In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, you do not have Paradigms to shift into. Instead, you create various “Styles” that you switch during combat, each style comprising of a weapon, a shield, accessories and abilities you set beforehand.
The new combat system with Styles does not have an official name yet, but is tentatively called “Amazing ATB (temporary name)”.
Apparently it’s called that because the new combat system is basically derived from the classic Active Time Battle system, except now you take direct control of your character in terms of movement and pressing buttons for commands.
Square Enix is also stressing that, unlike Final Fantasy XIII-2, this time around the story will be complete within the confines of what’s on the game retail package, meaning you won’t have to buy DLC to see the end of the story.
They're also promising that fans of characters from the previous FF13 games will be happy with those characters’ stories in this new title, that loose ends will be tied up.
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'Styles' instead of Paradigms, story to be
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In Lightning Returns"
Obviously, there will be bikinis or skimpy attire DLC, right Square Enix?
I just hope FFVersus hasnt been canned.. Lightning and her saga can gtfo.
I just get so tired of people ragging on XIII series and then in the same breath declaring how awesome Versus is going to be based on a couple of screenshots and one or 2 trailers.
@Kamikaze135:
That's because they pulled that crap with 13-2.
They were proud they pulled that crap with 13-2!
Hell, I very much doubt its still exclusive if it even still being worked on.
Versus isn't even being released. Who knows, it may be worse than FF13?
So just enjoy FF13 or just stay away from it. No point ranting and comparing it to an unreleased game.
Besides warning off Square from making the mistakes they did with 13 you mean.
If they're able to correct those mistakes that is.
Nomura's track record is much more impressive than Toriyama's. He is a better story writer, better game designer & better director than Toriyama. I say this cause it was Toriyama's horrible writing in the 3rd Birthday that almost killed the Parasite Eve franchise.
I have more faith in Nomura delivering a better game. He co-wrote FF7, created the Kingdom Hearts franchise, created the Dissidia series, & was the creative mind for FF Type-0.
And by the way DLC helps developers. Its not like the ps2 days where games cost a hell lot cheaper. Developers have to sale quadruple amount of copies to equal what they get back in money in ps2 days. Thats why crap load of studios are shutting down. It cost to munch to make AAA games. Why u think we haven't seen much new ip's this gen. Because they don't want to take the risk of a failure and go with something that they know sales. Matter what people say Lightning Returns will make profit. Its just not going to be as close as FF13.
AGREED!
Though it really isn't just Square Enix, because EA, Capcom, and numerous other gaming companies are just as bad.
But as much as we hate it, I don't see it changing anytime soon, because for every gamer who is smart enough to say "No friggen way" to a subpar gaming experience and overpriced crappy DLC, their is a gamer who actually likes subpar games and doesn't mind wasting their money on overpriced crappy DLC.
So the rest of us just have to shake our heads at the idiocy and know when to walk away from a dying series.
Which genius at SE came up with that idea,it's mindblowing.
They need to advertise it more, it's a groundbreaking concept.
What do I get if I preorder right now? Lol
Great News for FF Fans, TBH FF 13-3 LR sounds more interesting than FF VS-13, i cannot wait for FF 13-4 and FF 13-5
I'm not looking forward to this game though. If they are going to focus on only Lightning with no other party members joining your party, then why even make it a turn based RPG? Why not just make it like KH, Castlevania, or DmC? Even Skyrim have companions and followers to join you on quests and that game is mostly shown as a solo game.
Getting back to them selling ending. I liked ff13-2, but I couldn't recommend it to anyone because they were selling the final piece of their game. Same with Asura's Wrath. Asura's Wrath had 2 standard endings that would've easily lead into a sequel. Then Capcom comes out with the DLC list, and on that list is the TRUE FINALE TO ASURA'S WRATH! Selling the ending to a primarily story driven game is not an ADD-on! Add-ons are things that expand on the game and are small trinkets like costumes. Expansions are a slew of new quests and content (GTA4 episodes/Starcraft Expansions/Dragonborn Skyrim).
This messed up trend of dirty DLC practices, that I noticed anyway, are from my favorite Japanese companies! Namco, Square, and...crapcom. Namco and Capcom are probably the biggest offenders of abusing DLC that I've run into anyway. Have you seen the list of Tales DLC? That's certainly a lot of stuff they ripped straight from the game.