Even the publishers of the book are saying to take it as an 'FPS loosely based on Shadowrun'. Man, all I can hope for is A. this is good in the end (FASA /has/ made some good games before, so it's not exactly unrealistic), and that it creates a surge of interest that prompts the franchise being licensed to someone like Bioware or Obsidian to create an actual RPG out of.

Take anything you hear with a grain of salt unless you see it on the official SSB site or news from a reputable news source (not counting rumors they post, of course).

Bleh... Ironically this upped my interest for DoC, but I'm just generally sick of supporting the HD /at all/ being snubbed in the US. Bloody hell, even the installation options are being thrown out in every game. :P

Edit: Curious about HDD support removal in other games, I decided to google it for WA:ACF, the one game whose NA release actually was slated to support it. Found this interview. A bit off topic, and it doesn't really go into much detail, but may interest some of you anyway.

Because hippo people suck.

I couldn't really get into FFIX despite how much I wanted to; I'll just have to try and replay it at some point. I'd prefer a FFIV/VI vibe successfully translated to a 3D FF, and the closest I see to that happening is FFXII. Nevertheless, I'm equally (maybe moreso right now) interested in the style of setting that FFXIII promises: Want to see more sci-fi RPGs, even though technically FF isn't the most fitting series to pull that off in. :P

And debuted in America on the NES!

Yeah... Nor is Sephiroth a great character for a dream deathmatch. Maybe against Ganondorf, but he nor Cloud have any history with Nintendo outside of 'nearly wound up on the N64'. Characters like Sonic and even Master Chief would be great though because they are/were major characters for their competition, and that could even apply (to a much lesser degree) to the Naughty Dog/Insomniac characters. Cloud and Sephiroth though... Damn, just throw in Cecil or Terra or someone. :P

Yeah, guess I can't match up monitor size-wise... But hey, at least it took up most of my monitor with an assload of detail, so probably better than most people who saw it! :P

Is it close enough to watching an HD version downloaded off GameSpot? :P

Edit: Hey, I just realized I didn't say what I thought of this in the thread yet! I'm with John, can't wait: I think the game looks like it'll have a great setting and also it's a breath of fresh air to see a female lead in an FF game for the first time since VI... If you can even count that. While some of the worry is understandable, by far and large I think people are going to bash on a new FF announcement no matter /what/ is being done with it. :P

Rewatch the trailer, Pikachu's design changed too, but it was more subtle. Kirby, however, didn't change. :P

I'm sure quite a few developers who left their companies would do the same if given the option.

Oh damn, thought GTA was going to be out /this/ year (not all that strange for Rockstar to wait until damn near the last minute to show off the newest game). Yeah, Wii's probably going to dominate sales this Christmas.

I imagine the 360 installed base would be larger though, since so many were sold last year: I can't possibly see how the Wii winds up selling more than the relatively cheap system with new GTA and Halo in the future. :P

Ahh, unlockable content. Even then, they'd /have/ to make that something trivial that doesn't matter, and not something required to beat the game. at most I imagine a secret dungeon or maybe an extra character; it's not like Metroid Prime suffered for you needing Metroid Fusion, a GBA, and a GBA Link cable just to unlock Metroid 1 and the Fusion suit.

I do believe that it will be a /very/ helpful boost, as those that just want to play GTA4 will get an X360. I don't believe just this will truly cripple Sony; they're a gargantuan multi-company empire afterall, and have excellent marketting muscle. But this and Halo 3 /have/ to at least fuck up the launch sales.

The thing is, what's 'fully experince'? You could say that you'd need to play through the Compiliation of FFVII to 'fully' experince FFVII, but you've got the core game there, you played from beginning to end, and basically experinced all that really mattered. Admittedly, FFVII was meant to be a single, stand alone game while games like FFX and FFXIII didn't have that plan in mind... But even then, FFX was perfectly enjoyable on it's own outside of a tidbit at the end, and fuck it, I can just ignore that. :P

Though, I have to agree that I'm not fond of this movement. I prefer each FF to be it's stand alone game, and that's that. But ultimately, they need to do what's profitable... Meh, I'm probably just being an ass who's being nostalgic about older times. :P

Edit: Though thinking about it more, there was Chain of Memories that was pretty damn important between KH1 and KH2... But, again, faq.

MonCaptain: I think it's 'getting the most out of' in the same way you 'get the most out of' Matrix Revolutions by playing Enter the Matrix. Side story that might explain some things, but nothing a quick faq wouldn't answer, let alone anything really /need/ to know about anyway.