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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the raising-the-golden-chocobo dept.

tenchiken writes: "First the bad news, Square has announced that they are selling off Square Studios. This is the group that was responsible for the FF Movie and also a forthcoming short for The Matrix. Better News. Final Fantasy X, the first FF for the new PS2, is shipping tommorow (in stores Wed). You can find reviews at GameSpot,Gamers, IGN, etc. The reviews are all positive, and I will be waiting in line on Wed morning to pick up my copy. Square's new online game for the PS2 FF11 is also coming along nicely. Playonline Has a 'webcam' up feeding 24x7 images. The pictures look great. The above pages are Japanese." CowboyNeal and I both have our copies of FFX on reserve and are planning on some time off to watch LotR and play FFX this week.

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  1. Re:Does anyone know what summoning's like in FFX? by tenchiken · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are less summons then before, but they follow the FFIX summoning scheme where by you get a long sequence the first time you use a summon, and then mostly abrieviated summons.

    HOWEVER...

    Sommons are now regular battle characters in this game. Summon Ifrit and he sticks around for a while. Some summons (2 of them I think) are multi character summons, and they also stick around. From what I have heard, the main use for summons is "to take one for the team" in FFX (ie, mega powerfull villian, you throw a summon up there to block, and then your characters rotate in).

  2. Video games vs. Movies. by Matt2000 · · Score: 5, Funny


    I don't know why video game companies think they can go off and make a movie becuase they produced some cut scenes for their last title, in the same way I don't know why Hollywood thinks they can produce video games. These two things, despite sharing characteristics such as motion and sound are completely different.

    Why video game companies are willing to risk large sums on a traditionally low yield business (movie making) when their own video game market is already larger than the revenue stream for movies.

    The Final Fantasy movie was pretty bad. It had great hair and lighting effects, true, but who gives a rats ass when the story lopes along and the characters are 2 dimensional and sterile. Hollywood is already very good at delivering this type of garbage, I wouldn't recommend trying to compete.

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