Final Fantasy Dissidia thread. Sequel announced!

Fluga · January 20, 2009, 12:55pm

Wait, don’t tell me you want EX-Modes banned…

…Damn I’m tired as FUCK.

Calcal · January 20, 2009, 2:24pm

[media=youtube]HM53j4zNHi4[/media] All of the EX attacks. Sorry if this has been posted already.

Chipp_Zanuff_v5 · January 20, 2009, 9:31pm

What are thes inf’s? I havent heard of them anyone care to explain what they are?

System_1 · January 20, 2009, 9:38pm

How does Cloud have an inf if his entire moveset knocks people far away from him to the other side of the goddamn map? Is it a wall infinite?

Fluga · January 20, 2009, 11:42pm

[media=youtube]EgO2LTxHz_o[/media]

Go watch.

InfiniDragon · January 21, 2009, 12:02am

Yeah…that would be the one. Works on ad-hoc, too. So yeah…go Cloud.

System_1 · January 21, 2009, 1:33am

Damn, that’s pretty bad. Seems to me that’s a result of air dodges just being spammable and not being limited.

KWASIA · January 21, 2009, 3:38am

i found several matches/videos on nico

http://www.nicovideo.jp/search/Dissidia

i don’t know if this is vs cpu or not and some of these may not be matches i can’t read kanji

after all the matches i watched it’s the ones without items or summons or ex that are the most balanced and enjoy able. yes i understand the infinites keep the game for be to competitive. though i still feel the matches without items or summons or ex attacks(supers) are the best. though i believe ex mode should still be use the ex attack(supers) just ends the game to fast.

excuse me i don’t know all the terms in this game.

XTG · January 21, 2009, 4:29am

^ Which matches feature Cloud?

KWASIA · January 21, 2009, 4:36am

i don’t remember but he is easy to find

bonus

action replay matches

best one save for last

how do they get the music to match so well with the endings in some of these videos?

alot of these action replay videos look like cg to me

KWASIA · January 22, 2009, 8:57am

there are so many people online claiming there character is the best and no one can beat them but they only play the same people. i would love this game to get some kind of tournament play. like we do here with sf, ggxx, tekken, brawl, and all the other fighters

System_1 · May 11, 2009, 1:10am

Dragging this thread from the depths with news on Dissidia’s English release. A new mode, Arcade, is being added, balance is being adjusted, the tutorial is being largely shortened, new moves for everyone and extra cutscenes, featuring characters not seen in the Japanese version.

Welcome to Part Three of Final Fantasy Union’s Dissidia Interview series. As mentioned in the previous parts, Final Fantasy Union was fortunate enough to be able to sit down with Dissidia: Final Fantasy Director Takeshi Arakawa and Producer Yoshinori Kitase and ask them about the forth coming Dissidia’s western release. Part Three focuses on what’s going to be different about the two versions.

It’s not uncommon for Square Enix to alter aspects of their games when they are released overseas, with Final Fantasy VII being probably the most prominent example. It’s been noted that Dissidia will have a timely delay between its Japanese and Western releases and when Arakawa was quizzed about why it’s so long, he replied:

“There are two reasons [for the delay]. The main reason is that it took time to localise the game (the story part) and the second reason is less direct. We wanted to adjust the original Japanese version to create the overseas version by adding on Arcade, battle balance and also additional events.”

So, it seems as though the game isn’t just going to be a simple localisation. Like Dirge of Cerberus, they are going to take into consideration feedback from gamers and implement it directly into the Western version. In fact, Square Enix have used their local teams to get a good understanding of what’s necessary to engage Western audiences.

“Yes, they did [influence the western version]. We actually managed to get some analysis from our localisation team as well as our subsidiary companies like the one in London and Los Angeles. So we actually did adjust the original Japanese version, as I said before the Arcade mode has been added and also the game balance has been re-adjusted. For example, the tutorial in the Japanese version it takes about one hour, which we thought would be too long for western games, so it has been squashed down to 10 minutes.”

In addition to the extra game modes, re-adjusting the characters strengths and weaknesses, and the shortened tutorial, there will also be other extra content. The first of which is new moves for characters, and the second is the addition of extra cutscenes in the story, which will feature characters not seen in the Japanese version.

Final Fantasy Union: You?ve mentioned there are some differences between the Japanese and Western versions; will there be any other differences?

Takeshi Arakawa: You can see new abilities for the characters, which are only available in the overseas version. Also there are some characters which don?t appear in any events in the Japanese version but they do in the western version.

FFU: So there will be a few more cameos?

TA: Yes, that?s right.

Tomorrow, to complete the series, we will be posting up the full transcript of the interview. Be sure to check back to find out all the juicy information, from why Dissidia was on the PSP to who Takeshi Arakawa likes playing the game as!

S-E have said they would consider making a Dissidia 2 but it depends on sales of the Western version.

Carbunkle_Flux · May 11, 2009, 4:16pm

Whoa. Great job, Squeenix. That’s pretty awesome.
Hopefully they won’t mess this up.

specs · May 11, 2009, 7:59pm

Japan will get a Japan-only “international” edition. Just you wait.

Then again, they never got one for FF Tactics WotL. Which means I should be happy, right? Wrong. I think it’s stupid that Japanese gamers don’t get voice acting for WotL at all. I hate Square.

Though I must admit that, if Mark Hammil voices Kefka, I will pick up the game for that alone. Actually, that’s pretty much the ONLY thing that will make me buy it.

Dr. B International is available in all languages worldwide.

Ultima · May 11, 2009, 8:13pm

What are the odds of this being released as a downloadable title in the west?

specs:

I heard a while back that Mark Hammil can’t do the Joker voice anymore because it hurts his throat.

Carbunkle_Flux · May 11, 2009, 9:02pm

To be fair, WOTL would need some fixes before anyone rightfully should be happy with it. Japan didn’t even have the retranslation to justify the crappy emulated sound effects and slowdown.

But really, this is one case where I think an International version is almost necessary. Otherwise, Japan is stuck importing the definitive competitive version for the game if it ever takes off. Not that I sympathize too terribly considering how we’re stuck doing that for Tatusnoko vs. Capcom, Arcana Heart, etcetcetc but on principle nobody should have to do that :P.

Isn’t he doing the Joker voice for Arkham Asylum though?

Sonichuman · May 11, 2009, 9:14pm

O.o? looks at Batman: Arkham Asylum

specs · May 11, 2009, 9:34pm

That’s what I’m saying. Square’s “rip off our fans” philosophy is to release a title in the following order:

A preliminary (read: shitty) version in Japan.
An improved version outside of Japan.
A definitive “best of all worlds” version for Japan only.

This is a big “fuck you” to consumers everywhere. Japanese gamers are forced to pay way more than they should unless they want to wait (oh and pity the poor Japanese gamer who buys the shitty version first and has to shell out FULL PRICE for the upgrade), and non-Japanese gamers are forced to import or just not have access to what is often the best, most complete version of a game.

NINJA EDIT - And, as you mentioned, if the third “International Version” is never made (WotL), Japanese gamers are fucked again. And fans all over the world continue to support this with money, and seem to be against voicing their outrage (believe me, I TRIED to get people to write, email, and otherwise ask Square to localize Final Mix+) and just submit to either importing or shrugging. (This is part of the reason I hate most fans of anything.)

If I ever become a bigshot game dev, I will push for my publishers to release around the world simultaneously. If not possible, whatever new features a game gets during a new regional release will be available to everyone who already has the game via free DLC.

Dr. B can ninja edit posts up to 500 years after initially making them. I lack such an ability.

System_1 · May 11, 2009, 10:25pm

I like to think of it as them making up for not releasing either KH2FM+, KHFM, or FFXII International Zodiac Job System or whatever the fuck to was called in English. Both Kingdom Hearts Final Mixes and the FFXII remake even had English voice acting for fuck’s sake. I think FFXII Zodiac even had 16:9 support.

specs · May 11, 2009, 10:57pm

I’d rather they make up for it by releasing said titles here. Ironically, I probably wouldn’t buy any of them, as I’ve fallen out of love with both Kingdom Hearts and the Ivalice games (save FFT/WotL), but it would be a much nicer gesture than giving us something at Japan’s expense. Square’s system is horribly flawed, but they’ll keep getting away with it because we (by “we” I mean everyone worldwide who buys their products) keep funding it.

(I probably WOULD buy FF10 International if it came out in NA, though.)

Dr. B’s Sphere Grid consists of eleventy billion different versions of Ultima, Holy, and Super Regen, which is like Super AIDS but in reverse.