Final Fantasy 13

[serpent]

i wondered that will they release a demo this year or will they say a release date for the game..

I think they should now release a demo of the game a put the in ps3 internetshop
and then later in the year they would give us a release date for japan,uk and europe:). If you think there arent much left of the game to be complete only:

Voicecasting
Cutscenes

and i dont think that will take so long for a good company like them!

But i really,really think that they will release it before christmas, well in japan for sure, but rest of the world in the beging of 2009 or in the spring of 2009 :)

and i think there will be a month or 2 for the xbox360 owners to wait more than the ps3 owners.

ps. sorry for my wonderful english(bad as hell) :)

[VeraAlexander]

It's ok i understood everything you said i hope they will release a demo as for if they give a release date or not if they do it will be for Japan who knows when they wil give a release date for the rest of the world but it shouldn't be too long as they said they are trying to shorten the gap.

[serpent]

i think i will love ff xiii..

i just now find out the main developers:

Director: Motomu Toriyama
(FINAL FANTASY VII, FINAL FANTASY X, FINAL FANTASY X-2)

Character designer: Tetsuya Nomura
(FINAL FANTASY V~VIII, FINAL FANTASY X, FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN, KINGDOM HEARTS)

Art director: Isamu Kamikokuryo
(FINAL FANTASY X, FINAL FANTASY XII)

Main programmer: Kazumi Kobayashi
(CHRONO TRIGGER, XENOGEARS, CHORONO CROSS, FINAL FANTASY XI)

Movie director: Eiji Fujii
(FINAL FANTASY: The Spirits Within, FINAL FANTASY XII)

Main theme: Nobuo Uematsu, SMILE PLEASE Co., LTD.
(FINAL FANTASY series)

Composer: Masashi Hamauzu
(FINAL FANTASY X, DIRGE of CERBERUS -FINAL FANTASY VII-)

And the guy who is doing the battlesystem, did it to ffx too :) so i think this will be the best ff since ff7.

as you can see much ff7 and x developers and those 2 games was my favorie :) yey,yey this was good news for me.. i didnt have a clue who was doing this game :D

i hope it will be good as ff 7 and 10.

[Käthe]

and then later in the year they would give us a release date for japan,uk and europe:). If you think there arent much left of the game to be complete only:

Voicecasting
Cutscenes

and i dont think that will take so long for a good company like them!

It does take a long amount of time in some cases quite frankly.
The pre-rendered cut scenes take a while to accomplish, along with programing, art, music, sound, vocals, etc....

If any of these stages are not up to par they will go back and either re-do or alter them.

It's not as simple as you think, considering it's a team consisting of maybe a couple of hundred people. Not sure how many are in the FFXIII team.

I sincerely doubt a demo will come this year on the PSN let alone even emerge at the TGS or the SE party.
It's a time consuming process. Not as simple as you think just because they are seen as a 'good' company, so you assume they will have the job done in a matter of a few months.
I'd rather here nothing for the rest of the year, then actually be shown a relatively polished product when SE are prepared to do so.

[serpent]

so you assume they will have the job done in a matter of a few months. - (http://finalfantasy-xiii.net/forums/member.php?u=167) Cathryn

but they have now developed it for 4 years..so we can really think it will be ready this year.. and we know that square enix want`s much money.. so when in the year is the best time for a comapany to put a POPULAR game into sales? if not christmas. i think there will be millions of japanese people to have this game as a christmas gift. and i`am pretty sure that the game is now 80-95% ready.

It does take a long amount of time in some cases quite frankly.
The pre-rendered cut scenes take a while to accomplish, along with programing, art, music, sound, vocals, etc....

If any of these stages are not up to par they will go back and either re-do or alter them.- Cathryn

yes i know that..but do you not think they are only finishing theese. i belive theese are allready 50-70% ready and just finishing them.

[Agent Dunham]

Four years? Where on earth did you get that from? They announced it just over two years ago, and I can't imagine they'd have been working on it for long before that.

What you don't understand is, while there's a small commercial support of Christmas, it's not common practise for the Japanese to purchase Christmas gifts. But it's rather irrelevant anyway, since the game will sell remarkably well no matter when it's released.

You might want to take a look at the recent interviews that came out of E3 and the aftermath of the event. I believe it's stated that they are still working on the cut scenes and aren't going to focus as strongly on certain aspects until those are practically polished.

And while it's fun to guess completion percentages, it does none a favour.

[Xion]

dont expect FF13 until late 09 in japan, mid-late 2010 US/Europe....

[serpent]

Final Fantasy XIII has been in development since roughly 2004. This is known as Square Enix has said that the game was originally being developed for the Playstation 2, but after they created the Final Fantasy VII Technical Demo for PS3 for May 2005's E3, they moved the the project from PS2 development to PS3. from that i know that it has been developed for 4 years:) heres a link
http://www.finalfantasyxiii.net/final-fantasy-xiii/

[Zodiak]

This game will come out late 2009 early 2010. Probably early 2010. Probably not mid - late though.