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Final Fantasy Movie Trailers
Splitzy writes, "Square has finally released the site for the Final Fantasy movie. It includes background on the movie, and two short trailers in Quicktime format. You can check out the site here." The movie was first mentioned here a while back, but Hooboy, this looks like a good one. Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi and Peri Gilpin? It's a far cry from FFIII on my NES.
But wait, if it's even half as good as "Wing Commander"...oh, that sucked, too...
Not a good track record so far...
Don't even try to download the files if you aren't on Windows or Mac.
Will there be a Cid? I'll be pretty let down if there isn't.
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Oh, it's incredibly obvious. Hell, at points it's downright blatant that they're SW fans.
Among other things, in every Final Fantasy game since at least FF5 or FF6 there've been two characters named Biggs and Wedge (for those who remember A New Hope aka the "original" Star Wars, Biggs and Wedge were wingmen with Luke Skywalker). Specifically: FF6, in the beginning of the game; FF7, they were AVALANCHE members; FF8, they were opponents with rather serious delusions of grandeur :). If THAT isn't just a wee bit of a Star Wars in-joke, I don't know what is. :)
(I will resist the urge, by the way, to make bad jokes here about Han Solo naked and petrified. ;) Besides, someone already DID that joke already. :)
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These clips use the sorenson codec, which is the basis for quicktime 4. Unfortunately, the sorenson codec is closed source, and if you want to use it, you have to pay an insane amount of money for it. Thusly, there are no players for linux that can play this format yet. Sorry.
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Actually, I recall reading in an interview with producer Hironobu Sakaguchi that Square had their own rendering software written specifically for the movie. There is a LOT of money in this flick (I'm assuming from Sony/Columbia/Tristar, who is publishing,) from the $11 million custom built studio to the render farm in a Honolulu office building facing the ocean. This movie Toy Story look like Pong.
Oh, come on! That is the most childish RPG I've ever tried!
Nobody and nothing ever dies, there's nothing remotely resembling an adult plot, all the main characters are children, and it's very easy (it takes a long time, and there are a lot of little details you can learn, but it's still easy). Everything about it suggests that it was made for children.
You don't need to worry about it being dubbed or subtitled, as long as you can follow English movies fairly well.
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REMEMBER, the movie is being produced in Hawaii with the voice actors being mostly English speaking individuals. I just feel sorry for the poor folks in the nippon, I mean, they're not used to doing half the translations and localizations we have to do to be able to watch their anime / play their games. Then again, for that same reason, I'm not ALL that sorry for them.
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Actually, I don't think the play balancers counted on you getting Kotr before you'd beat the game. Most everyone I knew beat the game in "the proper" order. Just because you hit a weak spot in the play balancer's list doesn't mean the rest of the game is a movie. I was about level 70 going into Sephiroth and it took me 2 hours to beat the guy before him. (In one sitting, one battle) I finished the game with two guys dead and one hit point on RedXIII. I doubt I'd call that a movie.
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The Japanese FF3 was for the NES (well, Famicom). Are you trolling, or are all your punctuation keys sticking?
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The movie is all CG rendered. No live-action here.
POKEMON! Come on, why didn't anyone remember this? Its recent and successful and all (tho that doesn't mean its good, the ending is just horrid)...
For those who don't know or are misinformed, Pokemon started as a gameboy game. A roleplaying game with a very unique playing style that was not made for children. Then they made a cartoon from it and after that the hellstorm of Pokestuff began. Lots of people think the childrens cartoon begat the gameboy game, but no, it was a non-childrens game which begat a childrens cartoon. Sort of like Ghostbusters going from a good adult movie (sex, living nightmares, etc, I think that qualifies as an adult movie) to a childish cartoon...
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Even though I haven't touched a Phantasy Star since II, the first two were so good and so far ahead of their time that I can't help but think highly of the entire series. For anyone who hasn't experienced the majesty that is Phantasy Star, there's a pretty good page with screen shots, tips and spoilers of all the games at The Phantasy Star Pages.
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As far back as I can remember, I have been a fan of fantasy literature. During this time period, I don't believe I've ever seen a pure fantasy movie that was any good. Now all of a sudden we have a Final Fantasy movie, a Dungeons and Dragons movie, and a Lord of the Rings movie coming. If only one of them is good, I will be the happiest little camper you've ever seen.
-Now vilified fantasy nut
Will there be a subtitled version, (with subtitles in blue boxes), so ican feel like i am playing a FF game?
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I'm glad to see they finally decided to stop kidding themselves that FF is a game series anymore and just call it what it has been since FF7: A MOVIE. Don't get me wrong, I love the FF series...up to FF6. FF5 ROCKED (especially once I got a translated version, then even better (aside from slowness) on PSX. FF7 though, it just wasn't a game (for long enough). It was downright annoying (frustrating even) to go through Midgar holding materia without being able to even use it until a bunch of annoying plot devices were out of the way. If your gonna let me hold it, let me fucking use it! It was even worse if you played your ass off (strategy guides are for sissies) to get the coveted Gold Chocobo, because as a reward for being such a hardcore player, they ruin the rest of the game for you! Nothing can stand up to Knights of the Round except the weapons (like Emerald was even hard or fun). WTF is with Sephiroth biting the dust after ONE KotR summon?!? Once you had KotR you could walk through the world fearlessly, so it became a movie. FF8 was worse. Graphics improved and gameplay took a blow. Hell, it had a cool battle system, but what good is that? All it does is make you want to fight all the time and beef up your character until you realize that you are so powerful nothing can challenge you. So again, it turned into a PSX movie. FF7 with 3 discs and FF8 with 4, and FF3(FF6) STILL HAS MORE GAME TO PLAY IN A TINY CARTRIDGE!!
The movie ought to be really good, they've had enough practice on the PSX.
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In a response to what someone said earlier, this movie will be very great, even if it isn't interactive. Most of the interactivity of the final fantasy games is just random battles, and other essential (directed) fights. You could in no way alter the way the story was going to end up(ie, kill a main character, fall in love with the wrong teammate). Now, if any of you(and I'm sure there are many) have played/seen Final Fantasy VIII, you'll agree that the story(yes, along with the fabulous animation)really made the game. It's story line is, by far the best of any recent game that I've played. Square Productions pride themselves on the good stories they produce. It's because of the story lines that the Final Fantasy series is still around(and will stay around for a long while) and popular. They will not disapoint.
Along with the Lord Of the Rings and Titan AE, this is one movie I can't wait to come out.
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WARNING! Contains spoilers if you still want to discover FF4, 5 and 6.
I think they all got the best stories.. now think about it..
Final Fantasy IV
The big whale that goes to the moon
The mystery of the crystals
The underworld people
Cid sealing the gate to the underworld
The airship battles
Final Fantasy V
The first and second world merging to form a third one. OMG that ruled
The mystery of the crystals
Gilgamesh
The crashing asteroids
Final Fantasy VI
The double personality of Terra
Magitek
The esper dying at the end, and you seriously worry that Terra will die too (great moment)
World of ruin, and again you seriously wonder what happened with your friends
Celes trying to suicide right after world of ruin (great moment)
The opera
Locke trying to save Rachel (great moment)
The three balancing statues before world goes to ruins
I just love being plunged in a real fantasy world, it seems to me that FF7 and FF8 are just too human for my taste. Final Fantasy should forever keep the Life theme, which is, let's not forget it, all about the best gift anyone can get (ok I got sentimental on that last one) :) Also, FF6 has that magic touch where we get to be attached very tightly with every characters, I don't remember any other game that did this as strongly as this one.
If final fantasy comes out next year, will it be outdated already? Disney has Dinosaur, also a full cg movie, and imho, it looks more impressive than the work done in final fantasy. The movie will be released memorial day and you can see the trailer (in quicktime) here .. This is a Disney produced and released movie, by the way, it has nothing to do with Pixar. It's their animated summer blockbuster this year..
Real Men watch the hex dumps, who needs colorful pixels?
Fast-forward five years when the processing power exists to render this stuff in real-time and combine it with stories generated on the fly... there are already computer programs that can write short stories which are indistinguishable from that of humans. Custom movies rendered on the fly tailored to your wishes that know how to push all of your emotional buttons. What tactics will the MPAA use against this technology? Will they hold the licenses to all the good digital actors/personalities. Will they club us to death with patents? Food fer thought.
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I'm a bit worried about the story for this movie, the FF games have had stories comparable to novels while the brief diddy on the site doesn't lend itself well to a story. I'm going to go see it either way. I am impressed with the 100% CG animation of the movie, George Lucas eat your heart out. I think it would be really funny to find out it was rendered on a processor farm on PS2s. As for translations (into Japanese among other languages) I think it might be possible to re-synch the lips to the other languages if Sony wanted to spend a few bucks to do it. Pixar re-rendered Bug's Life to fit into the 4:3 aspect ratio for the videos, Sony could do something similar so it won't look like a bad kung-fu movie. I say they should have the blue text boxes in any case!
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It is entirely done in the style of the Full-Motion-Videos of Finaly Fantasy 7 and 8 (though the graphics are better than either game). I donwlaoded a smaller trailer long ago and it was really quite impressive. They have gone all out on this one, with real people wearing little devices and moving around to give data to computers as to the most realistic way the characters should move. You should research a bit more on it. This is one of the most anticipated mvoies in a long time for me..
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They have gone all out on this one, with real people wearing little devices and moving around to give data to computers as to the most realistic way the characters should move.
That's called "motion capture," and while it's a great way to get gross movements into your animation, it actually requires quite a bit of work to achieve truly top-flight results.
Animation isn't about exactly replicating natural motion; otherwise you'd just dress a bunch of actors up in silly suits. The movements of animated characters are carefully exaggerated to elicit an emotional response; hang out on animation mailing lists for a while (www.hash.com) and read their discussions about bounce, squash, stretch etc.
Once the motion capture has "roughed in" the character's motions, the animator will often go in and DELETE much of the information to achieve an economy of motion and a stylistic edge to the animation. That's why good animated characters can seem so supernaturally graceful and natural... someone busted their ass to get it done!
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So will the plot of the movie be similar to the game where the main characters spend 40+ hours leveling up and searching continent after continent for the mythical 'Purple People Eater' so that they can obtain the one spell/weapon/item that will actually keep them alive when they encounter the main villain?
If so count me in! I mean, it just won't feel like a Final Fantasy movie if it doesn't have these elements.
I've been following this one for a while. For those who didn't know, it's all CG, and it makes Pixar look like South Park. These aren't cartoonish, this are realistic enough to blow your mind. There was a video in Japanese I watched that showed both the antagonist and protaganist of the movie in action, and they almost look realy. You looking for freckles? They're there. Veins in the eyeballs. SOmething like 5 simulated muscles move when they blink. Absolutely amazing.
Oh, and FF3 didn't come out for the NES. If you mean the english FF3 (FF6 in Nippon) it was for the SNES (Super Famicon in Nippon). FF1 (english) and FF2(Japanese) were for the NES.
Check out the tribute movies on http://squaregamer.com . It has some of the highlights of all of the FF series in CG, set to a cool Offspring single. For those of us who went through and know just how cool the Opera house scene in FF3 was, you'll appreciate it.
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you posted this just to raise your slashdot purity score... didn't you... ;)
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When you digitize real world textures, laserscan objects to get surface meshes, and motion capture the animation, is it still really CG? Or just digitally altered?
A lot of human effort besides mouse/keyboard/monitor interactions went into producing these images. Simply calling them "computer generated" is like calling rotoscoped cartoons "hand-drawn animation".
In the days before Final Fantasy, Square was barely getting by. Eventually, they decided that they would devote all of their resources to their next game in hopes that it would be truly spectacular. If it failed, however, they were through. Hence the name "Final Fantasy".
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Did I miss anything in the plot summary?
The first clip is mirrored here, and the second one is mirrored here.