No visuals till E3

[Final Twilight]

Looks like 1-UP did an interview with Tetsuya Nomura. There really isn't anything new but Nomura gave an estimate on when we could actually see something.

All right. When will we get to see more, then? "We'll gradually unveil it starting next year, at E3 if we're quick enough," Nomura closed.

Goody, we get to wait another half a year to see something<_<
1-UP (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176584)

[Evo]

yeah, there is a translation of the famitsu scans already


Originally Posted by Awntawn
FF13 Interview
Toriyama
- Fang is physically stronger the Lightning and more strong-willed than Snow.
- (Other main characters?) An FF mainstay (laughs) coughCidcough
- Bahamut's element is not specified
- Conceptually, Bahamut's style can be considered "Aerial Raver" (probably referring to the 2d fighting game style) in which using great mobility and power, he launches opponents into the air and juggles the shit out of them.
- Sazh's summon is female. She has fun while fighting casually.
- Palmpolm (location in trailers?) is crystallized because a battle between Snow + Shiva and a certain other individual took place previously.


Nomura (FFXIII)
- Before the scenario was complete, Fang was a male character.
- After making her female, in order to avoid too much similarities with Lightning, they made Lightning less sexy and Fang more sexy. Damn you Fang!
- (Nomura himself?) has nothing to do with character weapons. ambiguous Japanese pronouns ftl
- For FFXIII, transforming weapons are also a key concept as well as summons.
- Ultimate decisions for voice casting was up to Toriyama.
- Sazh was originally intended to wear a hat over his afro.


Dissidia... What's going on here? sorry someone else is gonna have to take over for this one D;

Versus
Nomura
- Footage at TGS was for internal previewing purposes, so there's not actually a character that is shimmering white, it just didn't have textures. Behemoth was also displaying without textures.
- (w/ regard to the ginormous monsters seen in the trailers) they were testing to see the limit of how big the monsters could be. I guess they're referring to hardware testing
- (Q: Can we really fight enemies like that? It's hard to imagine) I can see how it's hard to imagine. Even I'm wondering if it can be done, which is why we're trying to do it.
- Playstyle can be categorized as an extension of the Kingdom Hearts system, but we're trying to make it feel like the nostalgia of traditional FF mixed with something new.
- Heavy focus on level design.
- Experimenting with having a portrait window of Noct at the bottom right so that you can see his emotions all of the time, but when the other party members are on the screen it feels weird, so we're probably going to remove this.
- Window idea was brought up because they wanted it to be a way to understand what your other party members are doing on their own
- Aiming for the type of buddy A.I. such as in western FPSs, where they act on their own but you get the feeling that they're teammates working in unison with you.
- All clothing is asymmetrical
- Noct doesn't wear a necklace or earrings, the ring he wears on his right hand (which is story related) is his only accessory.
- The ring is important, so on his left hand he wears an open fingered glove.
- Noct maybe rides a bike. I imagine not the kind that nigga stole
- In order to make it difficult to tell the difference between pre-rendered CG and real-time footage, they pay attention to the most minute details down to the wrinkles in boots.
- Stuff that wasn't in the test will be revealed bit by bit next year, perhaps as early as E3

Agito
- The multiplayer shown at TGS was mostly legitimate battle footage
- Very difficult at the moment
- Constantly updating the battle with new short missions is a key point to Agito
- Up to you to decide whether or not to accept the new objectives. If you don't respond within a certain amount of time, it will assume you accepted them.
- Next year is the year to start looking forward to stuff. Media blitzing like this year was XIII's year, I imagine


and there is an ign update
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/103/1037157p1.html

looking forwad to e3 now:D

[Dirtyred70]

Damnit, Nomura! :nag:

[Falsate]

Mmm, saw this yesterday. I guess that's quick for them eh? He may even surprise us!

[Syriani]

Even though we don't get any gameplay footage, I am extremely happy to hear that its supposed to be an extension of KH's battle system, and its confirmed. Meanwhile, I'm slightly getting more and more interested in Agito.

[Evo]

I think it is the right time to show new information because it is just about the time when poeple have fully experienced XIII. And didn´t Nomura said something about that he "will have a suprise for us soon" a few months ago? Maybe a far more developed game as we thought?!
Whatever, I hope year 2010 will be as great as 2009 compared to XIII´s development.

[Devegas]

well we'll see very soon. hopefully by the end of next year we get a good outpour of info like we got with xiii this year. there's still gonna be a lot of other info that they'll probably keep from us until the game premieres, though

[Ethereal Valkyrie]

will agito have a story mode(offline) as well? if not then im not interested:'(

[novaheaven]

goddammit Noumra!

ah well. at least XIII will hold our attention until then,
but june is such a long ways off...

[Kurai Warrior]

So what about that media blow out after the New Year....or did he mean 5-7 months after the new year :aldo:
I can see him just showing off the new designs and releasing official character renders along with names and stuff. But I guess that might be it. Maybe another trailer that shows only updated clips at some point before E3.

What the hell does all asymmetrical clothing mean?...oh gawd....XD

They way he's making it sound, the CG and in-game are going to be vastly improved before it's finished. I wonder if it will look better than XIII, because XIII looks fucking amazing.

And if the combat is anything like kingdom hearts I'm going to be so happy. Just make sure you need magic and make it difficult to beat.

About the expressions window, I'd rather them not do that, because it would be distracting, I'd probably pause just to lawl. So I'm glad they are leaning against it.

EDIT: I just checked the date for E3 2010 and it will be from June 15th-17th. Thats a good 8 months away.
I hope he releases something by then, non-gameplay related at least.

[riecsou]

We should be happy to have at least heard from Versus. Those people from Square Enix sure knows how to make people wait. Cant wait for E3 2010 then and can't wait either for the release of FFXIII.

[Kurai Warrior]

I'm pretty sure that they will show something before E3, it just won't be gameplay related. This thread title is misleading.

[Falsate]

So what about that media blow out after the New Year....or did he mean 5-7 months after the new year :aldo:
I can see him just showing off the new designs and releasing official character renders along with names and stuff. But I guess that might be it. Maybe another trailer that shows only updated clips at some point before E3.

What the hell does all asymmetrical clothing mean?...oh gawd....XD

They way he's making it sound, the CG and in-game are going to be vastly improved before it's finished. I wonder if it will look better than XIII, because XIII looks fucking amazing.

And if the combat is anything like kingdom hearts I'm going to be so happy. Just make sure you need magic and make it difficult to beat.

About the expressions window, I'd rather them not do that, because it would be distracting, I'd probably pause just to lawl. So I'm glad they are leaning against it.

EDIT: I just checked the date for E3 2010 and it will be from June 15th-17th. Thats a good 8 months away.
I hope he releases something by then, non-gameplay related at least.

Asymmetrical as in their appearance won't look the same on both sides. For instance, a character may have a Pauldron on the left side of his body (shoulder) and the right side may be a completely different design. This leads me to believe they are going all out with Clothing and Appearance of characters/creatures.

Symmetrical design is way easier to work with since you only do one half and then the other is done (especially when modeling in a program).

[Dire]

I'm not angry at all. I think Final Fantasy XIII will definitely tide me over for a while.

[rise007]

"at E3 if we're quick enough,"

If we're quick enough? That makes me ponder... What if they don't have anything to show us at E3 because they were too slow? Actually I would love that, hearing all your disappointed cries, it would be so funny, mwahahahah! But, no, seriously. But what if they just have like a 1 minute video clip of just CGI or just gameplay? Well, I guess it would be better than nothing but after waiting so long for some friggin' information about the game, we should get like a 4 minute video, at least. Something big. (like maybe Takahiro Sakurai as Noctis' voice actor, woah, huge surprise that would be :wtf:lol, jk)

[Final Twilight]

I'm pretty sure that they will show something before E3, it just won't be gameplay related. This thread title is misleading.

I am not entirely sure if he will show anything at all, he was pretty vague. He can give information with all the same screenshots we have got in the past but in no way is it misleading...<_<

[Chocolate Cupcakes]

This is disappointing. At least FF13 will keep me at bay.

[crz13]

the way i look at it is that once xiii comes out (dec 17) it will keep gamers busy for at least half a year so, i dun think there is anything to be disappointed about. i mean, i kinda expected that SE would do something like that, just like other members said, it's called advertising. an example would be final fantasy vii and x when they made sequels and stuff, they dunt all come out at once, they show you bit by bit what is coming next.

[Aurelia]

-All clothing is asymmetrical
-As early as E3 (AS IN AS EARLY AS FUCKING JUNE OF 2010)


http://i36.tinypic.com/2gv07lx.jpg



- Noct doesn't wear a necklace or earrings, the ring he wears on his right hand (which is story related) is his only accessory.
- The ring is important, so on his left hand he wears an open fingered glove.

Faggot

[Obscura]

Battle system update is something to look forward too. Better than nothing I suppose.

[jojujo007]

Goody, we get to wait another half a year to see something<_<
they might leave versus till later so that people will get over the hype of xiii, so that they will concentrate on the game,

maybe the versus storyline is related the xiii one. so they will wait untill more people are familiar with the complete story of xiii

[Final Twilight]

they might leave versus till later so that people will get over the hype of xiii, so that they will concentrate on the game,

maybe the versus storyline is related the xiii one. so they will wait untill more people are familiar with the complete story of xiii

Of course they are waiting, but by which time they will hit the Japanese with info and FFXIII hype will have surely died by then. Versus and Agito will bring it back up surely.

Knowing Nomura, he probably has no idea what he's doing with this story.

[CaptainNapkins]

I'll make sure to tell my grandkids to keep a lookout for the release date.

[Syriani]

Guys, the wait for this will be nothing compared to Starcraft II. Blizzard is five times worse than Square has ever been or ever will be. At least Nomura can give somewhat accurate time projections.

Yet still, I think I'll be happy to see it come out Spring 2011. It seems like thats about what they're gonna have to do for it, because it seems like it isn't that completed yet.

[j. a. l.]

Faggot

but...but...
noctis-sama and nomura-sama are so awsome!
ther's no way they are faggots!!!:'(

:aldo:

anyways, i am not surprise...i really do not care about this game aymore.
buy it will be fun to see what they bring up to make the fanboys rage...again

[Fenryr]

Dissapointing true, but I'm sure FFXIII will keep me busy along with other great titles. It's not like I have expectations for Versus so In the long haul I'm not so bothered.

[Kurai Warrior]

Fenryr- that's because there is not enough information to even have expectations :aldo:

Final Twilight- yes your topic title is misleading. Nomura said he'd have a media blow out after the new year, now if he meant at E3 than he is a douche that people should stop interviewing because he is so misleading.

We may not see any video until E3, but I'd like to think he would release scans by then.

[Fenryr]

Fenryr- that's because there is not enough information to even have expectations :aldo:

Final Twilight- yes your topic title is misleading. Nomura said he'd have a media blow out after the new year, now if he meant at E3 than he is a douche that people should stop interviewing because he is so misleading.

We may not see any video until E3, but I'd like to think he would release scans by then.

No, no. I mean in the sense that when we saw the first trailer, feelings of joy and all that were running high. Now that's all died down so I don't really feel much toward it other than, wait and see.

DAAAH I WERDED UT WRONG BT U GET PICTAR?:wtf:

[Noctis L. Caelum]

hmm .. in my opinion I'd rather have more time to complete the game to give us some information that makes us think anything. It is better to concentrate more on what is the story, gameplay, characters .... instead of thinking that we can say to the fans, , but in the end will be worth having waited so long...dont you think?

[novaheaven]

Let's not forget that Versus XIII is a worldwide release. So that means they're working around the clock to get secured for all regions.

So I'm sure the E3 premiere will probably feature (tho not completed) a localized version of Versus. Why else would they wait to show new gameplay at a Western Show?

If they wanted to, Nomura and his pals could have surely chose Jump Festa in December
to showcase new info and game play. Like Jump Festa in 2007.

[Dirtyred70]

I'll make sure to tell my grandkids to keep a lookout for the release date.

LMAO!! :lol::lol: Yeah, that sounds about right, sad to say.

[Final Twilight]

Fenryr- that's because there is not enough information to even have expectations :aldo:

Final Twilight- yes your topic title is misleading. Nomura said he'd have a media blow out after the new year, now if he meant at E3 than he is a douche that people should stop interviewing because he is so misleading.

We may not see any video until E3, but I'd like to think he would release scans by then.

Have you ever known Nomura to be truthful? He lied to us about Versus at TGS, he told us to look forward to a blow-out around TGS as well so please tell me how he isn't a douche?
Again, no it isn't misleading...its called being vague just as Nomura had done ALL the time. Visuals can pertain to anything from Trailers, Screenshots, Renders, etc... therefore it isn't misleading because no one knows whats going to happen and what will come. ;) (Not to mention if you have been keeping up with the news you would immediately assume the word: Trailer)

[Falsate]

I'm already knowing that he'll give us information well before E3. Lately, they've been been tricking us..

[Kurai Warrior]

Have you ever known Nomura to be truthful? He lied to us about Versus at TGS, he told us to look forward to a blow-out around TGS as well so please tell me how he isn't a douche?
Again, no it isn't misleading...its called being vague just as Nomura had done ALL the time. Visuals can pertain to anything from Trailers, Screenshots, Renders, etc... therefore it isn't misleading because no one knows whats going to happen and what will come. ;) (Not to mention if you have been keeping up with the news you would immediately assume the word: Trailer)

I agree we don't know what's to come next year. However, by saying there will be no visuals until E3, you make it sound like there will be nothing until E3 besides interviews.

[Evo]

Maybe they are too busy to guarantee that there will be new visuals at E3. I mean it could be possible that they give us some first infos about Haeresis, because in the past there was always a new announcement after releasing a Final Fantasy title. Working on 4 big titles (Agito, Versus, Hearesis, XIV) is a challenge, even if they have seperate development teams.
Just some thoughts though... :)

[Final Twilight]

I agree we don't know what's to come next year. However, by saying there will be no visuals until E3, you make it sound like there will be nothing until E3 besides interviews.

Like I said, its being vague. I would rather be vague then just say, "no trailer until e3." Mainly due to the lack of info we have gotten in the past year, and what with the hype for Final Fantasy XIII.

[Lazy Soldier]

Damn you SE to keep versus from fans like me!... :nag:.
I hope to force Nomura to release this game by the end of 2011 ...:ohmy:

[Aurelia]

Working on 4 big titles (Agito, Versus, Hearesis, XIV) is a challenge, even if they have seperate development teams.


http://i35.tinypic.com/10nrmnc.jpg

[Final Twilight]

http://i35.tinypic.com/10nrmnc.jpg

thats one creepy ass Link:blink:

[Dirtyred70]

Like I said, its being vague. I would rather be vague then just say, "no trailer until e3." Mainly due to the lack of info we have gotten in the past year, and what with the hype for Final Fantasy XIII.

So.............. is it safe to assume that we'll get another name or more background info. on at least one of those characters before E3? :|

[BUTTCHEEKIES, OOH]

All right. When will we get to see more, then? "We'll gradually unveil it starting next year, at E3 if we're quick enough," Nomura closed....IF they're "quick enough"?

"MYTHICAL GAME THAT WILL NEVER BE RELEASED" "MYTHICAL GAME THAT WILL NEVER BE RELEASED" "MYTHICAL GAME THAT WILL NEVER BE RELEASED" "MYTHICAL GAME THAT WILL NEVER BE RELEASED"

[Final Twilight]

So.............. is it safe to assume that we'll get another name or more background info. on at least one of those characters before E3? :|

By god I hope so^_^

[Evo]

Hmmm, maybe we´ll get something at Jump Festa? Although I think there is a major priority to push XIII, but who knows???

[AngelCaelum]

that cant be true!!!!!!!!! =O

I thought he meant no 'gameplay' till E3. I'm sure we'll get scans of some sort or perhaps a trailer.
And Nomura said he has a surprise for us after the new year. i'm sure he didnt mean 6 months after the new year cause that would be horrid!!! O_o

[Final Twilight]

that cant be true!!!!!!!!! =O

I thought he meant no 'gameplay' till E3. I'm sure we'll get scans of some sort or perhaps a trailer.
And Nomura said he has a surprise for us after the new year. i'm sure he didnt mean 6 months after the new year cause that would be horrid!!! O_o

Oh yes it would. I'm a hopin but I am just saying what he said. His development team didn't want to show it yet so they can improve the graphics so I am guessing that is what Nomura is referring to.