The lights are on
Game director Tetsuya Nomura told Japanese magazine Dengeki PlayStation that the game's storyline, character designs, and clothing designs are finished. Maybe we'll see it yet in our lifetimes?Though the project has been under tight wraps since its 2006 reveal at Square Enix's E3 press conference, the timing makes sense if you look a little deeper. We can safely assume that Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII share engine tech, though Square hasn't positively confirmed it – who wastes millions of dollars building two next-gen RPG engines? In an FF XIII post-mortem interview, FF XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase admitted that the White Engine (renamed Crystal Tools mid-development) that powers FF XIII was a tricky piece of tech. "I think that instead of developing something new, we would try our hand at improving upon existing technology," he told GI's Joe Juba.Developing a game while the tools and technology under the hood are in development themselves is tough. If getting Crystal Tools to a state where artists and designers can dig into their portion of the game's creation took longer than anticipated, it could easily have set the entire stupidly named "Fabula Nova Crystallis" set of projects back. As great as it is to hear of any kind of progress on Versus XIII, we still haven't seen any gameplay footage outside of a brief conversation. Where's the battle system? Where's the world exploration? Hopefully September's Tokyo Game Show will have answers.Props to fansite ff-xiii.net staffer Oji for translating the Dengeki interview and warming the hearts of all English-speaking Final Fantasy fans.
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This is the Final Fantasy game I have been wanting since we first heard about it, it looks way better than FF13.
It's not really a stupid name...it's just a name.
"I think that instead of developing something new, we would try our hand at improving upon existing technology," Legacy FTL... I'm glad they did the right thing. FFXIII was a very impressive piece of tech.
Sooo excited for this game
Until I actually see this game being played, I'm not that excited about it.
Wow. Is this a new record of a Final Fantasy game in the making? It's good though. The longer they work on it the better it will be. (Unless it's Too Human). How long was FF 12's record?
im really enjoying FFXIII right now so i really hope that this is similar in story (as in it has to do with l'cie and fal'cie stuff) and gameplay (it would be a waste not to use the crystarium system again, right?)
as for the one trailer we have seen with the main character kicking ass and taking names, those magical weapons he materializes could be l'cie powers
I feel like I've been waiting for years on some simple news for this game..!
I'm scared of this engine...
I heard it breaks consoles
I like XIII, but I hope this is very little like it. I don't care for a lot of the things in it, like the extremely slow boss fights, only controlling one party member and not choosing which one, and the crystarium to a lesser extent.I don't care for most of the characters in it, either. But I don't think this is supposed to be turn-based, anyway.
Nomura is reeeaaaaaaallllllyyyyyyy taking his time with this game. one thing's for certain. this game definitely won't be overhyped, cuz its taking too long. still, im really looking forward to anything they release from this game.
This game looks a lot better than FF XIII. Ever since it was announced I was more excited about it than any of the other FF games.
dude this game is one of the reasons i got a ps3 i cant wait
i'm really, REALLY hoping to finally see some gameplay at TGS this year. its great to hear that progress is being made on what looks like an unbelievably awesome game. and i think the name is ok, its got a nice ring to it.
I hope they implement enjoyable gameplay- turn based stuff was fun when I was younger, I am not patient enough now. I heard the teams who worked on kingdom hearts and advent children will be making this and if it has a kingdom hearts battle system that would be good.
Just when I thought Final Fantasy couldn't get any better...
Just a little insight for everyone, when they first announced FFXIII and Versus, they stated that they will be two completely different games. Not sure about this as this information was from like three years ago, but I haven't heard anything about Versus since so...