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Fab_GS on 20 February 2010

Previews:
Resolution Magazine: Hands-on | Final Fantasy XII
Yahoo! UK: Final Fantasy XIII preview
AtomicGamer: FFXIII preview
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Digital Spy: 'Final Fantasy XIII' Preview
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Guardian: Final Fantasy XIII preview
TeamXbox: Final Fantasy XIII Hands-On Preview (Xbox 360)
GameSpot X10: Final Fantasy XIII Hands-On
IGN X10: Final Fantasy XIII: 'Now I'm Excited'
VideoGamer: Final Fantasy 13 Hands-on Preview
GiantBomb: Ask Me Anything - Final Fantasy XIII
The Lost Gamer: Final Fantasy XIII | Xbox 360 Hands-on Preview
RPG Site: Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Version Hands-On Impressions

More previews here

Interviews:
Final Fantasy XIII 's Motomu Toriyama and Yoshinori Kitase - Interview
TeamXbox Interview: Final Fantasy XIII Development Leads
DigitalSpy: Final Fantasy XIII Interview
Gaming Target: FFXIII interview
CVG: Final Fantasy XIII Interview
Final Fantasy XIII developer interviews discuss franchise history, new battle system and favourites
The Examiner: Q&A with Final Fantasy XIII devs
Bitmob: Final Fantasy 13 Interview: Modern Warfare Influences, DLC Possibilities, and More
todojuegos: Interview with Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama
Final Fantasy XIII devs talk: Challenges, future, and DLC
GamesRadar: Final Fantasy XIII interview
PlayStation Blog: Final Fantasy XIII: Your Questions Answered

Videos:
New videos on GameSpot
First FFXIII U.S. Commercial is for Xbox 360 only
GameSpot: New Final Fantasy XIII videos (spoilers)
Final Fantasy XIII X10 Gameplay (English version)

More videos here, here, here, here, here and here.

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Fab_GS on 20 February 2010

Games/Activities:-

1- Rate every Final Fantasy game you have played, give it a rating out of 10 in order from highest to lowest, lets see which FF game has the HIGHEST Average Score!

The scores (Average)
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2- Ask eachother Final Fantasy Questions, from Past FF's, spoilers are allowed for past FF's. Lets see who can answer the MOST questions!
The Results so far:-

Carl -- 41
Lestatdark -- 29.5
Fab_GS -- 21.5
Darthdevidem01 -- 18.5
Jneul -- 10
iLLmaticV3 -- 10
Wagram -- 7.5
Boutros -- 1
Crystalchild -- 0.75

3- Post your favorite Final Fantasy Scene & your most HATED Final Fantasy scene!

4- Name a crush that you have from any Final Fantasy game & give a reason.(post a picture of them if you want)

5- Post a music piece from any Final Fantasy, everyone else must guess WHICH part of that game the music piece is from!

6 - Final Fantasy Summon Battle

Rules

Each summon has 10 HP

You are meant to give a + & - to a summon in your post.

Giving a - = 2 HP lost

Giving a + = 1 HP Gained

You can have a combo where 2 people + & - the same thing, in this case the points are doubled, only double combo's are allowed.

If a summon is missing & you wish to add it you may do so, but you loose your turn by adding a new summon.

You can vote every 2 hours.

Odin - 32

Alexander - 12

Pandemona - 12

Ifrit - 12

Siren - 11

Ultima - 11

Adrammelech - 10

Anima - 10

Ark - 10

Chaos - 10

Chocobo - 10

Diablos - 10

Doomtrain - 10

Famfrit - 10

Gilgamesh - 10

Hades - 10

Hashmal - 10

Hectatoncheir - 10

Leviathan - 10

Madeen - 10

The Magus Sisters - 10

Mateus - 10

Phoenix - 10

Shemhazai - 10

Yojimbo - 10

Zeromus - 10

Zodiark - 10

Cerberus - 9

Zalera - 9

Bahamut - 8

Exodus - 8

Ixion - 8

Cúchulainn - 6

ELIMINATED:

Carbuncle

Valefore

Ramuh

Shiva

Belias

Titan

Kjata

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Last Vote - Fab_GS

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Carl on 20 February 2010

"When it comes to sheer production values, sheer amount of features, the details, no game beats Grand Theft Auto 4"

Fuck off details!

¬_¬

Also, GT5's dev costs will have been eaten up by GT5:P

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Fab_GS on 20 February 2010

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jneul on 21 February 2010

ouch so even before the HD era existed there were games that cost big $$$ to make lol, I never know Final Fanatasy XII cost that much, I'm guessing it was all those CGI sequences.

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AkibaFan on 21 February 2010

I was rite, the game is gettng bad reviws and previwws, gud thng i cancelled my preorder. in japan its the most hated ff ever, here it will be 2.

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Crystalchild on 21 February 2010

AkibaFan said:

I was rite, the game is gettng bad reviws and previwws, gud thng i cancelled my preorder. in japan its the most hated ff ever, here it will be 2.

i woudlnt say so, the actual Metascore is at 86, and with the Review of 'Games Aktuell' added to it, it'll get a slight bump up. (Games Aktuell is a German Mag, but i saw them very often at Metacrittics. and their Score for FFXIII is 90%, and thats not a bad one.)

I'm a Foreigner, and as such, i am grateful for everyone pointing out any mistakes in my english posted above - only this way i'll be able to improve. thank you!

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Fab_GS on 21 February 2010

Found some interesting facts about Final Fantasy (from http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/)

Final Fantasy III:
- Final Fantasy III is the only game in the main series to never appear on a Sony platform, although it should be noted that Square Enix did consider porting the game to the PlayStation 2, but was eventually convinced by Nintendo to develop the title for their new handheld system, the Nintendo DS.
- This was the first game in the series to graphically show hit points when a target was attacked or healed, rather than use caption as in the original versions of the previous two games. It was also the first to contain auto-targeting, as well as the first to contain special battle music for boss battles. All of these aspects were also adapted in the remakes of the previous two games.

Final Fantasy IV:
- Final Fantasy IV is the first game of the series that uses Save Points.
- It is one of the FF games that have been novelized in Japan.

Final Fantasy VII:
- During the development of Final Fantasy VII, Hironobu Sakaguchi's mother died. At the time, Sakaguchi wanted to craft a story that told of how just because someone has passed away, doesn't mean in any way that they are gone, and to show a realistic death rather than a "Hollywood" sacrificial death that previous games in the series had done. These desires developed into the Lifestream, and Aeris' iconic death scene and subsequent continuing role in the lives of the cast.

Final Fantasy VIII:
- During Ultimecia's Parade in Deling City, the masked dancers are performing the dance moves from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video.
- In one of the Charlie's Angels movies, in the scene when one character approaches a building, there are two little kids inside playing Final Fantasy VIII. Infamously for fans, both kids holds controllers despite the fact that the game has no two-player mode.

Final Fantasy IX:
- A Final Fantasy IX remake for PlayStation 2 had been considered by Square in early 2001, only one year after the original release. For some reason, the project was either scrapped or never started development at all. Similar projects for Final Fantasy VII and Vagrant Story were also considered at one point, but met the same fate.

Final Fantasy X:
- The majority of the English dialogue was not based to the actual game footage; the only guidance the voice actors had were samples of the original Japanese dialogue, and they rarely had the opportunity to sync their dialogue with actual footage. Once the voice recording was complete, sound editors would digitally speed up or slow down the audio clips in order to fill the character's allotted speaking time for each particular line.

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jneul on 21 February 2010

Fab_GS said:

Found some interesting facts about Final Fantasy (from http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/)

Final Fantasy III:
- Final Fantasy III is the only game in the main series to never appear on a Sony platform, although it should be noted that Square Enix did consider porting the game to the PlayStation 2, but was eventually convinced by Nintendo to develop the title for their new handheld system, the Nintendo DS.
- This was the first game in the series to graphically show hit points when a target was attacked or healed, rather than use caption as in the original versions of the previous two games. It was also the first to contain auto-targeting, as well as the first to contain special battle music for boss battles. All of these aspects were also adapted in the remakes of the previous two games.

Final Fantasy IV:
- Final Fantasy IV is the first game of the series that uses Save Points.
- It is one of the FF games that have been novelized in Japan.

Final Fantasy VII:
- During the development of Final Fantasy VII, Hironobu Sakaguchi's mother died. At the time, Sakaguchi wanted to craft a story that told of how just because someone has passed away, doesn't mean in any way that they are gone, and to show a realistic death rather than a "Hollywood" sacrificial death that previous games in the series had done. These desires developed into the Lifestream, and Aeris' iconic death scene and subsequent continuing role in the lives of the cast.

Final Fantasy VIII:
- During Ultimecia's Parade in Deling City, the masked dancers are performing the dance moves from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video.
- In one of the Charlie's Angels movies, in the scene when one character approaches a building, there are two little kids inside playing Final Fantasy VIII. Infamously for fans, both kids holds controllers despite the fact that the game has no two-player mode.

Final Fantasy IX:
- A Final Fantasy IX remake for PlayStation 2 had been considered by Square in early 2001, only one year after the original release. For some reason, the project was either scrapped or never started development at all. Similar projects for Final Fantasy VII and Vagrant Story were also considered at one point, but met the same fate.

Final Fantasy X:
- The majority of the English dialogue was not based to the actual game footage; the only guidance the voice actors had were samples of the original Japanese dialogue, and they rarely had the opportunity to sync their dialogue with actual footage. Once the voice recording was complete, sound editors would digitally speed up or slow down the audio clips in order to fill the character's allotted speaking time for each particular line.

i knew i recognised thos moves in the FF VIII parade lol, I just couldn't put my finger on it

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The official Vita thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=130023&page=1

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