E3 2011: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Trailer

so.......whens Versus 13 coming out?

Would be great

Press the button! For the love of God press the fucking button!

I love how Square somehow managed to find a character in the XIII universe that was more annoying than Hope and Vanille, then made them the star of the sequel.

Looks awful

What a dumb name.

John Dimaggio sighted!

this music sends me into a blood thirsty rage

The mini-maps definitely seemed less linear, so that's an improvement. I just don't particularly care about these characters or this world. I would be much happier with FFXV. That way they could start from a blank slate, rather than fitting things around the fairly-lame premises of the first game.

I'll wait for the verdict, but more FFXIII isn't necessarily something that I want.

Fuck XIII move onto goddamn XV.

My reaction to news of more Final Fantasy:

Monsters look recycled and after days of farming and leveling in FF XIII-1 I am not sure if I want to see them again. In addition to that, the new male lead seems to be named "No"?! That's a stupid name and should be westernized.

After all I will buy it, because it's Final Fantasy, but I might be disappointed.

Ugh. That doesn't make me want to play it at all.

@MysteriousBob said:

Just remake FFVII for those fanboys and then please kill this franchise already.

Yeah a lot of Japanese still play this, they aren't going to kill it.

Oh yeah I still need to finish 13.

Sarah is the new Vanille huh? Great...

I greatly enjoyed FFXIII, so I'll probably check this out. It got a lot of unnecessary hate I feel, but I guess FF games do tend to be divisive (everyone always seems to compare the latest entry to whatever their favourite was, and then get angry when it wasn't FF#-2). The FF series is still going pretty strong for me, with only a couple real disappointments thus far, as far as I am concerned.

Milage may vary for others of course

I enjoyed FFXIII. I will definitely get this as well. Looks like the gameplay has more flow, especially when entering battles. I hope the leveling system has been changed around and the difficulty fram start to end. XIII was way too easy to begin with, and the combat didn't really get interesting until the third disc...

I greatly enjoyed FFXIII, so I'll probably check this out. It got a lot of unnecessary hate I feel, but I guess FF games do tend to be divisive (everyone always seems to compare the latest entry to whatever their favourite was, and then get angry when it wasn't FF#-2). The FF series is still going pretty strong for me, with only a couple real disappointments thus far, as far as I am concerned.

Milage may vary for others of course

I enjoyed FFXIII. I will definitely get this as well. Looks like the gameplay has more flow, especially when entering battles. I hope the leveling system has been changed around and the difficulty fram start to end. XIII was way too easy to begin with, and the combat didn't really get interesting until the third disc...

Having recently played Yakuza 3, English dubbed voice seems hell of weird.now.

@Hostile said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Anime Hair: The Game

Which is always better than bald space marine. Every single crazy character design in Final Fantasy games is better than Mass Effect's Shepard but no one complains about him as much as they do anime-ish character designs.

Except default Shepard is modeled on an actual, physically real human. I fail to see the problem with trying to make a character visually relatable. Ridiculous anime hair only ever evokes the label "ridiculous anime person". Which is fine, but sure makes it much harder to take any seriously-presented emotion with the seriousness it may otherwise deserve.

Looks sorta horrible.. And I'll get it on release.

As somebody whose experience with Final Fantasy XIII veered wildly between love and hate, I'm anticipating the same thing here. I'll definitely buy it, but my relationship with JRPGs has become so fragile that I'll probably wait for a good few months post-release. The characters and story seem more annoying and contrived than FFXIII, though. Hopefully that will be balanced out with some genuine improvements in other areas of the game.

@edeo said:

FFXIII took all the excess that I tolerated in previous FF games to a new level. I'm so sick of every character being a Japanese glam rock star. The characters were so repetitive and empty. Especially Snow. Being pretty isn't good enough for an RPG. FF has no heart anymore.

 It's clear that you didn't play this game to the end or didn't take time to really understand what was going on.  The characters were some of the most dynamic characters that I have experienced in a video game in a very long time.  All of them significantly change and mature throughout their journey.  Although Snow was the least dynamic individual he was not a static character.  I'm not sure what word would describe how you felt about the game, but lacking "heart" is totally not accurate.  If anything, the franchise has always and continues to have "heart" if nothing else.   I really disliked FF-7 but the story had a ton of "heart".  I absolutely hated FFXII but it had "heart" as well.  I would argue that the Final Fantasy franchise hasn't really changed at all, maybe you and your expectations have.

It's called (voice) acting!

Yaaay. Judge me if you must,but I liked the last one

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

Anime Hair: The Game

Which is always better than bald space marine. Every single crazy character design in Final Fantasy games is better than Mass Effect's Shepard but no one complains about him as much as they do anime-ish character designs.

I thought FFXII was a great evolution of FF in a more mature direction. I loved the giant world and insane detail.

FFXIII took all the excess that I tolerated in previous FF games to a new level. I'm so sick of every character being a Japanese glam rock star. The characters were so repetitive and empty. Especially Snow. Being pretty isn't good enough for an RPG. FF has no heart anymore.

This game doesn't appear to fix any of FFXIII's problems. It just looks like more pretty flashing lights and trendy clothes/hair. All flash. Japanese games just get more pandery every year. No wonder they're dying off.

Great, they removed Yuna's boobs and gave her a man voice and made a game around it.

Just remake FFVII for those fanboys and then please kill this franchise already.

Anime Hair: The Game

Anime Hair: The Game

Loved the combat in 13, but this needs to be more open and varied. Literally all you did in that game was fight, fight, fight, cutscene, fight, fight, fight.

Oh man that FF hate in the comments is insane. Anyways, I'm still waiting for my local store to bring FF13 down to 20-ish bucks. Don't feel like going out of my way to find it for that price.

@TooWalrus said:

Lots of FFXIII hate here- I feel like I'm the only one on the planet who liked it- or even finished it.

I really liked it. It was my favorite since VIII, but I thought the ending was dumb. Other than that, I had a good time with it.

I loved Final Fantasy XIII - it was an amazing game for me, the music, the scenery and the animations were really impressive and I loved the ocmbat system (especially when serious hard enemies and bosses started croping up and you had to really use the entire system to beat them - no playing itself there because if you just auto-battled then you were owned) I also liked the levelling system although it was kinda contrived - totally pumped for this and doesn't matter hwat anyone says - reviewer nor gamer - I am going to play the shit out of this game.
 
Although it was nowhere-near my favourite Final Fantasy game but I did prefer it hugely to 12 or the little I played of 3 and 9.

Final Fantasy XIII was shit.  At least X was decent.   this has the same fucking queer ass combat?? fuck you square, give us something good.  and no more combat that fucking plays itself.

I loved FFXIII and with the exception of Noel and Serah and maybe the QTEs, this is only going to get better. It's really too bad people couldn't get into it because all the protagonists grow on you, the class/skill building was great and easy to use, it looked great and the combat system at it's best was awesome.

Lots of FFXIII hate here- I feel like I'm the only one on the planet who liked it- or even finished it.

@mutha3: Yeah, it was totally grueling and I felt like I spent more time than I probably should have. I kept waiting to really enjoy myself and just didn't.

The JRPG lover in me, though, has difficulty accepting the fact that I don't really like Final Fantasy very much, so I often get an odd hankering to put myself through it again :/

@mutha3 said:

If you're hoping the battle system gets less unbearable and repetitive because of what people say online--

its wont. It continues sucking, save for a handful of battles which actually had you make up strategies.

TBH, I didn't mind the battle system that much, I just hated the hand holding throughout the first half of the game. I actually preferred it to XII's system (enough to stick with it for a few hours longer at least) and I dug the sphere grid, since it was a system I enjoyed from X. Problem is, the story wasn't interesting enough to make me want to power through combat I just sort've wasn't totally annoyed by (if it had XII's story, I would've stuck with it, I think).

I probably won't bother giving it another try, though -- only slightly tempted ;D

I think it's about time I start admitting to myself that I'm really not a Square-Enix fan at all :/

The combat was pretty fun in XIII, so I'm glad that seems to be staying, but I liked absolutely nothing else about it so I can't say whether I'm interested in it until I see more. A lot more.

Is FF13 Versus still happening? Where the fuck is that game? Y'know, the FF game that actually looks good?

Man I really fucking hate American VO on Japanese games why is it that every time the voices sound so bad? Also I have noticed what I would call maybe a small trend where we hear a game be developed for a really long time, and once that game comes out one or two years later they have the next installment.

@Tennou486:

Well, the same actress that played Liara played Lightning in FFXIII, so it's maybe not a coincidence (I can't play the video atm, so I can't confirm)