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Final Fantasy XIII and Halo 3 at E3 This Year?
There are hints floating around already at some of the titles that will be unveiled during this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. 1up has a short piece saying that Final Fantasy XIII is almost done, and will get a powerful debut at the show in May. IGN, meanwhile, is rumourmongering that Halo 3 will also make an appearance. Not only that, they say, it's slated for a March 2007 release. From the article: "By theoretically shifting Halo to next spring, Microsoft thus allows third-party companies a better chance to shine independently of Bungie's uber shooter during the fall 2006 season. One must wonder, however, why the game wouldn't come out simultaneously with the movie, due in summer 2007. But if Halo 3's alleged March release date is officially confirmed, perhaps the game will leave questions for the movie to answer."
""Our primary focus with the Nintendo Revolution has been to create a system that can do things that the other systems can't, that has functionality that the other systems don't have," he said through a translator. "And speaking to that, there are some other unique features of the Nintendo Revolution hardware that we haven't discussed yet that we will be announcing at E3."
Not only that, we are supposed to see games, prices, and a release date. The Revolution is supposed to be playable at E3.
Plus, I read that Twilight Princess will have an "enhanced mode" for the Rev, which I take to mean enhanced graphics as well. That comes from here. But on checking that link, THEY'RE GONE. ACCOUNT SUSPENDED? Who knows. That's odd. They got that tidbit from an interview with a Nintendo of Japan guy where they talked about all sorts of Zelda stuff including the timeline, and why Tingle RPG was canned (hint: Westerners didn't like Tingle).
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"Originality worked 10 years ago, and it should work just as well today."
Ten years ago I was playing Final Fantasy VI and Seiken Densetsu 2.
Twenty years ago I had Super Mario Bros, a Mario game that came out after Mario Bros, Donkey Kong Junior, Donkey Kong...
Considering that Bungie only recently announced that they were working on Halo 3 at all, I doubt they'll announce a release date so soon. Besides, they gave themselves more time to finish Halo 2, and even that was terribly rushed.
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Trivia: Why are the FF games called "Final"?
I read today (in Game Pro) that the first FF game was called Final Fantasy because Square was going out of business and it was going to be the last game they would ever make.
Then it saved them.
But if you don't want to see more sequels, check out the Nintendo Revolution. Besides sequels (Super Smash Brothers Whatever!, which I can't wait for) they will be completely new games that no one has ever seen designed for it, which should be great.
Don't want another sequel? How about a Bob Ross game that will come out for the Revolution and DS?
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How about waiting for customer reaction to Final Fantasy XII first? I played the demo, and I despised the dungeon crawling. I know that I'm probably the only person in the world that doesn't like MMORPGs and doesn't mind random battles, but one should probably see how a product fares before releasing a successor.
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Halo was original as of four years ago. Its the third game in the series. Its relatively a very new franchise, and I really don't think the sequel, or third game in a series is a bad thing. Upwards of that, maybe you have an argument, but come on. Fans want the games. What do you say to the millions of halo fans looking for a new version of their favorite game? Sorry, we'd make it look better than ever, keep that solid core gameplay while adding a few little extra tweaks for ya, pimp out the multiplayer over the 360 version of live like none before... but we're too busy pretending to be artistically superior to you, we don't feel like making it. You have to play what we tell you to play. What about the fans? Can't they get what they want? Don't be an elitist snob and thank you're better than little billy who bought the last six years of madden games, even with (gasp) only sparse improvements because just maybe... he wanted to get them? Enjoyed them? If the developers have a story to tell, let them tell it without interrupting and asking when it's going to end?
I'm planning to boycott sequels as well... until Neverwinter Nights 2 comes out. :P
"Apparantly we are supposed to by "oohed" and "ahhhed" by the names of these games alone"
Some "sequals" are truely that, and some are just expansions.
I will buy pretty much every game with the name "Splinter Cell" or "Legend of Zelda" on it. These are games that are built from the ground up each time while just reusing the game world. These can be as innovative and great as any other non-sequal game.
The widely accepted best game ever itself is a sequal (Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time).
IGN, meanwhile, is rumourmongering that Halo 3 will also make an appearance. Not only that, they say, it's slated for a March 2007 release.
Hmmm
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This news would be great if the date is not so close to April 1st.
Final Fantasy X is the only game in the series that had a sequel.
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I love the loaded editorial here from Zonk. "1up has a short piece saying..." vs. "IGN, meanwhile, is rumourmongering that...". The 1up story cites a sister publication (EGM) but no sources at either SquareEnix or Sony. The IGN article cites two sources, although they're both anonymous. One is from MS, while the other is the dreaded "source close to the company".
I don't generally agree with the editorial content of either site, but I also don't think it's appropriate to give a negative connotation to one site over the other, when both stories are essentially unsubstantiated rumormongering.
...about a FF coming out for the PS3. Square-enix has had it's hands on the dev kit for some time (FF7 tech demo) and it's not suprising that they've been working. With this in mind, it makes sense for Sony to drag their feet a little. They are going to need an incredible set of launch titles to pull us consumers to pay for thier console. If you look at the Xbox 360 launch, they had 8 or so barely passable games. There really was no point to get the Xbox 360 except for the status it supposedly gave. Sony, taking it's time, giving developers time to make good games, will have 8 or so great games and a pile of other games that range from ima-pull-my-hair-out-this-is-so-bad to i-like-my-nitch games. Also, there are people, including myself, that are waiting to see where the FF series heads before buying the next gen. With this announcment and the E3 right around the corner, I'll be waiting for the PS3.
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Unless you count FF7: Dirge of Cerberus.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Who said that they're finished? I remember there was one trade show a few years back where they had a trailer demoing FFX, another trailer demoing bits of FFXI, and another trailer doing a high level teaser for what they were thinking about for FFXII containing nothing but pre-rendered FMV footage. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the FFXIII preview was similar -- all flash and no real gameplay or story hints.
Incidentally, you shouldn't be surprised at all that Square would have work started on the next game. After all, Pixar is often doing animation work on their next movie and storyboarding for the movie after that just as they're preparing to release their current movie. Different departments are needed at different stages of the development pipeline at both companies, and each department moves on to the next project after they hand the current one off.
And whatever happened to "FFXII is going to be the last Final Fantasy game?" Are they going to sequel us all to death?
A) Who ever said that FFXII would be the last?
B) Final Fantasy is a franchise. You should be far more welcoming of an FFXIII than an FFX-2 or their recent milking of the FF7 cash cow.
Also, Square-Enix churns out a lot of non FF & DQ games. They generally aren't as good as the more famous product lines, though there are a few shining exceptions like Seiken Densetsu 2 & 3 and Chrono Trigger.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Didn't Bill Gates say last fall that Halo 3 would come out the same day as the PS3? That's when both dates were for this spring. I can see the PS3 sliding that long but Halo 3?
Sequel: "A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel. Sometimes the events and situations involve a continuation of the previous novel and sometimes only the characters are the same and the events are entirely unrelated to the previous novel. When sequels result from the popularity of an original, they are often hastily written and not of the same quality as the original."
"a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it "
"Movie that presents the continuation of characters and/or events of a previously filmed movie."
"A novel incorporating the same characters and often the same setting as a previous novel."
The only character's name the occured very often was Cid.
Cid is not the main character in most of the establishments within Final Fantasy.
Bahumut is the most reoccuring Legendary Monster(FF1) until he becomes a summoned creature(FF6) or Aeon(FF10)
All the settings are completely different.
The theme in 1 and 4 are the soul crystals, The theme in 6 is the revival of Magic(Espers), the Theme in 7 is the prevention of the destruction of the planet, Final Fantasy 10 is to destroy Sin.
Final Fantasy 1 (Wait combat system, preset combat order)
Final Fantasy 4 (Wait combat system, change combat order)
Final Fantasy 6 (Semi-Active combat system, speed based combat order)
Final Fantasy 7 (Active Time Battle)
Final Fantasy 10(Ordered Combat System based on speed)
Not a sequel. It's more of a framework - an RPG template - for creating an RPG video game.
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