Lightning/Snow Gear and Weapons from Doing FATEFollow

None of these complaints make sense to me. For the past ten years there have been countless spin-offs, with as many FF characters as SE can jam them with, and nobody gives two *****. Kingdom Hearts is a perfect example. How is anyone suppose to explain how Disney characters and SE characters run around in some magical fairy tail butt ******* each other for days on end without there being some obvious plot holes and moments where you just have to stop and say "maybe I should just enjoy this game and try less to understand its lore". Both Dissidia games made no sense, but who cares? Eirghez was dumb, but fun. While I was playing it, I didn't think "gee wiz, I wonder how this will affect the story of FF7, it will ruin everything."

Too many people people getting butt hurt because they can't get your way. The inclusion of these two outfits, and a minor segment in which you get to see Lighting, for some reason makes people feel like SE is ******** directly into their mouths. Give me a break. Ugh, but think about the the Lore, ugh, ugh, the Lore, ugh. Blow it out your ***.

Spinoffs I mean, not a direct sequel.

Um, I'd hate to break it to you, but Crisis core is a five year old game. There hasn't been a full on title for 7 since then.

Even FFIV, the After years, was released in 2008. So the 'Spin off' argument pretty much has no weight here at all, and the credibility you're trying to establish for your argument is in fact doing the opposite.

Your argument is bitter and jaded at best. If anything FFXIII has a stain on it through much of its NA and EU base and the referencing it together could be cautioned against by its PR teams due to the stigma they each have individually.

"Why are you putting my Lightning in that broken MMO game? And those cat ears are terrible!" Says the 13 fans.

"Ugh! Lighthing? Really? You're ruining my immersion!" Says the 14 fans.

This is two development teams trying to liven up relations between one another instead of being so isolated as has been the history of the company Pre-Yoshida and before the President Role change. May it be an attempt to garner sales for both games? Perhaps, but it's a misguided one if that's the only impression. This is more them trying to create a more united relations between both their developers, and sort of the communities as well, as we do have fans STILL divided along favorite FF lines. We'd not even be having this conversation if it was Gilgamesh, or any other Voidlost. The complaints were much MUCH fewer when it was Terra on her Magitek Mount. And we practically screamed for joy at Dissidia and Kingdom Hearts after playing them.

I sincerely hope this isn't a game-breaker for you because we'll likely be seeing more, in more titles as well - not just FFXIV.

The ease of VII and VIII characters was essentially voice actors on hand and model development. Remember KH was pre-Dissidia in its inception and there were initial concerns that, frankly, the earlier character models from the old Saga were just too out of the way to design. Out of all of the earlier works, Setzer was the one to make an appearance from VI.

VII and X had previous voice actors, which made filling them in easier.

Story wise, there was no sense to be had. These were character-a likenesses that existed as their own canon, much in the way the Disney characters reprise their roles, but in differing ways to fit with Kingdom Heart's own rendition of them all.

And agian, I have to wonder if you played 13-2 at all. It makes perfect sense, plot wise, that Lightining ends up on Eorzea, Especially if characters like Gilgamesh and Cloud of Darkness are also making appearances (Cloud of Darkness confirmed as a possible Crystal Tower Boss.)

Why? Because like Cloud of Darkness and Gligamesh, Lightning existed in the Void for a time. She was pulled there by the forces of Chaos when time began to unravel for Pulse and she was written off from the altered history. And in Eorzea, the Void made a HUGE showing as Dalamud approached, likely meaning the dimensional integrity of Eorzea itself is weak and/or already compromised. Beings from the void, have already spilled out into the realm, as well has have been summoned to the realm intentionally within ARR's own plot.

It's very possible that, during her spiral through the void before winding up in Valhalla, she washed up in an additional realm or two for a brief time. It also makes sense given that her attire is the same as her normal XIII attire, meaning she has not met Etro yet and has not accepted her charge as her knight. That's more than just a believable story, it actually has precedent in previous Final Fantasies: Gilgamesh - who seems to do quite a bit of wandering around in various realms before finally meeting his end fighting alongside Bartz and crew in the Void itself and sacrificing himself.

So the story is there, it's as plain as day to me: Lightning washes up in Eorzea for a bit trying to find a way back home, and discovers that some monsters from her realm are spilling out into Eorzea as well, and follows the trail of Pulse/Cocoon baddies back into her particular disruption. - or some such variant of that plot device.

The pieces for it happening are already laid in the groundwork for both 14 and 13. Cash grab or not, it's got a valid approach to doing it. Better than Cloud's cameo in Tactics, honestly, as the Lifestream wasn't exactly a trans-dimensional gateway like the HistoriaCrux/Unseen Relam is.

Not the same. Cid Pollendia is not Cid Previa is not Cid del Norte Marguez is not Cid Highwind is not Cid Kramer. Lightning is Lightning. Also, the Biggs and Wedges aren't the same characters each iteration either, nor are the chocobos, mages, crystals, and underwear is more a Chrono series thing than a Final Fantasy franchise thing. What you're referring to are character archetypes that appear in the games as sort of legacy Easter Eggs. What he's referring to is the character itself being in other games. A more appropriate comparison would be with Gilgimesh, who is the same character from appearance to appearance *except 11, who I seem to have forgotten, yet managed to remember all of the Cid's last names.

Personally, considering the overarching storyline of XIII, with it's dimensional and time travel-esque themes, it doesn't really change my blood pressure any that it's a side quest in another game that also features time travel-esque themes. They could throw Crono, Lucca, and Marle in there and it'd still fit.

Edited, Jul 26th 2013 9:43pm by lolgaxe

Is there anything I can do to sabotage this event? In order to "thank" the people who bought into the XIII hype which literally destroyed this generation of FF games?

Cross promotion is a GOOOOOO

Being one of the few? people who seem intrigued with Lightning Returns I'm a little disappointed if it's simply a FATE. I was hoping for some type of prologue cut scene.

And I completely agree with Hyrist. Given XIII-2 continuity and what we know of the Void, viably adding Lightning into the game shouldn't cost too many precious brain cells to go to waste.




Yes. Yes she is. And I love it!

Edited, Jul 27th 2013 10:41am by ShindaUsagi

We should totally organize some sort of "Maypole" event around Lightning upon release!

Well, i know the point you are trying to make Lolgaxe, but i know chocobos and underpants are not what he is talking about. I think what i was getting at, is if your ok with a franchise that is NTORIOUS for re-using certain aspects of the game in all the new games....is this really that big of a deal?
I know that it's different..but FF has always done things "different". When you saw cid in more than 1 FF title...it was probably weird at first. I wonder how many people even gave that a second thought back then. You can give Cid as many last names, and roles as you want...but cid is cid...not unlike lightning. not much anyway.



Cid has always been the same .. you can change his last name and job, he still deals in airships. He always will. Maybe SE wants Lightning to be the new Cid..who knows?



Edited, Jul 28th 2013 4:27am by Teneleven