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twesterm on 14 June 2009
.:Dark Prince:. said:
I don't get why people say that Lightning is a Cloud clone. Yes they look really similar in terms of appearance but Lightning seems way more serious and confident. In terms of personality they're way different based on what we know so far (IMO).

Because someone from SE said just that. 

I looked for the quote but it has been repeated on so many forum posts now that it's pointless to look for the original articles (even this thread comes up).

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Found it!

EGM: What can you tell us about the heroine of FFXIII?
Motomu Toriyama: We can't tell you all the details, unfortunately. Looking at the history of the FF series, there were already female main characters, like in FFVI, FFX, and FFX-2. This time, one of the characteristics of this heroine is that she's not that feminine. I tried to make her someone very strong, independent. When I asked Mr. Nomura to design this character, I requested someone like a female version of Cloud from FFVII.



 

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soulsamurai on 14 June 2009

Nowadays no matter how excellent a Zelda game is, even if it is better, someones going to say OoT is the best. Same thing is going to happen with the Final Fantasy series with FFVII, although many are more diverse on that one. My personal favorite is FFX.

So chances are low simply because of peoples mindsets, but hey there might be someone to bring a frostmourne in and just bash the hell out of 7.



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pearljammer on 14 June 2009
twesterm said:
.:Dark Prince:. said:
I don't get why people say that Lightning is a Cloud clone. Yes they look really similar in terms of appearance but Lightning seems way more serious and confident. In terms of personality they're way different based on what we know so far (IMO).

Because someone from SE said just that. 

I looked for the quote but it has been repeated on so many forum posts now that it's pointless to look for the original articles (even this thread comes up).

-edit-

Found it!

EGM: What can you tell us about the heroine of FFXIII?
Motomu Toriyama: We can't tell you all the details, unfortunately. Looking at the history of the FF series, there were already female main characters, like in FFVI, FFX, and FFX-2. This time, one of the characteristics of this heroine is that she's not that feminine. I tried to make her someone very strong, independent. When I asked Mr. Nomura to design this character, I requested someone like a female version of Cloud from FFVII.

Yes, but that only tells us that the similarities are in the design, not necessarily in personality.

All we can really take from that quote is: Lightning is a strong, independant female who looks like Cloud.



Nightmare24 on 14 June 2009

No, FFX and FFVII are extremely hard to beat.



SHMUPGurus on 14 June 2009

I believe there is a chance, because the turn-based gameplay seems to be doing a comeback in this game. It also has a Xenogears vibe to it, so I'm sure it will please both new players in the franchise and old time Final Fantasy fans. With that said, I personally hope we will be able to control more than one character...!

About the gameplay vs other contents a game should have discussion, I'd say I fit in the camp that prefers to see a good story and character development than good gameplay in a RPG. There are so many sub-genres in RPGs, so you play the games you know you will love and that's it: Action RPGs, Turn-based RPGs, Strategy RPGs, etc.... It's up to you to decide if you want to play a game you know you will hate from the start just to see what the development is all about.

From my personal point of view, it's previous obvious from the start that RPGs are not meant to be complicated at all. How I see it, it's a book put into a game, so I want to see a good narrative in them, not something that makes me want to tear my hair out!



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NFGBlinkAC on 14 June 2009

For my personal opinion, I doubt it will be since FFvsXIII interests me more. I won't doubt there will be a lot of fans saying this one will be their favorite when it comes out.



spartan004 on 14 June 2009

for me personally it would have to do a lot to surpass FFVII, not impossible, but it will take more than 35 hours of gameplay not counting side quests and other additional stuff, and more plot twists than a twizzler



sapient on 15 June 2009

Slim ... it is very hard to create new experiences and after 13+ iterations it will be even harder.

Just keep in mind that the best game of all time is STILL Zelda:OOT even though Zelda:TP does "everything" that OOT introduced better. It's about doing something for the very first time and nothing is ever quite like it.