Seven Minutes Of Final Fantasy XIII

The American voices dont really fit together with the futureistic eastern settings and story. Squaer Enix should employ English speaking Japanese voice actors to give an authentic sound to the dialogue. This would be a minor cost to a huge budget AAA game like FF. 
 
Looks great though.

Ewww

I'm just hoping this game will have a scene to top this
 
 

This franchise has always been shockingly melodramatic but jeez, this looks like a whole new level.
 
YOU COULDN'T SAVE HER!!!!!

"@JukeboxJoe said:

" @tedbear said:

" @X360_boner said:

" Wish this was 360 exclusive so they didn't have to tone down the blood and violence, once again the 360 is kept from reaching its full potential because the ps3 version is holding it back. "

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Are you kidding? Having to do 360 versions of games holds back the PS3's potentional, because developers have to account for the 360's inferior hardware. Looks great, but the music made it seem so cheesy "

You're both idiot fanboys, that is the only fact.  More on topic, I definitely prefer the Japanese voices. "

" That guy doesn't look right. There's no men's men in these sorta games it's all fairies with bad goatees. Except for the dude with the afro, he looks badass! "

"UGHHHH!!!! Why did I watch this?!?! I am really looking forward to FF13, but this was just full of spoilers... I really wish I didn't watch this :( "

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Square just shot themselves in the foot.

I don’t know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I’m an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It’s not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance. 

What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase FFXIII for either system, nor will they purchase any of Square’s games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Square has alienated an entire market with this move.

Square, publicly apologize and cancel FFXIII for 360 or you can kiss your business goodbye.

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Oh yeah, how dare you people question the name Snow!
 
 

Bwahaha, the comments field here is glorious.
From the Heroes Of The Web to the poor retards falling for trolling about the console wars, I'm amazed some of the posters here haven't been shamed away from the internet.
 
As for the video, it looks absolutely horrendous. Just mindblowingly bad.
Fabulous CG, but should a game in 2009/2010 really have to rely on it's CG to make people pumped?
The battle sequences looked terrible, what the hell was up with the textures?
Summoning Transformers now?
The Japanese gonna take on a racism parable while having a visual steretype in Funky Student there?
Melodrama so overwrought in a 7 minute demo that it already makes me cringe more that FF8's "SAME ORPHANAGE BUT FORGOT!"
 
And this is from a guy who didn't mind disc 2 of Xenogears.

A dude named Snow?  Really?  I'll take 12 any day.

this looks so good. my inner nerd has been awakened!

Looks like all the other FF games.  I lost interested a couple versions ago.  
 
I guess that's the way all sequels are though.  I love COD (own all of them) and they all look/play the same.  
 
I guess I'm just not into RPG's anymore.  It would take something very original to capture my interest.
 
Blah, blah, blah...I'm sure none of you really care what this guy in Washington even thinks anyway.  Who's even reading this?  Who gives a crap? 

"nothing about that trailer makes me want to play that game "

Though I'm no fan of bishounen, what did you really expect from a Final Fantasy game (or most JRPGs in general)? I don't mind the turn-based combat either as it can be just as fun as real-time combat as long as its well executed. I am however, disappointed that we won't be able to listen to the Japanese track in the NA release (meaning no Maya Sakamoto :( . . .); still the English VA is decent, but nothing special (and it certainly could have been much much worse ala Star Ocean TLH). Snow sounded like Troy Baker, especially toward the end there. The other voices are harder to make out since they don't really stand out that much.

Teen angst and drama!  
 
I bet that Snow dude got like a snowboard-shaped blade

If that's who I think it is...

Gilgamesh is a car.

what

Hey that girl who I can't remember the name of has the same voice actress as Rise!

99% of the comments here make me ashamed to be a part of this community.

gat dammit fuckin %$%#@^ English dub. ruins everything every time with pure cheesy-ness. why in the holy mother of gawd's name can't they just include the Japanese voice track? 
 
if those Japanese-text-conversion packs for Japanese games show up on PSN before FF13 comes out then i'm totally gonna buy the Japanese version of FF13 and the conversion pack to go with it and SHAZAM!! problem solved. 

Wow...the only thing I can think of to describe this entire franchise is "epic."

Aww, STOP COMPLAINING!!!!

FF13 was meant to tell a story. And the graphics are incredible!
 
If you want an action-packed Final Fantasy, go get The Crystal Bearers instead.

" Why are people assuming that the whole entire game is going to be pure  melodrama  just from watching  a 7 minute trailer?   I mean seriously. "

Why are people assuming that the whole entire game is going to be pure  melodrama  just from watching  a 7 minute trailer?
 
I mean seriously.

it's funny but all I could think of watching that was 'Why the fuck does Snow have that stupid fucking piece of hair coming down over his nose?' It's just the kind of affectation that winds me up! lol Also me and jrpg's don't get on so I am going to pass this one by. Looks very pretty though.

Looks great and that does sound quite a bit like Kanji. I'm not sure how much the trailer benefited from having that cheesy J-pop playing over it though.

I can't wait not to play this game. 
 
This sounds better in orig japanese - but still makes no sense, nor would I care, if it did. 
 
Snow looks like Brett Michaels; way to go, haha.

nothing about that trailer makes me want to play that game

THAT GUY SUMMONED A CAR OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

There's something horribly cheesy about FF that I hate, ugghhh. But besides that, Square is mind blowingly awesome at making CG.

So far looks very cliche'd, FF-style. I really hope the make the story completely from the ground as opposed to half-copied from the previous games. Even if it isn't, the scope of the game looks epic so I guess there's little to bitch about.
 
Still can't get the combat system. Looks confusing as all get out.

From what I have seen the voice acting is decent. Their are some good voices that stick out, and there are some ones that sound okay-ish. Nothing terrible.

I think the problem here is all of these lines of dialogue are being taken out of context. I mean you have no idea what they're talking about or what the story's like at that point so it comes across as being these cheesy-cliche one liners. Think about it- a lot of 'trailers' like this where they have a montage of random dialogue usually comes out as cheesy or just plain stupid.   
They could of definitely done a better job delievering some of it in this video, but as far as dubbing for a japanese game goes, the voice acting aint that bad. However if they were to include japanese tracks, I'd choose them hands down lol....  

looks alright. not so sure about the vehicles in combat though

Eh. Kind of cringing melodrama. But the graphics are so nice ;_;

hmm, ponderous dialogue, check. J-pop, check. Stupid names for things, check. melodrama, check. lots and lots of cheese, check.
 
yep, it's Final Fantasy.

The J-Pop made me grind my teeth.  On the other hand, I really think the CGI has gotten to the other side of the uncanny valley.  Especially that shot where the black guy was like "Don't ask me".. that was really well done.  I dunno, maybe it's just me.

I'll always have a softspot for Final Fantasy in my heart, and christ the voice acting is AMAZING this time around (k-k-kanji....), But the music is murder and the gameplay looks... meh....to me. I forsee FF12 meets Kingdom hearts gameplay-wise. Which could be awsome, or terribad - we'll just have to wait and see :|

My excitement for this game has dropped dramatically after watching this...

Hmmm. Some of the lip syncing looks genuinely good, other bits look terrible. The visuals are amazing. I'm torn!

Yeesh, the dialogue and voice-acting have really regressed since the high points that were Dragon Quest 8 and FF12.
 
But Kanji-Snow makes it all worthwhile.  He's 110% Kanji when he's angry:  "You think I'm some kind of monster?!?  I'm flesh and blood like you!!  Get Bent!!!"

" Ah yes, Finaru Fantasi . High-art... The zen of video games. The plots in these games are richer than any film or book ever written. I scoff and the western attempts at duplicating the magic of these games with blunders such as Fallout, or Planescape: Torment... When Sephiroth stabbed Aerith (Aeris for you plebians) I slammed my controller to the ground in a whirl of rage and sorrow. After waking up several hours later with self-inflicted claw marks all over my body, I grabbed the controller. This was not the end. No. this was the beginning... I would have my revenge on the one who killed her. I mouthed the word, but did not speak it.  Sephiroth... "

Good god that looks lame.

It's Kanji! Fuck yeah!

I'm glad the English voices are top tier.

" Yeah, I don't think square is trying to capture any new audiences with this. If you are already planning on playing this, you know what you're getting into. Which I fear isn't exactly the main audience of Giant Bomb...   As for the characters, It's just the way the Japanese culture is. Americans tend to favor older protagonists(ie. Marcus Fenix, Gordon Freeman, Shepard from Mass Effect, etc.) while Japanese tend to favor much younger and, god forbid, 'emo' characters. So no Square is not out of touch with what is relevant. They're making a game for Japanese players. And then its being localized over here. Really unfair to say that Square Enix doesn't know what they're doing just because they don't make games for the entire world as a whole.  Guy who played Kanji as Snow is pretty epic though, "GET BENT!" "