Gamescom 2.0 Article thread

[Dantares]

Gematsu article
http://gematsu.com/2012/08/final-fan...r#.UC8Dn7pU7Qg

(looks like it's a translation from the 4Gamer interview)

[Starlord]

This may have some old news in it but maybe theres a few things mentioned we didn't see yet!:

The battle concept was to have something that “ends with a speedy, uptempo sensation.” Since you start gaining TP when the battle starts, you can use weapon skills and abilities to fight right off the bat. It’s the sort of balance where you can defeat one monster in about 5 hits and the battle takes about 20 seconds to finish.

Since we didn’t want the focus to be on defeating monsters to earn experience points, they don’t provide very many points. But if you clear a quest, you’ll be gain a lot more experience that way.

A jump action has been added, but since it’s not an action game, there isn’t any topography that can’t be reached without jumping.

The “Gear Sets” let you switch out equipment in an instant. You can increase your number of sets by clearing quests. We’re still checking what the maximum will be. Since the things in a Gear Set don’t count as holding items, they don’t take up space in the inventory. (Previously called Mannequins.)

The small towns are being elaborated upon, too, and the NPCs will have unique actions.

The tutorials have been completely and are moreover revised. Now it’s structured so you can understand a variety of things just by playing.

You should be able to make a party and enter a dungeon at level 15, probably to give you time for understanding the system? Even without side-trips, it’ll take about 30 hours to get there.

You won’t be able to begin until your Guildleve level is 10. At level 10, your title will be “Novice.” (“Not Beginner.”)

Content is divided into party and solo types. There are also public contents that apply somewhere in the middle, but basically I think the ones intended for parties and the ones for solos appear on the Contents Finder.

At the log-in and area change screens, there will be a recommendation displayed. The recommended list will be based on how crowded the contents nearby are, if you are party or solo oriented, etc. Since there are so many things you can do in an MMORPG, you have a lot of options especially around level 20, so I think that’d be a good time to use it. Furthermore, the list displays 10 items, it’ll take about 2 hours to play everything on it.

I know of 2 more interviews that are coming (by tomorrow i'm sure) RPGsite and UKSquareEnix (Expect more videos and interviews very soon.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFl9T...yer_embedded#! Yoshi-p did say he had like 23ish Interviews in the later on just that 1 day o.o

[Dantares]

Not Gamescom related...
On September 1st, as we all know, there will be an event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy (including a live presentation for ARR). The good news is... it will be live streamed via nico nico live!

http://www.novacrystallis.com/?p=3276

[neorei]

updated.


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[sandramf]

Ok, I don't know where can I put this.
Well, I see the gamescom gameplay and I saw that the character hasn't the animation to walk diagonally back, ¿why??? This guys do a lot of animation, one more is not so much work. Please, listen to my request and do an animation for walk diagonally back, beacuse the character does is walk backwards but the feeling is that they slide.
I think is a beautiful game, not spoiled by things like that.

[TenraiNagi]

And this is from IGN.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/...ve-first-steps

Thanks neorei for this thread! It's awesome ^^

[Sephrick]

And this is from IGN.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/...ve-first-steps

Thanks neorei for this thread! It's awesome ^^

Yoshida proceeds to show us just how scalable the engine is by showing A Realm Reborn running in HD on high settings, followed by demoing the game on a laptop running on an Intel i5 processor. The game is optimised to around 70 percent and while the shadows suffer a noticeable downgrade in quality it still runs smoothly, albeit without the strains of being online.

I wonder if it was integrated graphics, though.

Still, impressive.

[neorei]

updated

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[Hycinthus]

I wonder if it was integrated graphics, though.

Still, impressive.

Thank you for IGN article. Anyway, we may not be marketing geniuses, but guess what the first comments were in IGN article?
"The trailer is only CGI no gameplay?".

We may not be marketing geniuses but we're not idiots either. Everyone already called it that was gonna happen by showing all CGI trailer in IGN.

[neorei]

not a lot of information out there -_-