way near age 30, romantic couples that can't admit they're romantic couple, comic relief muscle heads... I could list the cliches all day. This doesn't look like that. This looks like it's focusing on just adolescent males and how they interact with each other. This may or may not end up being good on it's own, but it's definitely different. I like different. If big budget Square Enix can't even do different, then different in JRPGs is dead. For the bromance angle to work though, I feel like a lot will hinge on the localization. I wonder if we'll get FF XIII Square Enix localization on this or Dragon Quest Square Enix localization on this? (For those heathens not in the know, Dragon Quest localization is really good). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 I meant that the combat animations look amazing and fluid and oh my god. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 (edited) So is the entire game a road trip? Seems like a good way to keep it linear... replacing XIII's hallways with the highway. Edited September 18, 2014 by The Cowboy Poet 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Canada only have unidirectional roads and plains? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Hallways can branch off too, but they never did in XIII. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Seriously, no one else thinks the characters look like awful people? Am I just too old for these new-fangled RPGs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 I don't know, on one hand, I'm kind of bored of all my characters being shaved head men, BUT on the other hand, it really bothers me that they have all these ridiculous haircuts and they're riding around in a convertible all the time... has no one in Japan ever ridden in a convertible?! But, I don't judge people (or characters) based on their appearance, unlike you GOH... you jerk!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 So Nomura is no longer the director for this game. He's being replaced by the guy who did Crisis Core and Type-0. Having played neither of those, I don't know if that's a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Actually, why is a convertible offroading? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Oh come on, nobody actually thinks this is a convertible do they? This is Final Fantasy. That thing is an airship. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Seriously, no one else thinks the characters look like awful people? Am I just too old for these new-fangled RPGs? It could be worse. A LOT worse. Thats why I dont mind this. This is subdued as a japanese character design gets. So this is good to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 So Nomura is no longer the director for this game. He's being replaced by the guy who did Crisis Core and Type-0. Having played neither of those, I don't know if that's a good thing. Mechanically sound, but not very deep. Thats who both those games played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Oh come on, nobody actually thinks this is a convertible do they? This is Final Fantasy. That thing is an airship. But see FFIV. In keeping with FF canon and tradition, that black vehicle in the FFXV trailer is clearly a hovercraft. We can only hope that, at some point, the protagonists will exclaim that it is full of eels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Hopefully they end up on the moon using a whale car. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Hope it's better than XIII...Still miss my turn-based rpgs...Not that I think they should change this to that. I love my action-rpgs as well. So still hoping it's good!Hope we get some classic rpgs on the ps4 though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 Wasn't FFXIII basically a turn based RPG? Or does it not count as turn based once it's active time battle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 (edited) FF has had active time battles since like.. FFIV? FFXIII was turn-based, don't know about the sequels but I would assume them as well. Wasn't Versus XIII initially supposed to be some kind of action-RPG similar to Kingdom Hearts, though? I wonder if that's still the case, that trailer certainly didn't look turn-based. Then again, FFXIII didn't really either when you looked at it in action. Might just be an evolution of that, making turn-based look as real-time as possible. Edited September 18, 2014 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 I like the combination of XIII-2's ATB but still being able to control your characters location, that was a great blend of traditional RPG mechanics and action. I'd be interested to see what XV's combat is like these days, I think the last time we saw gameplay was 2011... maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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