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| DarkZero 485th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):FF12 in-game footage now available"
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2nd final fantasy 12 footage can now be located below.
Link Here
 This keeps getting better and better, after the first disappointment. Thanks for the linkity too.
I couldn't agree more. What initially looked like the third disappointing, formulaic mainstream Final Fantasy in a row now looks like a game with some genuine promise, or at least a few novel changes.
Unfortunately, no one's managed to make a decent news roundup so far, so a lot of the news about the game is broken up into pieces. I'll try to do my part, but this definitely isn't definitive:
Crew list and plot explanation from GAF - Lots of FFT/FFTA and Vagrant Story crew members here. Basic plot explanation.
Bigger, longer plot explanation from GameSpot - The bit about oppressed moogles in leg irons is probably the most interesting bit, which also dispels the "No moogles will be in the game" myth that seems to be sneaking around. The Judges are also officially called the Knights of Terror and the game takes place either long before FFTA or long after, but they won't say which.
Final Fantasy XII will once again be using voice actors to voice the characters. Kohei Takeda, who looked to be in his late teens or early twenties, will play the voice role of Vaan, as well as work on Vaan's motion capture. "I've been playing [Final Fantasy] since Final Fantasy V, but I never thought that I'd ever be playing the main character," he said. "I hope to work hard so that people will be happy to see me portraying Vaan."
I wouldn't bet too much on that, pal. The odds are against you.
GAF's desktops/images - Loads way faster than GameSpot.
And thanks a lot for the trailers. They gave me a lot of hope for this game and I look forward to (hopefully) enjoying an FF game again.
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| Time Mage 1695th Post
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| "Re(1):FF12 in-game footage now available" , posted Thu 20 Nov 04:52:
UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHH!!!
I can't acces the scond movie, and after reading your comments, that's almost sadic!!
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So, is there any other source for the vid? Thanks in advance!
EDIT: After seeing DarkZero's links (Thanks thanks thanks), my hype has again gone high, very, very high. Everything, from the artwork (the not-CG one), the in-game action and the movies, all looks great. Also, it looks like the Uematsu-Sakimoto collaboration will be done in the same way as in FFT-A: Uematsu does the main theme, and Sakimoto does the rest.
And yes, I've already found the video in those links.
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| DarkZero 490th Post
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| "Re(2):FF12 in-game footage now available" , posted Fri 21 Nov 17:37
And in this edition of FF12 news, the thing that you've all been waiting for with great suspense and anticipation...
Conflicting news reports on a newly announced game! (Morons...)
GameSpot hastily posted an article that said that FF12 takes place in Ivalice, but in a different time period, and seemed to bring us a story where the races were once (or eventually became?) barbarous and the Judges were transformed from the uber-powerful knights of order and justice to the "Knights of Terror". (Warning: I have just started FFTA, so please don't talk freely about its story points without spoiler spaces.)
Now Magic Box has posted a new FF12 news post, stating that "The world in FFXII is independent from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, although the outlook is similar," while also deviating from the GameSpot post in other ways, such as saying that the largest airships would MATCH the size of large World War 2 battleships, whereas GameSpot said the airships would EXCEED those sizes.
Both were hastily posted. Both were posted by English-speaking writers working off of Japanese translations. Both are from sites that are currently on the outs in terms of reputability, with Magic Box being infamous for its "breaking news now, accurate news later" approach and GameSpot just getting their KOF2k3 information completely and totally wrong.
Who's right? Who's wrong? We probably won't know until the next round of press regarding the game.
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| Professor 1929th Post
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| "Re(3):FF12 in-game footage now available" , posted Fri 21 Nov 18:39
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And in this edition of FF12 news, the thing that you've all been waiting for with great suspense and anticipation...
Conflicting news reports on a newly announced game! (Morons...)
GameSpot hastily posted an article that said that FF12 takes place in Ivalice, but in a different time period, and seemed to bring us a story where the races were once (or eventually became?) barbarous and the Judges were transformed from the uber-powerful knights of order and justice to the "Knights of Terror". (Warning: I have just started FFTA, so please don't talk freely about its story points without spoiler spaces.)
Now Magic Box has posted a new FF12 news post, stating that "The world in FFXII is independent from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, although the outlook is similar," while also deviating from the GameSpot post in other ways, such as saying that the largest airships would MATCH the size of large World War 2 battleships, whereas GameSpot said the airships would EXCEED those sizes.
It's kind of hard to say which one's correct, which is also kind of disturbing. I was at the FF12 event. The director said somewhere near the end that FFT, FFTA and FF12 are all a part of a vast world and history of Ivalice that he thought up of when he entered square 8 or so years ago.
Then later on in another interview, one of his developers said that the whole concept of Ivalice is just in the director's head, and they're developing the game as though it's a seperate world.
Looks like there's confision between the staff. I hope the teamwork there is ok...
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| Time Mage 1696th Post
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| "Re(4):FF12 in-game footage now available" , posted Sat 22 Nov 09:57
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Looks like there's confision between the staff. I hope the teamwork there is ok...
Well, maybe is not that complicated. If the director has that idea in his head, and serves to tie some things and give a similar feeling to those games, it's okay, as long as when he's making a specific game, he focuses on it.
Put in other words, if the idea of Matsuno doesn't interfere with the work of his crew, and he manages to direct them in the important things (the game itself), I think it won't turn bad.
AGH. This is quite a twisted explanation, I hope you understand.
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| DarkZero 493th Post
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| "Re(2):FF12 movie link" , posted Sat 22 Nov 17:55
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As for the look, I'm somewhat confused by how dark it is, especially since the images Squenix had released until now were all bright and sunny and full of blue blue sky. Hmmm...
Much of the trailer seems to take place in a part of the game where Vaan has ended up in an underground dungeon with a small caged-in arena in it. The open areas are very bright, but the dungeon looks like... a dungeon. The scenes with the arena, the pig men, the Viera, and the unnamed human (the guy in casual clothes, not the knight) all seem to take place in the same section of the game, while everything else takes place on either a sunny beach or a relatively well-lit city.
And on that note, did anyone notice that the pig men in the game seem to be some form of Nu Mou? They have the same ears, height, and facial structure, but they have a pig snout and warthog tusks instead of the cow/horse snout that the Nu Mou in FFTA had. GameSpot said that someone at the presentation mentioned different classes within the races. Maybe these are some Nu Mou that aren't meek little magic users.
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| Time Mage 1697th Post
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| "Re(3):FF12 movie link" , posted Sun 23 Nov 04:38
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And on that note, did anyone notice that the pig men in the game seem to be some form of Nu Mou? They have the same ears, height, and facial structure, but they have a pig snout and warthog tusks instead of the cow/horse snout that the Nu Mou in FFTA had. GameSpot said that someone at the presentation mentioned different classes within the races. Maybe these are some Nu Mou that aren't meek little magic users.
Yes I also noticed that. But if those are Nu Mou, the have been uglyfied (Is that a word?) quite a lot since FFT-A. And if they're not magic users anymore... What are they, then?
And about the storyline question, is Matsuno who wrote it, maybe under some supervision of Sakaguchi. Anyway, I bet it'll be a good one if it's by Matsuno.
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