Square Enix DKΣ3713 conference

[Jabberwocky]

It starts tonight. The stupid name is a messed up acronym for all the games present at the show -

Dissidia
Kingdom Hearts
Σ Harmonics
Parasite Eve: The 3rd Birthday (for mobiles only)
FF7: Advent Children Complete
Final Fantasy 13 (all 3 games, present in video form as always)


Basically it's a NomuraxKitasefest. It starts tonight in America time. I'll post the info in this thread.

- Parasite Eve 3rd Birthday for PSP
- FFXIII demo is bundled with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete (Blu-ray)
- Versus XIII = still PS3 exclusive
- Agito XIII is also coming to the PSP. Nomura love for PSP continues.
- Dissidia bundle for PSP
- Kingdom Hearts DS is this winter, Kingdom Hearts PSP will be somewhere in 09
- Kefka confirmed for Dissidia

[Himu]

I cannot wait to see this not only under deliver, but exceed my expectations on how much it will under deliver!

[demi]

Nomura is the greatest Japa ever to make games

[MrAngryFace]

From 'boredchan'

[TVC15]

So, what are the odds on any of these games not being complete shit?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

FF7 Remake

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for Wii

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actually it's a port

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[Howard Alan Treesong]

This is the conference that will cement year of the ps3 forever.

it will no doubt be the crowning glory on all that the year of the PS3 has brought us so far

[Jabberwocky]

lol, rabid FF7 fanboys

[Howard Alan Treesong]

From 'boredchan'

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the fuck is this supposed to be anyway? lemoke 7?

"remake 7"

[Tucah]

Apparently, Parasite Eve 3 is going to PSP.

[MCD]

edit: beaten.

[Jansen]

pe2 sucked mega balls so why should anyone be excited?

i never understood why so many felt betrayed that when it was announced as a cell phone game.

[Jabberwocky]

Now all they need to do is announce Agito's move from mobile to DS/PSP.

[cool breeze]

Square just shot themselves in the foot.  Mobile phone fanboys aren't gonna like this.

[Sho Nuff]

Square just shot themselves in the foot.  Mobile phone fanboys aren't gonna like this.

You see, Japanese peeople have a sense of HONOR 

[Mupepe]

Square just shot themselves in the foot.  Mobile phone fanboys aren't gonna like this.

I don't know if any of you guys know anything about mobile gaming culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are a huge part.  It's not like console gaming where you can become successful by being an asshole.  Square, publicly apologize for and cancel Parasite Eve 3 on the PSP or you can kiss your business goodbye.

[Jansen]

i'd be moderately happy if they announced agito for psp.

[Himu]

holy fuck

[cool breeze]

FF13 demo in FF7ACC blu-ray.

[Jabberwocky]

i'd be moderately happy if they announced agito for psp.

Wish granted.

<SFAGS SUDDENLY HATE FF7/MASS SUICIDE/"TAKE HALO FROM THEM, OR GEARS... OR SOMETHING">

This seems to be a pretty damn good conference for "sfags" so far.

[Himu]

this is so fucking awesome.

S-E bringin it.

[Jabberwocky]

it has started already?

It started a while ago. See first post.

[cool breeze]

PSP gets 2 cellphone ports, that fighting game is out in December, the Kingdom hearts game is out next year, and....I think that is it.
PS3 gets a confirmation that Versus XIII is PS3 only and coming out globally...oh, and a demo of XIII that comes with a blu-ray of a shitty movie (that I will probably buy anyway).

Kind of a lame conference so far.

[Jabberwocky]

wow - people are still supporting the PSP?

Nomura has been and quite clearly still is supporting the PSP. Right now it's got Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia, Agito XIII, and PE3 in the pipeline.

[MCD]

i didn't like crisis core jaggy and "lifeless" graphics, dunno why they are bothering with more psp games.

[cool breeze]

Late 2009 for Japan, but I still think 2010.  2010 or 2011 for NA most likely.

i didn't like crisis core jaggy and "lifeless" graphics, dunno why they are bothering with more psp games.

The graphics were good.  It is a shame the actual game was trash.

[Jansen]

hey i'm happy with the psp support.

if pe3 goes back to being like pe1 gameplay wise it'll rawk.

the ffxiii demo is nice. not too happy about having to buy a shit movie for a second time to play it tho.

[Jabberwocky]

It seems every system is getting XIII love except the market leaders. 

[cool breeze]

DS already gets a lot of love from Square.  Wii doesn't exactly deserve it and should keep accepting the chocobo games with open arms.

[Jabberwocky]

So in order to play the FFXIII demo, I'd have to buy the shit movie on blu-ray?

The demo is bundled with the movie and it's not on the same disc... unless you want to buy the demo on eBay, then yes, you have to buy the shitty movie.

[Crushed]

I have to wonder when the release date for the movie is going to be if they're going to have an FFXIII demo on it.

I mean, don't they have to start actually making the game first?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

wow - people are still supporting the PSP?

When is Advent Children out?

next march.  that means christmas '09 at the earliest for ffXiii

who could have seen this coming

except for everyone

[demi]

THIRD BIRTHDAY COMING TO PSP AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

CUM TO ME AYA!!!!

[ferrarimanf355]

Fuck you Square, now I may have a reason to get a PSP.  :'(

[drohne]

Before getting into the details of his latest creation, Tsuchida gave some insight into his previous work with the Final Fantasy series. Back at the start of Final Fantasy X's development, he was told that he could do whatever he pleased with the game's battle system. He ended up asking if he could do away entirely with the ATB (Active Time Battle) system for which the Final Fantasy series is known. This caused an emergency meeting within Square. The result was that Tsuchida wasn't allowed to completely do away with the ATB system, resulting in that game's CTB (Count Time Battle) system.

being a japanese game designer sounds awesome

[Jabberwocky]

yes it does

[Crushed]

Before getting into the details of his latest creation, Tsuchida gave some insight into his previous work with the Final Fantasy series. Back at the start of Final Fantasy X's development, he was told that he could do whatever he pleased with the game's battle system. He ended up asking if he could do away entirely with the ATB (Active Time Battle) system for which the Final Fantasy series is known. This caused an emergency meeting within Square. The result was that Tsuchida wasn't allowed to completely do away with the ATB system, resulting in that game's CTB (Count Time Battle) system.

being a japanese game designer sounds awesome

wait so... he can do anything he pleased... as long as it was just freezing the action when the menu came up

[Jabberwocky]

[Jabberwocky]

Hmm... thanks for the info. How does Kefka look, by the way?

Also did you get to play Sigma Harmonics? I've been really curious as to how that plays.

[onsedatives]

What a bunch of shit, they should do a tri-Ace even instead of a Nomura event.

  Nomura

The only thing good announced was Agito PSP and it uses cards, when will they learn that cards are fucking gay?

[JustinP]

At the end, they had this "secret" video from the dev team, showing in game prototype footage from XIII and Versus. I lol'd.

gameplay?  any comments?

[Third]

lol Agito FFXIII and PE3 cancelled for the mobile phones.

PSP

[Jansen]

uh well from what duckroll was saying those games wouldn't have come out at all had they not decided to shift development to psp. which is a good thing for those of us that love superior handheld gaming.

[duckroll]

Hey Jonnyram, Golbez and Exdeath are the shadows that appeared at the end of the Dissidia trailer from all the accounts I've read. They aren't actually "revealed" in the trailer like Kefka and Sephiroth were, but people are pretty sure they were represented at the end. You sure you didn't miss it?

[duckroll]

Ah OK, that's a possibility, but I would say those two chars in particular would be a little hard to guess from shadows. I didn't see the shadows though - I just knew they weren't revealed in the same way as the others.

Well, these Japanese blogger fans are crazy. I saw one photo where a guy have like THREE tickets for the show from the 12PM screening all the way to 8PM. There was an Amano art poster way back in I think TGS or the Party last year which showed all 10 villains with Chaos in the background, so I think most of them are just going by what those designs look like. I wonder why S-E is avoiding Cloud on purpose, it's pretty much a given that he'll be the hero, unless they decide to do something really silly instead.

[duckroll]

Could be Zack though, couldn't it?

It could, but that would be very strange. Zack isn't really in FFVII, and they seem to be big on using the root game of each title. Even for FF3, they went with Onion Knight instead of the characters created for the remake. We'll see, it's definitely odd that it's not revealed along with Sephiroth.

[abrader]

too many RPG's IMO.

[Van Cruncheon]

RPGS?!!?!?!?!?!? FROM SQUARE-ENIX?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!  OMG WHAT HOW WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!

[cool breeze]

A Zero Shift like thing in Versus 13 has me excited.  The moments when you get that in ZoE2 are amazing.

[maxy]

So was there any FF13 battle footage shown or maybe transition to battle scenery?From GameInformer interview it seems that the battles will take place in different scenery.

Q: In Monday’s Q&A you differentiated Final Fantasy XIII’s battle system from XII by saying that it is flashier. Can you elaborate on that a bit more, and explain how you want the combat system to feel for the player?

A: As mentioned during the conference, in Final Fantasy XII the battles are seamless, meaning the monsters are actually on the field, and you run into them to go into battle, and in FFX we used the random encounter, and you would jump into a battle scene when the party ran into a monster. So for XIII, we tried to take the best of both systems. The battlefield will have monsters visible, that you can dodge, but the battle scenery will change to a specific scene for the battle. There will be a good transition between the field and the interactive battle scene. That is what you can expect from XIII.

Q: In the trailer we see the images of Lighting jumping around during battle. Can you talk about how those types of mechanics are going to translate into play? How that kinetic feeling is going to be at the players control?

A: As mentioned earlier, when comparing the game to Versus XIII, this won’t be a completely action based game. So in that sense you won’t have complete control over the character when they are jumping around and such. The basic system here is the command system, but it will be an evolved version of that command system, so we are going to try to add movement as you see in the trailer, and try to create an enhanced version, even though it is command, so that it has action to it.

http://gameinformer.com/News/Story/200807/N08.0723.1234.16906.htm?Page=1

[Jabberwocky]

lol Agito FFXIII and PE3 cancelled for the mobile phones.

PSP

I'm fairly sure they're still coming to mobile phones, they're just coming to PSP as well now.

edit: On second thought, a lot of people seem to be talking about how the cell phone versions no longer exist at all. Is there any truth to this?

[Bocsius]

What's the point in having XIII Versus be PS3 exclusive again?

Oh well.

[Mr. Gundam]

What's the point in having XIII Versus be PS3 exclusive again?

Oh well.

A reason for people to be interested in buying a PS3?

[demi]

What's the point in having XIII Versus be PS3 exclusive again?

Oh well.

A reason for people to pretend to be interested in buying a PS3?

FIXED

GOTCHA

[cool breeze]

What's the point in having XIII Versus be PS3 exclusive again?

Oh well.

Honor.

[Rman]

Has anyone else lost interest in square too?  Not even their conferences and announcements do anything for me anymore.  FF this, DraQue that, and now their whoring KH.

[AdmiralViscen]

You're not alone, I don't care either.

Give me an FF5 DS remake and I can put them behind me forever.

[BlueTsunami]

Has anyone else lost interest in square too?  Not even their conferences and announcements do anything for me anymore.  FF this, DraQue that, and now their whoring KH.

Yeah, this is why tri-Ace =

[Candyflip]

You're not alone, I don't care either.

Give me an FF6 DS remake and I can put them behind me forever.

I agree

[AdmiralViscen]

FF6 already has whoamg graphics, unless it was a straight port like CT it'd be a downgrade.