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[Dice]

Nomura's biggest film inspiration is Baz Lurhmann! The king of style over substance! Well, that explains a lot.

Oh man,.... is that for real?  Because that would explain Advent Children almost entirely. 
Freud can hit on the "OKA-SAN!!" part.

[Jotacon]

Oh man,.... is that for real?  Because that would explain Advent Children almost entirely. 
Freud can hit on the "OKA-SAN!!" part.

Oh my god XD! That is hilarious.

And yeah it's real - from an Article Yggdrasil posted upthread:

On the subject of films, Nomura admits he doesn’t play too many games at home and instead delves into the world of movies – watching several on a typical night. His biggest cinematic inspiration is Baz Lurhman, the director behind Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, and The Great Gatsby.

[Yggdrasil]

By the way, I have to ask... do we have absolute confirmation that X/X2 HD will have the International content for both games?

Haven't seen any info about that yet.

[Cyril]

Destructoid says it's the vanilla content.  I'm hoping he made a mistake, but Dale North seems pretty confident about it.

http://www.destructoid.com/hd-happiness-kingdom-hearts-and-final-fantasy-x-255800.phtml

You've probably heard this by now, but this HD upgrade is a straight port of the western release, meaning that we're not getting that International Version that some series fans were hoping for.

[Starmongoose]

That's incredibly lame and will probably put me off buying it if true. I've never played the vanilla game.

[Taelus]

I don't see why they'd cut it from FFX/-2 but not from Kingdom Hearts HD. Unless the rumor about selling Last Mission/Int'l as DLC is true. Which would be dumb, since that would require actual effort to remove.

[Yggdrasil]

I don't see why they'd cut it from FFX/-2 but not from Kingdom Hearts HD. Unless the rumor about selling Last Mission/Int'l as DLC is true. Which would be dumb, since that would require actual effort to remove.

[Dice]

IRC, wasn't it confirmed otherwise that we are getting it?

EDIT: or maybe just as DLC...yeah

[Aeolus]

Destructoid says it's the vanilla content.  I'm hoping he made a mistake, but Dale North seems pretty confident about it.

http://www.destructoid.com/hd-happiness-kingdom-hearts-and-final-fantasy-x-255800.phtml

You've probably heard this by now, but this HD upgrade is a straight port of the western release, meaning that we're not getting that International Version that some series fans were hoping for.

Translation: Skip it.

Even Wind Waker HD is sounding better than this.

[Yggdrasil]

Translation: Skip it.

Not if you want to give hope to the idea of having XII remastered.

"Bundling two of the biggest Japanese PS2 titles together on PS3 (though Vita separates them) is a brilliant move, but what about the massive elephant in the room - the potential this opens up for a remake of Final Fantasy XII or other much-loved entries in the series? Surely that title is next on the slate?

Kitase remains coy, but his few choice words give us a little hope. "We'll have to wait and see if these remasters are going to be successful, first," he explained.

"If they do well, I think this will pave the way for more of the previous games to remade in an HD sort of quality. I mean, if we had to single out one of the vast number of Final Fantasy titles which we could make in HD, it would have to be Final Fantasy XII."

Kitase then explained he wasn't involved in that project - that was helmed by the long-silent Hiroyuki Ito and Yasumi Matsuno, who has since left the company - and thus he was reluctant to comment more.

"What I can say though is that I hope the remastering of X and X-2 will trigger similar projects for more of the past games," he concluded. Time - and sales - will tell."

Source: RPG Site

[Klutz64]

Yeah, nooot really. FFXII always looked good enough to me, and I doubt my PS2 is going to crap the bed any time soon *knock on wood*

I was mostly looking forward to the extra content in X/X-2. If that will be there as DLC, then I'll still get the games. The game is a really good deal regardless, and though I'm not a fan of locking stuff as DLC, I don't mind giving in this time around.

And yes, I know that XII had some extra content in the international version as well. From what I hear, the extra license board content didn't save that from being a dreadful character development system.

[Dice]

MAAAN, PS2 remasters are sooOOooooOo last gen.  PSX remasters would be the thing to bring back from yesteryear.

[Aeolus]

Translation: Skip it.

Not if you want to give hope to the idea of having XII remastered.

And still not get the International version for the price of admission? No dice.

[Dice]

No dice.

D:

[Akanbe-]

Destructoid says it's the vanilla content.  I'm hoping he made a mistake, but Dale North seems pretty confident about it.

http://www.destructoid.com/hd-happiness-kingdom-hearts-and-final-fantasy-x-255800.phtml

You've probably heard this by now, but this HD upgrade is a straight port of the western release, meaning that we're not getting that International Version that some series fans were hoping for.

I also could have sworn they confirmed it was the international release months ago.  Wish they would get their story straight.