[Multiplatform] Official Final Fantasy XIII Thread

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

This might fall under the category of "rumor", but taken from past hunches, I'm going to go on a gamble and remain faithful that we're going to get some info on FFXIII by this E3.



-1up.com

After enjoying the stellar job he's done on Kingdom Hearts II, I am very much anticipating Nomura's first true Final Fantasy title (he co-wrote FFVII, and only drew the characters for the others). He's fast replacing Kojima as my all-time favorite game director, and if KHII is any indication, he can only improve from here.

Yeah, he loves his fanservice (I don't mean the sexual kind), he loves replicating western-style action, and he really, really, really loves zippers. Well so what. Final Fantasy XIII is going to rock. Why lie.

Nomura won't have anything (other than Character Design possibly) to do with FFXIII. Kitase's (FFV, FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, and FFX-2) team are the ones doing it, and development has been going on ever since 2004.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Dullenplain

So exactly how many games are going to be under the XIII title?

So far, interesting I must say.

The FFXIII games well be grouped uder the title of "Final Fantasy XIII: Fabula Nova Crystallis" which will contain 3 games:

Quote:

Now it's Fabula Nova Crystallis--"the new tale of the crystal" in Latin. They're big on the Latin today. Whoa, wait, another new game? Another PS3 game?! Final Fantasy Versus XIII? They're emphasizing that in Latin, versus means "to change direction." This is a Tetsuya Nomura game, and he's taking the stage now.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6149412.html



Final Fantasy XIII (Main game) by Yoshinori Kitase (Producer) and Motomu Toriyama (Director)

Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Spin-off/Sidegame) by Tetsuya Nomura

Final Fantasy Agito XIII (Moblie Phone)

How ya doing, buddy?

According IGN and people who were actually there it's realtime.

Here is the Staff List(credits go to Teido Boy for finding them.

FF13
Director: Motomu Toriyama
Character designer: Tetsuya Nomura
Art director: Isamu Kamikokuryo
Main programmer: Kazumi Kobayashi
Movie director: Eiji Fujii
Main theme: Nobuo Uematsu, SMILE PLEASE Co., LTD.
Composer: Masashi Hamauzu
Producer: Yoshinori Kitase

FFヴェルサス13
Director & Character designer: Tetsuya Nomura
Movie director: Takeshi Nozue
Composer: Yoko Shimomura
Producer: Shinji Hashimoto

How ya doing, buddy?

ff13 video

http://rapidshare.de/files/19981567/061.avi.html

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

I do have one early fear with these multiple FFXIII games. I'm afraid they might try to do a multi-episode story here, meaning that the first game (FFXIII) won't have a complete story, and just end with a teaser that basically says "buy Final Fantasy Versus XIII! Then buy the next game after that!". I had told myself before that I was tired of multi-episode games, and how I want more games that tell a complete story from start to finish, without having to buy a handheld game to get the entire story.

But I suppose it's too early to worry about any of that. I hope they give a tentative release date, and hopefully within the next year.

FF vs. XIII and FFXIII have nothing to do with each other from what !UP and Official Site has said. FFXII Agito is just a small semi-sequel to FFXIII or, Gaiden. So you won't have to worry about that.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Here is another game in the Project: Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...95&postcount=1

Remember, it's not a Tetralogy. None of the games in he Project have anything to do with each other. They all just take place in the same universe, that have Common Mythos. Like Suikoden, Xenosaga and what Lurker said above.

http://na.square-enix.com/e306/titles/fabula/

FELIPE NO

FAMITSU: New Scans:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2558/460665or.jpg
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/1081/460634ww.jpg
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4676/46069wx.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6138/460657eo.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9595/460648bw.jpg

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Mercury

Well, how about FFXIII would be the main game, normal great FF core stuff with improve cinematic feel both in cutscene, gameplay and battle.

And after that you get to play Versus which would be the entire same story but you play as the “villains”, so you get to see how they think, and how they’ve got through all this.

Of course, this would require some heavy duty story, where in the main FFXIII, a player could actually understand the villain and why he’s acting “evil” (kinda like the last boss in SH2), to the point where a player could even ask himself throughout the game if he is really on the good side. That way playing as the “bad guys” would be much appealing. Just an idea… what do you guys think?

About the guy in the big chair, he is surely evil, look at his boots!

--------EDIT--------

Well, hehe, same idea, same time, I want my cut

Like I said before, SE says that there is no conncetion between FFXIII and FFXIII Versus other than talking place in the same universe and having common mythos. FFXIII Versus is it's own game.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

As for the connection between the different announced titles: So basically FFXIII and FFXIII Versus are related in a situation similar to how FFXII and Final Fantasy Tactics are related? ...That they take place in the same 'world' or 'universe', but at different places and times?

Yeah, pretty similar. The games take place in save universe, but have different Characters, World and Story. The Mythology and other elements well connect them.

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

As for the "Agito", it probably acts like Before Crisis does to the main FFVII, in that its a sort of 'back-story' to the main game(s).

From what I understand Agito is prequel to FFXIII, but no one knows how far backand it's likely that it won't necessary to understand FFXIII's story It might give more infi some Characters past's and such.

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Double Post:

To pull a megalith: What is this, Emo Romeo & Juliet in the Future?

These two likely will never meet storywise, however there might be refereces made to either each other, mabe a special sidequest involing each other.

Originally Posted by DarknessTear

Okay, we found another thing Nomura is obsessed with. The number 13.

Anyway, FFVXIII has that guy as the main character and the game is being developed by the Kingdom Hearts team including Shimomura. The only connection between this game and FFXIII is PROBABLY the world. But I heard even the world isn't the same. It's a spinoff with the FF name but I'm wondering if they're just using the name as a sales tactic. Either way, I'd buy this without the FF name. It looks promising.

FFvXIII is not a spin-off, it's own game. The "XIII" is probablythere because they take place in the same universe.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Better quality FFXIII Jump scans



This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

This was posted on another forum by a someone named Saj, with really interesting info.

Quote:

I attended E3 This year and during the special theater showing by tickets they showed all kinds of trailers including the Compilation of Final Fantasy 7 and the three trailers for the 3 Final Fantasy 13 games.

The first one is a longer version of what is available for download staring the pink haired girl. This one flows much better and its more obvious that she has some sort of magical ability (or tool) that allows her to suspend her gravity which shows to look like blue waves of pulsating light. The graphics were so good it was really difficult to tell which was the the 3D cut scene and which was the in game graphics.

The action was her fighting inside this train and with a large weapon creature. (looks similar to emerald weapon from FF7)

The nariation makes a mention of those who become so powerfull that are they people or are they demi gods?

The next trailer was for Final Fantasy verses XIII. This one plays some beautiful depressing opera music with a deep female voice singing in another language. The opening nariation is about a kingdom and a liniege that strives to remain independent from the rest of the world looking to take it over and their use of crystals to protect themselves. Also that it is directed by Nomura and done with the staffs of Kingdom Hearts and Advent children.

It opens with a young grey haired, red eyed man in black sitting on a throne looking like his dog just died. It lingers on his depressed state for some quite time before he stands up and walks outside. At the entrance are some fallen guards and at the base of the stairs there is a large group of men wearing knight style armour but holding guns. The young man slowly descends the stairs in no rush and all the men open fire on him. The bullets that miss hit the stairs but the bullets that hit seem to be hitting some sort of barrier or forcefield in front of the man. As more bullets hit this forcefield you notice its actually the outlines of swords that the bullets seem to be striking.

The man stops and you see that about 12-15 swords are circling around him in a franic motion that he's controlling. The scene ends with a closeup of the man as his eyes begin to glow even redder.

The last trailer is for a mobile game with more cutsy artwork. In the end it shows the logos for all three games converge into the base of yet another amono style art piece for the entire compliation.

How ya doing, buddy?

Quote:

It opens with a young grey haired, red eyed man in black sitting on a throne looking like his dog just died. It lingers on his depressed state for some quite time before he stands up and walks outside. At the entrance are some fallen guards and at the base of the stairs there is a large group of men wearing knight style armour but holding guns. The young man slowly descends the stairs in no rush and all the men open fire on him. The bullets that miss hit the stairs but the bullets that hit seem to be hitting some sort of barrier or forcefield in front of the man. As more bullets hit this forcefield you notice its actually the outlines of swords that the bullets seem to be striking.

Gamespot preview also points out this:

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/fina...72&mode=recent

Quote:

He emerged onto a staircase that was riddled with the corpses of what seemed to be uniformed guards. The camera then shifted to behind the mysterious man, showing the square in front of the building, and it was filled entirely with black-clad troops--who interestingly enough seemed to be dressed the same as the corpses. Perhaps some kind of power struggle is being hinted at.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Here is a bigger scan of the female character, not best quality sadly:



What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Here are some awesome scans:

http://img132.imagevenue.com/img.php...3057_13_01.jpg
http://img141.imagevenue.com/img.php...3065_13_02.jpg
http://img104.imagevenue.com/img.php...3073_13_03.jpg
http://img108.imagevenue.com/img.php...3080_13_04.jpg
http://img129.imagevenue.com/img.php...3087_13_05.jpg
http://img106.imagevenue.com/img.php...3093_13_06.jpg
http://img28.imagevenue.com/img.php?...3101_13_07.jpg
http://img42.imagevenue.com/img.php?...3107_13_08.jpg
http://img104.imagevenue.com/img.php...3114_13_09.jpg
http://img7.imagevenue.com/img.php?l...3121_13_10.jpg

FF Agito XIII (Moblie Phone) Scans:

http://img11.imagevenue.com/img.php?...ader162095.jpg

Some notes courtesy of Duckroll:
- FFXIII might have online features, but it won't be the focus
- FF Versus XIII will not have online features
- The battle system for FFXIII will make use of both "time" (ATB probably) and "3D space" (probably meaning the battles take place within a 3D area that actually affects the gameplay)

FELIPE NO

Nice big Update from IGN:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/708/708994p1.html

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Quote:

Square Enix Conference Report
05.24.06 - 1:38 PM

At its annual financial results conference, Square Enix management announced its results for the fiscal year 2005/06 which ended on March 31st. The company has posted a consolidated net profit of 17.08 billion yen ($153.33 million USD) on sales of 124.47 billion yen ($1.12 billion USD).
Thanks to the success of Kingdom Hearts II and Final Fantasy XII, Square Enix has sold 7.86 million units in Japan. This figure translates to an increase of 1.56 million units, compared to the results of the previous fiscal year. As of March 31st, Final Fantasy XII has sold 2.38 million units in Japan, while shipments of Kingdom Hearts II had reached 1.15 million copies in Japan and 1.26 million in North America. Nonetheless shipments in North America, Europe and Asia decreased, resulting in total worldwide shipments of 12.23 million copies.
For the current fiscal year, Square Enix projects sales of only five million copies in Japan due to the transition to the next generation of hardware. Thanks to the worldwide release of Kingdom Hearts II and Final Fantasy XII, management expects worldwide sales of 13 million copies. In addition to new games, the company also wants to strengthen its sales of budget series re-releases. Regardless of the platform, the package design will be consolidated.

As far as the online game business is concerned, Square Enix president Youichi Wada acknowledged Square Enix's problems with coming up with a second major MMORPG hit after Final Fantasy XI. Accordingly, the next major MMORPG won't arrive during the current fiscal year (that is until March 31st, 2007).

Cellphone content apparently did not generate as much profit as expected. However, Wada expressed hope that Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest will change this situation for the better.

As previously reported, Fabula Nova Crystallis is indeed planned as the company's second major polymorphic content franchise after the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. In addition to the PlayStation 3-based Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII, as well as Final Fantasy Agito XIII for cellphones, more installments of the Fabula Nova Crystallis project could be forthcoming. Wada likened it to Star Wars or Gundam, and said that it would span a decade. While Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for PlayStation Portable was generally believed the be the final installment of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Wada thinks the Final Fantasy VII franchise will be alive for two decades, meaning ten more years.

Despite all the talk about polymorphic content and established franchises, Wada also mentioned that Square Enix also aims to strengthen its position as far as original games are concerned.

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2006/1287.html

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The bit about Female Character not being the Main Character was mistranslation.

EDIT: Hantei beat me to it, heh.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Nice long interview from Dengeki:

http://www.gamebrink.com/news/466-Fi...Interview.html

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Nice find Hatei. The figures look great!

Originally Posted by Hantei

Also, according to the site below, they plan to release another 3 titles to the Fabula Nova Crytallis. Totalling 6 titles for FFXIII.

BTW, that's bit misinformation.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/709/709914p1.html

And here is another interview:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3151333&did=1

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Hantei

Couple of old, but really high res images from Ruliweb.

http://ruliweb.dreamwiz.com/data/rul....htm?num=14997

Very Nice!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Zeta26

As for the main game. I was right. Her mistress is named; Lightning (romanji; Rightuningu)

Here's more what they had to say on both XIII games. Still, they [both stories] may still be in speculation.

Main XIII



Versus XIII



What do you guys think of this?

Clearer Translations:

Quote:

FFXIII

Here's some info from the trailer shown in the closed Mega theatre.
(These are my very vague intepretations of the trailer. Parts with "...." means I forgot)

"A machine city floating in the distant skies, Kokoon."
In a peaceful world protected by the Crystal, everyone fears the existance of the .... from the outside world (the underworld) (monsters that invade maybe? that's what I'm getting from it).

However, one day .... someone let them invade.
The "Holy Prefecture" forced them (the guys who let the invaders in) to immigrate to the world below. But beyond the word "immigration" it's hard to figure out (details from hereafter are questionable). With that intention, the Crystal chose the person in charge. And, the person that the Crystal chose is the one who will destroy mankind. She was only referred to as "Lightning".

The rest of the trailer was the same as the TGS one, with one new part in it. So I only described the new part of the footage.

- Two enormous females, whose figure look like the machine-summon thing that gets engulfted in water, battle it out in the air.

- "Lightning" keeps her composure while the soldiers surround her and thrust their guns at her.
- At the end of the trailer, there was a blonde young man riding on a bike!

More detail about the New FFXIII character:

Quote:

-The new FF13 new character is a blonde guy that wears a bandana who rides a motorcycle.

- He's more reminiscent of a Cid type character

-The hair similar to Kadaj from FF7:AC.

Hmm.. so basically is he a blond older tougher looking Dante? Interesting.

Quote:

FFvXIII

Here's some info from the trailer shown in the closed Mega theatre.
(These are my very vague intepretations of the trailer. Parts with "...." means I forgot)

"Reality is really just a dream." - From Shakespeare's Hamlet

The main hero sits in the back of a car (courtesy car?). From the radio (?) you can hear "The cold war that continued for so long comes to a conclusion..."

(then it shows the same gun-shooting scene from the TGS trailer)

After our hero deflects all the attacks from the soldiers with his swords, he goes up to them, deflecting the enemy's attacks with his weapons, directly attacks the enemies with his sword, and defeats them. Large cannon-like attacks had no effect on our main hero. Our main hero then looks at the building and follows the rope while the enemies try to climb up the building. Suddenly our hero disappears from his where he was, instantaneously teleports into the air, and knocks down the enemies one by one. (He threw his weapons up in the air and teleported to where his weapons are) (The enemies' blood splat all over the place... )
The trailer goes back to inside his castle, and behind where our main hero sits is a large pillar-like coffin (?) that said "You have not awaken yet... (this part's kinda ambiguous)"

And FYI, the Agito footage is the same. (not that we seen it yet anyway.)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Really? Chosen ones are that way from birth, ordained by the gods, fate, whatever the hell.

Spoiler:

She just happened to be part of Raithwall's bloodline. The royal family of Nabudis probably could've entered his tomb without problems because they're both descended from House Galtea.

.

I'm agree Kairi Li on this, and what you said in spoiler doesn't change the fact that Ashe was a "chosen one", only reinforced it.

Spoiler:

Ashe being a descendent of Raithwall's is exacily what made her a "chosen one" who was given a task by the supposed Gods themselves. So what if Rasler's family was part Raithwall's? They would be "chosen ones" too. There doesn't have to be just one. Besides later in game Ashe gets chosen by the Gods for specific task.

Furthermore according to your criteria FFXIII's Main Character isn't a chosen since she does not meet those requirements aside for possibly "fate" (i.e being there at the wrong time), but Ashe does meet some of them, Also aside for FFI-V (a bit VI as well), and X (kinda) there been any "chosen ones", so it's hardly overused.

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

The series has long followed your preference, it's one of the roots of complaints made of the Final Fantasy games. Let's leave the stale formula alone for at least another title or two, ok?

Im not sure what this "formula" your going about is considering how different these games are from one another.


More info courtesy of GameFAQs.

Quote:

- The reason "Pulse" (intruders from the outside world) awakened is to stop the chosen one from destroying all of mankind.

- The distant skies where the floating city resides is referred to as "Heavens" and the city itself is called "Cocoon" (This is the official word used in the English narration). The city is one big massive shell--to portray that the city (the Crystal) is protecting everything in it.

- The Holy place banishes all those who are a bad influence to the city into the outside world. (Pulse and other suspicious people that live in Cocoon)

- The Crystal wanted to chose someone who will destroy all of mankind, and chose Lightning.

A realtime vid of "Cocoon" as well as a image:

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5010/sspc6ey8gj6.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xct7VrBOJuc&eurl=

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Spoiler:

Anyone descended from Raithwall could open the places where he put his seal. This means anyone descended from House Galtea (all deceased 400 years before), House Dalmasca or House Nabradia (destroyed) could do this. This point was repeatedly brought up, and the information on the Houses can be found in the bestiary.

Spoiler:

I know that, and that's exactly what I'm talking about. You just said yourself, "Anyone descended from Raithwall could open the places where he put his seal." It means that sooner or later one person of Raithwall's blood would break the seal and not some ramdom shumck from nowhere, it didn't matter if it was Ashe or not as long as it was some one related to ancestary. Ashe hails from a special bloodline that changed Ivalice, not surpising that she or another member of her would similar footseps as Raithwall did, especially since his seal and legcay insure that.

Quote:

Of course, you could argue all that was orchestrated or "fated" so she would be the only one.

It wouldn't matter since there can be more than one "chosen one".

Quote:

Spoiler:

You're really stretching here, buddy. Suddenly, they're all the savior figure for the world because of relation? They made clear that the only reason why agreed to help Ashe was because they had dealt with one of her ancestors.

That's it. Had any other descendant gone there, they would've received the same treatment for the very same reason. Far from what we've got in FFXIII.

Spoiler:

Your're pretty much just repeating what you said earlier here. The reason Ashe got to where she was because of her ancestors, and yes it would be same for anyone related to her or ancestors by blood because Raithwall was given the power to make that way. We don't no much of anything of FFXIII to say how different or not it is from FFXII.

Quote:

- You're chosen

That's all you need. We've got one where this is the case and another where it's not. That's all.

Except not that it. In many stories people are "chosen" for different they are necessary by Gods either. FFXII is no different. WWhat matters is what they are being "chosen" for, and in FFXIII's case it's not save anyone.

Quote:

Hopefully the series doesn't adopt the crutch of mediocre RPGs around simply because it hasn't abused it.

Yes, because the war bewteen two nations and strongheaded princess being resuced by thiefs like setting hasn't been overused before in "mediocre RPGs".

Quote:

Are you being obtuse, or are you actually being serious here?

Your the one who's using blanket statements such as "formula" implying that every FF game is same except for FFXII, and yes I'm serious.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

High quality scans:

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5...mitsu01zv6.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9...mitsu02pg2.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4...mitsu03ws7.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1...mitsu04me9.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9...mitsu05gu1.jpg

Interview Translation and Prologue:

http://www.ff-xiii.net/boards/showthread.php?t=2817

Jam it back in, in the dark.