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Community Thread: Versus Planners Needed

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Community Thread: Versus Tweets from Nomura

The beginning of the Agito footage seems to start with a CG scene, with the logo on the bottom right. It appears that there is a summon crest of some sort. Then, it goes to soldiers walking in a line preparing for war. The rest of the footage shows off the battle system of the game. It looks pretty interesting, with the HP bars at the bottom, and the characters on the screen battling enemies. The enemies range from typical soldiers, to huge enemies, and flying enemies. There is one large enemy shown climbing up a building. The environments seem to be quite detailed as well. There seems to be a plain location, a desert location, and a location where it’s raining. The footage then ends with the characters all in a pose.

For now, all we have is off screen sort of bad quality footage. Nomura has spoken recently on Twitter, and has stated, “This time, all the PVs from the Open and Closed theaters will be released.” So, we should expect to see the footage that was released during TGS to be online in high quality soonish. He goes on to say, “We’re having outside contractors make the sites for each game, so it seems that uploading the videos isn’t a simple thing.” Basically, it isn’t going to be that soon, but it shouldn’t be longer than maybe a few months. The last thing he tweets about is, “Please wait a bit for the release of all.” Patience is a virtue for the footage, but at least we were able to get a taste of them instead of waiting for Square to release them online.

More information on both games should be at the Fabula Nova Crystallis conference on January 11, 2011.

Check out the Versus/Agito footage here: Kotaku

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Community Thread: Versus XIII Footage Leaked!, Agito XIII Footage Leaked!,
Fabula Nova Crystallis Conference

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Community Thread: Versus Producer: “Can’t commit to 2011 release”

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Community Thread: Versus/Agito XIII Combined Trailer at TGS (Versus), Versus/Agito XIII Combined Trailer at TGS (Agito)

Besides the talk of just Versus, he also brought up the voice casting for Versus and Agito. Nomura states that, “Agito and Versus have different production styles and progress states, but they’re both presently undergoing voice casting. 3rd’s recording will end shortly. Next up is Agito.” Also, don’t expect to see Versus or Agito at Gamescom, because Nomura stated that both games will not show up at this event. It also might be some time before we both see both games release as well with this tweet, “There are a number of unannounced titles. These will come before Agito and Versus. Some have finished voice recording. Announcements will take place in Japan.” Hopefully, those other games won’t take too long, and maybe we can get some more information on Versus and Agito this coming TGS.

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Community Thread: Voice Casting starts for Agito and Versus (Versus), Voice Casting starts for Agito and Versus (Agito)

Initial comments: Development is advancing smoothly though a lot of technical issues prevented it from showing at E3 this year. Those screenshots were prepared with this exact timing in mind, since now because production is picking up steam.

Q: Is this a real-time screenshot we’re looking? The image quality is very good.
A:Yes it’s an image in real-time using the real hardware.We aim to improve the quality you’re seeing now even further. As of now we can’t share more details in full scale right now, so we removed the menus and subscreens where it shows Noctis expression (image projected on the subscreen).

Q: Were the party members also there originally?
A: Yes, we removed because we haven’t formally announced their weapons and clothes yet.

Q: The exquisiteness and shades are like a photograph taken from real life.
A: Indeed, we’re using physical calculations to determine the movement of the clouds. By this time it allow us to filter sunlight and others on Versus XIII.

Q: Is the cliff to the wilderness & the Gas Station set in the same location?
A: Yes in the back of the Store is the cliff to the extended wilderness. You can walk all the way, to everything you see but the mountains.

Q: What’s this giant Enemy on the other screen?
A: It’s a Military Behemoth and he actually bears a huge sword in his back. As for this pictures, the battle screen were on the screen but we omitted it.

Q: The street of Shinjuku is real.
A: Yes, it’s our model for this, even the bicycle lanes and crosswalks are decipted. But the sense of distance has been changed a bit since the last time. Right out of the city you encounter the wilderness with electric wires every as it’s this kind of territory for this country.

Q: This region, It is only the Prologue, the early stages, nature is so even there.
A: Movement around this area is easy because you can use a car. Getting on and off the car can be done anytime, but only not possible to go all the way through it because it leads to a region underwater that has been shown on promotional trailers before.
 
Q: Monsters appear on the field?
A: (Laughter)…Yes, there are monsters that appear on the field; Some staff were doing the tests and were surprised by how good looking some are in the evening sun.

Q: Are the battles seamless, what about the world?
A: It’s basically seamless and we aim to make it even more seamless, but there are loadings between big areas.

Q: Information disclosure, is very restrict as of now.
A: Development is very advanced along and according to expectations we’re taking steady steps; wait at ease please, information on Versus XIII will come. Moreover, we’re making preparations for a Big announcement.

Q: You can actually see a signboard and things written inside in the screenshot?
A: The signboard is still temporary even though the inside of the Gas Station is modeled after the Stations in the US in detail. It’s possible to go up there using the stairs.

Q: Do you play in this perspective the whole game?
A: Yes. The camera basically sits in this position. We decided to priority to the character’s presence and the world; that said we decided to scrap the over the shoulder perspective of the world.

Source: FF-XIII.Net
Community Thread: Nomura Interview on Versus

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Community Thread: Yoko Shimomura talks Versus

- All the screenshots in the interview are captured from the game running in real time.
- The movement of the clouds in the game are controlled by the physics engine in the game.
- The game employs an open field concept, so you can travel anywhere except into mountains.
- The encounter system is a mix of random and visible encounters? (Confusing point, the blog doesn’t seem clear either.)
- Battles are seamless. The only loading in the game will occur when moving between very large areas. They’re aiming for the ultimate in seamlessness.
- Objects along the paths of roads can be destroyed.
- Most people will not believe their eyes when they see the high quality of the battles in motion.
- The staff are highly motivated now.
- There will still be improvements and more polish on the visuals made, the visuals in the screens are the game running at the moment.

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Community Thread: New Versus Information

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