View Full Version : Anyone remember what happens today? (FFXII related)
GaijinPunch
11-18-2003, 09:45 PM
Square Enix starts the bean spillage...
www.ff12.com
atomicthumbs
11-18-2003, 10:03 PM
MY MONKEY AND I THANK YOU !!!
GaijinPunch
11-18-2003, 10:21 PM
Trying to trans the prologue. I can do about 80% of it off my the top of my head, but there's a few characters I can't remember (but should).
Here's the gist. I'm TOTALLY skipping the first paragraph, as it's a bit 'poetic' and deserve some attention. But, the story goes:
This is teh story of the land called Ivareece (sp?)
The Arcadia Empire, which rules the Varentia Continent, has been fighting many years with the Rozaria Empire, who controls the Ordaria Continent.
The Arcade Empire invades the Kingdom of Darmaska. Very small, yet conveniently placed between the two continents.
Ashe, a royal descendent of the the Kingdom of Darmaska participates in the resistance, carrying out anti-empirical acts.
Her enemies attacks are fierce, but she does not lose heart.
At that time, she meets a young boy named Vaan.
As they met, a change is born in her heart.
And...
Their meeting, will change the story of this world.
Kinda standard stuff. I heard this was related to FFVII somehow. I don't recall these names.
MarioAllStar2600
11-18-2003, 10:35 PM
MY MONKEY AND I THANK YOU !!!
HAHAHAHAH. Yea thanks for the info.
Kid Fenris
11-18-2003, 10:48 PM
There are no ties to Final Fantasy VII, but "Ivareece" is probably supposed to be "Ivalice," the land where both Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Advance took place. Since those two games weren't really related (as far as I know), I'd guess that the Ivalice in Final Fantasy XII is just one of those recurrent Square things, like Cid or black mages.
That's all I've got, but one of the game screens shows a third character, a woman (or man, I guess) with white hair. I assume that she/he is controllable.
Thanks for the translation, GP.
GaijinPunch
11-18-2003, 11:22 PM
Kind of a shit translation... might put some more time into it later. The first paragraph talks about the legend, connected by stones or some goofy crap like that.
As far as the names of places go -- who knows. I've only played FFX, and am in the middle of VII. BOth Japanese versions since I've got not English playing PS/2. Even if I knew the names of the places in Japanese, I'd probably still mis-romanize them. :)
Hell, I would've romanized the names Varn and Arshe if they weren't written in English. :)
atomicthumbs
11-19-2003, 01:24 AM
http://www.kidfenris.com/Oglethorpe.gif
????????????
http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/ani125.gif
or maybe
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/sunplace/497/pict10.gif
My GOD! Who ARE you?!?
VACRMH
11-19-2003, 02:38 AM
http://www.kidfenris.com/Oglethorpe.gif
????????????
http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/ani125.gif
or maybe
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/sunplace/497/pict10.gif
My GOD! Who ARE you?!?
I was thinking a screwed up version of The Cheat
Thanks for the info GaijinPunch
atomicthumbs
11-19-2003, 03:17 AM
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/avatars/4431385b3fa9dd67a8833.jpg
Who the HELL are you!?! Who ARE you people?!?
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/avatars/436347f23fba269d6b86f.jpg
AHHHHHH!!!
Starcade
11-19-2003, 07:04 AM
The new main chick is kinda hot...for a jumple of polygons that is 8-)
Kid Fenris
11-19-2003, 11:44 AM
My avatar? It's Oglethorpe, the dense alien invader with the hilarious German accent, and a recurring character on Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force (http://www.athf.com/guide_season1.php) (now available on DVD).
And in case anyone missed it, you can spot a third FFXII party member in two of the screenshots. Apparently one of those white-haired Viera bunny-women from Tactics Advance, she's engulfed by fire during a battle scene, and standing on the left in another screen. I don't know how to romanize her name, though, since there are several ways to do it: Huran, Furan, Hulan, Fulan, Fran, and so on . . .
SoulBlazer
11-19-2003, 02:21 PM
Was'nt this game delayed in Japan? When is it due to be out there? At least then we could them estimate a US release.
GaijinPunch
11-19-2003, 10:28 PM
Well, since yesterday was the first information on the game (besides the bullshit poster at the TGS) I wouldn't say the game was delayed.
They say it' schedule for a Summer 2004 release.
SoulBlazer
11-19-2003, 11:57 PM
Well, we MIGHT see it for Christmas 2004 then. But early 2005 sounds more in line.
I recall reading a Square article saying it was delayed. Well, we'll see....
Kid Fenris
11-19-2003, 11:58 PM
1up.com has an informative preview of the game, and it confirms that the Viera's name is Fran. Yes, the fearsome archer . . . Fran.
http://www.1up.com/article2/0,4364,1388764,00.asp
GaijinPunch
11-20-2003, 12:18 AM
Well... there's always some freedom in romanizing names, although I could see the US release matching whatever the Japnaese release says (in the few parts they mention on websites and books and whatnot) even if it sounds wrong/stupid.
I can only imagine how people pronounced Tidus from FFX.
SoulBlazer
11-20-2003, 03:28 AM
I always thought it was how it looked -- TI des.
Here is a shaky cam video of the trailer (11 meg): http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~nanko/movies/ff12-2.wmv
GaijinPunch
11-20-2003, 10:13 PM
Two actually:
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~nanko/movies/ff12_1-1.wmv
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~nanko/movies/ff12-2.wmv
Actually, I think one is audio only. Sorry.
Looks like Fran will be the chick w/ the long white hair and the ass floss... at least as far as I can tell.
brandver3
11-20-2003, 10:41 PM
I do have to say, that site is kicking some serious ass.
I'm glad thier getting away from all the techno stuff. I like FF7 and all, but I still think 9, with the purely fantasy story and the "one character, one job" is really the way it shoudl be.
I really hate it when you can make everyone do everything else (i.e. Giving your healer quad-materia. Or moving Lulu through Aurons side of the sphere grid.)
And those screen shots are pretty amazing. Good God, look at the detail on the main characters sword!
whoisKeel
11-20-2003, 11:37 PM
I really hate it when you can make everyone do everything else (i.e. Giving your healer quad-materia.
oh my thoughts exactly...when all the characters are (or become) the same it takes all the strategy away. Is FFX this way? I've played through 5 or 6 of them but haven't played any ps2 ones...
Nick Goracke
11-21-2003, 11:02 PM
I really hate it when you can make everyone do everything else (i.e. Giving your healer quad-materia.
oh my thoughts exactly...when all the characters are (or become) the same it takes all the strategy away. Is FFX this way? I've played through 5 or 6 of them but haven't played any ps2 ones...
X is not like this until you start doing some of the crazy-hard sidequests that open up at the end of the game. Up until that point, characters follow their own paths on the sphere grid and have very specialized roles. Even then, you'll likely take fighters down another fighters path and mages down another mages path. Characters becoming the same really only takes place if you try and finish the monster arena (which requires all sorts of customizing voodoo).
VII and VIII DO have this issue, but even then, you're better served to artificially split your characters into set classes as it's more effective. They just give you the choice.
Anyways, having seen the preview trailer, my "fears" of having a setting too similar to FFX are totally gone. Definately looks unique, and the in game shots of the characters seem like a far cry from the Yuna/Tidus look-alikes I was complaining about before.
GaijinPunch
11-22-2003, 06:38 AM
The Materia thing has good and bad points. I like the flexibility, but I feel strange having the strongest guy healing people if I want it that way. Just seems un-RPG to me. I need to play through X again, but probably won't for a while. There's like 3 other long RPGs I'm wanting to play right now (X2, Xenogears, and FFVI).