Brand New Trailer Revealed.

[skillzboy4]

i think everyone agrees that FFXII was probably the worse final fantasy in the series.

[Tama2]

I think you mean FFX-2.

[Shlup]

FFX-2 doesn't count.

[ljkkjlcm9]

i think everyone agrees that FFXII was probably the worse final fantasy in the series.

HA, I personally liked it more than
2, 4, 7, and 9

THE JACKEL

[Gilghamut]

FFXII is my favorite FF yet.

[Dreddz]

FFXII is only behind VII and IX for me. Great game.

[Bahamut2000X]

Naw, VIII and X were a hundred times worse then XII. Despite XII's lack of story, what story it did have was at least cool. VIII's and X's were just bloody ridiculous.

[Jessweeee♪]

God I wish someone would just close this thread now ._.

[Pete for President]

God I wish someone would just close this thread now ._.

Agreed.

[Croyles]

No final fantasy fan can agree on anything

[Yar]

God I wish someone would just close this thread now ._.

ilu Jess.

By the way, you're all wrong. ^_^.

[Roogle]

I can agree with Miriel regarding how sometimes it's better to be unrealistic, though. That's something I loved about VII, the blocky characters with massive heads and hands

Man, I loved those polygonal characters. <3 And I really love the design for the remakes of Final Fantasy for DS. I guess it's just the aesthetic that I prefer. I mean, I was pretty wowed by the graphics in FFX. But since then there hasn't been much of an evolution or development in style. Like I said in my previous post, it's just the same ol' same ol' only a little prettier.

Sometimes, it is better to be unrealistic under the pretense of the art style of the game. I like the graphical style of the Final Fantasy series and its moves towards realism because they will, eventually, reach a point where the line between fantasy and reality is blurred as technology continues to develop.

I was not a fan of the graphics of Final Fantasy VII even at the time of its release because I had trouble understanding what certain people were doing in the cutscenes besides the full motion videos.

[trancekuja]

Oh man...

[Skyblade]

My one real gripe with this trailer is the size of the battle interface. The menu is taking up almost one third of the screen during combat, and the menu seemed to be dominating the action, which, given how much they worked on the cinematic battles and animations, seems a little odd to me. Previous FF games have had menus of a similar size (FFVII, for example), but at least there the menu never interfered with the action. The screen was split into the action at top and the menu at the bottom. In this new system, the action plays out over the entire screen, with the battle menu just overlayed on top of it. The result is that the menu is in the foreground, and the animations are in the background, which is not, in my opinion, a wonderful choice.

There are some other minor things that could be problems, but I don't know enough about the game to form a decision on them yet. We haven't seen anywhere near the game's full range of environments, and the whole "sci-fi instead of fantasy" thing might be restricted to just Cocoon. I also have yet to try out the battle system, so I won't worry about how the battle mechanics are executed yet.

And, as for the "characters returning to their start position after attacking", that didn't bother me at all. The characters moved very fluidly in combat and, when they were retreating to their start positions, at least it looked like they were doing so as part of the battle. Like maybe they were a little too intelligent to just go "Hey, I'm done attacking now, so I'm just going to sit in the middle of this huge group of enemies and hope they don't slaughter me until my next attack".

[Rocket Edge]

Just to say: FFXII was awesome! Only behind the epics that are X & VIII.