In addition to this morning's Dissidia: Final Fantasy website update, there's also a new trailer up on the good old internet. The trailer mashes up some old CG footage with some all new in-game looks at Squall, Firion, and Ultimecia. After that, there is even more CG with Tidus running around and a Squall-Sephiroth duel. Quality isn't that superb, but it sure beats seeing nothing at all.
May i be the first person to reply and say this looks to be one of the best Square-Enix games of recent times. To be 100% honest, every game after FFIX has been below expectations, and that includes FFX, FFX-2, FFXI, FFXII, FFXII on the DS etc. Crisis Core is not bad, but was never ment to be better than FFVII, just to complete the story.
This game however, is a FF Fanboys DREAM. Everyones favorite characters fighting to the death.
Seeing Squall in those graphics made my jaw drop, i cannot tell you how amazing it feels to see Squall in such good graphics.
I can only hope FFVII, VIII & IX are remade. Zidane looks great too.
this game is coming to to all regions right? cus i cant wait. oh yea where the remakes i want some remakes. my ps2 broke i dont own a psx anymore. i dont want to buy a ps3 plus i heard they dont play ps2 or psx games so it would be pointless. so looks like my psp needs some new games.
remake this and remake that! wouldn't guys or gals rather have square-enix create original games? why do you wanna play something you already played? (an don't say because of the visual upgrade)
anyway, the game looks cool. but needs more characters from the nintendo era of final fantasy. meaning, ffI - ffvi.
well i'm gonna go ahead and say it... 70% of the reason i'd replay the remakes is because of the visual upgrades. it's a legitimate reason too because a visual makeover can create a new experience on a second playthrough. i'd like to see some originals too... just finished playing through TWEWY. while it's not s-e, i'm looking forward to white knight chronicles. the more rpgs the better, remake or not.
I never got to finish FF VII, so yeah, I want a remake. Going back and playing PS1 games, now matter how good, is just too painful when you've got such nice looking ones as X through XII, and now the soon to be XIII on PS3.
I did that for Silent Hill several years ago before PS3 was out and although I don't regret it, it was too painfully hard on the eyes and I wouldn't do it again.
I'm still on the fence about this one. If the battle system works I may pick it up. But I've never seen Square succeed at anything but RPG's. Fighting games are very difficult to do right. Many end up broken with people spamming this or that. We'll see, should be interesting.
It's not an RPG, and you did say you've never seen Square do anything decent besides RPGs. Einhander is one example of that, and Bushido Blade is an example of another.
Anyone else surprised that they just confirmed this for 2008? I thought that all the speculation was for FF13 + FFV13 + Dissidia + KH Birth By Sleep would all take until 2009 to ship.
It would be nice if they could bring David Boreanaz back for Squall. I've always thought that the dude who does Edward Elric's voice, could do a good Zidane.
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6-26-2008 @ 12:21PM
insane257 said...
May i be the first person to reply and say this looks to be one of the best Square-Enix games of recent times. To be 100% honest, every game after FFIX has been below expectations, and that includes FFX, FFX-2, FFXI, FFXII, FFXII on the DS etc. Crisis Core is not bad, but was never ment to be better than FFVII, just to complete the story.
This game however, is a FF Fanboys DREAM. Everyones favorite characters fighting to the death.
Seeing Squall in those graphics made my jaw drop, i cannot tell you how amazing it feels to see Squall in such good graphics.
I can only hope FFVII, VIII & IX are remade. Zidane looks great too.
Wow. Stunned. Thanks for the blog post.
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6-26-2008 @ 12:51PM
Tim Parsons said...
I loved FFX the rest yes were seriously lacking FFXI & FFXII totally SUCK!!
Remakes of FFVII & FFVIII would so rock(FFVII mostly) I could do without FFIX remake, but as long as 7 & 8 come first I wouldnt complain.
But Get FFXIII on the PS3 I can't wait for that. This looks pretty good to all the best characters Awesome!!
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6-26-2008 @ 1:28PM
bryansurvive said...
this game is coming to to all regions right? cus i cant wait. oh yea where the remakes i want some remakes. my ps2 broke i dont own a psx anymore. i dont want to buy a ps3 plus i heard they dont play ps2 or psx games so it would be pointless. so looks like my psp needs some new games.
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6-26-2008 @ 1:38PM
evilfoxhound said...
All versions of the PS3 play PSX games. Just not PS2 ones.
6-29-2008 @ 1:20PM
Popfrogs said...
Get the 80GB metal gear bundle if you can find it, that'll solve your problems.
6-26-2008 @ 1:30PM
Daniel said...
This game looks awesome, and I certainly love the Squeenix PSP love, but I sure would have enjoyed seeing all those characters in PS3 graphics...
Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
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6-26-2008 @ 2:03PM
Alien said...
My god the game looks so freakin' amazing :o Why cant they put more people to finish it faster ? :(
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6-26-2008 @ 2:11PM
Ayumi said...
to the above comments,
remake this and remake that! wouldn't guys or gals rather have square-enix create original games? why do you wanna play something you already played? (an don't say because of the visual upgrade)
anyway, the game looks cool. but needs more characters from the nintendo era of final fantasy. meaning, ffI - ffvi.
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6-26-2008 @ 3:50PM
phrequency said...
well i'm gonna go ahead and say it... 70% of the reason i'd replay the remakes is because of the visual upgrades. it's a legitimate reason too because a visual makeover can create a new experience on a second playthrough. i'd like to see some originals too... just finished playing through TWEWY. while it's not s-e, i'm looking forward to white knight chronicles. the more rpgs the better, remake or not.
6-26-2008 @ 5:13PM
Dreadhead541 said...
What are you talking about? 4 of the 10 characters shown were from Nintendo FF games
6-29-2008 @ 1:29PM
bryansurvive said...
yea i want both world. new and old games. theres somethign called replay value and those older games offer it.
7-02-2008 @ 4:28PM
Christopher said...
I never got to finish FF VII, so yeah, I want a remake. Going back and playing PS1 games, now matter how good, is just too painful when you've got such nice looking ones as X through XII, and now the soon to be XIII on PS3.
I did that for Silent Hill several years ago before PS3 was out and although I don't regret it, it was too painfully hard on the eyes and I wouldn't do it again.
6-26-2008 @ 3:15PM
acefondu said...
I'm still on the fence about this one. If the battle system works I may pick it up. But I've never seen Square succeed at anything but RPG's. Fighting games are very difficult to do right. Many end up broken with people spamming this or that. We'll see, should be interesting.
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6-27-2008 @ 6:32AM
Undyne said...
Einhander
6-27-2008 @ 8:17AM
acefondu said...
@Undyne
I'm not sure what Einhander a shooter game has to do with a fighting game but ok....
6-27-2008 @ 10:49PM
Haohmaru said...
It's not an RPG, and you did say you've never seen Square do anything decent besides RPGs. Einhander is one example of that, and Bushido Blade is an example of another.
6-26-2008 @ 8:04PM
cafecito said...
Indeed. I am unsure about the battle gameplay/mechanics as well. Everything else, of course, looks top notch. Usual Squeenix rooftop quality.
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6-26-2008 @ 8:24PM
boarder4021 said...
Anyone else surprised that they just confirmed this for 2008? I thought that all the speculation was for FF13 + FFV13 + Dissidia + KH Birth By Sleep would all take until 2009 to ship.
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6-26-2008 @ 9:36PM
BlackFreefall said...
Characters like Zidane and Squall will finally get some voice acting!
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6-26-2008 @ 10:43PM
Saigon said...
It would be nice if they could bring David Boreanaz back for Squall. I've always thought that the dude who does Edward Elric's voice, could do a good Zidane.