Hard to believe that this is still up... back in 07 when i saw this i thought it was the biggest hype until i clicked around to find that one Versus XIII trailer play it a million times later.
Imagine if Square decided to release _this_ version of the game after all these years. Watching the combat just blew my mind at the time as I was trying to wrap my head around it. I would love to play this version of the game.
@@Lilithsblackm00n Square said that this video was a vertical slice and at the time the devs didn't even know what game they were making. It wasn't until this video came out that the devs knew the direction and vision of FF13. I understand why they implemented the auto combat system. In the beginning, the one button auto-combat made things way too easy, but later on you realize you can't get away with doing that anymore. Combat gets a lot more difficult and challenging, and you eventually realize that it's not about what attacks you select like in previous games. Rather, combat is more about speed and the most effective class role combinations you choose. So one second you may choose ravager, ravager, and commando to build up the stagger meter, then once that's filled, you quickly switch to commando, saboteur and commando to deal some heavy damage. And you had to be quick about it too. Timing was critical which is why I think they chose to implement a fast one button auto-combat mechanic.
Yeah, this reminds me of final fantasy 13 verses, which also ended being nothing like its launch trailer. Although back in the day this trailer came out years and years before launch. Which I've always found irritating since so much can and will change in development. I think people should only have to weight about a year after a trailer before launch.
FFXV went trough same struggle like XIII... XIII didn't took so many years to release. Now I look this game as a classic! One of my fave final Fantasy! :)
i think it's amazing how the final fantasy series can take the future (vehicles and architecture) and the past (weapons, armor, and clothes) and make them seem so natural together. the designers of these games are incredible...
Even to this day I still don't know why they changed the system. This looked so amazing when I first saw this battle system and still wish for a game that would use this system.
They should actually make a final fantasy game like this. That would be awesome! Have all that action in a battle. I love that bomb that slows your enemy down!!!
The only thing that can be considered "false advertising" are the fidelity of the graphics and the combat. Everything else is on par with what ff13 had to offer
Syd Klem revisited this game and just beat it tonight, after watching this i have to agree that most of the scenes they showed made it seem as if lighting was going to be a center focused character throughout the story, of course it isnt true but its still crazy
@Usul573 how have you come to that conclusion? you do know they most likely edited parts of this time so there wasn't the waiting around parts...kinda like how in one of the older trailers of Versus XIII they slowed noctis down to show his battle style more clearer. if Square thought this would have worked they would of kept it in. this battle system here does look epic but what happens when you have you partners with you? you'd hardly see them due to the dynamic camera focused on your character
Just finished this game. It left me with a "meh" feeling. I found the battle system really boring, the lack of towns and mini-games made it feel like a dungeon crawler, the final boss had way too much HP and the story wast typical shounen fodder. Hope should be renamed Shinji and Lightining is actually "Heero Yuy after a sex change, dying his hair pink". Not that I don't like Anime inspired stories, designs and settings, in fact, I love them! However, if you want to make a game in that style, you gotta do it full-on, not half-assed! Grandia II and the Lunar series, are awesome games that did the shounen/anime theme correctly, from music to design and that's why they are a thousand times better than this boring trite! They also have better battle systems too! Moreover, the main antagonist sucked and has way too much HP! Yet, I still finished it because it's FF and I admit I'll play the next one, just because it's FF.
I happened to remember seeing this trailer before the game came out. I'm really early into the game and was wondering if the gravity manipulation stuff in :45-:56 is in the game? I know the thing got broken by Sazh, but does it reappear in the game, or was it simply scrapped from the game?
Sorry finding only now your comment, devs said that the initial intention was to add the gravity manipulation gadget in final version, but in the end they scrapped, it was kept only during custscenes
Your comment is pure genius. I loved Final fantasy games but now you made me understand why I should hate them. Also, because of you I can be at peace with myself, you made me realize what I couldn't understand in my life... I'm guay... gonna dump my girlfriend now.
Wow, is this trailer entirely different from the game I am currently playing through. XD I mean, in the opening segment, there was no Lightning crashing through the window ceiling and going all mono-e-mono on Sanctum soldiers caught in a field produced by a gravity bomb!
@Xolohon I did not say they needed to be all 7 of the same action. I was pointing out that effectively, it is more or less doing the same thing as selecting 1 ability in a prior FF with ATB, instead they do 7 rather than 1 to give the illusion that more is really going on. As far as the chain gauge, 3 Ravs and the gauge is pretty much done. If it falling is an issue, 2 Rav and a Sab. It doesn't really matter much what specific active abilities they do
@Xolohon I made it to Chapter 9 without using Paradigm Shift in any non major encounter and in general I obtained 3-5 star ratings in most battles. The battles aren't fast or intense for the most part. It is the old ATB dressed up to look like it is more exciting than it really is. You still wait for the gauge to fill up, just instead of one action, you do up to 7 in succession, none of which are drastically different in terms of functionality. IE You won't attack and heal, tank, and debuff
Hey, i'm new to the final fantasy thing, would it be good to play for a guy that has no idea about final fantasy? Because my sister is ordering it and i don't know if i should get it.
Your car analogy is a good one. However, think of the software of what's going on at the contact with the road. PS3 really does have some better specs and Blu Ray really is capable of far more storage than DVD, so basically, what's under the hood, is indeed higher performance. Where the problem is, is that the software for it (suspension/the tires on the road) just doesn't utilize what's under the hood to its maximum. As software currently stands, differences between PS3 and Xbox are negligible
So, it is a large amount of data that doesn't fit on a single DVD, a problem that is remedied by using additional discs. Tell me, why is that such a problem?
HELL YES! I saw that...she's way more powerful than any other FF character I've seen yet...she can STOP time! And I thought she was a badass in FFXIII-2!
@Xolohon Not sure what you are talking about, as most of FFXIII's non major encounters are easily beaten by simply mashing X for the autobattle option. It isn't until chapter 9 that Paradigm Shifting in minor encounters is even necessary, and even then, we are only talking once or twice a fight. There are plenty of reasons to hate FFXIII. But kudos for making this a matter of people not liking change, rather than the multiple glaring gameplay and story failings.
Oh, people *say* that this battle system would have been cool, but thinking about it, most of people's complaints would still be there. :P Rather than gameplay, I love this trailer because it shows even more of the epicness Lightning is capable of. 0:44 THIS is what was going on during that cutscene in FF13 at Eden when everyone was falling. The scene shown in FF13 was just a cut up version of this! XD
I do in fact own a PS3 and Wii. Wii sucks for pretty much anything but first party games...but its been that way since the N64 era. Their first party franchise games (Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid (though the recent ones are partnered up with others)) are consistently among the best games around.
Yea i hate when people say this is a bad game Just look at the whole presentation! It was overwhelming to even take in the landscape and cutscenes on the first level for me I know this game deserves a lot more respect!
is final fantasy a series that u MUST play the original to understand its stroy or propouse? Cos i have never played any but this game look awsom and I might buy this one unless i need to play the previous games in the series.
If Final Fantasy XIII could be a live-action adaptation, here's how the main cast might go: Lightning-Asian female with great acting as well as martial arts skills Serah-If Lightning is Asian, might as well make Serah Asian too...:3 Snow-Definitely an American guy, down to the trenchcoat, cap and blond hair Sazh-Guy with African descent and a nice afro big enough to nest a Chocobo :) Fang-Hispanic or Native American who looks and acts badass Vanille-Irish or Austrailian female Hope-This one's
@AndyHarglesis yh I know, the trailer with Lightning and that other guy. It will come out before FFvs13, and Tetsuya nomura said it will only come out in 2012.
>Uploaded on Dec 15, 2007
Feels like im still waiting for this game.
All they have to do is reskin FF15 with this lol
who else remembers seing this trailer for the first time and being blown away?
Hard to believe that this is still up... back in 07 when i saw this i thought it was the biggest hype until i clicked around to find that one Versus XIII trailer play it a million times later.
A final fantasy 13 trailer that's 13 years old. Wow. 🥰
Imagine if Square decided to release _this_ version of the game after all these years. Watching the combat just blew my mind at the time as I was trying to wrap my head around it. I would love to play this version of the game.
@@Lilithsblackm00n Square said that this video was a vertical slice and at the time the devs didn't even know what game they were making. It wasn't until this video came out that the devs knew the direction and vision of FF13. I understand why they implemented the auto combat system. In the beginning, the one button auto-combat made things way too easy, but later on you realize you can't get away with doing that anymore. Combat gets a lot more difficult and challenging, and you eventually realize that it's not about what attacks you select like in previous games. Rather, combat is more about speed and the most effective class role combinations you choose. So one second you may choose ravager, ravager, and commando to build up the stagger meter, then once that's filled, you quickly switch to commando, saboteur and commando to deal some heavy damage. And you had to be quick about it too. Timing was critical which is why I think they chose to implement a fast one button auto-combat mechanic.
Ive thought this for years. One of the most captivating previews for a FF ever.
Yeah, this reminds me of final fantasy 13 verses, which also ended being nothing like its launch trailer. Although back in the day this trailer came out years and years before launch. Which I've always found irritating since so much can and will change in development. I think people should only have to weight about a year after a trailer before launch.
2022 stil good to play, what an ahead of the time game
Lightning is now a model XD
FFXV went trough same struggle like XIII... XIII didn't took so many years to release. Now I look this game as a classic! One of my fave final Fantasy! :)
i think it's amazing how the final fantasy series can take the future (vehicles and architecture) and the past (weapons, armor, and clothes) and make them seem so natural together. the designers of these games are incredible...
Even to this day I still don't know why they changed the system. This looked so amazing when I first saw this battle system and still wish for a game that would use this system.
Looks ridiculous and hard to control, auto battling be even worse.
@@wiseguy240Winston Doesn't look that ridiculous, the Tales of games already had combat lowkey like this.
watching this after I play ffxv and I say this trailer is 100x better than ffxv
I have a question . Luna died on leviathan sense . Why is she alive at the last cutscene ?
Best Vayne She's dead
Beautiful trailer! :)
0:13 to 0:25 I love that sycronization with the music.
They should actually make a final fantasy game like this. That would be awesome! Have all that action in a battle. I love that bomb that slows your enemy down!!!
If the game had those fighting mechanics I'm pretty sure it would've been more exciting
I think LR incorporates the battle system from the conceptual trailer. XIII and XIII-2 were not that good.
FF7R gameplay is actually like this. Square finally got it right.
That violin solo is just beautiful!
That music is epic.
this was some serious false advertising
Was it really that bad? I was thinking of picking it up for the PC since it's only $15...
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i liked the game but this was a poor representation of the final product
I think they did a stunted trailer for this game
The only thing that can be considered "false advertising" are the fidelity of the graphics and the combat. Everything else is on par with what ff13 had to offer
**none of this even happens**
Syd Klem revisited this game and just beat it tonight, after watching this i have to agree that most of the scenes they showed made it seem as if lighting was going to be a center focused character throughout the story, of course it isnt true but its still crazy
Yeah I agree but gets this, it's in Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
I completed the game yesterday, and now imma play it again! XD I love the music, graphics, characters designs, storyline.. Everything!
its an obvious lie that scene is just too dynamic to be a real gameplay lol.
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"If there's one thing Square does well it's making REALLY awesome trailers that overhype the shit out of the game" -Spoony
@Usul573 how have you come to that conclusion? you do know they most likely edited parts of this time so there wasn't the waiting around parts...kinda like how in one of the older trailers of Versus XIII they slowed noctis down to show his battle style more clearer. if Square thought this would have worked they would of kept it in. this battle system here does look epic but what happens when you have you partners with you? you'd hardly see them due to the dynamic camera focused on your character
THE BIGGEST LIE RECORDED
Not as bad as Colonial Marine :)
Jason Lawrence not anymore since final fantasy 15 came out lol.
FF XV wants to have some words with you...
Just finished this game. It left me with a "meh" feeling. I found the battle system really boring, the lack of towns and mini-games made it feel like a dungeon crawler, the final boss had way too much HP and the story wast typical shounen fodder. Hope should be renamed Shinji and Lightining is actually "Heero Yuy after a sex change, dying his hair pink". Not that I don't like Anime inspired stories, designs and settings, in fact, I love them! However, if you want to make a game in that style, you gotta do it full-on, not half-assed! Grandia II and the Lunar series, are awesome games that did the shounen/anime theme correctly, from music to design and that's why they are a thousand times better than this boring trite! They also have better battle systems too! Moreover, the main antagonist sucked and has way too much HP! Yet, I still finished it because it's FF and I admit I'll play the next one, just because it's FF.
Having played every Final Fantasy from the first release on the NES, I find myself yet again amazed and looking forward to this one.
This is most definitely my 3rd favorite FF game
I happened to remember seeing this trailer before the game came out. I'm really early into the game and was wondering if the gravity manipulation stuff in :45-:56 is in the game? I know the thing got broken by Sazh, but does it reappear in the game, or was it simply scrapped from the game?
Sorry finding only now your comment, devs said that the initial intention was to add the gravity manipulation gadget in final version, but in the end they scrapped, it was kept only during custscenes
Where do you get a demo for this? I totally can't wait for it to come out!
@charliechuckleberry he's referring to the gameplay + cinematic mesh and the utilization of the minimap and surroundings to execute attacks. goodbye
Your comment is pure genius. I loved Final fantasy games but now you made me understand why I should hate them. Also, because of you I can be at peace with myself, you made me realize what I couldn't understand in my life... I'm guay... gonna dump my girlfriend now.
I'm addicted to the theme song. I've never heard a violin played like that..O_o
Lighting rocks, Snow rocks, Gunblades rock....FFXIII is just epic.
Wow, is this trailer entirely different from the game I am currently playing through. XD I mean, in the opening segment, there was no Lightning crashing through the window ceiling and going all mono-e-mono on Sanctum soldiers caught in a field produced by a gravity bomb!
You'll see that in Chapter 13. Most of these scenes are still in.
I was eight and super hyped when I saw this lol
@iJustine26 Its not an xbox kinect its a new 360 elite compatible with an attachment called kinect. you can still play 360 games.
@Xolohon I did not say they needed to be all 7 of the same action. I was pointing out that effectively, it is more or less doing the same thing as selecting 1 ability in a prior FF with ATB, instead they do 7 rather than 1 to give the illusion that more is really going on.
As far as the chain gauge, 3 Ravs and the gauge is pretty much done. If it falling is an issue, 2 Rav and a Sab. It doesn't really matter much what specific active abilities they do
This looks soooo tight man. Can't wait foritto come out!
@Xolohon I made it to Chapter 9 without using Paradigm Shift in any non major encounter and in general I obtained 3-5 star ratings in most battles.
The battles aren't fast or intense for the most part. It is the old ATB dressed up to look like it is more exciting than it really is. You still wait for the gauge to fill up, just instead of one action, you do up to 7 in succession, none of which are drastically different in terms of functionality. IE You won't attack and heal, tank, and debuff
btw, what's that about the third in final fantasy x series? o.o i don't know if i've heard about it.
You edited out " and the Xbox 360 :((( " I always liked that part. February 13, 2019 post.
I love watching this trailer man ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️
I love that music that starts playing at 0:48 great theme along with a cool action scene
i can't believe it was that long ago either! i remember watching it for the first time but i didn't think it was that long ago!
jesus toriyama you like lightning we get it
will the battles be real-time battles? or will it be turn based?
SHould i buy this in march? is it good? should i get the first one or whatever? please tell! i'm very tempted to buy it.
oh man I just cant wait for this to come out, it looks wicked awesome! :3
AAAAAARGH!!! I can't take it anymore! I can't stand the wait! I got 7hrs and 12 mins til I have my copy. The anticipation is eating me alive
Hey, i'm new to the final fantasy thing, would it be good to play for a guy that has no idea about final fantasy? Because my sister is ordering it and i don't know if i should get it.
when and on what are the other parts of this game coming out ?
master nobuo uematsu is doing the soundtrack for this FF again right??
ついに来月か
final trailer came out on official site!!!!
it was greeeaaat, cant wait
Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy versus 13 are the same right?
Your car analogy is a good one. However, think of the software of what's going on at the contact with the road. PS3 really does have some better specs and Blu Ray really is capable of far more storage than DVD, so basically, what's under the hood, is indeed higher performance. Where the problem is, is that the software for it (suspension/the tires on the road) just doesn't utilize what's under the hood to its maximum.
As software currently stands, differences between PS3 and Xbox are negligible
SO AWESOME!!!
So, it is a large amount of data that doesn't fit on a single DVD, a problem that is remedied by using additional discs. Tell me, why is that such a problem?
i hear alot of people talking trash about this game but it looks to be freaking awesome maybe we can get it by sometime next year
HELL YES! I saw that...she's way more powerful than any other FF character I've seen yet...she can STOP time! And I thought she was a badass in FFXIII-2!
@Xolohon Not sure what you are talking about, as most of FFXIII's non major encounters are easily beaten by simply mashing X for the autobattle option. It isn't until chapter 9 that Paradigm Shifting in minor encounters is even necessary, and even then, we are only talking once or twice a fight.
There are plenty of reasons to hate FFXIII. But kudos for making this a matter of people not liking change, rather than the multiple glaring gameplay and story failings.
Is it me or the dude at end remind me of Seifer from Kingdom Hearts?
Oh, people *say* that this battle system would have been cool, but thinking about it, most of people's complaints would still be there. :P
Rather than gameplay, I love this trailer because it shows even more of the epicness Lightning is capable of. 0:44 THIS is what was going on during that cutscene in FF13 at Eden when everyone was falling. The scene shown in FF13 was just a cut up version of this! XD
I do in fact own a PS3 and Wii. Wii sucks for pretty much anything but first party games...but its been that way since the N64 era. Their first party franchise games (Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid (though the recent ones are partnered up with others)) are consistently among the best games around.
what is the name of the theme that starts playing in the middle? is it even a real track?
You mean "Blinded by Light"?
woohoo awesome and super awesome with the gunblade comeback... havent seen that since ff8 XD
Oh, and by the way, this is a pretty awesome video. :P
OMG O.O Lightning
I'm stoked as hell.
I've played all of them up to XII and I've lover every single one of them to death.
wooooo. ;D
does anyone know what the song here is called? its awesome!
@cervi2k8
How much did you pay for the game? Cuz my xbox 360 copy cost me $1.80
Is the game play going to be like the game play in FF12?
yeah I can't wait for it to come out. and was that Seifer???
It comes out sometime in either late 2009, Christmas OR early 2010. Hope you enjoy it. (Playing Japanese demo ^_^)
Yea i hate when people say this is a bad game
Just look at the whole presentation!
It was overwhelming to even take in the landscape and cutscenes on the first level for me
I know this game deserves a lot more respect!
0:32 is soo AWESOME i was like OMFG
is final fantasy a series that u MUST play the original to understand its stroy or propouse? Cos i have never played any but this game look awsom and I might buy this one unless i need to play the previous games in the series.
whre did you read it? i heard it but all i knew is it was a job on compressing it onto a few DVD's, i think it's still 3.
0:43-1:05
That's what I hoped the combat to be like... However, I was sadly mistaken :(
I'm not a fan of this franchise, but I kind of grew up with it, and I'm a big fan of RPG's so, I'll look it up for the 360.
so happy its also coming out on the xbox360. Its an awesome game series! cant wait! long hours of gameplay here i come :)
0:15 whats the theme song ?
i love this trailer, im ganna get this game as soon as it comes out thnaks 2 u ;)
@amidamaroo0razlo There systems do have allot of problems
i have been trying to draw final fantasy style pictures, but i just cant seem to get the feeling of it in the pictures,it sure is hard...
Do you can use Cloud in FFXIII??
Because i heard this....
when is it coming out
Im totaly a die hard Final Fantasy Fan. i have nearly all the games, so I just cant for this one to come out!!
Is Vaan gonna be in the game?
@Hammice
It's all one song, the battletheme.
Just search on youtube " ff xiii battle theme"
Is it fun, have you played it? I reckon it's got sweet graaphics
How much is the memory if u just wanna play/save it instead of installing?
Awesome stuff. And as a 360 owner I don't see the big deal bout it coming out on both systems... Enjoy the game either way!
If Final Fantasy XIII could be a live-action adaptation, here's how the main cast might go:
Lightning-Asian female with great acting as well as martial arts skills
Serah-If Lightning is Asian, might as well make Serah Asian too...:3
Snow-Definitely an American guy, down to the trenchcoat, cap and blond hair
Sazh-Guy with African descent and a nice afro big enough to nest a Chocobo :)
Fang-Hispanic or Native American who looks and acts badass
Vanille-Irish or Austrailian female
Hope-This one's
I like that it's coming out on 360 now I can download it.
@AndyHarglesis yh I know, the trailer with Lightning and that other guy. It will come out before FFvs13, and Tetsuya nomura said it will only come out in 2012.
dude i should sub u just for that speech
is this really for the xbox 360 cuz i am one of the biggest final fantasy fans and i have a 360 so i was wondering? let me kno plz
namaste
does anybody know who u play as? or did they create new characters?
where can i download this trailer?
Then how come the official website shows ffxiv will be on PS3 and Windows?
i watch this and then remember FF3. final fantasy has come so far..