XBox and Final Fantasy unite

[Dante]

http://www.dailyindia.com/newsarticle/2005-02-26/h.php

its in the link. what do you guys think of this? i was never a xbox fan. so im pretty sad... :(

edit: here's a better link http://rpgamer.com/news/Q1-2005/022505b.html

[Shadowstryke]

I think that's pretty awesome!! I'm an XBox fan and 1 of the few things that this console lacks are some kick *** rpgs. I was really disappointed with Fable...kinda low-end, shabby graphics, linear gameplay; shoulda been classified as adventure/action rather than a rpg. PSO Online was good only for about the first few days (or hours), because everything is soo repetitive. The only other game i think is worth calling "rpg" for the xbox is morrowind and true fantasy online (not yet released).
However, with the addition of the infamous Hironobu Sakaguchi to the XBox team...the future of rpgs for the xbox looks PROMISING. :P

[edit]
just read that the production of TFLO was cancelled. so, disregard my comment above about true fantasy live online...that sux. =(

[teferi]

d00d everytime i see a ps2 game i think,"it wouldve looked and played a lot better if it had been on xbox"....especially when i see those st00pid GTA commercials...this is just a step forward towards that....

[Odnar]

d00d everytime i see a ps2 game i think,"it wouldve looked and played a lot better if it had been on xbox"

I have to disagree with you there. With Xbox's controller I don't think anything could possibly play better on it. But I do agree about it looking better.

Xbox did need to do something about RPG's, probably one of the many reasons they are not selling well in Japan. And I don't think it will effect the final fantasy series too much. FF hasn't been very innovative recently, so maybe the xbox will let him bee more creative.

[teferi]

bah! xbox has a much better controller...all ps2 is good for is fighting games..any controller can be good for most rpgs(especially turn based ones) and ps2 is absolutely useless for fps's...and gamecube is just barely better than ps2..tho' its even worse than xbox for fighting games...

[Odnar]

I have to say xbox is the worst controller my hands have ever touched.... just beating out the dreamcast controller.... I would rather play with the square nes controller then the xbox controller.... the controller is huge and the buttons are tiny and squished together... the thing is a mess.

That said good controllers are definatly not a prerequisite for RPG's but it's always nice to have a comforatable contorller. And I agree gamecube's controller doesn't lend to fighting games much but it does make due (Soul Calibur II is a good example of that) I have to say sony's controller is average. Gamecube gets my nod for best controller of this generation. Also I would say that all controllers have the same FPS capabilities because of the fact that they all have two analog sticks which is what you need.
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[teferi]

its not off topic its about how xbxo is getting better and xbox already has a better controller...havent u bothered trying the smaller controllers...and haveing two analog sticks isnt the only prerequisite for an FPS...they have to be placed well...which the ps2's arent...and the triggers on the xbox controller r much better than the st00pid r and l buttons... and all teh systems had SCII so it doesnt really matter cuz its pretty bad with that st00pid GC controller...

[Gomen]

shouldn't this be in the Video Game section....

But I think this is good i don't care though since i have both PS2 and Xbox but i like the Xbox controller better, so yea it's all good.

[Odnar]

Meh, the smaller controllers are just the same bad layout as the bigger ones... the button placement is still horrible. I do dig the xbox triggers more then the ps2's, and I'll agree that the analog sticks placements are better then the ps2's. But that doesn't change the fact that the xbox controller is barely usable. And all I was trying to point out with the SCII thing was that fighting games could be done well on the gamecube controller if it needs to be.

[teferi]

yeah but thas just because the moves were pretty simple...

[baki]

http://www.dailyindia.com/newsarticle/2005-02-26/h.php

its in the link. what do you guys think of this? i was never a xbox fan. so im pretty sad... :(

edit: here's a better link http://rpgamer.com/news/Q1-2005/022505b.html
It doesn't say anything about final fantasy... :confused:
I wonder what sony is going to do about this...