Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Compendium

A new Final Fantasy XIII trailer was unveiled today. And by new, I do mean new -- as in "not just recycling the same clip that we've seen ten times before." I think it's pretty impressive.

It even shows actual gameplay! I don't know how to describe it since I can't manipulate it myself, but from how the new battle system looks, it seems to be a cross between the old Active Time Battle system and the Active Dimension Battle system used in Final Fantasy XII. But that's just speculation on my part. I'm sure this new system has a wholly different acronym to go with it.

So does this new trailer temper or fuel the fires of my interest? After the seemingly unchanging trailers prior to this and the dearth of information regarding anything to do with the game, there's nowhere to go but up! The game had better be super epic though. To me, Final Fantasy XII seemed like it was just getting started when it ended.


In other news, I thought I'd provide a directory of sorts for all the different podcasts/videocasts you can listen to now that are comprised of recent ex-EGM/1UP staff members.
A Life Well Wasted
Area 5's Co-op
Geekbox
Rebel FM

This, of course, doesn't include blogs and the like of different staff members who had left prior. That'd be a decidedly more impressive (and perhaps useful) list featuring John Davison, Dana Jongewaard, Jeff Green, Patrick Klepek, etc. Add to that all the Twitter accounts I could link to... Perhaps one day I'll put it together, but I'm sure there's lots of people I'd miss. Still, what I do have should provide you with hours of entertainment every week.

1 comments:

Nick said...

There is an HD version of the FF XIII trailer in the PlayStation Store, FYI. Might be on Xbox Live too, but I haven't checked.