Dear god...

Although, to be honest, if they make it a more traditional Final Fantasy, e.g. Non-linear (at least not to the same point as FFXIII), a battle system that takes more than the AI being less retarded than... a retarded monkey, and... well that's about it really. I actually liked what I played of the story, before I got irritated at the battle system and quit playing.

I sometimes feel like the only one actually enjoying the game. It could be a lot better, but I enjoyed the art style, music, battle system and it was worth the purchase.

that said, it did not deserve a sequel, so this FF XII-2 game seems unnecessary. But Square-Enix probably needs some money, and it's much easier to develop a sequel than start a new game. Now they have all the ground work already done, models, engine, etc. I hope this game will fix some of the bad stuff from XIII, and will not be a retail release of the stuff they cut from the game, or had planned for DLC.

Fuck.
That is all.

I'm going to go and drink a lot in a dark corner. Be back later. Hopefully.

I can't offer much of an opinion from a fan's perspective, but as a gamer in general, the idea is just silly.

Yayyyyy more auto battle button here I come....or not

It is dissapointing when games do so well commercially when they don't deserve to and you feel as though the directors/producers don't see past the money river flowing in. I think with FF13-2 we will finally see whether the guys who created FF13 will see the glaring inadequacies of FF13 and improve it, maybe even liken it to something pre FF 10, the real FF's of the PS1 etc, or whether they will churn out another disgrace of a game knowing that it will make the money no matter what.

Considering FFXIII was the only FF game other than FFX to catch my fancy and keep me to the end of the story, I'm very excited about this. I see a lot of people complaining about it, but if you want them to stop doing it *DON'T BUY IT*.

That said, my guess is that this is going to hit before FF Versus XIII, Kingdom Hearts 3, and every other game I've been hearing rumors for forever but never seen evidence of. Probably so that they can make a bit more profit at less risk so they can actually fund those other games. FFXIV being a huge money sink to maintain and fix probably isn't helping them produce other games, either.

Excuse me while I spend the remainder of tonight sobbing uncontrollably into my pillow while dreaming of better days where I didnt die a little on the inside when ff news became official.......

Cautiously looking forward to it.

13 was alot better than you ADHD fuckwits would leave people to believe.

As long as they don't replace the upcoming theme song for the game with some Leona Lewis track, I'm good. :)

well im happy. thats all that matters.

You think this is what Versus has turned into? Can anyone even recall Versus being a thing, it seems like such a long time ago now...

I didn't really like XIII and I especially didn't like the character Lightning (all she seems to do is mope and slap people about) but I will play this. I'm hoping they'll completely change the combat, like X-2 was to X, but regardless I'm willing to give them a chance. There was some enjoyment to be pulled from XIII; it was just nowhere near up to the standard of the company's previous work.

Eh...
This is a confirmed thing then.
Still not interested.

Definitely not buying this....

@Discarded Couch Sandwich:
Versus is still a thing. It was shown a new Versus trailer (still without a date) at the Square Enix event.

I'm just going to continue replaying Final Fantasy IX and try not to think about this.

I figured they would do this as it would mean they could make a guaranteed hit, like it or not, using preexisting resources. Between this, the dismal FF XIV sales and reception (and, well, game itself), seeing a lot more Square PS1 games coming to PSN, and the fact that most all original IP development from SquareEnix is happening on the DS and PSP, I see the company more than ever struggling to survive. I hope I'm wrong, as it seems they are at least trying to shape up.

This is something that I'm going to cautiously look forward too. My major complaint was having to go through half the game before I could customize my party. I really hated Hope for most of the game, but in the third act he really grew on me. XIII was the first Final Fantasy that I was really excited about since IX, and I think with a little refining a sequel could go from what I consider an ok game to a really good game.

I love that they can get this sequel out the door in a year or so, but Versus still hasn't got a release date.

Goddammit, Square Enix.

There's no hope for this one. It's just going to recycle the stuff cut from XIII with the same miserable combat and straight-line maps. At least it has Lightning...

YES! I'm happy! Perhaps the sad pandas will get some news from the 1st Production Department Premier press conference (that's a mouthful) that will dry their teary eyes. The day's not over yet.

@Aurain

Bandwagon hopping is a very "in" thing around here. One person hates it, all of a sudden everyone does without being able to form their own opinion.

"Bandwagon hopping is a very "in" thing around here. One person hates it, all of a sudden everyone does without being able to form their own opinion."

Anti-bandwagon hopping is pretty "in" as well. A lot of people hate something, and suddenly a bunch of people decide to love it just to be different and cool.

See? I can negate the possibility of someone just having an opinion as well!

I shamelessly enjoyed FFX-2, so I will also shamelessly enjoy this. Without shame.

Also, keep the theme song.

I'm a huge Square Enix fan, and I've played most of their games. But for the first time, I couldn't care less about a SE game.

I....liked 13. Mainly because of Sazh. And the gameplay was decent.

Again, haven't read the fat kid's review. But from the sounds of things, I'm guessing it was a 4.5. I thought it was a 7.

Again, this is coming from a guy who's favorite FF is 12. Fuck ya'll. Balthier ftw.


Casually looking foward to this.

Seriously though, burn it. Just burn it. At this rate, it's like what Sega did to the Sonic franchise. Except worse.

so, just because the first one wasnt good, it means this one will be bad aswell.. i see.

indisputable logic there.

no ff12-2? aaww.. i liked ff12 and i always see that the ff13 battle system is an upgraded ff12 system..

Kill it, set it on fire, revive it and repeat for all eternity.

New battle system (or old one, just NOT the one from FF13) and no linear-borefest this time and I'll bite.

I just can't resist FF games.

@Static Jak: They haven't quite gotten to Sonic 2006 levels yet, mate. Getting there, but not yet.

Does that make it 3 or 4 announced Final Fantasy games we still know nothing about?

I didn't enjoy XIII because every battle felt like an ordeal. If they reduced the difficulty of regular enemies, let me have a bit of a wander and make some minigames I'd buy it.

I enjoyed XIII, even as flawed as it was, but I'll wait for more details to see if I'll get this.

It's too early to make a judgement :)

When's Super FFXIII Championship 3rd Strike Arcade Edition coming out?

Oh!! Oops... wrong game?

Soooooooooooooooooooooo...... here's the official trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXflRadhm54

it has a somewhat classic medieval-magic touch...... i like that.... kinda


dot dot dot

The death of a fantasy takes it's final breath.

did lightning become the queen of cocoon or something? :D

will be looking forward to this for sure ^^

hopefully they bring back the voice actors from the previous game. Maaya Sakamoto FTW ^^

i wonder how many years has it been since it's ending? im expecting at least a year or 2

hopefully the customization and battle system is similar to X-2(being able to use multiple characters, tons of customization, extra missions, tons of mini games, being able to use airship and so)

will definitely looking forward to this(hope they learn alot right now)

I swear, this better let you have more control of your character. They could probably make a decent action-RPG out of this, though the short development time gives me doubt.

Guys in including you Jim, should stop bitching about the game until the game comes out and you can play it then you can bitch all you want. I was also in the minority that liked the first FF13 to death and if you do not like that sue me.

I'm in the middle of XIII atm. Story is boring me to sleep and put together horribly. The extreme linearity is quite grating after a while. However, the gameplay is decent and the music is serviceable. I actually like Lightning and Sazh. The rest can go to hell. So pretty much, its been a mediocre game so far. The saving grace is the gameplay and gorgeous graphics.

@Stop Spoilers

Why would I sue you, I only pity you.

Damn it square we're trying to forget that Final Fantasy XIII happened, but no you make a sequel that no one wants. It was the worst received game in the main series, forget about it and move on to a sequel to a game that people actually want. While I liked the game I never thought that it needed a sequel, not for a second. I doubt it will be very different due to the two year development and cut content from the original.

Hooray!

Personally speaking, I love Final Fantasy XIII. It's a fine game with some great gameplay mechanics once the combat system opens up, and personally speaking I think it's a fresh take on the JRPG as a whole. I guess this does mean, however, that I'll have to finish it.

Ironically, the part where everyone else claims the game gets great (the open plains area which is not a corridor) is the place where I'm currently paused for lack of interest. However, I suppose I should go ahead and just finish the game, then.

I assume that the light-haired character in the logo is Lightning, so who would the dark-haired character be? Spoilers being what they are on the Internet these days, I'm pretty sure it can't be fang, so... New character, I guess? Whatever. I'm wondering if they're going to keep the gameplay relatively the same, expand on it and add classes (ala FFX-2), or go with something entirely different.

I'm fucking exicted for this, but it was the game that made me realize what an idiot Jim Sterling really is, he doesn't like the endless repetition of world centric made up words, has he never played a final fantasy? mako, jenova, esper, magicite, aeon, these games have always been full of this stuff.

also what he said in the comments about anti bandwagon jumping is both hypocritical and just outright dumb as Jims is pretty much the only review that slammed the game, his really felt like it was trying to be different and was grasping at straws, if you didn't understand the story I got news for you bro, you're a moron, I didn't even touch the datalog. an 8.5 on metacritic aint bad and I'm sick of all of these people on the internet who are offended the entire world doesn't share their views, like shanruels said about "a game doing well commercially when it didn't deserve to", who the fuck are you to decide that it didnt' deserve to? obviously it did well and does deserve to, if something's that bad people will see it.

tldr people who dont' understand the difference between opinions and objective facts, that includes Jim

"more annoying australian voice acting"? Jim, you have the most annoying voice I've ever heard that statement is rather ironic

Eh, I'm game. Many people didn't like FFX-2, but it's almost universally agreed that X-2's battle system was one of the best in FF history and that came about because people complained about X's battle system. For all we know, XIII-2 may go a similar path, sorting out all the problems XIII had after the complaints. Also, one of the major reasons why XIII was sub-par was because they clearly spent most of heir time and efforts on the graphics - not so much would have to be done a second time around so here's to more time being spent on the story and gameplay.

That said, Fang was pretty much the main reason why XIII was at all passable to me, and of course if this is a direct follow-up to XIII then that means there'll be no Fang in this one. I actually didn't mind Lightning - hell, she's a lot better than Tidus, Vaan and to be honest, Cloud - but she's no Fang.

Though I'll be happy to play a game without Vanille.

and for those who are looking for the trailer

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/01/18/a-blurry-look-at-final-fantasy-xiii-2-and-lightnings-new-rival/

you can thank me later :P

I can't seem to muster up the energy to come up with anything witty, but I felt the need to post something in here because it's Final Fantasy.

That's how excited I am.