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Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Site Live

Posted by Zonk on from the sephiroth! dept.

The official site for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is now live, with trailers and information now available. Unfortunately, the site makes heavy use of Flash and a fast connection is likely required to make effective use of the site.

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  1. /.'ed by nikhilwiz · · Score: 1

    already - atleast the trailer seems to be. Is there any way to rip the trailer or its url out of the swf so that I cna host it elsewhere?

    1. Re:/.'ed by nikhilwiz · · Score: 1

      Oh nevermind, I just need a Flash Player 7.0 - only had 6.0.

    2. Re:/.'ed by mkraft · · Score: 1

      You can grab the flash video at http://na.square-enix.com/dvd/ff7ac/trailer.flv

      Use the FLV Player to play it.

  2. Branching Out by slthytove · · Score: 5, Informative

    The trailer is definitely hott (with two T's, of course). While it was all rather quick, it looked to me like the fight sequences combined some innovative camera maneuvers that I haven't really seen before. The fact that things aren't limited by what a camera can physically do, combined with the stylized artwork of the characters (not as "realistic" as the first Final Fantasy tried to be), could be quite refreshing in the theatre.

    1. Re:Branching Out by Reapy · · Score: 1

      I know you disliked the game(s) because it was supposed to be something else. I guess people over hype it about final fantasy sometimes so you might think it was supposed to be a ground breaking rpg with freedom similar to an elder scrolls game.

      None the less, I don't think it is a problem that the game was on rails. I enjoy a good story. The story could come across in a movie (completly on rails, zero ineractivity), a book (zero ineractivity, and i cant even imagine what the characters are thinking becuase its told to me, but most vivid because i can create the world and characters in my head) or a video game.

      I enjoyed a lot of the old sierra and lucas arts adventure games. They were very straight forward and didn't even offere the small amount of flexability in final fantasy games once you open up the "explore the world" stage of one of the games.

      I am a fan of rpg games that create a wide range of characters and give them a personality for me to disocver. Final fantasy usually does this, as well as proving a fun story arc with a few plot twists to keep me intersted.

      So maybe you do prefer having main characters that never speak, where the character is only as deep as you make them in your head. I like this style of game a lot too, but they are few and far between and hard to create.

      But at the same time I also enjoy being fed interesting characters and interesting situations.

      As an aside, I wonder if converting books to video games would yield some great rpg games ala final fantasy. Putting a great fantasy/sci fi series of books in a rpg game in the final fantasy style keeping it mostly on rails, would do a great job bringing the book to life. More so then a movie which is limited in time. A video game usually can have around 40 to 60 hours of narration time, and can defiantly capture a book more so then a movie.

  3. Ugh, slowest site ever... by TheGuano · · Score: 1

    The streaming trailer is dying on my puny shared DSL connection. I know you can download the full trailer for free somewhere, but from the few frames that load up, it looks like the same one up Gamespot and elsewhere. Everything else says "coming soon."

  4. site not fully available by OleMoudi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At the time of this post, most of the sections of the site are unavailable with a 'coming soon' sign on them.

    Is that what you would call a "live site with trailers and information *now* available" ??

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    1. Re:site not fully available by NanoGator · · Score: 1

      "At the time of this post, most of the sections of the site are unavailable with a 'coming soon' sign on them."

      You can find more information on this topic here.

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    2. Re:site not fully available by TheGuano · · Score: 1

      Yeah, it took about 3-4 minutes to load on my connection (the longest-loading flash site I've been to in a while) and all it's got is one frontpage and a lot of loud sound :P I hope they'll have some interesting updates (like high-res frame renders) eventually.

  5. AHH! by gazoombo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Loading... Loading... Loading...

    BOOM!

    woke up my little brother... nice.

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  6. Screw this NA crap by akypoon · · Score: 4, Informative

    As usual, Square's JP site is so much better.

    http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dvd/ff7ac/

  7. Does Anyone Know... by kaellinn18 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the PC version of FFVII that was released years ago will run on Win XP? I'd like to see if I can find a copy and play through it again before the movie comes out, and I'd rather not have to get a Playstation to do it.

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    1. Re:Does Anyone Know... by skadus · · Score: 1

      There's an unofficial patch out somewhere; I've used it before. Should be pretty easy to find on Google. FilePlanet and the like might have it as well.

    2. Re:Does Anyone Know... by nitro322 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Check out http://www.ntcompatible.com/. Do a search for Final Fantasy and you'll get a bunch of hits regarding how to get it working.

    3. Re:Does Anyone Know... by Sccye · · Score: 1

      One of several things you can do: Download FF7 Ultima version, if you can find a torrent for it. It contains all the movies and some nifty compatability patches. Or the easy option, which is to get the Animevamp XP patch for it; you can get it here: http://www.freewarepro.com/info.php?categoryid=46& fileid=307 This has now inspired me to go and play through it again. Bang goes the next week of my life, then =/

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    4. Re:Does Anyone Know... by May+Kasahara · · Score: 1
      I believe you're talking about the Chocobo Racing patch, which is at Qhimm.

      However, I've had to install a couple of codec-related patches to get FF7's FMVs working in WinXP; here's a direct link to the details at NT Compatible: http://www.ntcompatible.com/cdetail5701.html

  8. bah. by silentbobdp · · Score: 1

    Fuck this, I'm sure it - like the other 8 FF7 projects planned, are going to bastardize the game.

    Where the hell is Kingdom Hearts 2? FFXII?

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    1. Re:bah. by Sccye · · Score: 1

      FFXII: http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff12/ff12.html Kingdom Hearts II: http://www.rpgamer.com/games/kh/kh2/kh2.html ^_^

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  9. Re:wtf? by Sccye · · Score: 1

    The English trailer is a new development. There have been subbed versions of this around for ages, but this is the launch of the official English website. Hence news.

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