FFXIII

[Bebpo]

Expect a media blowout from now until December.  I'm on media blackout so yeaaaaaaah.  EXCITED though.  Hopefully this won't be a "years of waiting -> disappointment" like FFXII & DQIX were.  The demo was great and showed a lot of potential.

[Purple Filth]

can't believe it finally has a fucking date 

[OptimoPeach]

Yeah, for Japan anyway

[Jansen]

the most overhyped jrpg series returns december 17!

[Don Flamenco]

ffvii is teh gr3atest

[Bebpo]

the most overhyped jrpg series returns december 17!

Except the mainline ones are all pretty good.  Plus this gen is TERRIBLE for jrpgs.  This is the first chance to have a real big budget epic and meaty j-rpg.

This is a release date ?

For Japan, yeah.  PS3/X360 US versions should be between March->June.

[demi]

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[Jansen]

ohh boy i cant wait to read the impressions come dec only to play the game half a year later and find out that it's nothing more than a false savior!

[Raban]

I'm too lazy to look for myself, is their video of combat gameplay? Last video I saw was the initial trailer and the combat looked like a mutation of 12, if this game is another single-player MMO grindfest, then count me out.

[demi]

There's been a demo since you crawled outside. Try looking on youtube you might find something

[Raban]

Seriously a demo? Did it come out in Japan only? Can you download it on PSN with a Japanese account?

EDIT: Holy shit that looks awesome.

[Purple Filth]

Square Enix had a small conference some time ago for the game

Date confirmed.

Kaz Hirai making an appearance

PS3 bundle planned (no shit sherlock)

Price is 8,800 yen (9280 something if taxed or something).

New playable demo (supposedly will be the one they use for TGS).

New trailer

Possible new character

More of those "Potion/Elixir" garbage.

blog link
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175936

Seriously a demo? Did it come out in Japan only? Can you download it on PSN with a Japanese account?

EDIT: Holy shit that looks awesome.

Japan Only. Came with the early copies of Final Fantasy Advent Children Complete (the FF7 movie with some extra shit).

No PSN download

[Third]

I've played the demo. A friend of mine is a huge japafag and bought the Ps3 FFVIIAC bundle with the demo.
It was pretty good.

Can't wait to get th whole game. I'm also blocking new media out.

[Human Snorenado]

the most overhyped jrpg series returns december 17!

Except the mainline ones are all pretty good.  Plus this gen is TERRIBLE for jrpgs.  This is the first chance to have a real big budget epic and meaty j-rpg.

Tales of Vesperia was pretty awesome and... well, Lost Odyssey was ok.

Yeah, this gen has been pretty lame for the jrpg.  Fortunately there have been awesome wowsome games like Fallout 3 to play.

[Purple Filth]

the most overhyped jrpg series returns december 17!

Except the mainline ones are all pretty good.  Plus this gen is TERRIBLE for jrpgs.  This is the first chance to have a real big budget epic and meaty j-rpg.

Tales of Vesperia was pretty awesome and... well, Lost Odyssey was ok.

Yeah, this gen has been pretty lame for the jrpg.  Fortunately there have been awesome wowsome games like Fallout 3 to play.

Honestly Vesperia is the only one that seems good. 

I think with the amount of good western RPGs that have come out recently people started to not give a shit.

[Beezy]

I think with the amount of good western RPGs that have come out recently people started to not give a shit.

Nah, we just realized that Japan is fucking useless this gen and we no longer expect shit from them after FFXIII.

[tiesto]

I can't really think of too many western RPGs that I liked recently aside from the 2 Bethesda games... Prefer the oldskool Infinity Engine games and the Ultimas and such.

Nice to see FF13 has a date... hopefully the game will be somewhat decent, especially after the long-ass wait. FF games tend to be hit or miss with me, and lately it's been mostly miss.

[Human Snorenado]

This really is the gen of Western ascension, if by default if nothing else.  Honestly, name a Japanese based dev that HASN'T disappointed this gen, other than Capcom.

[Bocsius]

Does this mean 360 production is nearly finished or nearly starting. I can't recall how the production schedule on this thing was supposed to work.

At any rate, I'm there whenever the US American 360 version is released.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Vesperia and Fallout 3 are the only two RPGs that have been worth a damn this gen.

I think Blue Dragon had the potential to be good it had too many faults that were hard to overlook.  Liked it better than Lost Odyssey though.

[Great Rumbler]

The Last Remnant is supposed to be pretty good. Haven't played it myself, though.

Also: Mass Effect and The Witcher. Drakensang is pretty good too. And King's Bounty, of course.

[Himu]

Fuck awesome.

Might import like I did the demo.

[Human Snorenado]

Last Remnant, Mass Effect and Blue Dragon are all solid but unspectacular rpgs from this gen.  Actually, ME is a notch above the others but still not GREAT.  Then again, I'm a sucker for BioWare games- I bought and enjoyed Jade Empire, for the love of Christ.

[Himu]

This gen has seen a lot of good rpgs.

The problem is the general lack of GREAT rpgs and so far Fallout 3 and Vesperia only fill that void.

I'm talking bout consoles btw.

[Himu]

Last Remnant, Mass Effect and Blue Dragon are all solid but unspectacular rpgs from this gen.  Actually, ME is a notch above the others but still not GREAT.  Then again, I'm a sucker for BioWare games- I bought and enjoyed Jade Empire, for the love of Christ.

Shit, me too man. I actually enjoyed it up until the point where it basically rushes towards the ending.

[MCD]

LO rox.

[Human Snorenado]

Jade Empire was a great homage to old, cheesy kung fu movies.  As an action rpg it kind of stunk but it sure was pretty to look at for it's time and had a mostly engaging story... up until the end anyway.

[Himu]

The ending in JE was terrible. It was just a paragraph and then credits.

I played as a lesbian.

I swooned the fox.

[Third]

Jad9.9mpire was fucking terrible. Worst Bioware game ever.

For this gen, I'd say Lost Odyssey is the best jrpg. But overal best RPG is Demon's Souls.

[Himu]

Your post makes no sense third.

Demon's Soul is a jrpg.

[Great Rumbler]

I bought and enjoyed Jade Empire, for the love of Christ.

It had some good parts to it, namely the side quests and graphics/art style in a few areas, but the combat was janky and the main story felt kind of bland. The final act or two was just terrible, though. Way too rushed.

[demi]

Your post makes no sense third.

Demon's Soul is a jrpg.

That's why he said overall, doofus

[Himu]

Your post makes no sense third.

Demon's Soul is a jrpg.

That's why he said overall, doofus

But it still makes no sense!

Demon's Soul is a jrpg. He says that Lost Odyssey is the best jrpg this gen so far, while saying DS is the best overall rpg.

Wouldn't DS be both? 

[demi]

No?

[ch1nchilla]

I enjoyed Blue Dragon (why the hate? it was great for what it was and you can get it now for $9.99) and Lost Odyssey quite a bit, still need to play through Vesperia.

And  @ the fucking ¥8,800 price-point on FFXIII! I'm planning on buying it, but ¥8800 = $95 and ¥9200 = $99.80! FUCK!

[Human Snorenado]

Not that I was planning on getting it at launch, but if it launches at more than $60 here for the vanilla, regular edition then it deserves to fail.  I think that's probably a case of Squeenix gouging the Japanese market because, well, they CAN.

[Himu]

why would the game be priced at more than 60 dollars in the us?

i can't think of any game who's regular edition costs more than 60 this gen aside from rockband/guitar hero.

[recursivelyenumerable]

FFX and XII were the same price.

Square's late SNES games were even more expensive.  Chrono Trigger was 11,400, which was $127 in 1995 dollars or $182 in 2009 dollars.

Anyway, +1 soundtrack purchase

[Bebpo]

Not that I was planning on getting it at launch, but if it launches at more than $60 here for the vanilla, regular edition then it deserves to fail.  I think that's probably a case of Squeenix gouging the Japanese market because, well, they CAN.

Like recursive said, FFXII was the same price.  So was Star Ocean 4.  It's a SE tax thing.  Then again it's only about $10 more than the competition, as Bayonetta is $80 and so was Enchant Arms and stuff.

[ch1nchilla]

Not that I was planning on getting it at launch, but if it launches at more than $60 here for the vanilla, regular edition then it deserves to fail.  I think that's probably a case of Squeenix gouging the Japanese market because, well, they CAN.

Like recursive said, FFXII was the same price.  So was Star Ocean 4.  It's a SE tax thing.  Then again it's only about $10 more than the competition, as Bayonetta is $80 and so was Enchant Arms and stuff.

:'( I plan on getting Bayonetta too... Guess I'll have to trim the shopping list. Should do that anyway.

[Bebpo]

Not that I was planning on getting it at launch, but if it launches at more than $60 here for the vanilla, regular edition then it deserves to fail.  I think that's probably a case of Squeenix gouging the Japanese market because, well, they CAN.

Like recursive said, FFXII was the same price.  So was Star Ocean 4.  It's a SE tax thing.  Then again it's only about $10 more than the competition, as Bayonetta is $80 and so was Enchant Arms and stuff.

:'( I plan on getting Bayonetta too... Guess I'll have to trim the shopping list. Should do that anyway.

Yeah I'm just going to wait and get the US X360 Bayonetta for $20-30 less in January.  Not like there's much out in Jan and Oct is already very crowded.

[Third]

Your post makes no sense third.

Demon's Soul is a jrpg.

I consider JRPG as a genre, and not a product of who's developing it. JRPG is just one of the different styles of the RPG genre.

Demon's Souls is not a JRPG for me. It's definitely more of a WRPG-type...

[originalz]

Only fools pay full prices for games here in Japan.  Most retailers slash the price quite a bit...I would expect to pay around 6000-7000 for 13 when all is said and done.  I guess exporters sell games at full price tho, ouch.

One of my friends here is going to buy the FF13 bundle.  He doesn't have an HDTV, so he says he'll just leave the system at my place and come over to play it.  Haha, I guess it'll be one way to experience the game.

[ch1nchilla]

Only fools pay full prices for games here in Japan.  Most retailers slash the price quite a bit...I would expect to pay around 6000-7000 for 13 when all is said and done.  I guess exporters sell games at full price tho, ouch.

Ah, that's reassuring.

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I'll have an extra 1000 to buy the potionz     smh

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[recursivelyenumerable]

I'm sort of tempted by the Elixir, because of the Star Trek movie font.

[originalz]

Does he have a decent size monitor?

Nope, Laptop only.  He doesn't want to buy an HDTV/monitor either.  Oh well, I won't complain having a PS3 in my place.

[Jansen]

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is snow a pedo? serah looks really young

[rodi]

I haven't played a FF game since FFIX... looks like the same old tripe with updated graphics.

[Purple Filth]

from what i'm hearing Sazh (the black dude) summon is Ifrit who turns into a car.

So a black guy who uses guns summons his car?  "drive-by" baby 


Summon Transformations so far

Shiva/Bike - Snow
Odin/Horse - Lightning
Ifrit/Car - Sazh

[archie4208]

So the Espers are transformers now?

[Mr. Gundam]

NCSX put up preorders today. $98.90.

[Lone]

Wasn't this the game that they were pushing to have a world release on or really near, the same date?

[recursivelyenumerable]

No, they always said FFXIII would have some time between the regional releases, just less time than most of the previous FF games had.

[SantaC]

Will probably be worse then FFXII

[Human Snorenado]

Will probably be worse then FFXII

I dunno, this one looks like it doesn't play itself.

My thing with FF games post VI is that, you know, they all tend to be the same fucking game for the most part, just with a shiny new coat of paint.  Excepting IX, of course.

[OptimoPeach]

Summon Transformations so far

Shiva/Bike - Snow
Odin/Horse - Lightning
Ifrit/Car - Sazh

This doesn't sound incredibly lame

[Human Snorenado]

I'm not talking about the gameplay- I actually kind of like the ol' fashioned turn based gameplay.  I'm talking about the lame ass pseudo futuristic settings and emoriffic characters.

[ch1nchilla]

I'm not talking about the gameplay- I actually kind of like the ol' fashioned turn based gameplay.  I'm talking about the lame ass pseudo futuristic settings and emoriffic characters.

You, sir, are a hater.

[Human Snorenado]

Whatever, I prefer fantasy settings for rpgs and spiky haired whiny protagonists are ok for like every 3rd jrpg, but EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. is a bit much don'tchathink?

[ch1nchilla]

Whatever, I prefer fantasy settings for rpgs and spiky haired whiny protagonists are ok for like every 3rd jrpg, but EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. is a bit much don'tchathink?

Yo, Chocobro is NOT emo.