I'm someone who hates what Final Fantasy has become post-VII, and the words crystal, kingdom, overworld map got me back in a tiny bit.

They need to show more to make me truly interested.

The main problem with these modern games, and this demo, is that cool stuff happening AROUND the central character is not gameplay. IF the world is coming apart, and it looks really awesome, and I'm just pressing up on the Dpad... I'm not having fun. THat's not playing a game. That's pressing up. It's as much fun to me if the visuals weren't there at all. That's what I'm afraid of about this game.

As someone who was really excited for the breakout PS3 game of the modern generation, then to find out it was going to ps4/xbox one, I'm fucking insulted.

I'm still calling it "Versus"

A second trailer just got released on Square Enix's livestream:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SquareEnixPresents?v=hPogSTwUREM&t=3h32s

Well, the timestamp feature doesn't seem to work for livestreams, so skip to 3 hours and 32 secs.

If anyone's interested they're doing a live stream of more of the game here with Nomura talking about it! Looks awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hPogSTwUREM

I'm sad it's not JRPGish, but they haven't really made a traditional kind of JRPG since 2006 and even that's a point of contention. I just hope whatever game FFXV turns out to be, is good.

Well, to be fair, the idea that the game hasn't changed any in 7 years isn't reasonable. I think it's still hard to tell what kind of game it's going to be.

The trailer they showed at the last E3 and then this change from Vs. To 15 is square saying out loud:

"We don't know what to do with Final Fantasy anymore."

It says Final Fantasy on the box so i'm immediately interested. I hate FF XIII but liked to varying degrees every other before it so one bad game doesn't change my mind about the franchise as a whole.

Haven't you played KH2 or crisis core? Looks something like both of those.

SInce they were bought by Enix... yeah.

I wish someone would do some kind of expose'. I would love to read about what happened behind the scenes and how Square could come off of riding high and dominating the industry in the late nineties and suddenly being able to do nothing right for the past few years.

If they're struggling, why not just poop out another Crono Trigger? I'm not saying they should, but it would be what a company who knows they're struggling would do. So do they not know they're struggling?

Wow. It sounds like Nomura kind of wants this game to go on PC as well. He kept talking on and on and on about how they will consider putting the game on any platform that is Direct 11 compatible. We all know it's coming t PS4 and Xbox One so the only other obvious one is PC...

It's a name change. I don't care.

This is the only Final Fantasy game which has looked remotely appealing to me in a decade or so, doesn't matter what they call it.

I don't care what it is called. I just want to play more Final Fantasy. And I will give anything a try, no matter what they do with this game. Remember people, during the announcement of it being on both Xbox One and PS4 this morning, they said that just because this one is an action game doesn't mean the next one is (or isn't).

With this, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and (the release I am most excited about) Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD I can safely say that I'm pumped for more Final Fantasy.

If you like the older style final fantasy games, then check out Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light. I thought that was a fantastic modern-ish version of the 1-5 era final fantasy games. (Also, this morning the during Square Enix's morning event, they were asked about whether turn-based Final Fantasy games would be made and Hashimoto said "I believe there is a future for both action RPG and command-based RPG,"

If it plays similarly to Crisis Core, I'm all aboard the hype train.

New trailer. A LOT more gameplay shown. Looks fucking bonkers.

They said in the livestream that they have been debating calling it FFXV for going 4 years (and finally decided to do it over a year ago).

Is it just me, or does the art style actually look a lot different than previous Final Fantasy games? It's still anime-like, but there seems to be way less garish colours and buckles.

I think it's because of it's futuristic, modern setting. Like the trailers say, a good way to describe it is a fantasy based in reality. It looks almost science fiction and I'm loving it.

@xyzygy: Yeah, it looks pretty good. I really hated that look of XIII, so I'm really glad to see something a lot different.

I've already said that I have had no interest in any of the FF's, so it would not then be unreasonable to presume that I've not kept up with the story of this particular titles development. My own knowledge of FF combat has been the the traditional fare of characters standing in a line patiently awaiting their turn - something this trailer obviously did not show, interspersed with pre-rendered cut-scenes, and something which the OP stated that they originally wanted to see a straight up JRPG.

Now based on my own experience if you were to edit out the UI of, say, Persona 4 for a trailer and just show the battle animations it would also look like a fluid action game in comparison to the turn based game that it is. If you also were rendering conversations in engine, rather then the traditional 2D portrait and text combo as this game does when you wouldn't even have the transition in styles to change that perception. Without further context or knowledge of the game itself you can make a trailer look like anything. You could make a trailer that made P4 look like it was an animated series with selective editing.

My use of VC was not to say that this is a strategy game, but to show that it is still possible to have action elements in a turn based (ie more traditional JRPG) environment. Another example would be the running animation in XCOM. Taken without context, editing can make a game look like totally different to how it actually plays.