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[Churchill]

or have we

[Jinn]

Dat eye!

Is that the sexy galkaF pirate pistol chick I spy!?!

[Stanislaw]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/post/273

A Brave New World
April 10, 2013

Hello all.
Fernehalwes here. I was just casually perusing through some of the magazines lying around Yoshi-P's office when...

Hey! What's this cute, cuddly Kuplu Kopo plushie doing─
http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130410_1.jpg

What do we have here...!?
http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130410_2.jpg

OMG! White mage confirmed for 2.0 launch!!!!11!!

(What's that? White mage was already confirmed for launch two years ago?)

Uh, well then. Enjoy the first look of this fully rendered Lalafellin white mage on the rear cover of the May 2013 issue (vol. 177) of CGWORLD!

Fernehalwes

(What's that? What was I doing in Yoshi-P's office in the first place? Erm... Localizing?)

[Evane]

OMG! White mage confirmed for 2.0 launch!!!!11!!

[Insanecyclone]

I have no idea where to put this

[xopher]

Again, that version of Terra's Theme is awful. All of the emotion is removed by it being so sped up.

[Spira]

still nostalgic feels tho.

that said, actually more intrigued by snow zone

[blindSharingan]

I like the remix theme

[Ratatapa]

I'm on the fence on this. Terra theme has always been one of my favorite FF song, and I can't decide to like the remix or not lol

[Nadrojj]

I don't know what it is about it, but I'm not really a huge fan of the magitek mount from what I've seen so far.

[arus2001]

I don't know what it is about it, but I'm not really a huge fan of the magitek mount from what I've seen so far.

In contrast to the environmental stuff we've seen so far with a dash of general knowledge on jobs and their history, my take: They're dreadfully out of place.

Deliberate pandering to nostalgia may be a pro or con depending.

[blindSharingan]

They're dreadfully out of place.

It's not really quite the stretch though to put it in. The garleans have been in the game since 1.0 launched and they've had far more advanced looking things than magitek armor. One could argue that the garleans seem rather out of place though i suppose.

[Alkar]

Of course they're out of place... Magitek technology is not from Eorzea but from Garlemand <_<
And no, Terra's theme can never be awful. Put it in the game Yoshi-P and I'll ride that armor forever.

[Takiwaki]

Fits right in to me..

[xopher]

They seem to be pretty slow moving and any running animations in them is going to look awkward.

edit: Also that trailer is still amazing.

[Charismatic]

They seem to be pretty slow moving and any running animations in them is going to look awkward.

Well, we don't know that since we haven't seen the run animation... we may very well be surprised (and I hope we are) and of course they are pretty slow moving.
They are walking.

As someone who seems to have a reverence for FFVI, I think you should be glad they tried to recreate the opening. They were pandering to you specifically on this one, my friend.
I personally could not care too much less than I do now considering my (unpopular) opinion that FFVI is awful. I mainly don't want to see this in game because there's going to be so many FFVIfags talking about that game all the time... at least while they are new.
Gonna sour things for me just a lil' for that reason alone.

[Spira]

never really liked the opening cinematic because it didn't ever make much sense - its like, you have a dream and wake up.
and it's never explicitly explained in the 1.0 game either. players had to piece it together. in that sense, kind of a waste of good storytelling format.

[Gokulo]

They posted a pretty great and lengthy explanation of it later on, but yeah, it was on forums and sometimes when 1.0 was already going down lol.

[Cutriss]

IIRC, it's a metaphor for a bunch of friends trying to figure out what MMO to play, and they pick it based on cutscenes but then it never really pans out.

It did make me miss the concept of Battle Regimens though.

[xopher]

never really liked the opening cinematic because it didn't ever make much sense - its like, you have a dream and wake up.
and it's never explicitly explained in the 1.0 game either. players had to piece it together. in that sense, kind of a waste of good storytelling format.

Dude is picking leves and "the echo" takes effect and he starts seeing visions of the past(dragon attacking airship and it falling which you can now see in mordhona). He wakes up and decides to pursue that quest. So, yeah, I think it's pretty well explained.