MULTI Square Enix Confirms Gamescom line up.

[sshah]

Here is the line up from SE:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn - You've seen the new trailer; now be the first people to see a gameplay presentation live on the show floor, only at gamescom. Also there will be opportunity for a signing session with games Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida (Friday and Saturday only).

FINAL FANTASY VII for PC - Take a look at the fan favourite in its return to PC.

Hitman: Absolution - Get to grips with the ruthless underworld of Assassination with a playable demo available on the show floor.

Tomb Raider - Have you got what it takes to survive? Take control of Lara Croft her and lead her to safety in playable demos on the show floor.

Sleeping Dogs - Celebrating the imminent launch of this immense Hong Kong action game, attendees will be able to play the role of Wei Shen and dish out their own idea of justice with a Sleeping Dogs demo available on the show floor.

Gameglobe - Build your own games from the comfort of your own browser? Sounds too good to be true, but it's not. See how it's done at the Bigpoint booth, C025-B024, in hall 8.

Quantum Conundrum - If you haven't checked out this crazy-fun physics platformer from the mind of Kim Swift (Portal) then you can get some hands-on time on the show floor.

FINAL FANTASY DIMENSIONS - An entirely new FINAL FANTASY game for mobile platforms, inspired by root's of the series success. What more could you want?

Koozac - The award-winning number puzzler will put your brain in a twist, but you won't want to put this one down.

Motley Blocks - We hope you've got fast fingers because this 3D puzzle game requires a whole new level of attention and coordination.

Qwirkle - Earn points by building rows and columns of tiles that share a common shape or colour in this matching game that requires tactical manoeuvres and well-planned strategy

SolaRola - This physics based platformer sees you help Wiz and Waz, two happy-go-lucky blobs, on their mission to save the galaxy.

Mensa Academy - Put your brain to the ultimate challenge and find out your Mensa Academy score.

No Versus XIII; AGAIN. And not even FF X HD.

Source: gamescom 2012 Line-up | SQUARE ENIX

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Crap; it should be Gamescon. Please edit the title.

 

[Major Aly]

Versus XIII = surprise title there?

 

[Chandoo]

FINAL FANTASY VII for PC - Take a look at the fan favourite in its return to PC.

Megatonnnnnnnnnnn

 

[Kane]

^plz plz make it FF(all parts) On PC!

 

[Necrokiller]

FINAL FANTASY VII for PC - Take a look at the fan favourite in its return to PC.

*yawn*

Looking forward to some Hitman and Tomb Raider gameplay.

 

[Shary Bhallu TC]

Hitman: Absolution - Get to grips with the ruthless underworld of Assassination with a playable demo available on the show floor.

Tomb Raider - Have you got what it takes to survive? Take control of Lara Croft her and lead her to safety in playable demos on the show floor.

Sleeping Dogs - Celebrating the imminent launch of this immense Hong Kong action game, attendees will be able to play the role of Wei Shen and dish out their own idea of justice with a Sleeping Dogs demo available on the show floor.

Quantum Conundrum - If you haven't checked out this crazy-fun physics platformer from the mind of Kim Swift (Portal) then you can get some hands-on time on the show floor.

Wanna haz these games now! But I hope the wait would be worth it.

Remaining: Meh.

 

[CerebralTiger]

FINAL FANTASY VII for PC - Take a look at the fan favourite in its return to PC.

*yawn*

This.

Nothing exciting about a Windows 7 re-release.

 

[Muaaz]

No Versus XIII. AGAIN?

 

[sshah]

[MENTION=68]Muaaz[/MENTION] Meaning it missed several events. I am 70% sure that it'll make it on TGS. But, this is SE, any lame thing is possible.

 

[Radical]

Why would they announce something like Final Fantasy in Gamecom/Germany of all the events/places? =\

If it still skips TGS then it is shifted to next-gen. period.

 

[Gizmo]

Radical has a point, no point in unleashing the awesomness that if FInal Fantasy in front of snobby Europeans.

 

[sshah]

Aren't they showing other FFs' as well? Anyhow, I am betting the game is still exclusive, hence the whole new FF - which is multi - to please the 360 crowd. There is a high chance it might go to WiiU, considering how much Nomura and SE loved Nintendo this gen. But for 360, the possibility looks slim to none.

 

[manigamer]

Final Fantasy XIII's Lightning-Based Game to be Announced in September

Not unlike the Jelly of the Month Club, this week's Famitsu is the gift that keeps on givin'.

The latest bit of newsworthiness from this week's publication involves Final Fantasy XIII's Lightning-centric content. FFXIII and XIII-2 producer Yoshinori Kitase said Square Enix will make an announcement about the next piece of its "Lightning Saga" at the Final Fantasy series anniversary event, which is scheduled for September 1 in Tokyo.

Mr. Kitase added that the Lightning project has just started and that Squenix will announce the game's official title at the event.

Andriasang: Next Final Fantasy XIII Project Title To be Announced at September Anniversary Event

 

[sshah]

^ Who the fuck cares about this fruity, pink smacked, regular strumpet? Bring Versus and KH 3 - Versus first of course - on the table SE. The rest be damned.

 

[Gizmo]

Aren't they showing other FFs' as well? Anyhow, I am betting the game is still exclusive, hence the whole new FF - which is multi - to please the 360 crowd. There is a high chance it might go to WiiU, considering how much Nomura and SE loved Nintendo this gen. But for 360, the possibility looks slim to none.

Yeah they're showing a PC port of a 15 year old game and an MMO, Not exactly major stuff.Not for me anyways.Besides neither FF XIV 2.0 or FF VII being released on the 360 so I don't see how it's going to please the 360 crowd.

 

[sshah]

^ I was talking about the future announcements of FFXV, and XIII-3 for 360 as well.

 

[Gizmo]

^^You're assumptions are pretty baseless though, I mean Bussiness isn't about Love and hate, it's about Money and Versus on the 360 will make money, it's as simple as that.If square still decides to keep Versus and Exclusive then that's their chopice but common sense and Logic would suggest that it's more likely that Versus will be multiplat.

 

[Spiderman3000]

FFXIV 2.0 will probably be an awesome FF as Square is just hell bent on making it better. I'm fine with no info FFVXIII^_^

 

[sshah]

[MENTION=11846]Gizmo[/MENTION] You do realize that it take MILLIONS to make a 5 mins CGI footage, right? I am not even counting the other things such as development costs, making graphics more pretty and what not, along with the pays for employees. And SE is notorious for those FMVs. XIII-2 was literally a flop in terms of overall investment and sales. It takes more millions to make a game, then more to port.

Wii U is the ONLY console that takes million $ dollars to port, and devs are calling it DIRT CHEAP. If one million is dirt cheap, I can only imagine how much it costs for devs to port games from PS3 to 360 or vice versa. And both of these consoles are very very expensive to develop for. PS3 being even more so in this regard.

Spoiler: show

Ubisoft says porting to the Wii U is dirt cheap | Nintendo Gamer
Wii U ports cost under $1.3 million for Ubisoft | GamesIndustry International

My statements are not baseless, yours are. I am putting everything into the equation here. Do you really think they got all that money back with FF XIII and XIII-2 investments, with their other JRPG ventures on 360? They suffered 95%% loses in 2010 because of XIII and XIV. And 76 % in 2011.

If they really were making something out of these sales, their loses prove otherwise. So yeah, they have spent - probably the MOST expensive FF to date I can bet - god knows how many millions on Versus, and then, they should send more on port to 360, instead of Wii U that is quite cheap, and get virtually nothing in return to sink their company to the ground? Yeah. you are right and I am wrong.

Spoiler: show

Square Enix Profits Plunge 76% on “Discerning Consumers” (Translation: "people don't buy crap!")
Square-Enix Profits Plunge 90%: FFXIV to Blame - The Lifestream Forums (90% + plunge for 2010 fiscal year)

Taking this to Wii U would be the best business decision for SE. On 360 will be the worst, as the sales will again bring back nothing. Good luck with your wishful thinking. This game ain't coming to 360, get over it. You want to play it? Buy a Ps3, or a Wii U.[FONT=&quot][/FONT] I don't get it, why would they bring Versus to 360? I just don't get your logic at all, given all the things I have posted above. Aside of a few diehards, no one wants to play Versus on 360. While the audience on PS3 and WiiU is HUGE.

What would be a better business decision? A dirt cheap port to a console that'll sell like hot cakes, or millions to break their stooped back on a console that will bring jack? The only reason XIII even went to 360 was because of M$'s money hats. And XIII-2 and 3 are OBVIOUSLY the content cut from the first game, which SE blatantly denied, and yet XIII's are popping out like children in third world countries.

Versus is developed from the ground up on PS3. If they HAD the intentions, they wouldn't have made a new XV, patched up XIV, and a new XIII-3, all on both consoles. Also, do you REALLY think Wada would keep something like this under wraps? If business decisions are a fact with Nomura, his games sure as hell prove other wise. Keep on dreaming OR buy a PS3 and sell your crap box that has no good games.

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[Gizmo]

Geez dude, You're pulling all these facts straight outta your Ass.If it took "MILLIONS" to make a 5min CGI movie then XIII would've cost Square Enix more money than it took to make Avatar since it had hours of CGI cut scenes.Porting a game over to a console is a hundred times faster and cheaper than developing and entire game from scratch.The Assets are all there, the game has been made and planned out, all you needs to do is get it to run on the other consoles.

And where does it say that porting a game over to the Wii U will cost a dev exactly one millions dollars? lol You're making no sense.