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Tetsuya Nomura is a filthy liar. After telling gamers earlier this month that Final Fantasy Versus XIII wouldn't be present at this years Tokyo Game Show, it appears he had a change of heart, treating lucky visitors to a private showing of the first, rough, in-game footage of the game.
[ Discussion in the Final Fantasy Versus XIII Forum ]
quoteWhile we've been seeing realtime footage of Stella and Noctis's first meeting since last year's DK-something-something-90210 event, the new TGS video offered a first look at gameplay -- that is, someone was clearly moving a character around. I'm pretty sure that character was Noctis. A series of clips showed Noctis moving around through the streets of a European-style city, first surrounded by other people, and then alone at night. Next, the footage switched to Noctis moving about a vast field. Here, he was joined by monsters, some massive. I was actually reminded of a scene of Hope running around FFXIII's vast Pulse fields in the TGS FFXIII trailer.
When referring to the Versus XIII TGS showing, I use "footage" instead of "trailer" because what we were shown wasn't actually a trailer. The footage was all off-screen, filmed off presumably development units by the development staff. It was set to the same music from past trailers, but there wasn't any attempt to make a promotional trailer out of the various gameplay clips.
quoteHoly cow, they actually showed real gameplay of Final Fantasy Versus XIII! It doesn’t look anywhere close to done, of course. It’s a third-person action game with a free camera — all they showed was a main character running around some unfinished environments with a bare-bones HUD. It’s not enough to determine even what the game’s genre is, to look at this footage — it was literally a video shot off someone’s computer monitor at a development station. In the second scene, the character ran around a field full of crazy dinosaur-lookin’ monsters. Could this be a Monster Hunter-style game? It certainly looks like it from the footage, but who knows?
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Being a game by Nomura, I might get it despite passing on FFXIII.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII will have crystals, fal'Cie, l'Cie and all the other key story/concept elements present in XIII, and Agito for that matter.
Versus XIII will still be an RPG, so I'm assuming gameplay isn't the reason FFXIII is being skipped. Nomura even described the game as being more 'classic' Final Fantasy then XIII will be.
The story will revolve around the same elements, I doubt many people will be buying the game for it's brooding protagonists and who buys a game solely for its environments?
So why skip one game that is so inextricably linked to another?
And Nomura doesn't have anywhere near the same caliber track record as Kitase or Toriyama.
Honestly, I probably will end up getting FFXIII eventually. Roght now I just have no interest to invest my time to go through a 200+ hour game again. That may change in the future, but right now its a no.
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