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Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« on: February 01, 2017, 12:41:01 AM »
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A lot of announcements were given in a special event held in Tokyo yesterday.
Here's a summary from novacrystallis of what were announced:

FFXV, FFVII Remake and FFXII HD News
1. Final Fantasy XV DLC rages on with new announcements and dates for anticipated content.
There’ll be superhero-themed costume DLC for the four main heroes as part of a ‘booster pack’ DLC on February 21st.
Episode Gladio will release on March 28th. He’s joined by Cor Leonis in the DLC.
Episode Prompto will release in June.
2. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is finally coming – and it’s not far off.
Fans will finally be able to play FFXII International Zodiac Job System, and in HD, on July 11th. Japan and Asia will get it a few days later on July 13th.
Fan favorite Balthier joins World of Final Fantasy as a DLC Champion Summon to celebrate the upcoming release.
3. Final Fantasy VII Remake still exists – and Square released a new key artwork for the game showcasing Cloud and a one-winged Sephiroth against the backdrop of Midgar.
4. Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood is out on June 20th. This isn’t exactly new information, but a reminder was issued at the event.

Mobile Game News
1. Cloud will join Final Fantasy Brave Exvius on February 6th.
2. There’ll be a special FF 30th campaign for Brave Exvius, and Yoshitaka Amano has contributed art for it.
3. Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omina starts up in Japan on February 1st. Aerith is coming to the game, and will be voiced by Maaya Sakamoto.
4. Mobius Final Fantasy is getting FF’s most iconic villain: Sephiroth is joining the game.

Other News
1. There’s a Final Fantasy-themed wine being released for the 30th. It comes with two Swarovski crystal covered glasses and costs an enormous 100,000 Yen ($880/£700). Two cheaper wines, Ifrit and Shiva themed, are also coming.
2. There are also Moogle, Cactuar and Chocobo themed cakes being released in Japan for the 30th.
Distant Worlds will resume a new worldwide tour for the 30th.
3. In Japan, FFXV Piano Collections and FF Brass de Bravo musical tours will also take place.
4. Cup Noodle will release 15 new flavors, each based on a classic FF villain. There’s also a special fork where the handle is shaped like FFVII’s Ultima Weapon being released. clicky for the official nissin site
5. Final Fantasy: Lost Strangers is a new Manga series for Japan.
6. Final Fantasy XIV: Daddy of Light is an FFXIV-themed TV series that tells the story of a father and son who bond through the game.
7. There will also be an FFXIV escape room in Japan.
8. Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan will have an FFVII-themed Snow Sculpture featuring Cloud and Sephiroth.
9. Noctis is coming to Itadaki Street (PS4, Vita)
10. There’s a new FF Fashion line coming.
11. An FF exhibition will take place in Japan in 2018 to celebrate the series’ 30th.

Wahahaha. You guys have to click the cup noodle site.
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2017, 02:09:28 AM »
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I wonder if those noodles will taste like villains? Whatever they may taste like.  ;D

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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2017, 11:05:22 AM »
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[insert absolutely shameless joke about finally being able to know what Ultimecia tastes like]

I want the shit out of that fork, though.
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2017, 12:34:09 PM »
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I seem to remember hearing Tetsuya Nomura wanted to do a remake of a classic FF game...

I'd really be excited to see FF VI done similarly to FF IV chronicles on PSP/ PSTV... the Steam and mobile renditions were horrible...
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2017, 09:22:59 PM »
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I want the shit out of that fork, though.

Only 30 forks will be made and it will be won via lottery.

I seem to remember hearing Tetsuya Nomura wanted to do a remake of a classic FF game...

I'd really be excited to see FF VI done similarly to FF IV chronicles on PSP/ PSTV... the Steam and mobile renditions were horrible...

Ha. He still isn't done with KH3 and FF7remake.
His lack of focus made FFXV drag on for years at 20% completion and Tabata had to quickly make the full game in 3 years.
So, nope, let him finish what he started first...

I agree but I think Squeenix needs to recover all of its development costs for FFXV. Here's hoping they announce something within the year.

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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2017, 01:21:13 AM »
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I guess the 30th anniversary is the sell-out anniversary.
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2017, 01:59:07 AM »
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I guess the 30th anniversary is the sell-out anniversary.

Final Fantasy XV is apparently a good game (I personally have zero interest in it for a multitude of reasons that include being burned by Final Fantasy too many times) but it strikes me as an exception rather than the rule. Square-Enix has really been slipping with a lot of their projects of late, with in-house games taking far longer to develop than they should, while franchises developed by other studios but are managed by Squeenix are coming out with rushed production and serious flaws, such as the pay-to-win microtransactions and the save-lock debacle that still plagues Deus Ex Mankind Divided to this day -- never minding the unfinished story, subplots that vanish into the ether, and an ending that made the vanilla ending to Mass Effect 3 look goddamn Shakespearean by comparison (to nobody's surprise, Mankind Divided did NOT do well in sales and Squeenix has put the Deus Ex franchise back in cryo). Rise of the Tomb Raider, while fun, mostly feels like a $60 expansion pack to Tomb Raider 2013. Didn't play Hitman 2016, so can't comment on that one.

But it's been a rocky enough road this last... decade and a half that I question if we need Square Enix at all anymore.
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2017, 10:52:29 AM »
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Honestly I didn't mind Rise of the Tomb Raider, but yes, it does feel more of the same. That, and I felt the lack of a more prominent ending with regards to the people you helped against trinity should have been included as well. I would love to check out a PSP-esque remakes of Final Fantasy's III, V, and VI. Like we got with I, II, and IV. All the other games are just forgettable to me.

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But it's been a rocky enough road this last... decade and a half that I question if we need Square Enix at all anymore.

Feels just like Konami eh?
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2017, 03:02:25 PM »
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Feels just like Konami eh?

Thank god it's not quite that bad, but Square-Enix is definitely starting to feel like victims of their prior success; they seem like they are getting lazy and lackadaisical, only throwing in all their talent at something if 1) it's a sure fire win and 2) if they happen to feel threatened by something at the time.

Quoth Bane: "Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you."

And Cracked.com, OF ALL POSSIBLE WEBSITES, perfectly captured how and why I feel about Final Fantasy as a singular franchise.

In particular, I draw attention to the last paragraph:

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Square might figure that out and the Final Fantasy name might mean something again, but it's OK if they don't. The originals are still classics. Indie developers are making the kinds of games that Square shaped their childhoods with, and they put more passion into them than Square's shown for a long time. Maybe it's a sign of how far the industry has come that we don't need Final Fantasy anymore -- there are more than enough other games telling good stories now. And hey, at least Dragon Quest is still going strong, right?

Their blurb on another article about Final Fantasy XIV's initial release is also kinda telling:

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Making a joke about the 14th Final Fantasy not being a final version is too broken and lazy to even write in words. Square Enix wrote it in code and sold it to millions. Final Fantasy players were more disappointed with the game than a Final Fantasy character trying to use real hair gel.

The game was an accidental parody of its own genre. Every system was so incomplete, broken, or boring that the only reason to keep playing was to keep increasing your level. Sitting at a calculator typing "+1" would have provided exactly the same gameplay experience with far fewer crashes. Within three months, the game's producer and director had been publicly booted from the project, with producer Hiromichi Tanaka claiming full public responsibility for the failure. The only reason they didn't livestream themselves committing seppuku is that it's impossible to reverse a Final Fantasy sword without at least three cargo cranes and warning nearby aircraft.

Square Enix tried to fix the game for two full years. They extended the trial period twice, begging people to play for free. Entire consoles were abandoned, because releasing new versions of the game would be like releasing fresh shits in the dock of your public obscenity trial. The only reason they didn't abandon it entirely was that the game had done potentially terminal damage to the brand. This launch achieved what over a dozen dragons and angry gods couldn't, threatening to make this the actual Final Fantasy. Square Enix finally surrendered with a final update that crashed the moon into the virtual world, releasing the Primal Dragon Bahamut, thereby triggering the Seventh Umbral Calamity.

Which was pretty much what was happening to their reputation. They went back to start making the game all over again with an entirely new team and the president of Square Enix pledging to take personal responsibility. Finally, in August 2013, they released Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, aka FF14: We're Really Really Really Sorry. The game's plot was almost a direct representation of the brand, with players working to rebuild the world after the utter devastation wrought by the previous title.

For every success, we seem to have an equivalent failure with Square-Enix.  So, as much as I hope that Final Fantasy XV will be a glorious return to formula for them, I've long ago decided to cut my losses and run. I've been burned by their long-running incompetence too much to ever trust them with my money again. I won't hold my breath waiting for them to git gud.

But that's okay. They made the games I needed when I needed it most in my life. That they don't live up to that old standard anymore is made significantly less tragic by the fact that I don't need Final Fantasy in my life any longer; I've graduated from that class. I'm playing other games now, and writing my own stories.

Stories which, appropriately, make the occasional reference to the Final Fantasy games I loved so well as a teenager.

You've done enough Squeenix. Close your eyes and go to sleep now. Just let this happen.
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2017, 12:54:34 AM »
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LOL! Nice.
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Re: Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Announcements
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2017, 02:16:13 AM »
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Update on the cup noodle site . Scroll down to the bottom.

They will include a DLC for those people who bought the set.
What is it?
That cup noodle hat, but the forks are not included. LOL!!! Available by summer 2017.
Does that mean there will be another in game carnival by summer starring cup noodles?!

On a slightly serious note, here's the SquareEnix Online shop JPshowing the 30th anniversary stuff they are selling.
CAKES!!!! I want the moogle one.

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