Square-Enix Final Fantasy XV [the game formerly known as Versus XIII]

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Oooh, Noctis and Stella's meeting in a pre-rendered cutscene....pretty. And on actual hardware next time? Sweet.

Shame about there being no second 1st Department conference. Last year's had so much tension, it was awesome.

 

So do we think that it will be coming out soon then? I'm thinking it'll have a trailer at E3 or TGS ... hopefuly E3. If it's out by this time next year in the UK I will be happy.

 

Most likely we will have a E3 Trailer. Knowing Square-Enix, they won't give us any hints any time soon. Considering XIII-2 will be over and done with soon with the overseas release, it'll be Versus time before we even know it. And I will love it.

 

It's finally getting close to when we get this. Kinda strange how we get info on XIII-2 after all of this and it ends up getting out before Versus XIII. Is Versus XIII going to have anything to do with the plots of the other XIII games?

 

FF XIII, VsXIII and Type 0 are three different takes, three "what if", based on the same mythos (the Fabula Nova Crystallis legend). They tell L' cies stories, they mention the same Fal' cies, but they don' t happen in the same universe or time-line.

[video=youtube;eUlt89pbMl8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlt89pbMl8&feature=related[/video]

 

so, in a sense, kinda like parallel worlds to each other?

 

If you really need to relate them to each other somehow then I guess that would work, yeah.

 

well the way you said it kinda made them seem like they were sorta related to each other.

 

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It' s more like they showed the above video to three different writers, explained the L' cie - Fal'cie concepts to them, and then let each writer build upon that in its own way, without even knowing what the other writers intended to do. The Fabula games don' t tie directly into each other like the FF7 Compilation or the Ivalice Alliance, they are rather three remakes of the same fairly vague root pitch. At least that' s what they said years ago, I haven' t played Type 0 but I don' t think it has any tie to FFXIII.

However though they aren' t tied together it doesn' t mean they can' t complement each other : in FFXIII we only had a (very misleading) glimpse on Etro, Lindzei and Pulse, the other "gods" weren' t even mentioned. Seriously, if I hadn' t watch the above video I wouldn' t understand FF XIII' s plot at all (apart from the fleeing emos drama crap, but that' s the part I don' t give a flying **** about). I suspect that, whith each game delving into the mythos in different ways and focusing on different gods, playing one of the games can help us understand the other games better ... unless they just confuse us even more ? Only time will tell ! ^^

 

So uh........where the **** is this game? What is taking so long? I seriously want to play this game

 

That's the question we've been asking for nearly six years.

At least the next time we see it, we might be able to play it...since we'll be seeing the game on actual hardware. (so in this case, the PS3)

 

Well look what I found at the wonderful world of Crunchyroll

 

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Saw this from one of my Google Alerts.
http://www.1up.com/previews/how-final-fantasy-versus-xiii-not-disappoint?pager.offset=0
How Can Final Fantasy Versus XIII Not be a Disappointment?
We contemplate what Square's most vaporous RPG needs to do to make itself worth the endless wait.

 

I want this game so bad! I don't even like FF really but a FF with a KH battle system will be so awesome. I want this game SOO bad!

Also Nomura said this game is almost ready for a playable demo and he wants to have a demo so people will have more confidents that the game will come out.

 

I am so ready for this game to come out. There is still no release date or even announcement that Square-Enix is working on it. Why is it taking this long? It's been years since we've heard about it.

 

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Very minor update for a major bump but here:

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And in turn... where they sourced it from:

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As I said, not much, but it's nice to hear that the project seems to be coming along after so much waiting.