I actually liked kingdom hearts, as a kiddy game of course. I haven't played FF since 10. I bought my lil brother 11 for his xbox and thats pretty shitty, I tried it out for a little while but its much too shitty to get into.

FFXI was not too bad, it just lacks players on the 360 in comparison to the PC or PS2 ones which are far superior.

This game actually looks pretty good, and the battle system seems to be more fun than FFXII's (which felt liked it lacked something). It's been a long time since a FF game had a female lead, and the character design also looks good (can't say the same for the weapons though). The last three games had pretty good settings (especially FFXII, although I could do without the Star Wars similarities), but the plot and characters kind of fell flat, FFXII in particular. As long as this game has a fun battle system, puzzles and a better plot pace, I'm happy.

I really disliked Final Fantasy XII. The license / board system made it really difficult to decide what equipment and spells to buy mostly because it was impossible to see any space on the board besides the ones adjacent to those already obtained. I felt like I was doing it wrong through the whole game (that is, up to the point i played to.)

I can't tell if 13's battle system is turned based or not but I hope it is.

why does this look good. are you guys seriously impressed by CLICK FAST gameply of one person versus three generic robots or something? I did not see anything that interested me and it's pretty clear GUESS WHAT they cut away the slow parts for the trailer so all the boring "scroll, choose action" stuff is gone.

what the hell are you all impressed by?

It's... a trailer. What are you expecting exactly? There's really not too much info on FF13 yet and we just know tidbits about the characters and the world. I like the fantasy/sci-fi setting and the world seems neat, I don't mind the character design as commercialized as it might be (it's always been this way by the way) and seriously, the cinematics look good and unless that's a bad thing, I wouldn't complain. The battle system seems very promising to me too and since I actually like Final Fantasy series, is there any reason for me to not look forward to FF13? I'm not going to say WOAH GREAT GAME because we really don't know almost anything about it but I'm just saying I'm looking forward to it and I am optimistic since I like FF series, liked FF12 a lot and this game has been years in development so it's bound to be polished and I'm hoping for a game with moderately large world to explore. Like maladroithim, one thing I like in RPG's is the exploring, micromanaging and such and Final Fantasy hasn't usually disappointed me when it comes to that. Well, FF10 was linear as fuck but it also had the best gameplay in the whole series. But the point is as far as trailers go, FF13 looks good to me. Lots of game trailers already make me feel like that the game is going to be boring or that the gameplay is going to suck but I can't say that about FF13. Given, it's mostly FMV we have seen but like I said, the battle system seems fast-paced and interesting as well.

I can't tell if 13's battle system is turned based or not but I hope it is.

It's turn based with some new ATB kind of thing, you have a certain amount of time to chain combos or something like that. The whole combo/air thing reminds me of what Xenosaga did and that was a neat idea.

The demo is coming out in April so we'll know more about the gameplay then, hopefully before. Too bad the demo probably won't make it outside Japan in a long time.

I tried FFVII but the graphics felt terrible, I had alot of fun playing through FFX.. I tried the FF-MMORPG XI I think it was but couldnt get into it and I currently have XII which I also tried playing but got bored and gave up after a few hours. I do plan on trying this new one when its released just to satisfy my curiosity but I doubt I'll get into it, not unless the battle system feels more like FFX.. I've always prefered the traditional turn based system in RPG's.

not to be impressed as if a game trailer is not focused entirely on gameplay it tends to be a garbage cgi excerpt no one on earth can find fascinating? you're the one who said IM EXCITED, why are you acting like this is the right response to have to an otherwise boring trailer?

also ff13 is not being made by the ff12 people if I remember right but the ffx team.

When I say I'm excited it's not just because of this one trailer though! I suppose it's a bit stupid but I have always been excited about new Final Fantasy games (the main series anyway, not all the dumb spinoffs) and they have always seemed promising to me and the only ones which have disappointed me were FF10 and 11 and I don't even think about FF11 anymore since it's some MMORPG crap. I'm probably anticipating FF13 more than I should but that's largely due to the fact that almost all the recent RPG's have sucked so hard. Valkyria Chronicles is fantastic but it's a strategy RPG and not a real RPG so I wouldn't even count that. The only other one worth mentioning is Lost Odyssey and seriously, it wasn't that great and had a lot of problems. I just want a good RPG to play and Final Fantasy has usually given me that. As for the trailer, it doesn't have much content but it has the first real gameplay footage and that's cool. And I suppose I like the CGI and don't mind whatever that is you are complaining about. Obviously I'm not overly excited here since the game is still far from being released  but all I'm saying that I'm looking forward to it and even though these trailers aren't showing much, it's something.

And yeah, the core team isn't the same team which worked on FF12 but that doesn't bother me. I'm happy they decided to go with another composer as FF12's music was pretty underwhelming. They brought back FF10's battle director and the guy directing FF13 has been working on FF7 and FF8 so that's good news. Bad news is that he also worked on FF10-2. Anyway, I'm not saying IT'S GOING TO BE GOOD JUST WAIT WHEN IT'S GOING TO BE IN TOP 10 PS3 GAMES WHO'S LAUGHING THEN but I'm just looking forward to it. The trailer isn't anything special by any means but it doesn't make me pessimistic about the game either and that's good enough for me!

videogames were so much better when they were completely devoid of anime influences.

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This is so fuckign true.

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This is so fuckign true.

Indeed, anime rules 60% of the gaming industry now