Final Fantasy VII-2

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

Credit: Official Playstation Magazine

 

For the past month, the rumor on VII-2 has been that Nomura is keen to work on the project. So keen in fact, that he's more interested in working on designs for it than his scheduled project, Kingdom Hearts 2. This rumor has been expanded upon since E3, when the scuttle was that VII-2 would actually be a PSP launch title next year. After some digging around, I can tell you this...it ain't a PSP game. Expect to hear some confirmation about it coming to PS2 within the next six months or so. I wouldn't want to predict a release date. Oh, what the hell...my guess is next November.

[Guest AndrewTS]

Any chance we'll get to kick Yuffie's ass?

 

I fear Square will shamelessly incorporate a way to resurrect Aerith.

[Guest SP-1]

Wait . . . PSP?

 

Sony already cooking up a new system?

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

PSP and PSX.... two new systems. They cover it quite nicely in OPM with pictures. I could type up the article, if anyone wants it.

[Guest AndrewTS]

The PSX is just a different model of the PS2 with some extra options. Which is really freaking annoying because "PSX" was the original name for the Playstation and it stuck as an abbreviation.

[Guest Renegade]

Jesus just give us Kingdom hearts 2 or another chrono trigger. NOTHING good will come from a sequel to a game that ended like that. I hate the final fantasy series, I really do.

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

Final Fantasy equals quick and easy cash for Square. It doesn't matter if the quality sucks, or if the game contradicts the past story.

[Guest Ronixis]

The PSP, is the supposed Game Boy Advance SP Killer, as it has a 1.8 Gig Mini Disc, and will have USB/Firewire support for Ps2/2.5.

 

However, the only story they could do is what happend to the Choboco eggs in VII.

 

Why cant Square make a Choboco ONLY Final Fantasy? One where they have all kinds of Choboco goodness? (How they created the world, the Ultma Blade, so on and so fourth)

[Guest SP-1]

Thanks for the info. Are either systems supposed to be, "Next Gen" material, or is the PS3 still supposed to take that spot?

[Guest Renegade]

Why cant Square make a Choboco ONLY Final Fantasy? One where they have all kinds of Choboco goodness? (How they created the world, the Ultma Blade, so on and so fourth)

You are kidding right?

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I hated the Chocobo stuff in FFVII.

 

Now a Mog only storyline...okay maybe not.

 

I loved FFVII, but everything after became more and more flash and less content. FFVII was a good mix of flash and content that only suffered from a bad ending, but the storyline up to that point was awesome and very engrossing.

[Guest AndrewTS]

Jesus just give us Kingdom hearts 2 or another chrono trigger. NOTHING good will come from a sequel to a game that ended like that. I hate the final fantasy series, I really do.

Hear, hear. And I'm not accepting Chrono Cross as a sequel to Trigger, nope, nope. I want it to PLAY like Chrono Trigger (read: fun), have Toriyama character designs if possible, and a roughly similar battle system, except a more up to date and interactive system.

 

A friend of mine suggested something kinda like Kingdom Hearts.

[Guest AndrewTS]

I hated the Chocobo stuff in FFVII.

 

Now a Mog only storyline...okay maybe not.

 

I loved FFVII, but everything after became more and more flash and less content. FFVII was a good mix of flash and content that only suffered from a bad ending, but the storyline up to that point was awesome and very engrossing.

I hate people calling them "Mogs." They're MOOGLES DAMN IT! Mog was just one of them that joined your party in VI. I don't even care if that's what the original Japanese version said.

 

And yeah...how are they going to go about a sequel?

 

"It was after the apocalypse...no one was prepared for...the Moogle Holocaust. "

 

I just know they're going to resurrect Aerith, when they should just leave her dead.

[Guest wwF1587]

i dont get how your going to get a sequel to that game with the ending the way it was... i am still confused about the ending...

[Guest AndrewTS]

i dont get how your going to get a sequel to that game with the ending the way it was... i am still confused about the ending...

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It's been a while since I played it, but I think what happened was that the meteor was about to hit the planet, but the Lifestream/White Materia destroyed it just in time, but some damage was done to the planet in the process.

 

Maybe Sakura could give more/better information about it.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

IGN had the actual quotes. It basically said "Sure, we'd all like to do that, but we got a lot of other things on our plate right now anyway."

 

What the hell is left to do though? We saw like, 500 years in the future so we know everything turns out okay.

[Guest KoR Fungus]

Yeah, if they're going to do a sequel, they should do it to a Final Fantasy game that didn't wrap itself up so neatly. FF7's ending was nice and happy, everyone lived happily ever after, Sephiroth was killed, Holy destroyed Meteor... there are absolutely no loose ends. It looks like Square is just milking the popularity of FF7 for money. I'd much rather see a sequel to Chrono Trigger or ~Vagrant Story~.

[Guest wwF1587]

i dont get how your going to get a sequel to that game with the ending the way it was... i am still confused about the ending...

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It's been a while since I played it, but I think what happened was that the meteor was about to hit the planet, but the Lifestream/White Materia destroyed it just in time, but some damage was done to the planet in the process.

 

Maybe Sakura could give more/better information about it.

yeah but it would of been nice to

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know what happend to cloud and all them... yeah XIII (the tiger)was ok.. but i wanted something more...i assume they were all ok but still.. what about tifa and cloud and their little love thing?

[Guest AndrewTS]

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If Clod and Tita lived, they hooked up. I'm pretty sure Tif lived, since she has B1g b00bi3z OMG!~ If not, they're worm food just like Seph.   Or maybe Seph survived? Muhahahah!   I want to hear Barret talking jive. I think he survived.   Yuffie and Vincent aren't even in the ending. Sure, they're optionals, but if they didn't care enough to make a clip or two for them to be in the ending if it called for it, they why bother keeping 'em alive?   Possibly all the heroes could have made it, but eh...

[Guest I'm That Damn Zzzzz]

Bit of the FF7 ending:

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Red XIII noted that Holy had the opposite intended effect, ie it pulled Meteor closer, suggesting that Meteor wasn't the planet's problem, rather that something else was.

Maybe we'll get an answer to that.

[Guest Special K]

People have bitched/praised/argued about the ending to VII forever, wondering whether humanity was wiped out or not. It would be easy to do a direct sequel. The only thing apparent in the ending is that midgar is destroyed, not humanity.

 

And whether or not you personally hate Final Fantasy or not, it is a) A cash cow. b) Almost universally critically acclaimed c) Has a die-hard following. Just check out gameFAQs for proof of this.

 

Star Ocean, you DO realize that every FF game (besides X2 and mebbe VII2 now) is quite explicitly set in a different world right? Right?

Other series use similar methods. You can't tell me the Zelda series makes that much sense from a game to game standpoint. Plus there's only a couple games I know of where continuing story arcs are really that great, (Lufia, Phantasy Star, Suikoden, Lunar) and I've played a shitload of console RPGs

 

I've personally enjoyed FF since number 1 was on the NES (Still have it). The series undoubtably peaked with VI and VII (and some will say V, great system, crap storyline). But I would argue that FFVI and Chrono Trigger are nigh-perfect games, and Since Square has not equalled those games since, it's been the target of much maligning. It seems a bit unfair to shit on a company because they set the bar really high.

 

And sure they fairly churn out the FFs now, but they take a lot of time and care with their series (something that can't be said of some companies, erm eidoscapcom). And it makes their money. w/o FF we wouldn't have Kingdom Hearts or CTrigger or FFTactics. EVery popular game comes out with sequels, what matters is if the company puts care into them. So we have a bunch of beautiful, fairly thoughtful, pretty uninovative games. Is that so bad?

 

 

 

There was a Chocobo game (or 2), a dungeon crawl. It sucked ass. Plus, as mentioned before, since each game is set in a different world, it would be pretty dull to play a 'prehistory' forming of the world FF RPG.

 

I thought Chrono Cross was pretty bad as well. Here's looking forward to the new FF tactics.

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

Uh, if there is a sequel to FF7, they might end up rewriting the story and taking somethingo out of nothing. I mean, a part of FF7's story that seemed insiginificant could be a big part of the sequel's story. I can't explain it any better, but past information suggests that that's what they'll do if there is a sequel. A game like Lunar is open to a sequel, even though the sequel was awful, the story allowed it. A seqeul to FF7 is more of a Disney thing. It's unnecessary, and will go straight to video.

[Guest Special K]

I do agree that the sequel will be sort of Disney-ish, brought on by popular demand, and even though I want it, that's a hell of a point.

 

Lunar: EB awful? sacrilege! (I agree that it was the SLIGHT lesser of the two in terms of story though.)

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

Lunar 2 is nothing but a cheap imitation of the first game. It trys so hard to capture everything that made Lunar 1 special, but fails. I have no choice but to declare it a bad game, because I actually got sick of the battles. They're the same battles as the first one, but without the great story and characters to make it worth playing through.

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By the way S_O_3, they had a preview of Star Ocean in OPM, and I must say, it looks quite good. I don't know much about the other Star Oceans, though.

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

Yes, it is indeed awesome. The soundtrack is probably the best of all modern RPGs, and the gameplay is way ahead of most, too. The first Star Ocean is one of the best SNES games, as well, too bad it never came out in English. There's no excuse not to have played SO2, though.

[Guest Special K]

And Star Ocean finallyworks on the newest ZSNES, and the translations pretty good, with some things a bit buggy (as in the translation doesn't show up, not it'll crash the game.)

 

SO2 is really fun, with a huge amount of customization available, from battle skills to cooking to check forging to weapon crafting. It does get a little easy by the end if you've speacialized each character to be good in a few skills, as you can essentially print your own money. THe battles are chaotic and frantic (in a good way) and the stories quite good, and I liked the characters.

 

Runner up to RE in terms of most hilariouslt atrocious voice acting ever though.

[Guest Lightning Flik]

And Star Ocean finallyworks on the newest ZSNES, and the translations pretty good, with some things a bit buggy (as in the translation doesn't show up, not it'll crash the game.)

 

SO2 is really fun, with a huge amount of customization available, from battle skills to cooking to check forging to weapon crafting. It does get a little easy by the end if you've speacialized each character to be good in a few skills, as you can essentially print your own money. THe battles are chaotic and frantic (in a good way) and the stories quite good, and I liked the characters.

 

Runner up to RE in terms of most hilariouslt atrocious voice acting ever though.

You forgot about the mediocre job on the translation and localization job as sometimes it kinda felt awful in some places and voice acting couldn't even help it out.

 

Oh and didn't the guys who created Lunar and Lunar 2 also say that Lunar 3 should be coming out sometime in the near future or did they finally scrap it?

[Rendclaw 0]

::makes a mental note to get Star Ocean 2::

 

My ex-fiancee LOVED that game, and the combat system looked interesting...

 

I would not mind seeing a FFVII sequel, despite what I have said about Square taking the easy road and cranking out FF games and sacrificing gamepaly for an overbooked storyline in the later ones (VIII in particular).

 

EDIT: speaking of Lufia, did the not make Lufia III for the PS1, or was that gamecube?

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

SO2's voices were so bad they're good.

 

"Looks like I'll be popular with the ladies again!"

"My strength is starting to overflow!"

"I will turn you into a beehive!"