Comments on: Final Fantasy XIII Director Answers Your FFXIII Questions

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:29:22 +0000

I can't stand Online 1 & 2 being called 11 & 14 as well, so Online 3 will be called what FF16? Even DQ's spinoffs, like monsters joker and whatnot (can't keep track) aren't numbered, otherwise it would be up to DQ 20 now. Same as FF, if Tactics/Crystal Chronicles were all numbered, it would be like FF 30 alrdy, ridiculous.

So I treated Lost Odyssey as FFXI and will think of Last Story as XIV, which I assume has crossed the Gooch's mind at some point, it's a jab at square. So S-E give online games a number, while a perfectly fine game as Versus 13, which could've easily been 14 or whatever, I thought it's really dumb, and the PSP game Agito, why does it have a XIII in it? But yeah like thebanditking said, it's to trick people into getting into trying a MMO. I bought the whole HDD/adapter PS2 bundle to play for two months and told myself the game was not for me. I did it because at the time I never missed a flagship title for the series, and now we know what S-E is up to, they don't have the guts to treat the Online games as a separate series and use the deceitful name.. sigh…

By: Tokyo Guy

Tokyo Guy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:43:22 +0000

Exactly. And yet Crystal Chronicles didn't have a number, Square decided to make it an offshoot. So why the hell couldn't they have done the same thing for the online ones?

By: Tokyo Guy

Tokyo Guy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:42:43 +0000

Yes I am WELL aware of the Final Fantasy games being totally unrelated, you hardly need to point this out. It seems that you missed my point though: there is nothing compelling, IMHO, that justifies the two online games having a number. Consider, for example, that there are a handful of Crystal Chronicle games, yet they are NOT considered numbered Final Fantasy installments. Rather, they are a totally different game series who use the name Final Fantasy and the idea of a crystal. So based on that, there is no reason why Final Fantasy XI and XIV could not have been named “Final Fantasy Online” and been a separate offshoot.

I truly have to ask people: does anyone actually PREFER having XI and XIV as “write off” games as they are when they could have had/could be having two “traditional” games in their place? Seriously now.

By: Tokyo Guy

Tokyo Guy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:39:23 +0000

Oh it looks like it's been too long since I played the game then. For whatever reason, I was under the impression it only had English voice acting. Perhaps I was just thinking of the lip-syncing issue.

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:29:22 +0000

By: TokyoGuy

TokyoGuy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:43:22 +0000

Exactly. And yet Crystal Chronicles didn't have a number, Square decided to make it an offshoot. So why the hell couldn't they have done the same thing for the online ones?

By: TokyoGuy

TokyoGuy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:42:43 +0000

By: TokyoGuy

TokyoGuy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:39:23 +0000

By: thebanditking

thebanditking — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:01:08 +0000

They actually talked about that in the latest episode of Qore on the PSN. Though his responce was similar to what they have all said, that it was doen to keep the game focused and make the story easier to follow, like a movie.

By: thebanditking

thebanditking — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:57:51 +0000

Personally I see calling Final Fantasy Online, FF11 and FF15 to be a bit of a marketing ploy. The numbered series hold such high reguard with gamers that they felt they could intice **read trick** people into trying it because it was a being labeled as “the next numberd Final Fantasy”.

By: thebanditking

thebanditking — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:52:46 +0000

I wonder how close in age we are? As I find my self doing exactly what you just did there all the time lol. I have been playing games for 21 years (at last count). How about you?

By: thebanditking

thebanditking — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:49:17 +0000

As true as that may be thats not to say this is not a very well made game. The linear design (so far) does not bother me as Im really enjoying the characters and locations. Im certainly liking XIII a lot more then I did X after the same ammount of time put in. Not that Im trying to say its the best game ever but its certainly much better then I anticipated.

By: thebanditking

thebanditking — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:42:34 +0000

IMO there was nothing to sidestep, its not like 360 can not run a PS3 emulator(or vice versa). Thus FFXIII's highly PS3 tailored code and engine suffered after being ported. We see this all the time with games developed with only one platform in mind. After seeing both the worst part about the 360 build are those cutscenes, sure the game is lower res but nothing pisses me off more then pixelated video.

By: thebanditking

thebanditking — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:36:00 +0000

I could not agree more. The english cast is very well done and personally some of the VAs are better then their Japanese counter parts. Though I don't speak or understand Japanese so outside of just the sound of their voice I can't judge them as actors.

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:00:12 +0000

What do you mean? There are Jpn/English audio(Jpn subtitle/menu) in the Jpn version of Lost Odyssey, and Japanese/English/Italian/ French/German audio/subtitle/menu in the US ver. I have both version. The Jpn dub was okay, but leaves a lot to be desired because only actors were used instead of voice actors other than Horikawa Ryo (Vegeta) as Prince Tolten, plus a rather poor job of matching lip movement, Jansen was very good though in both dub. Still, I was quite used to it because it's the dub I listened to on my first playthru.

The English dub was primary though since lip sync was made to match English.