Square Enix Unveils Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Sep 1, 2012 23:37 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XIII, RPG, Square Enix, Video Gallery
Square Enix has announced yet another continuation of the surprisingly resilient Final Fantasy XIII series – in the form of “Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII” (“Final Fantasy XIII-3” apparently being too straightforward) which promises further Lightning action for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
The trailer and other materials, accompanying “world driven” as the game’s ambiguous buzzphrase (apparently indicating an open-world design), along with some speculation about a possible Facebook link-up and not much else in the way of concrete details:
Whilst Lightning fans are understandably delighted, the more sceptical followers of Square Enix’s progress have been wondering whether the game is yet another effort to cheaply recoup development costs after the various disasters of recent years, and just how long they will have to wait for Final Fantasy XV and VII now…
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Please kill it with fire. This has gone on for long enough.
It's like UbiSoft with Ezio from AC. They just keep making games based on the same character. I don't even give a shit about FF, but they need to move on already. XIII was a bad game, give up.
But the Ezio games were made while III was in dev to avoid a big empty space.
This reminds me of how preschoolers are taught their shapes. Some kids get it on their next try but you still have the slow ones in class that try to shove a circle through a square slot for hours. Square Enix is just that slow kid in class.
Fuck lightening! Every game she's ever been in has sucked balls! They need to just give it a rest and introduce a new main character instead of trying to reintroduce a failed one for the THIRD TIME!
I like how your comment really had nothing to do with the comment you were replying to, it makes we wonder if you didn't just reply to it just to be at the top....
You're wrong, the initial post talked about the main character too. Just not a whole lot.
Seconded, Lightenging is the worst main character ever in FF, they say "Beautiful yet Strong"....
Tifa Lockhart and Terra are "Beautiful yet strong"
Lightening is more like "Femenine yet Macho attitue yet Bitchy"
The most prominent point being "Bitchy" I'm still pissed that it feels like she never got her comeupence for the way she treated snow. He was my third favorite character after sgt. pepper and ms. cloud cuckoolander. Everyone else lacked basic common sense or the right to live. Thus the whole story was assbackwards and horrible.
Just seeing the headline made me spit out my water almost with the "Pffft, oh come on..." reaction..
Like Michael "Rage Quit" Jones?
But 13-2 doesn't even have Lightning as a playable character. It's the same world, but with new characters, new story and new gameplay. That's much more than most sequels have nowadays.
I was with everyone else when 13 came out, and it made me want to kill myself on how stupid it was. BUT, 13-2 was a good game; I enjoyed it enough to beat it and get the secret ending.
I'm hoping that this game will be at least on par with 13-2.
13-2 was even worse than the original... it's like an anime filler ep
I disagree. 13-2 was a very solid game. I liked it.
Agreed. 13-2 was an improvement.
They fixed the linearity 13 had, the gameplay was better, better levelling up system and the whole catching and fighting alongside monsters was a good addition (I don't care if pokemon has done this blah blah blah, it's still good).
I understand the skepticism over this new title but has anyone seen the other videos? I think the new ideas are good, world driven environment, a varying doomsday clock, over 20 outfits for lightning. It seems like SE do take in the feedback. Their main problem is their obsession with the whole 13 franchise. It would be better to pull out and do something new than to keep gambling on a falling title, but, we won't know without giving it a try. That's all there is to it.
I enjoyed FF13 and 13-2 despite the hate and will look forward to this. Fuck me, right?
Um, hello? I want Versus XIII! Not this shitty shit bullshit.
And I'd like proper updates/remakes/sequels for a few of their games too but until then, Square Enix gets none of my money.
@Neko, this is your versus, or bettersaid these are your versus assets XIII-2, already borrowed sone elements like the iconoc aerial fight asgainst caius by the end of the game, now? A whole city Luxerion that looks straight out from versus.
Just check the versus trailers.
Your not getting Verses. stop asking.
yea SE not getting mah money then.
The only way i can forgive this, is if it makes a bunch of money, and they use that money to fund a next-gen game.
I dont give a fuck about what anyone says. Ff13 might not have been a good game but calling it bad is way off. I have played some bad games, i mean really bad games and ff13 wasnt one of them
Then you and I did not play the same game
then your standard is so low
Lord have mercy Where the fuck is ff13 versus been waiting for years and they wasting time/money fkn making new shit instead of releasing a game they announced like what 5-6 years ago?
They are being handled by different development teams, chill. Versus is being made by the Kingdom Hearts team, which kinda means KH3 won't be here anytime soon :(
FF13 was a good game. It's not SE's fault that people can't focus on a game long enough to stick with a straightforward storyline instead of running around for so long that you lose the sense of urgency to save the world! If you want a sandbox game, play a sandbox game. If you want to be pulled into story that actually -feels- like the party is in a hurry, then FF13 is spot on.
It didn't feel like that to me, by like halfway I got really bored of all the repetitiveness. It didn't feel urgent at all. If the game wanted to be how it is, then at least put it some clever level design or puzzles, which would make sense in a game like this.
story was shit, gameplay was shit, the only acceptable thing was the graphic, still it was way below any pc rpg at that time.
You must have been born after the concept of "game story"... back in the days of SNES when games had to have a story because they weren't intereactive blu-ray movies.
so what? game story used to be their biggest selling point, they stopped to care about it since the merger with Enix.
FF XIII had a solid story.
You people have to know that The development for each title is being handled within Square Enix through SEPERARE TEAMS. So don't blame square enix for releasing 13-3 earlier than versus 13. If the team that was working on 13-3 finishes first then they'll release it. This just means that Versus is still under development. Just continue to wait. They may share a common backdrop but they are very different games.
Yes agreed. Versus and 13-3 are different teams so you cant blame squareenix for releasing 13-3 first if the team for 13-3 finishes first.
Notto disu shitto agen.
Why does the guy say クリスタル kurisutaru instead of 結晶 kessho for the word crystal? Are English terms that "cool" to use in Japan?
"Crystal" has become the staple plot device for all modern FF games. They started doing this on FF12 (Nethicite), and now Fal'cie or whatever its called in FF13. They use kurisutaru to make themselves feel its special and original. The Ys series of games were using the "crystals of power" thing correctly before FF though (Cleria ore & Black pearls).
After knowing this, you will feel that FF has become bland. Remember when FF had both plot and sometimes no crystals at all (FF1 to FF10), they decided to change it to ONLY crystals (FF12 onwards).
What do you mean, 12 and onwards? Only 13 and 14 has come out so far, there's no telling that they are going to use it again.
Anyway I think 12 was the last good (actually very good) FF.
I didnt like FF12 at all. Its the worst FF game IMO. You see? Its all about opinions. FF12 had not a single good character. Story was boring as fuck. The ONLY thing good about it was the damn huge open world.
The battle system was... so bad. I put up my Grids (or whatever they were called) like after 1/3 of the game so I only had to run around and not actually do anything in the battles.
Last boss battle I didnt do anything. I only watched the screen. Is that very good? lol.
SE trying to mimic Apple in marketing their products
Check out the logo. This is the first FF that doesn't have traditional art, traditional Font and name on it.
That crystal(?) symbol reminds me of the Skyrim dragon, remoulded to look like a vagina.
And that font. Are they trying to make customers believe this is somehow related to Metal Gear Rising?
Lightning Returns sounds strangely similar to Lightning Bolt Action. Perhaps people will think they're related. Both have a high chance of being shitty games.
Everything about this game (and it's game series) looks fishy, lazzy and lame.
Loved FFXIII's in-game events, Hated everything else
Loved FFXIII-2's Pokemon system, Hated the rest.
So far i hate the idea of FFXIII Lighting Returns.
A P* game that already looks like GOTY 2013 has a high chance to be shitty? You sir, are an idiot.
Metal Gear being broken down into a fighting game with action sequences reminiscent of Twin Snakes in the GameCube.
Platinum Games or no, the Raiden series is heading towards a direction most fans are dubious about.
Seriously, where the hell is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?
I'm so tired of Square Enix's bullshit.
And people say Pokémon is "repetitive" and "formulaic". At least, outside of remakes and sequels, they don't rehash the same storyline and characters. Cameos are another story.
Note that I'm referring to the main series Pokémon games, the ones developed by Game Freak, which were the creators of the concept and the franchise. The others are not main series games, being side series (like the Stadium series, developed by HAL Laboratory; Colosseum, XD: Gale of Darkness and Battle Revolution, developed by Genius Sonority) and spin-offs (like the Pinball, Mystery Dungeon and Ranger series) as well as other, uncategorized games.
For God Sake SE, stop this XIII Madness ¬¬
I don't even know what to say anymore... SE you are dead to me
And if they re-maked all their titles but now with just lolis?