High Prophet of Regret
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I miss Stella so much ;_; she must not be forgotten.
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Hajime Tabata: "Currently no plans to reveal more info about Versus XIII"
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I'm sure we will learn about it in the future once XV has been released and a certain time has passed. We can all agree that talking about Versus right now is not the best thing to do, so I rather enjoy XV and wait for the details to be shared in an Ultimania on whatever Square plans to do.
Yeah, there is no way a bunch of straight, cisgender middle-aged men working for a large corporation within a male-dominated industry would have sexist views about women. It's unthinkable.
Who do you think created Cindy in fhe first place?
This isn't to say that the entire team is comprised of people who hold such views; I'm sure there are some women and people with more forward-thinking views on the team. Only that it should not be surprising or far-fetched at all if the team is dominated by people who do fit the description I just gave, especially considering some of the garbage we've already seen from this game.
privitsan02
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I don't really care if the scenes from a 2006 and 2008 trailer won't make it to the final game. I'm not sure what's so different between Luna and Stella either besides that one scene in the 2008 trailer where they duel towards the end. Prompto being changed is more annoying as his new design really reeks.
As for the Yakuza family being swapped for royalty, I guess that's one thing that I wish wasn't changed. But even in the original, it was about two kingdoms fighting for a crystal no? These sound more like ascetically changes from a game that barely even existed.
I just want to play the game already. I don't really care about what if's, as long as the game in hand is good. The demo from early last year was good, albeit pretty anemic, so I'm hoping the full game is build off of that 100x more. 10 years of waiting, can't expect everything to remain the same.
Will say, I'm glad Noctis isn't uber emo anymore. I mean yeah, he displays angst, but the Versus trailers made him look like he cuts himself to sleep.
Best wishes.
As for the Yakuza family being swapped for royalty, I guess that's one thing that I wish wasn't changed. But even in the original, it was about two kingdoms fighting for a crystal no? These sound more like ascetically changes from a game that barely even existed.
I just want to play the game already. I don't really care about what if's, as long as the game in hand is good. The demo from early last year was good, albeit pretty anemic, so I'm hoping the full game is build off of that 100x more. 10 years of waiting, can't expect everything to remain the same.
Will say, I'm glad Noctis isn't uber emo anymore. I mean yeah, he displays angst, but the Versus trailers made him look like he cuts himself to sleep.
Best wishes.
Hey Lightning already in the must not be forgotten spot, Stella belongs somewhere else
She also said a few things about light or something. Truly unforgettable stuff.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
That brooding, dark, atmosphere in an FF game, Nomura's flair for the theatrical, coupled by gameplay similar to Kingdom Hearts were all reasons why I found Versus XIII so attractive. Even if we barely saw any PS3 footage and most of the trailers were CG , the little we knew about it just oozed with an irrisistable style.
Plus Nomura is a master at taking a bunch of random nonsense pre release footage and somehow managing to put it into future game. Like the Secret Ending of KH. He eventually recreates it in a later game, when it felt like a bunch of random concept shots. He doesnt always get everything 100% but he sure as hell tries. Or maybe he planned it out all along. Regardless I miss is work. KHIII and FF7re, Nomura deliver!
And it was TOTALLY going to be like Juliet. You know, like Romeo and Juliet.
But all the fanfictions I wrote about her! Now I'll have to replace the name "Stella" with "Luna" in every instance!
My heart goes out to you Taruranto, your are easily the biggest victim in this mess.
Devilinthiscity
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I think it all depends on how well XV does. The last thing they'd want to do is layout the original framework for Versus XIII if their revision ends up being mediocre.
Still, learning about all of that stuff is interesting as hell. One thing that seems pretty evident in the revision is the darker tone. They even changed that emblem with the grim reaper if I remember correctly.
Still, learning about all of that stuff is interesting as hell. One thing that seems pretty evident in the revision is the darker tone. They even changed that emblem with the grim reaper if I remember correctly.
Was that ever a thing? In the 2nd trailer for Versus ever we can see Regis and his counselors, but the only difference is that they wear suits instead of ceremonial robes - but here's the thing though, there's 12 of them, to parallel the Knights of the Round theme that's only recently been revealed as kind of a thing. Isn't it possible that much less has changed about Lucis than we think did?
Because it looked more interesting than any other FF they've announced since then, including XV.
The one conversation she had with Noctis was better than any character interaction from XV, though. And it wasn't even voiced!
Never forghetti.
It happens to be about the same thing too..
NoctisVsStar
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After years of 0 news.
lol. No way.
He's directing another, small game right now. I think it's called Final Fantasy VII Remake or something like that.
This is complete drivel. You can't know what will make it and not make it until much closer to gold than that. You're literally asking for no pre-release marketing or PR, ever. How about just learning to keep expectations in check, like every other informed consumer?
Zoe
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I disagree.
Yeah but I was thinking about something from scratch not this remake.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII Remake.
NoctisVsStar
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Who knows how many parts FF7r will have, it will probably be a longgggg time before we see anything new from Nomura.
Vincent Grayson
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We haven't heard the end of it for years now. I doubt XV being good or bad will change the behavior of those still clinging to this nonexistent game.
foxuzamaki
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I actually thought this was gonna be a bumped thread from 2006 haha
Muffdraul
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Six months to a year of pre-release marketing/PR is "literally nothing"? The fuck?
Good. No real reason to keep talking about a game that was a trainwreck of development and ideas.
So many games have design changes during their production. That's totally normal. What wasn't normal was Nomura's awful time at keeping actual development going on his game. He honestly sounded more like kids making and hyping their RPG Maker games.
So many games have design changes during their production. That's totally normal. What wasn't normal was Nomura's awful time at keeping actual development going on his game. He honestly sounded more like kids making and hyping their RPG Maker games.
We don't even have to wait. We've been hearing them for years now. Because vaporware game was obviously going to be so much better than real-yet-unreleased game.
Looks more like the princess.
Tabata didn't want Nomura's waifu, he wanted his own waifu.
Was not his fault if SquEnix messed everything with their Crystal Tool, Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XIII. He was waiting for some staff to actually work on his game 😒 but instead we got A Realm Reborn (pretty good) and two more XIII games ...
Well if you want another way to look at it, Nomura is tasked with creating KH3 and FF7 Remake due to overwhelming fan demand for those two games. Since the people so enamored with Versus XIII also tend to be fans of KH and FF7, it stands to reason that the only people they have to blame are themselves! Or God.
DrunkShogun
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Hasn't Nomura taken a lesser role in kh3. Thought he had less leadership on the team this time around. Think he's just got ff7 remake on his immediate focus at the moment.
Was it Square Enix's fault? Was there an interview or are fans just trying to absolve their favorited director of any blame? It doesn't make sense for him to be jettisoned from the project and have the remains of the Versus XIII given to another director. He sounds like an ideas man who is awful at steering a game to completion.
I didn't know that's the direction they were going with it at first. That's sounds kind of cool. I wasn't as invested in that version of the game as I am with the current FFXV though.
Glad to see my Japanese studies have not been completely in vain. I can confirm there is some top notch punnage going on here.
EatinOlives
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I don't think anyone should give a shit about those complaints. Versus XIII was never coming out. Their narrative that "Tabata came in and changed everything!!!" is really unconvincing when you hold up FFXV's development in comparison with the rest of the industry. There's tons of games that spend a really long time in pre-production and end up changing wildly over the course of development. The difference here is that the pre-production stage was very transparent to us and Squeenix was inexplicably pitching pre-production trailers to consumers as if it were a game in active development. But considering that there's many other projects in the gaming industry that change even more than Versus did in its transition to FFXV, FFXV actually doesn't deviate that much from the original vision relatively speaking.
Well, it's like an optical illusion (or rather, mental illusion). There was just enough Versus XIII shown for us to fill in what was missing with our own imaginations of what the "perfect" game was going to look like. With FFXV we've had demos and hours of actual gameplay footage which is never going to match what we would've imagined it to be.
XIII Versus looked like an amazing game, but I make no qualms about admitting that the game was basically nothing and was going nowhere, had no feasible path to completion, and was never going to get realized. And honestly, despite nearly 95% of every Versus XIII trailer being a story trailer, we still only got an extremely vague notion of what was going to be and that everything about it was in constant flux.