Next-gen Final Fantasy tech demo shown

As far as this tech demo is concerned, they teased us with Final Fantasy 7 already. It's not the graphics or tech I care so much about as the story. As a gamer since the 80's, I take graphics for granted today.

"ooooowwww, it looks pretty!" WTF?

I don't even play Final Fantasy games anymore. To me, the PS one was the golden era. FF7-9, Tactics, Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Xenogears, Front Mission. These were games I played. 90% of the games I played on PS one were SquareSOFT RPGs. But now, FF13?13-2? Rythm games? This tech demo? I Could care less. If FF 15 isn't a return to knights, mages, and chocobos and moogles, then I won't care about it either. No silly future-tech, quasi-political, over-stylized, or online-MMO-bandwagon crap. Get back to basics, what made me love FF back when it really WAS the FINAL fantasy. I understand a desire for innovation and forward progress, but today's squenix pales in comparison to the days of the

And bring back the games we really want. Like another Chrono(for PS3 and Xbox), Tactics(if not a full fledged game then on PSN or XBLA, but with that traditional formula) or why can't Parasite Eve get a PS3 game, not just a slept on PSP game. And hey Enix? How about some more Valkyrie Profile?

And what's up with Final Fantasy Vs 13 and Kingdom Hearts 3?!?!

Final Fantasy is rolling in its grave.

*cough*FinalFantasyVersus13*cough*KingdomHearts*cough*FinalFantasy10HD*cough*

Where they even at E3? Yes, I know Tomb Raider, but that doesn't really count as Square Enix

Didn't they say that they expected to use the current Crystal engine for a loooong time?

Wait..wait..hold the damn phone! Did they honestly waste time on this worthless tech demo when they should be focusing on..oh i don't know...FF13 Versus, repairing the mess that is FF14, and tweaking or forgetting about FF13-3? Why do we as gamers really need another pointless tech demo. We get it..games are becoming more graphical, we are not dumb. Just don't show us a game that is never going to be released and instead show us footage of the ending product of Versus 13. I can't be the only one that feels this way...I mean the tech demo for FF7 on PS3 was neat but when FF13 came out it looked even better..just had no emotion in it what so ever...or too much emotion..depends on who you speak to haha.

A short tech demo is one thing. Being able to return Final Fantasy to it's former luster is quite another. Square Enix hopefully will have commenced work on Final Fantasy 15 for the 8th Generation. It will be 2017 or 2018 before Final fantasy shows up on 8th generation systems. Square Enix is known for their throw-a-way tech demo's Which seems to get their fans riled up. Thus ending in disappointment when the next FF game shows up. So in 2017 at the earliest will we see how this new game engine works out.

I'm hoping they don't use any of this as inspiration for the next Final Fantasy title. It needs to go back to a medieval-fantasy setting. Stop with the futuristic stuff (for a while), let the Final Fantasy VII CRAP die (that being mostly directed at gamers, obviously) and get back to some roots.

Yea, I can now pointlessly see even beyond the persons pores to their skin cells, and this helps with gameplay HOW?!... Oh it DOESN'T?.. Then why are we wasting time with it STILL...

I know this is a tech demo but I hope to god the next FF game is nothing like that. *Heads back to FFXII*

@abroche It will be delayed until the ends of time, lol. Fukin trolls at Square Enix. Been waiting FOREVER on VERSUS 13.

Looks nice.

VERSUS FFS WHERE IS VERSUS!!!!!!

It's a cute tech demo. But you have to remember that "real-time rendering" is not synonymous with actual gameplay. This technology would be great for creating backgrounds, character models, ect... But then it comes down to what is practical in an actual game environment. When you're actually moving the character around, you won't be seeing anything like what is shown. A true tech demo for real-time rendering would have a player controlling the character, so we could see how the engine runs when the player variable is thrown into the mix. When it comes to 100% scripted sequences like this, it doesn't matter if it's pre-rendered or not. Can the visual engine handle player interaction to the environment and respond in a realistic manner? If not, then it's just a higher resolution version of what we already have.

I almost thought this was an announcement for the hinted at FFBox.

As long as it's more game than a movie I'm good. Just don't make it resemble FFXIII.

Final fantasy FAVELA =)

You See?! You See?!

i told you that Next-Gen was going to be incredible! I told you we would get near-avatar graphics!

This is only the beginning!

We are going to have HUGE battles with thousands, Destructible Environments, Real world physics, water physics, real A-I that can search for you, etc etc. It'll be so good, that you'll forget this gen ever happened!

It seems that we will never get final fantasy XIIIversus..

Looks pretty but we all know prettiness alone doesn't make a good game.

Bring back the world map!

I've shat my pants... O_O

i wish they didn't have took out the don't like button because I would press it in your comment

Final Fantasy is dead, and if the developers don't look beyond pretty graphics and look at key gameplay issues, then the game series will stay dead

That looked pretty impressive for real time, though I hate the use of "shaky cam". Instead of adding realism to a video, it just causes eye strain and the feeling that they are trying to prevent you from seeing the action because they are afraid that you will see how fake some of the action sequences are.

It's good to see improved technology. It looks really good.

Luminous engine was the one they developed for versus XIII does that mean Versus is going to be next-gen? oh plz no I can't wait that long.