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INTEREST: Square Enix Demos Real-Time Rendering with Final Fantasy

Oh god, I drooled all over that video

While I will never have issues with SE's visuals, I just really wish they'd take a little more dedication to applying those visuals in a game setting that's actually worthy of playing, rather than going for a new version of Dragon's Lair.

My apologies. I forgot the age demographic reading this. Dragon's Lair was a visual video game (laser disk!) to which the animate graphics were controlled with a very simple set of instructions which required near pin-point accuracy in order to continue on.

If you've played Final Fantasy XIII, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about (though this game's accuracy isn't as demanding).

Move. Watch clip. Move and perform and action. Watch clip.

It's misleading to call what they do "games".

I just hope that Square Enix actually makes this into a game and not let it die as a tech demo.

Were you impressed by the real-time computer graphics from a next generation perspective?(Emphasis mine)

1)Nice a fancy video
2)No actual story
3)No actual Gameplay

They might as well have rendered 7 or KH for all this is. Its a movie trailer with no movie. I am not sure if I am in the minority or not, but SE seems to have lost there story telling touch.

FF13 is the Transformers movie of the franchise great to watch for some fun. Lots of people enjoyed it and rightly so its got some good points. But when you give it a second look it is so hollow and empty you feel like crying

j Talbain wrote:

I just hope that Square Enix actually makes this into a game and not let it die as a tech demo.

It's going to die as a tech demo. I can't read Japanese, and it appears the newsroom had nothing to go on, but what's clearly missing here is how the rendering was done.

The PS3 and 360 don't have the processing power to render something like this, and I'm very skeptical it was done on an "over-the-counter" computer system.

If I were to guess, this video was rendered on one of SE's multi-million dollar computer systems, and exported as a video.

The fact we can only see this rendering in video format leaves me to believe this.

And I know everyone's entitled to their opinion, but if you can tell me with a straight face, that 13 even comes close to being the best, let alone even a good game (read amazon reviews for example) You've either never played any previous Final Fantasy, or you're a dead from the neck up hype guzzler.

Mesonoxian Eve wrote:

While I will never have issues with SE's visuals, I just really wish they'd take a little more dedication to applying those visuals in a game setting that's actually worthy of playing, rather than going for a new version of Dragon's Lair. My apologies. I forgot the age demographic reading this. Dragon's Lair was a visual video game (laser disk!) to which the animate graphics were controlled with a very simple set of instructions which required near pin-point accuracy in order to continue on. If you've played Final Fantasy XIII, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about (though this game's accuracy isn't as demanding). Move. Watch clip. Move and perform and action. Watch clip. It's misleading to call what they do "games".

If I could hug you right now, it wouldn't be enough.

Can people please stop defending their BS? Hey Squeenix, I get that Enix is the only half that gives a flip about making good games anymore, so instead of spending 6 years developing an engine for a visual novel, why don't you just make more pandering fanservice movies like Advent Children, at least somebody will enjoy them.

And I know everyone's entitled to their opinion, but if you can tell me with a straight face, that 13 even comes close to being the best, let alone even a good game (read amazon reviews for example) You've either never played any previous Final Fantasy, or you're a dead from the neck up hype guzzler.