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#77 Jan 09 2013 at 10:36 AM Rating: Good
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But CG really doesn't impress me in general. It impresses me in a technical sense, but now I need substance, content, a solid UI, and a sense of inquisitiveness and adventure. I want to travel and experience another world, to go to hidden corners and to be awed. CG in some ways takes that imagination out of the gaming experience, at least for me.


I'll agree with this. The proof is going to be in the stuff that happens outside the trailers, really. Folks can talk about being impressed by this cinematic from dusk until dawn but it doesn't change the fact that SE's ability to produce a quality cutscene was never in question. Their ability to bring a solid and modern gaming experience is. Personally, I think it would have been better to have brought us footage of the actual game in lieu of this movie.

I'm actually pretty impressed with Yoshi-p in general, but I'm not going to pretend that a pretty trailer is all SE needs to show to prove this game is going to be worth taking a second look at. And frankly, the people who have been reading those 40 some odd developer letters are not the people Yoshi-P needs to convince. He needs to convince the rest of the masses that moved on very quickly after the initial failure.
#78 Jan 09 2013 at 10:59 AM Rating: Good
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Judging the CG on it's own merit, which is all we should really be doing, I was very impressed. A few of my friends also checked out the trailer after I told them to sign up for the beta, and they were all blown away. One of them who hated XIII (never finished it) was even inspired enough to pick up FFXIII-2 and try to delve back into the FF universe.

From comments I read on Kotaku and other sites, the trailer seems to evoke strong feelings of 'final fantasy' and nostalgia for many people. It's epic, pretty, and is packed full of FF elements even to those uninitiated with FF (Bane Voice: but we are, aren't we Bruce?): classic jobs, meteors, summons, judge-looking guys, epic battles, drama, sacrifice, time travel, beautiful landscapes, behemoths, birds, and epic music. What more could people ask for out of this trailer, honestly? Oh, and I echo the sentiment that I don't want the entire game to be ruined before even playing it... it's like watching a movie trailer that gives away the ending (my most recent experience with this was Life of Pi, glad I read it first). So, in short, if it's good enough for the new audience SE is trying to attract... it's good enough for us veterans as well, and on the whole people are just being too negative.

And now I permit you to criticize.
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#79 Jan 09 2013 at 11:16 AM Rating: Good
I do not think people are criticizing the trailer itself, is just that every SE game has a nice Trailer. It is what they do, from FFVII foward, every game has had a very appealing visual trailer, and it does sometimes works againts them, take XIII and XIV, and XIII-2 for example, awesome trailers on all 3, that make you wanna go and buy the game, and play 80 hours... Yet what was delivered was utter garbage in gameplay and story delivery. The trailer translated 0% into the games, and with an MMORGP is even harder to translate what you see in a trailer into what will be in the game.

I personally would have wanted gameplay footage, something new and flashy, showcase some of the classes, because is not like we do not know what classes will eventually show up in the game, is not like we are gonna be like "OMG IS A SUMMONER!!! I AM SO IMPRESSED!"
#80 Jan 09 2013 at 12:05 PM Rating: Good
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Besides, we are bored by the wait.




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#81 Jan 09 2013 at 1:38 PM Rating: Excellent
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I do not think people are criticizing the trailer itself, is just that every SE game has a nice Trailer. It is what they do, from FFVII foward, every game has had a very appealing visual trailer, and it does sometimes works againts them, take XIII and XIV, and XIII-2 for example, awesome trailers on all 3, that make you wanna go and buy the game, and play 80 hours... Yet what was delivered was utter garbage in gameplay and story delivery. The trailer translated 0% into the games, and with an MMORGP is even harder to translate what you see in a trailer into what will be in the game.

I personally would have wanted gameplay footage, something new and flashy, showcase some of the classes, because is not like we do not know what classes will eventually show up in the game, is not like we are gonna be like "OMG IS A SUMMONER!!! I AM SO IMPRESSED!"


I understand that, but as I said, "judging the trailer on its own merit"... this thread is supposed to be about the trailer, and less about gameplay (or gameplay speculation), no?

And why would you want gameplay footage in an opening movie for a game? Generally when people are watching opening movies they're about to play the game... opening movies are supposed to be flashy.
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#82 Jan 09 2013 at 8:19 PM Rating: Decent
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It's not like I necessarily fault SE for it; the team that does the trailer is probably in no way highly involved with the gameplay elements that the game's success is really hinging on. They've got a job to do, too, and I'm sure in their mind, they can't sit around waiting for validation from the playerbase that the rest of the game looks good. But it feels like bad timing. People are still very skeptical about the game; they want to see substance. Flash like this is great for increasing existing hype... it's like a multiplier bonus. You don't play it until you've nearly maxed out the base stat.
#83 Jan 09 2013 at 10:24 PM Rating: Excellent
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Kierk wrote:
This is new to me.

The beginning of the movie reminds me of Lost Odyssey. Then I found it hilarious when the dragon scorched the Eoreza. It was like Yoshi was like F-this world, we're making a new one.

Like I said in another thread I'm not as excited as I was when 1.0 came out, but with 2.0 I probably should be more excited.

But CG really doesn't impress me in general. It impresses me in a technical sense, but now I need substance, content, a solid UI, and a sense of inquisitiveness and adventure. I want to travel and experience another world, to go to hidden corners and to be awed. CG in some ways takes that imagination out of the gaming experience, at least for me.


^ This. This. This.
The one thing that kept me playing FFXI long past my prime time there was the fact that so many areas there were incredibly beautiful and still gave me the same feelings after years of traveling thru.
Going thru Pashhow Marsh on my first trip to Jeuno, being scared spitless. Being lost in Yhoator and Yuhtunga for months, and I could practically smell the rotting earthy ground everytime a goblin kicked my ***** And freezing that same **** off in Beaucedine...really. Smiley: lol
That's what I expected in 1.0. Didn't happen. I'm ready to burn every other game disc I own at this point. I really need AAR to work, and am willing to give it every chance. A fairly generic hope-filled new ending to the movie isn't affecting that at all.
#84 Jan 09 2013 at 10:31 PM Rating: Excellent
That first, terrifying run through Buburimu as a level 10 Tarutaru white mage ....

What XI excelled at, and why its aging graphics are still satisfying in a way, is atmosphere. I'm chilling in front of the AH in Southern San d'Oria right now, occasionally working on kaginawa to level up clothcraft. My linkshell is having a raucus conversation about SE trolling us with lacy pink subligar in the future. (Everyone agrees if they had +50 STR on them, they'd wear them.) It's 1AM - the sky is dark and cloudy, the walls are cool and gray. And yet I feel protected in these fortress walls. I've "lived" in Sandy for five or six years now (emigrated from Windurst :P) so this place just feels like home.

SE needs ARR to capture that same kind of magic. Ul'dah never really felt like home to me, even though it was the only placed I ever lived in 1.0.

Edited, Jan 10th 2013 9:52am by catwho
#85 Jan 10 2013 at 12:28 AM Rating: Good
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catwho wrote:
It's 1AM - the sky is dark and cloudy, the walls are cool and gray. And yet I feel protected in these fortress walls.... SE needs ARR to capture that same kind of magic. Ul'dah never really felt like home to me, even though it was the only placed I ever lived in 1.0.


Yes: ultimately that's what I'm most concerned about. I couldn't care less about their graphics or what-have-you, I just don't want all things like hippity-hopping players (admittedly a small concern), ubiquitous "!" NPCs, easily available instantaneous transportation, generic quest hubs, and 5-second battles to undermine what could have seemed like a world. If I can spot almost all of the underlying mechanics -- such as knowing monster levels, quest levels, quest goal locations, monster behaviour, relative instance difficulty, &c. -- within the first few minutes of playing, then your game will never elevate itself above a simple, straightforward MMO in which I go through the motions; it will never be a world. And, as you mentioned, the walls will never feel a though they're keeping me safe.
#86 Jan 10 2013 at 12:41 PM Rating: Good
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Ul'dah never really felt like home to me, even though it was the only placed I ever lived in 1.0.

Edited, Jan 10th 2013 9:52am by catwho


Ul'Dah is the Bastok of XIV... no wonder you never felt home.

Though I know what you mean. I love Limsa. The setting is great, even if the music isn't. I think FFXI did a great job of making you feel loyalty to your city-state, with the Conquest system. I know they don't want to copy FFXI but.... I miss the weekly tally and Conquest sooo much.
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#87 Jan 10 2013 at 12:56 PM Rating: Excellent
Yeah that was always a point of pride, make sure Lastok stays last Smiley: nod
#88 Jan 10 2013 at 2:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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I must have been on the weirdo FFXI server, because I was always seeing Bastok and Sandy trading the first place slot while Windy languished in obscurity.

The conquest system was kinda cool, especially in a game with no pvp since you could get some sense of competition with the other players. Although I never really saw anyone take it seriously unless someone in the LS desperately wanted to flag an outpost
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#89 Jan 10 2013 at 2:19 PM Rating: Good
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its not really an opening, its a montage.

An army of chocobos
Appearence of Odin
Behemoth
Crystal tower

None of these are explained, none of them are coherent, what is the point of them?


Its a trailer...its not FF Spirits Within part 2.

As for explanation, i think its pretty straightforward: New areas, new big bad boss, re-appearance of classic FF elements (Tower, Behemoth), and an obvious focus on Chocobos being a larger part of the game than we've seen in the past.

And clearly at least some of the NPCs made the time jump or otherwise survived. Can't have FF without Cid after all, and I was certainly pleased to see that the blindfolded pugilist Gridanian chick (name forgotten) with the badass leg armor survived.


We seen everything in this video split between trailers and the End of an Era video. It's not a trailer, it's an OPENING MOVIE. Hell even XI's opening conveyed more to the player about the game than this, if they didn't show End of an Era they'd have had something.

#90 Jan 10 2013 at 2:36 PM Rating: Excellent
Louiscool wrote:
catwho wrote:
Ul'dah never really felt like home to me, even though it was the only placed I ever lived in 1.0.

Edited, Jan 10th 2013 9:52am by catwho


Ul'Dah is the Bastok of XIV... no wonder you never felt home.

Though I know what you mean. I love Limsa. The setting is great, even if the music isn't. I think FFXI did a great job of making you feel loyalty to your city-state, with the Conquest system. I know they don't want to copy FFXI but.... I miss the weekly tally and Conquest sooo much.


Even Laughingstok had its own charm to it. I loved all the little secret places you could just hide, nooks and crannies and empty apartments, tiny little rooms that you could actually go into in the Metalworks... Ayame hanging out in the canonry, Naji bored on guard duty....
#91 Jan 10 2013 at 3:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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Wint wrote:
Yeah that was always a point of pride, make sure Lastok stays last Smiley: nod


Lol! That's what we called Bastok on our server, too! Smiley: lol

Stop making me nostalgic, Wint, seriously. This is, what, three times in two days?
#92 Jan 10 2013 at 3:55 PM Rating: Good
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I must have been on the weirdo FFXI server, because I was always seeing Bastok and Sandy trading the first place slot while Windy languished in obscurity.

The conquest system was kinda cool, especially in a game with no pvp since you could get some sense of competition with the other players. Although I never really saw anyone take it seriously unless someone in the LS desperately wanted to flag an outpost

The Free Company system has the potential to upsurp conquest if they get a little sandboxy with it. Entertwine it with the global economy. Make the free companies work under contract for shipbuilding companies, various other businesses.
#93 Jan 10 2013 at 7:22 PM Rating: Decent
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balishag wrote:
Am i the only one here who didnt think XIV was that bad? i mean there were a lot of poorly implemented features, but i was able to get around it. It definitely needed work to be done, but i still think it was a better game than old republic...


How long did you play and when did you start playing? I started in April 2012 and loved it. I could see some stuff that needed tweaking but overall I liked it a lot. I don't think however, anyone playing from year one would agree that the last few months make up for 1.5 years of horrible game play. That's what I'm getting anyway.


I started from day 1 and played for about a year, and then off and on after that. I simply didnt have as much time later on due to having a gf. I didnt really try out the last few months of 1.0. I think i updated and played about 2 hours worth, so i didnt get to explore any content. From what i've seen and read, it wasnt much of an upgrade and people were still leaving left and right.
#94 Jan 10 2013 at 8:31 PM Rating: Excellent
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catwho wrote:
That first, terrifying run through Buburimu as a level 10 Tarutaru white mage ....

What XI excelled at, and why its aging graphics are still satisfying in a way, is atmosphere. I'm chilling in front of the AH in Southern San d'Oria right now, occasionally working on kaginawa to level up clothcraft. My linkshell is having a raucus conversation about SE trolling us with lacy pink subligar in the future. (Everyone agrees if they had +50 STR on them, they'd wear them.) It's 1AM - the sky is dark and cloudy, the walls are cool and gray. And yet I feel protected in these fortress walls. I've "lived" in Sandy for five or six years now (emigrated from Windurst :P) so this place just feels like home.

SE needs ARR to capture that same kind of magic. Ul'dah never really felt like home to me, even though it was the only placed I ever lived in 1.0.

Edited, Jan 10th 2013 9:52am by catwho



^This.

Unfortunately for many reasons, personal and general, I don't think ANY MMO (let alone game) will match the "magic" of FFXI.

The areas in FFXI were not only well designed, they had great music, or no music in some instances. They, like Korraloka Tunnels had cool mobs like Gigas and Spiders and Jelly. There were a lot of ??? for things like the Ninja quest and the tunnel led to a totally different area. Granted it was from the expansion, but that was the version we NAs started out with.

Running through the tunnel or other tunnels like Gustav you heard just the winds through the tunnel with your footsteps. Simple. Yet effective.

These areas helped with the pace of the game. Slow. But effective.

Next to Bastok there were 6 different zones you could explore before you started leveling in Valkurm (level 10-12) and 3 of those were big zones. This made you want to progress, so that you could explore and reach more of the zones!

Ul'dah was too much like Jeuno right off the bat. And quick teleportation killed the sense of a "World." At least make a quest to obtain teleportation. Then other quests to expand the ability.

Anyway, yeah, there was a sense of atmosphere in FFXI that in FFXIV just didn't exist. Other MMOs like WoW touched on it, but even it never felt as "magical."
#95 Jan 10 2013 at 9:04 PM Rating: Excellent
Well, if I remember right, I believe they said they're doing away with the ability for you to teleport someplace you've never been with a party. That really did kill any incentive people had to go out and explore their backyards.
#96 Jan 11 2013 at 1:18 AM Rating: Decent
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Ostia wrote:
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It's pretty safe to assume they are going to add a voice over with the introduction, to explain to new players what the hell is going on.


After 1.0, nothing is safe to assume with SE anymore.


Not really, this is a safe assumption. I know bashing 1.0 and SE gets you 'teh mad rate ups,' but at some point it gets old. If you can't admit that SE does cutscenes and story right, you're trolling.

Edited, Jan 8th 2013 10:48am by Louiscool


Correction Square did Story, Cutscenes and Gameplay. SE does Cutscenes. Unless you could mention a game done by SE that tells an amazing story..... I'll Wait!


I know I'm feeding the troll, but there's this amazing game called NIER that..oh...oh what's this? "Square Enix"......Who is this.."Square-Enix"?

(Granted...SE then shut down cavia because Nier sold poorly. But it's an amazing story. Amazing. Leaps and bounds better than anything FF has produced post FFXI)

Also, trailer was amazing, bring on 2.0. I'm in.
#97 Jan 11 2013 at 6:58 AM Rating: Excellent
I tried to get into Nier, just couldn't do it. I should give it another shot.
#98 Jan 11 2013 at 7:46 AM Rating: Good
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Well, if I remember right, I believe they said they're doing away with the ability for you to teleport someplace you've never been with a party. That really did kill any incentive people had to go out and explore their backyards.


This would actually do wonders for exploration. I got all my own teleports in FFXIV, but I know most people would just have their friend tele them around to grab them. 2.0 needs those little "chores" like getting your tele points or having places you cannot teleport to and need to airship to or take the boat (Like a Kahzam EXP Party).

This is probably why I loved the game's final quest so much. Having to travel the world and pray at all the altars in places I've never been was so satisfying in the strangest way.

Edited, Jan 11th 2013 1:03pm by Louiscool
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#99 Jan 11 2013 at 2:41 PM Rating: Default
plutoknight wrote:
Ostia wrote:
Louiscool wrote:
Torrence wrote:
Louiscool wrote:

It's pretty safe to assume they are going to add a voice over with the introduction, to explain to new players what the hell is going on.


After 1.0, nothing is safe to assume with SE anymore.


Not really, this is a safe assumption. I know bashing 1.0 and SE gets you 'teh mad rate ups,' but at some point it gets old. If you can't admit that SE does cutscenes and story right, you're trolling.

Edited, Jan 8th 2013 10:48am by Louiscool


Correction Square did Story, Cutscenes and Gameplay. SE does Cutscenes. Unless you could mention a game done by SE that tells an amazing story..... I'll Wait!


I know I'm feeding the troll, but there's this amazing game called NIER that..oh...oh what's this? "Square Enix"......Who is this.."Square-Enix"?

(Granted...SE then shut down cavia because Nier sold poorly. But it's an amazing story. Amazing. Leaps and bounds better than anything FF has produced post FFXI)

Also, trailer was amazing, bring on 2.0. I'm in.


Really ? Nier ? That's the best you can come up with ? Nier ? Really ? The bomb game ? NIER ? You really mean Nier ? The game that had a lot of potential and went Puff! ? Come on!
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plutoknight wrote:
Ostia wrote:
Louiscool wrote:
Torrence wrote:
Louiscool wrote:

It's pretty safe to assume they are going to add a voice over with the introduction, to explain to new players what the hell is going on.


After 1.0, nothing is safe to assume with SE anymore.


Not really, this is a safe assumption. I know bashing 1.0 and SE gets you 'teh mad rate ups,' but at some point it gets old. If you can't admit that SE does cutscenes and story right, you're trolling.

Edited, Jan 8th 2013 10:48am by Louiscool


Correction Square did Story, Cutscenes and Gameplay. SE does Cutscenes. Unless you could mention a game done by SE that tells an amazing story..... I'll Wait!


I know I'm feeding the troll, but there's this amazing game called NIER that..oh...oh what's this? "Square Enix"......Who is this.."Square-Enix"?

(Granted...SE then shut down cavia because Nier sold poorly. But it's an amazing story. Amazing. Leaps and bounds better than anything FF has produced post FFXI)

Also, trailer was amazing, bring on 2.0. I'm in.


Yeah, Ostia does nothing but berate SE and every game they produce, yet continues to hang around forums and news articles dedicated towards SE's games. It's quite fascinating actually. Oh and he's probably going to retort with: "SE defense force" or some other stupid ****. Best to ignore him.

Edited, Jan 11th 2013 12:53pm by Theonehio
#101 Jan 11 2013 at 3:08 PM Rating: Good
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Well, if I remember right, I believe they said they're doing away with the ability for you to teleport someplace you've never been with a party. That really did kill any incentive people had to go out and explore their backyards.


What killed my incentive was the mobs randomly popping on you and slaughtering you. When you could actually see the mobs, certain areas were definitely fun to try and creep through, especially Mor Dhona. I just remember a few times trying to get through certain areas of the Black Shroud, waiting, seeing nothing load...waiting some more, ok paths clear and BAM dead. So after awhile you just said f*ck it, someone teleport me there.

2.0 is supposed to have better server structure, so hopefully it'll be like in the olden days of FFXI. That first trek you ever took to Jeuno, everyone remembers that.
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