Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post

Um, it's GILGAMESH, Wolf. Anything his side loses in raw strength, it makes up for in awesomeness.

Besides, if any hero can handle it, it's Bartz, who is, for my personal playstyle, the most overpowered character in the game.
Gilgamesh has a history of tripping over his own awesomeness

Too pessimistic. If it was just IX, I could believe it, though I would be saddened by it, but I cannot believe that they would leave a character out from VI, which still has one of the most beloved casts in the FF series. I think not having them be hackable from the demo would be more a case of baiting followers to try to guess which character from VI is going to make the cut right up until the end.
Except VI is more of a title well loved in the West, while IX has mix feelings among most fans. My point is, they don't seem as important to Squenix as we fans think they are. Kain has a pretty big fan base on both sides of the ocean and Gilgamesh has become an icon in the series due to his myriad of cameo appearances. It's not for certain, but at this point I feel SE has cut it so close that the possibility these two titles might have been skipped altogether this round. Maybe they'll show up as Assist characters like Aerith, but it is looking like the lack of a fully playable character could be a possibility.


Um, yeah, and the original trailer all showcased Warrior of Light as the star of his game, and we all know how that turned out. You played him for two storyline chapters, then forgot him as much as possible.
Until you see the ending and read all the Reports and learn this whole game is basically a convulated mess to explain Garland and Chaos from FFI. WoL also had the best scenes imo considering he's a nameless no one.

I'm sure Lightning won't be prominent but they also said thy would be making this game more story focus for the people who wined about a fighting game having a terrible plot (Dear lord people, have you never played the genre, this is normal) and seeing how we are going to see a bunch of new character get killed off from death by canon, I can see the writers trying to put her as the leader of this suicide brigade, seeing how that was pretty much the same scenario of XIII. Duodecim is going to play in some ways very differently so I wouldn't make this judgment cause of the way Dissidia 1 played out.

It always looks glum for VI and IX fans. But look at hell well Terra came out in Dissidia. And, while Zidane may be...Zidane, at least the ratio of characters left in IX leaves them with a better chance of picking one of the many awesome ones.
I'd say the FFI-III fans have it worse. I'm still annoyed about a lack of Leon or Maria tbh. I just don't like the prospect of having to wait a few more years to get some new characters I like from the games I like. I honestly don't care for Tifa, Yuna, Vaan, or Prishe, I outright hate two of them. I guess I should be happy I got half of Aerith...

Horsefeathers. A new character would only require more storage space, not more powerful hardwear, unless they were actually changing game mechanics.
Except when the hardware needed is storage space. As I said the director himself talked about Dissidia 2 maxing out what a UMD could hold. We are talking about a game that is completely new and has the first game as an unlockable extra. The whole first Dissidia 1 with a completely revamped story mode closer to Duodecim's. It is very possible that the game can't hold anymore content. We may still see DLC characters but they wouldn't really be attached to the story unless SE knew ahead of time this would happen.