Tetsuya Nomura Provides Final Fantasy Versus XIII Status Update

Does it seem like you've been waiting ages for Final Fantasy Versus XIII? Well guess what? You have!

[Fulensenca]

"Blah-blah-blah."

Show us something, damn you!!!

I don' t know if I can thrust SE anymore ... *sob*

[LordMarius]

Stop approving crap when its a dupe
http://n4g.com/news/580119/...
http://n4g.com/news/579981/...

seriously this site needs some new mods

[Shang-Long]

dang i just want gameplay. please at TGS show us gameplay.. i dont care if its for a second

[AAACE5]

So you 'Thrust' SE? No wonder they are taking so long to release anything... all that thrusting going on!

[Commander_TK]

it´ll b shown at TGS

[nickjkl]

"There have been many questions regarding fields. It's not a completely open world. It's like the 2D FF games in HD. Although, in terms of looks, it's not a top-down view, it's like the screenshots that have been released. You'll move through the world from that view."

what does that even mean

[MadMan00]

Oh...so it's like FFXIII? Lol.

[himdeel]

It's the SAME article. Mods need to remove crap that is approved if it's a duplicate. LAME!

[badz149]

to become a vaporware and even if it does, I don't really care anymore! I guess KH3 will remain a dream for now :(

[hot4play]

"thrust SE"?
hehe, what with like a sword? :p

i feel ya man...

[Hellsvacancy]

Its gonna go to the 360 man im tellin ya, i fu<kin hope and pray it doesnt but i cant help but think that it will

[Fulensenca]

Probably you are right ... well, at least we know already how this game is going to be ... ( FFXIII )

[Parapraxis]

...yeah an "urban myth legend"
Because we all know the 360 version of FFXIII was on par with the PS3 one.
/Sarcasm...obviously

Seriously maniacmayhem how fcking mental can you be?

[NoBias]

I'm a 360 fan but I even know that it'll be gimped if it comes to that platform. I want this to remain exclusive to the PS3 so it'll look amazing because this might come as a shock to you but...

*GAAASP*

I'm a PS3 fan as well. And I will be buying this (IF it remains an exclusive).

[Erotic Sheep]

Maniac, you are the perfect example of a blind fanboy. Well done!

Can we all get a nice round of applause for him?

[karl]

wow wow guys...

dont be pessimist... till the moment they say... this game is coming to 360..
we still have a chance for the game to be good..

so keep those hopes up...

[Megaton]

I think there's a good chance they'd lose Nomura over that, but it wouldn't surprise me. He's already miserable over there.

[SOAD]

How do you know he's miserable?

[Megaton]

Nomura and Kitase have both been vocal about their issues with management there, going so far as saying they wished Yoichi Wada was DLC for The Last Guy so they could let him die.

[SOAD]

Ok. Why did I get disagrees for asking a question?

[Bobbykotickrulesz]

You're ridiculous, SOAD.

Don't you DARE ask questions around here.

[wicko]

Do you have any links to that? I'd be interested in reading what they had to say.

EDIT:
Okay, thanks man. I'll take a look

[Megaton]

Nah, but you can probably find it by Googling some combination of "Nomura", "Kitase", and "The Last Guy". I think it was a Famitsu interview from a couple years ago. Nomura seems to make a public complaint every few months.

[Fulensenca]

Urban myth legend? I hope you are right.

But it' s easier to develope on one console instead of two. FACT.

I just care about quality, you are half wrong: if you want to call me a fanboy, then call me a Quality Games Fanboy.

[maniacmayhem]

Being able to develop on two consoles can be easy as long as you have the right tools. FACT.

I am all right and no wrong.

[PshycoNinja]

No you are wrong. I'm currently in school developing games for the PS3, 360 and Wii. And every programmer knows that you have to develop the game from the ground up for all systems if you want the game to be half decent.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

It's Nomura. He doesn't work as a Chief and then work in other consoles that is not PlayStation.

This will stay Exclusive, because is Nomura.

[maniacmayhem]

@ Parapraxis
When were we comparing the two versions? I never said the 360 version was on par with the PS3. Wait let me re-read what I posted...hmmm...nope..no where did i say that.
But there's a lot of peeps on N4G that think just because FF went to 360 that somehow it magically made the game on PS3 suck. So me being mental...nope not at all.

@ NoBias
Again, why won't it look any less amazing if it comes to 360 too? Did FF XII not look better on PS3 than the 360?

"I'm a PS3 fan as well. And I will be buying this (IF it remains an exclusive)."

So much for your name eh?

[PshycoNinja]

you are wrong. You take people (assets) from the PS3 team on the project and move them over to make a 360 team to create the game, hence losing time, money and resorces for the PS3 team on the project.

[baker_boi]

No, it didn't magically make the PS3 version suck. In light of the having to have two software versions hold a fair amount of the same content things were cut from the game.

This was probably to keep development and conversion time to a minimum.

In this way you could drop both versions date and time together without it taking a full year or more.

Plus the over all changes to the game system and the large quality drop from the PS3 demo to the final retail code would lead one to believe that shit got gimped.

You don't cut your arm off because it's working well, do you?

[Erotic Sheep]

Maniac dont be so stupid. Content was being cut from the game and we all saw the vid of the PS3 comparing the early ones with the final build. The final build looked worse...
What the hell man? You think SE would make a multiplatform game with such big differences between both platforms? MS would flame them down. No, instead they had to compromise.. you know.. downgrade one version to make it equal with the other version.

Wisen up

[Odin777]

@ NoBias You're right if they go ahead and make FFXII Versus multiplatform it'll definitely be gimped. I'm not saying it'll be bad, contrary to popular belief FFXIII is actually a pretty solid game, but it definitely won't live up to its full potential.

[-MD-]

Only a fanboy would want a game to stay on a single platform. Real gamers would want as many people as possible to have access to the game.

Go ahead and try and tell me that the 360 would hold it back and I'll tell you that if you really want maximum potential then it needs to be on the PC and not a console computer from 2006.

[Odin777]

Well I would like all of the platforms have exclusives. I don't give a fuck about that "I'm a real gamer I want everyone to experience the game" bullshit. If they want to play the game they should have to pick up the platform. I would rather the developer focus on one platform rather worrying about porting to another and all the problems that causes.

[1942]

"Only a fanboy would want a game to stay on a single platform. Real gamers would want as many people as possible to have access to the game."

actually only a fanboy would want a game to be gimped so that they can play it on the system they have instead of having it at it's best on one console that they don't have. real gamers want good games regardless of if others get to play it or not. all i have to say is we know that this game is more open, has towns, few load screens, real time fights, better graphics then ff13, is HD and uses some cgi plus more if it goes multiplat and any of that is gone you know it will because of the 360. also 360 fanboys you need to calm down you bragged about ff13 going multiplat and got the worst version. this one is doing more then that so it would just end up worst on the 360 then ff13.

[PirateThom]

Yeah, multiplatforms for the sake of gloating is the most fanboyish thing possible... the game has been described, already, as the 2D Games in 3D... the minute they cut it from 1 disc down to whatever you're going to have loading, streaming and backtracking issues. This doesn't help development AT ALL and, in fact, leads to some outright disasterous results.

It's not 1997 anymore.

[PirateThom]

Yeah, wanting games to remain exclusive isn't fanboyism... the game has been described, already, as the 2D Games in 3D... the minute they cut it from 1 disc down to whatever you're going to have loading, streaming and backtracking issues. This doesn't help development AT ALL and, in fact, leads to some outright disasterous results. Wanting the best game possible is not fanboyish.

And this isn't a "it can't run it" argument, this is a multiple disc, "it's not 1997 anymore" arguement.

[PshycoNinja]

You are wrong. You take people (assets) from the PS3 team on the project and move them over to make a 360 team to create the game, hence losing time, money and resorces for the PS3 team on the project.

Basicly if you make the game multiplatform the PS3 version of the game never reachs it's intended potential and the game also comes out later than a lot of fans would have liked (see: FFXIII)

Multiplatform = Longer development time + never reachs intended potential = Late release dates && upset fans

[Optical_Matrix]

@Murderdolls. Don't chat shit. You'd go nuts if Halo, Mass Effect or Gears went multiplat and the majority of you 360 WOULD care. Real gamers want the best quality games and it's a well known FACT that if a game focuses on a single platform, it has higher capacity to achieve great things. Do you really think multiplat games utilize the PS3's SPU's the same way games like Killzone 2, UC2 and GOWIII? No. Because devs need to find an equal footing between the two systems so to make the games as similar as possible.

[C0MPUT3R]

Its about performance & content.
.
When devs want to build a huge diverse world with lots of content & story.
.
Devs will choose 50 gigs of space over 6.8 gigs to fulfill their vision for their project.
.
So that actually makes YOU a FANBOY if you want devs to gimp their projects, just so it can be on the other system.

[TheGameFoxJTV]

Don't give a shit. As long as the game is fun, I'll buy it. The only difference i see between my 360, PS3, and PC is the controllers(or mouse). Other than that who gives a flying fuck; I don't work for MS, Sony, or any of the dev teams.

[ukilnme]

It's coming to the 360. My sources have confirmed this. An announcement is coming but as with all good things we will have to wait for it. Oh and uh...it won't gimped either.

[soul899er]

WHAT's your source? GoGamer?

[Ascalon94]

as an owner of the 360 and PS3 I wish it wouldnt, because the PS3 could really make this shine and I really want to play it.

[Forbidden_Darkness]

SE can redeem themselves if they do FFvs13 right, FF13 was an good game in itself, but it just didn't have the FF vibe we have known and loved for generations.

[wicko]

"It's not a completely open world. It's like the 2D FF games in HD." This was all I really needed to hear. I have faith in FF again.

[maniacmayhem]

Not even remotely interested in this game anymore.

There was a time when an FF title meant something. Now with so many other great RPG's out there the great FF just doesn't hold the same swagger as it used to.

[karl]

maybe not to you.. final fantasy may be an RPG.. but thats not the souls of the game to me...

but the fantasy in it.. all the culture that they create just for the game...
and amazing worlds..

i kwnow this is still the game to play for me.. and so many others...
SE still has the potential .. we only need to wait and see if they can reach that level again...

[gano]

mods what are u on.
This cat used all bubs and started fresh over again, and is purely on hater alert.
but i lost bubs in one day for one comment.

Sorry xtrash will never see this beauty.
If you wanna play it buy a 3, end of story.

[Ascalon94]

you don't have to talk trash about other consoles to get your point across.

[Ultraplayerxd]

I'm glad I was never an FF fan, you guys seem to be in pain :P

[blasian]

It should turn out great since we already know there will be an open world map like ffvii and will feature airships. No linear = win

[Immortal321]

that and the stunning visuals, cg cut scenes, and other great features that won't normally fit on 2 dvd's.

[C0MPUT3R]

They will have 50 gigs actually.

[hikayu]

actually , 66GB . sony's new algorithm allow each layer on BD to be somewhere close to 33GB, so a DL would be 66GB . but im sure 66GB wont be enough for SE either . these guys eat storage for breakfast .

[TheGameFoxJTV]

By mentioning FF:VII, worst game in the series. 9 was by far the best.

[xX-PEIN-Xx]

Man I hope they release a gameplay trailer at TGS, it seems I've been watching that same extended trailer forever now.

[frankymv]

hopefully s/t in 2011

[ArchangelMike]

Exclusive or not, if FFvXIII repeats the same mistakes as FFXIII, i.e. linearity, no towns etc etc, it'll bomb, and SE cannot affrod that. FFXIII had so much bad press, that FFvXIII has no choice but to surpas it if it hopes to be succesfull. I hope Wada allows Nomura to fully realise the vision for FFvXIII, and not gimp it because of sales (which is a huge temptation).

Multiplatfor development is the way to go for 3rd party developers, we have to live with that now, but be sure of this - no multiplatform game pushes a consoles like its exclusive counterpart, they are always, always always developed based on the lowest common technical denominator between the platforms. For 3rd party Publishers however, this is irrelevant in the face of the potential increase in sales.

True gamers however should always demand quality over quantity, and not continue to fund games which are sub-standard.

[Shikoro]

You couldn't have said it better. :)

[nefertis]

if ffvsxiii goes multiplatform wada better watch his back in japan, ff fanbase will will put wada as there #1 most wanted hit list.

[hot4play]

This has the potential to be the next FF6 in terms of quality and relevance. I hope SE keeps this a PS3 exclusive. I don't have anything against the 360, I just want Versus XIII's potential be fully realized using the PS3 hardware and Blu-ray.

Nomura is the heir to the FF legacy so let's just have a little faith in him. (And Wada should too) :)

[jneul]

like it or not it sound like Nomura is taking FF back to it's roots, which is good news for me, also he is keeping some of the newer ideas such as the Action based battle system, in my opinion ffVs wil be the best FF to come out since FF8 graced my PS1 at this rate.
If you think about it FFVII-FFIX used the 3S FF World map idea but implemented it in 3D, it will be the same for ffVs but the world map will be in HD

[PS3OWNS36015]

I want kingdom hearts 3!

[TheGameFoxJTV]

Who's the dick who disagreed with this. You need an arrow to the nut-sack, or vag.

[singlestrike]

Honestly, I don't give a fuck anymore. Fuck you, SE.

[x5exotic]

most important: no gay turnbased please :D

[ThanatosDMC]

No turn based combat here. Nomura said it's more like Kingdom Hearts' battle system but more mature. So it should be awesome

[SuperStrokey1123]

I hope its an homage to FF6 more than anything.

[Tzuno]

They hold their shit at the limit of the hole but in the end will come out. Even if FFVSXIII is promised only for PS3 everybody forget one thing. The games are made for money not for fan-boys and if a multiplatform release will bring more money they don't give a fuck about angry PS3 users. You choose PS3 fineeeeeeee play with it Me i choose Xbox 360 and i dont cry to mommy like a stupid fan boy.

[Becko]

FF2D map in 3D ? ... well that's like FF7 world map in HD ...

[Ludakriss]

Ok. So, fuck whoever wrote this peace! Man, yesterday you already had the exact same peace that was titled differently! The fuck would you want to tease fans with this bullshit duplicate?

[ATLGAMER]

ps3 exclusive.....

[Thoreau]

if a man wants that best he does not wait for it to come to him, he seeks it.....if the "360 only owners" want ffvs13 and it only comes out for the ps3, buy a ps3. i am not a 360 fan, but i have one because i am NOT going to miss out on halo:reach. ffvs13 is best suited for the ps3. there is no denial in that belief. blu-ray and cell processing make up so much ground. ff13 was not a good game. i don't know how much pressing of L1 and x i could take, with no shops or towns. i enjoy console exclusive games be they 360 or ps3.......