Amazing Final Fantasy XIV Opening Cinematic

Gorvi · 09-14-2010, 06:41 AM

Square Enix held an event in Ebisu, Japan today to celebrate the impending launch of Final Fantasy XIV, and at its conclusion debuted the amazing opening cinematic for Final Fantasy XIV:

They certainly know how to do their CG, don't they? Final Fantasy XIV will launch on September 22nd for buyers of the Collector's Edition, September 30th for everyone else, both dates being for the PC edition. The PS3 will see the game this coming March.

JayVe · 09-14-2010, 06:54 AM

Final Fantasy XIII was a huge buzzkill for the series.

Gorvi · 09-14-2010, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by JayVe

Final Fantasy XIII was a huge buzzkill for the series.

And this is a completely different game by a completely different team, whatever FFXIII was has absolutely no bearing on this game. If you choose to judge XIV based on XIII that would be your own mistake.

LarsenNET · 09-14-2010, 07:04 AM

It's Square's mistake for calling if XIV. Both XI & XIV should have had their own name. FF Online apparently would have made way too much sense.

Gorvi · 09-14-2010, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by LarsenNET

It's Square's mistake for calling if XIV. Both XI & XIV should have had their own name. FF Online apparently would have made way too much sense.

That I would agree with, but at this point they already did it with XI, so XIV doesn't seem as out of place. MMOs are now part of the series.

If XIV has any stigma to overcome it's getting people to look past what they didn't like about XI (as much as I like it I realize many had issues with it) and getting them to give XIV a shot.

Hawkzombie · 09-14-2010, 07:18 AM

What is this I don't even

Suave Peanut · 09-14-2010, 08:19 AM

Well that was certainly a grand introduction.

Too bad the open beta fried my video card!

menage · 09-14-2010, 08:27 AM

Impressive. But I wouldn't expect any less from SE on the CGI front

Cyndair · 09-14-2010, 08:27 AM

That was a fantastic opening. I hope that some of the boss guildleves capture the feeling of that malboro battle.

Shjinta · 09-14-2010, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Suave Peanut

Well that was certainly a grand introduction.

Too bad the open beta fried my video card!

The hell did you put the graphics settings on? OMEGA? That or your card was ready to die it just wanted to go out in style :P

Goronmon · 09-14-2010, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyndair

That was a fantastic opening. I hope that some of the boss guildleves capture the feeling of that malboro battle.

As mentioned in the main FFXIV thread, they are adding at some point the ability to "hack off" parts of a monster with the right skill and when positioned correctly . Plus the monster model will reflect things as such. That's pretty awesome and I don't remember seeing it in any other MMO.

Shjinta · 09-14-2010, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Goronmon

As mentioned in the main FFXIV thread, they are adding at some point the ability to "hack off" parts of a monster with the right skill and when positioned correctly . Plus the monster model will reflect things as such. That's pretty awesome and I don't remember seeing it in any other MMO.

Now that will make boss battles totally epic. Next week gentlemen, next week.

TheKeck · 09-14-2010, 10:40 AM

I don't know if anybody else noticed but there seemed to be cat people in that video.

cawblen · 09-14-2010, 10:42 AM

that trailer was AWESOME.

J Arcane · 09-14-2010, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by TheKeck

I don't know if anybody else noticed but there seemed to be cat people in that video.

Indeed there are.

Catgirls, specifically. For some reason the cat race in FF online games only has females . . .

I'm playing one of course.

Goronmon · 09-14-2010, 11:15 AM

Wow, that is one kickass trailer. CG has gotten so ridiculous in the past couple years.

Suave Peanut · 09-14-2010, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Shjinta

The hell did you put the graphics settings on? OMEGA? That or your card was ready to die it just wanted to go out in style :P

Heh! I actually had just put all the settings at their lowest to see what it looked like and when I booted up the game again, looked around for a bit, and suddenly everything went blue/yellow. Googling told me that it was a bad VRAM issue.

I'm going to miss my 8800 GTX, but it was about time for an upgrade anyway.

Cyndair · 09-14-2010, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Suave Peanut

Heh! I actually had just put all the settings at their lowest to see what it looked like and when I booted up the game again, looked around for a bit, and suddenly everything went blue/yellow. Googling told me that it was a bad VRAM issue.

I'm going to miss my 8800 GTX, but it was about time for an upgrade anyway.

Your video card was weak and needed to be purged. Hail the mighty SE for revealing the truth of your computer's inadequacies. The reckoning is at hand.

Or... something.

Narradisall · 09-14-2010, 04:23 PM

That was an awesome CGI intro.

Will the game live up to it though...

Narradisall · 09-14-2010, 04:24 PM

and yes, cat people are awesome.

09-14-2010, 06:41 AM	#1
Gorvi Life is good! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Dunedin, FL Posts: 18,491 Blog Entries: 5	Amazing Final Fantasy XIV Opening Cinematic Square Enix held an event in Ebisu, Japan today to celebrate the impending launch of Final Fantasy XIV, and at its conclusion debuted the amazing opening cinematic for Final Fantasy XIV: They certainly know how to do their CG, don't they? Final Fantasy XIV will launch on September 22nd for buyers of the Collector's Edition, September 30th for everyone else, both dates being for the PC edition. The PS3 will see the game this coming March.

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menage Praise the sun! Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Seritei Posts: 8,968	Impressive. But I wouldn't expect any less from SE on the CGI front __________________ Now playing: Borderlands 2/ Skyrim/ The Last of Us/ Bulletstorm/ Max Payne 3/Sonic AllStars Tranformed itsanother.me PSN: Menage00 Steam: Menage00

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