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What Is Dissidia Duodecim?

It's a bunch of Final Fantasy characters beating the hell out of each other. DUH.

Feb. 8 2011

Posted by: Brad

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Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

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Edited By avantegardener

Androgynous Characters, Check. 25 minute animations, Check.  FFVII  fanboys crying into their Cloud body pillows because this time could be spent remaking it. Check. Ladies and gentlemen, lets Final Fantasy.

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Edited By NTA_Luciana

Maybe I'm late to the party, but since when was Kefka spelled Cefca?

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I'm impressed with Squeenix getting all these major voice actors to sign on.
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Yay Lightning! 坂本さんかっこええ
 
I loved FFXIII, except for the fact that it was supposed to be a videogame.

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@fuzzy510 said:
" First?  EDIT: Guess not.  What the hell? "
/facepalm. 
 
People still don't know you don't get it when you say first...it basically tells you in the quest text..
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Yay Onion Knight!

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Chaos is totally voiced by Norio Wakamoto
 
 
And HELL YEAH GILGAMESH

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I love Prishe. Too bad the game where she's originally from kind of sucks...

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Yup, still want a PSP

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"I'll hafta teach you a lesson!"

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What the fuck is going on here?

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Yay, subtitles! I didn't expect that. Man, I really like the Dissidia theme music.

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Dissidia still sounds like some sort of STD.

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@ZeroCrescent said:
"Gilgamesh fights again!"

Oh man I hope so!
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@doe3879: For reals. Some great dialog though, like "You'll find I'm quite robust!"
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I LOVED Dissidia.  Played the hell out of it and still didn't unlock everything.
Really looking forward to this.

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@Meowshi said:
" @BasketSnake said:
" Light dark light dark light dark love hate love hate love hate "
Yes, this is Kingdom Hearts level writing. "
sounds to me like a guilty gear game xD
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The Cloud Sephiroth rivalry still has the potential to be very damned interesting if used properly. Which unfortunately I don't think think Squenix will ever do again.

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Kinda weird for a PSP game but anything with Gabranth is probably good.

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Just stop Square, retire, you fell off.

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yay Kain and Cecil, although I would prefer that they make Cecil not look like a woman.  Yuna also looks like a fun addition, but c'mon no Auron? 
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@RedRocketWestie said:
" @WinterSnowblind said:
" Not having any characters from VI and IX, two of the best games from the series is utterly unforgivable.  Especially when they include people like Prishe and Vaan. "
Zidane at 0:42 "
Sorry, I did mean new characters from those games, Zidane was in the first.  Except for 1-3, which didn't really have proper characters they could include..  All of the games got a new character added to the roster, except VI and IX.  Both of which arguably had the largest pool of potential characters.. 
 
Locke, Celes, Setzer, Cyan, Sabin..  Vivi, Dagger, Beatrix, Steiner, Freya..  I honestly don't understand why these two were missed.
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@JoeyRavn said:

" "Duodecim(o)" in Spanish and similar words in other romance languages actually mean "twelfth". Wonder if that has anything to do with the game. "

Probably means "includes characters up to FFXII"? Or wait, I guess people have been mentioning XIII characters... so never mind.
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@WinterSnowblind said:
" Not having any characters from VI and IX, two of the best games from the series is utterly unforgivable.  Especially when they include people like Prishe and Vaan. "
Zidane at 0:42
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I started to get kind of excited about this, but then I realized why.  Now all I really want is a character action game starring Kain.

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@Meowshi: I have no problem with XII but I do have a problem with Vaan.  

Bashe, Ashe or even Balthier were more the main character than he was.  Regardless, VI and IX were still more deserving of characters and the much more iconic games.  I guess they deserve some credit for not just throwing in hundreds of characters from VII though and for the most part they do seem to have picked good choices, not just the popular ones.
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Was that last bit supposed to hint at Gilgamesh?

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Well I put a lot of time into the first one:

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Only 300+ hours...I'm ready for another dose!
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@BasketSnake said:
" Light dark light dark light dark love hate love hate love hate "
Yes, this is Kingdom Hearts level writing.
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@WinterSnowblind said:
" Not having any characters from VI and IX, two of the best games from the series is utterly unforgivable.  Especially when they include people like Prishe and Vaan. "
XII was great.  JRPG fans didn't like it because it wasn't horrible, like all their other favorite games.  
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@Addfwyn said:
" Dissidia was awesome, one of my favourite PSP games, and that says a lot cause my PSP is probably my most used console (handheld?) these days.    Basically Dissidia: We added more stuff sounds perfect to me.  Tons to do in that game, actually a pretty fun combat system that differentiated the characters a lot (they could have just gone with a smash bros style game, and it'd still have sold like hotkeys).  Character-building RPG elements (even if the story sucked, the story mode was a lot of fun) with a pretty solid fighter?  Add more to that, and you have a winner. "
I second this. Loved the first, can't wait for the second.
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yuna gets like 10 minutes

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Edited By WinterSnowblind

Not having any characters from VI and IX, two of the best games from the series is utterly unforgivable.  Especially when they include people like Prishe and Vaan.

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God this looks dull. Does this boring game really need a 5 minute trailer?
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It's great that they included Laguna, such a great character with a great story. 
 
Although it doesn't matter to me much, since this will be on the PSP.

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Light dark light dark light dark love hate love hate love hate

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Yuna would be interesting to play as.

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Dissidia was awesome, one of my favourite PSP games, and that says a lot cause my PSP is probably my most used console (handheld?) these days.   
 
Basically Dissidia: We added more stuff sounds perfect to me.  Tons to do in that game, actually a pretty fun combat system that differentiated the characters a lot (they could have just gone with a smash bros style game, and it'd still have sold like hotkeys).  Character-building RPG elements (even if the story sucked, the story mode was a lot of fun) with a pretty solid fighter?  Add more to that, and you have a winner.

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haha, he said breast... 
 
Also, this doesn't look drastically different enough to the original for me to reinvest. :/ 

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The first time I laid my eyes upon the word, I read Duodenum. But I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the first section of the small intestine.
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Looks silly.  It's probably still going to be fun stuff though.

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i played the original dissidia alot
 
so im hype for this new game
 
they should of added more characters, but playing as lightning will be pretty cool
 
and laguna!

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Man I hope this one has a better fighting system. Wailing on a guy for 20 minutes and then having him reverse all the damage and instant KO you in one move was beyond annoying in the first one.

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Edited By ThePhenomenal1

i forgot about this one, that makes a 6th final fantasy game that we know of thats in development right now. 
 
le sigh

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This game is perfect for me because I am no longer a FF fan. 

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The first Dissidia game was awesome... I hope this lives up to it!

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Lightning's init? I'm listening.

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"Duodecim(o)" in Spanish and similar words in other romance languages actually mean "twelfth". Wonder if that has anything to do with the game.

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@Ulong said:
" Kinda dissapointed they didn't add in Celes. I allways kind of felt she was more of the main character of ff6 than Tera was. "
She got the spot light in the second half of FF6 I feel, but Terra takes it back just near the end.
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Kinda dissapointed they didn't add in Celes. I allways kind of felt she was more of the main character of ff6 than Tera was.