Final Fantasy XII First Mentioned

According to a story over at GamerFeed, Square-Enix has said that Final Fantasy XII will appear at the Tokyo Game Show. No further details are given other than the game will be offline, as opposed to the forthcoming Final Fantasy XI. Apparently this is in response to fan pressure. Sounds good to me, too, since I don't really want to pay a monthly fee to play a Final Fantasy game.

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Seemingly Old Info

[Rahszhul]

I can recall hearing this info long before FFXI was released in Japan. Well, shortly after FFIX was released actually.

It seemed when the news hit my nose about FFXI being an MMORPG, they also released news about what they were planning on for FFXII.

Square has always made each of it's games different from eachother in some way, from changing the magic system, to changing the way battles were fought, or the era the game was set in. So, not releaseing another MMORPG under the Final Fantasy label makes (some) sense to me.

Even though, I guess this is a good confirmation. I'm just sadly waiting for another FF3/6j.

FFXII Information

[devnull17]

There's a bit of information already available on FFXII. For one, it will be produced by Yasumi Matsuno, who headed development on FF Tactics and Vagrant Story. Akihiko Yoshida, also a part of the FFT team, will be FFXII's character designer, displacing Tetsuya Nomura (Character designer for VII, VIII, X and Kingdom Hearts). Hideo Minaba (of FFIX and FFT) will be the art director. Nobuo Uematsu is confirmed to be working on music for FFXII, but I wouldn't be surprised if he weren't the only composer on the project. (FFX had 3; the names of the other two elude me at the moment. The guy who composed for the recent SaGa games was one of them.)

There are a few pieces of preliminary artwork available: a simple poster and a profile of a few of the more prominent members of the development team.

Re:"FINAL Fantasy..."

[Daetrin]

...Twelve!? Sheesh.

</irony>

You obviously weren't paying attention to the "20 Most Embaressing Game Companies" article from awhile back were you?

As the new RPG would be the company's last chance for success, Sakaguchi pessimistically entitled it "Final Fantasy," intending to at least provide his dying venture with a suitably-named grave marker.

Ironically, Final Fantasy sold phenomenally in Japan, outpaced by only a few other top-selling franchises. This gave Square an exciting new lease on life, but also meant their flagship series was burdened with a stupidly inappropriate title as second and third Final Fantasy games were quickly designed and released.[4]
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[4]Which isn't necessarily an embarrassment in and of itself, since the title really is pretty catchy and surprisingly euphonic for something so Engrishy. And it's not like it has an obtuse and ridiculous subtitle like "The Precusor Legacy" or something. Unfortunately, every human being in the world has looked at the name "Final Fantasy" followed by a roman number and made some hilarious comment about how wacky it is that this is the seventh (or whatever) "final" fantasy. Haw! Hyuck!

It's OK. Everyone is allowed to make this trite, obvious observation aloud exactly once in their lives. If you've yet to take your turn, please take a moment now to fulfill your obligation to nerd "humor." It's OK. For the remainder of this paragraph, nobody will think less of you for it.

However you're a week and a half late to catch in on the "nobody will think less of you for it" clause.

Re:What a relief

[Rayonic]

Incorrect. Final Fantasy Legend 1-3 were SaGa games. Final Fantasy Adventure was the first in the Seiken Densetsu series.

Seiken Densetsu 2, for the SNES, was brought over and named Secret of Mana.

Seiken Densetsu 3, also for the SNES, was never translated, though a full (and high-quality) fan-translation of the game exists now.