final fantasy has always been about reinvention, whether it be a medieval setting like the first 5 or steam punk like 6 and 7. What's really exciting people about versus is its tone, noir setting, world map, characters and the promise of a tragic and dark story.The type of gameplay pretty much doesn't matter when it comes to these things.

final fantasy has always been about reinvention, whether it be a medieval setting like the first 5 or steam punk like 6 and 7. What's really exciting people about versus is its tone, noir setting, world map, characters and the promise of a tragic and dark story.The type of gameplay doesn't matter as much when it comes to these things in a final fantasy.
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I ve never played kh but I played crisis core ff7 and it is what I think versus is going to be like ..but more open in the combat.

by looking to the trailers of versus I am just amazed how fancy.. or ambitious it feels. the music, the cgi , story and setting ..etc (the game looks perfect already )

the only ff games I ve played are crisi core, ff7 and ff13 (I didn't like 13 mainly because I was expecting allot from a game which took 5 year in development. Also how bad the voice acting was + moving in linear lines like a racing game was annoying )
13-3 feels like AC more than ff .. but I still think its cool but are those the guys that are working on versus? if so then that is different story.

I don't know, Versus looks very final fantasy to me. The setting reminds me of something FF7-ish. Yeah there's 3rd person shooting in it, but the game still looks good. That is the fine line difference at the end of the day. Versus looks promising while Lightning Returns does not, in my opinion of course.

@ dragonknight

1. So FF13 isn't anything like FF10? I don't think you play FF10 then, which i though was one of the top highly regarded FF title. Go ahead and describe the difference in summoning (and how they are used) gameplay and leveling, mode of locomotion, the exploration aspect of it, level design, iconic characters, etc..

2. If FFVS13 doesn't want to cap on FF name, it should take on a different name then(kingdom heart for example) because right now it doesn't look anything like previous FF. It is hack and slash gameplay ( even have 3rd person perspective for shooting). If it is just about open world, towns, npc, mode of locomotion, then many open world game can also be considered as an FFGame including WRPG. And with that said, FF13-2 have everything you mentioned as what make a game FF (town, npc, open, iconic characters like chocoho, cactuar, moogle, etctcc..minisidegames, etc...). Again, go ahead and describe why FF13 isn't like FF10, or how FF13-2, which have everything u mentioned beside a slightly faster turn base battle mechanism, isn't FF but a game which only have some description, trailers that doesnt resemble any previous FF, and even regard as "spin off" by you is a traditional FF game? You have nothing to back you up except your consistent bashing out of ignorances like many wounded PS fan after FF13 becomes multiplatform.
Submarines, bike fight are small side games, not the actual signature battle system of the the entire FF game which should be turn base turn base. FF13 is a faster battle system but still turn base. FFvs13 is a full on hack and slash even have 3rd person shooter element (and here you and many others complaining about FF13 trying to be westernized?). It sure looks more like COD then the FF13 trilogy. The only example that you come up with is that it "LOOKS LIKE" FF7, when all FF games have their own story and Fantasy-ish settings?

so one series slightly alter the traditional FF series and it consider not FF, but a game that totally change the game play is?

I don't think you even play FF13 after hearing it lost EXCLUSIVE. U just go on ape shi&%$, with the hate band wagon, and showing that you just a fanboy and a hypocrite while u are at it.

Ok Admiral snake lemme explain to you.

FF versus has

Most importantly
-A world map
-Vehicles/Airships/Chocobo&am p;am p;am p;#3 9;s to travel this map
-It has Summon hunting, one of the best things about FF8
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- Characters - From what we've seen, they are very normal. Nothing over the top like FFXiii, Nomura was not lying when he said Noctis is not an Emo.

Compare Versus dialogue to FFXIII and you'll see a shocking lack of melodrama that ruined the characters of FFXIII for me.

-Story, can't comment much on this we don't know a whole lot, but from what we do know it seems awesome atm

-Art direction, dear god ~ Beautiful, the only issue I have is character design and even then it is better than 13
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-Combat
It's KH, KH with some new tricks including third person shooting, and what is seemingly epic limit breaks + Teleportation. Noctis in the original trailer when his eyes turn red? Nomura said that's what you do when Noct activates his Limit break(known as EX arts) Everyone likes this. So there is no problem. Combat system is not the problem with FFXIII no matter how any cuts it, the problem is they did not utilize the combat system till 25-30 hours in the game. It ended up boring and ****/

Edit---oh also, you can use EVERY character in your party. They also all play differently. And switch which one you are using on the fly(so much so that you can get a chain combo by using them all to help each other attack)

If you read up on the games info from some site, you will see why people are excited about it. Even this wiki has a decent amount of info on it

I'll explain the difference between X and 13.

FF13 had nothing but combat the entire time. Nothing else. And never any breaks from combat

FFX had lots of breaks from combat, be it towns, Blitzball, Temples.

FFX had a way way better story and characters, and way way better music. The comabt system was miles better too, the sphere grid was horribly downgraded for FFXIII. FFX also had area's to return to that you previously didn't explore.

Its widely accept that Sony this generation has been underwhelming. We've had more peripheral releases, controller variants, PS5 accessories than games it feels like. The exclusives were also PS4 and what little output they have put exclusively on PS5 is nowhere near as memorable as what came in every generation before that.

This isn't a Sony hate post but anyone who's older and has been around for a long time gaming will agree that PS5 is by far Sony's worst generation. As much as Xbox is in the gutter, I pray the do bounce back in the hope we get Sony to wake up again.

If you want to critique MS... you are doing so towards their management. The games output and their hardware have been much better than PS this gen. Sadly... people still hold a grudge against XB because of MS. Thankfully i am not that petty... I've been enjoying their games output in the drought of PS. And add in some NS1/2 games as well to balance things out. Things will change for me once Wolverine hits, and I start using my 5 more. That one I'm looking forward to. And the Marvel fighter... I'm not a GTA player so that has no bearing on my view of things.