Weekly roundups

[Flintlock]

Here's the roundup. It only took about 45 minutes, including preparing the images. It really is so much faster when you guys have posted things for me to include, so I don't have to go hunting. Thank you all, I really appreciate it!

Technical note: in case you're wondering, I decided to file it under "Square Enix" as well as "Weekly Roundups" because I thought the top story was significant enough to do so, and also because we get some different stories on to the front page this way.

 

[ForceStealer]

Ah yes, the link I posted only mentioned Europe I see, but SE's facebook did say North America as well.

Also in your forum section, The Highwind, Gelnika and helicopter's WEREN'T enough

 

[Lex]

KH 1.5 Remix coming to North America and Europe this Fall for PS3

I'm looking forward to a brand new Platinum trophy in Autumn

 

[Flintlock]

Ah yes, the link I posted only mentioned Europe I see, but SE's facebook did say North America as well.

Also in your forum section, The Highwind, Gelnika and helicopter's WEREN'T enough

I was imagining the word "owning" as an omitted word from the beginning of the sentence, which is why I had "wasn't" rather than "weren't". But you're right, and I changed it

 

[Flintlock]

There has been virtually no Final Fantasy news this week. Not enough for me to put together a roundup, anyway. I'll try to come up with something else for the front page instead.

 

[Lex]

It has been thin, but if you're still wanting to do a roundup:

Advent Children crossover for airborne brigade

Square Enix might be considering a XI port for Vita (Rumour)

New XIV Trailer, might be being ported to PS4

 

[Flintlock]

I saw those articles when I was searching for things to include, but I didn't feel that any of them were particularly noteworthy. The Advent Children event in Airborne Brigade might be worth a mention becuase it's FFVII, but there is only incomplete information on it so far - Siliconera don't know if the event is coming to NA - and we've already said that Airborne Brigade is an awful game barely worth anyone's time

I'll try to come up with something better.

 

[Flintlock]

Here's the latest weekly roundup, back after last week's break:

Rumours suggest Final Fantasy VIII coming to Steam

 

[Shademp]

I am fanboying here. ClanOfTheGrayWolf did a video analysing whether Cloud's Buster Sword could feasibly be used for combat in real life.

A very amusing video that takes into account sword usage in real life, rather than simply referring to the fantastical elements of Final Fantasy.

 

[Cthulhu]

I was expecting more replicas tbh,

 

[Flintlock]

Here's the latest roundup: Magitek armour appears in A Realm Reborn. All credit goes to Jiro for putting it together; I just tweaked it a little and formatted it. Thanks, Jiro!

Shademp, I might include that video the next time I write a roundup myself, but it is already pretty old - from September 2012 - so not really "news". Interesting though

 

[ForceStealer]

That magitek armor looks suitably awesome.

 

[Flintlock]

The latest: Final Fantasy X HD trailer leaked one day early. Lex kinda stole my thunder by posting the news here because I was struggling to find a third story. X has really been dominating the Final Fantasy news sphere, but that's understandable.

 

[Flintlock]

The latest: Matsuda plans thorough review of Square Enix.

 

[Shademp]

Final Fantasy Part 2 - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. ProJared

This one is of interest to me because it paraphrases the Honey Bee Inn material that I presented in the Unused Text series. See this at 03:04 -> 04:20. So cool to hear this described by a known voice from Screw Attack.
The FFVII-FFX connection and some unused concepts for both these games are mentioned at the beginning of the video.

 

[Lex]

I am horrified that I didn't know most of the things in that video. And I'm only 2 minutes in. Tidus with black hair and the buster sword!? Yes please!

 

[Jiro]

Tidus with black hair is gross.

I take issue with the explanation of how FFX-2 and FFVII exist in the same universe though, but eh, that whole idea rubs me the wrong way.

Cool video though!

 

[Flintlock]

After a few problems, the latest weekly roundup has been published. Thanks to Lex for the top story, without which there probably wouldn't have been a roundup at all. The third story this week is particularly poor, especially as we've mentioned that café in roundups before. Oh well. It's not our fault that Square Enix haven't done anything interesting recently.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I'm really sorry there hasn't been much from my corner lately. I'm really pushing to get several things finished this month, I swear.

 

[Lex]

WHIP CRACK WENT LEX'S TAIL

AND TRES WAS DONE.

No really though, take your time. You've always written incredibly thought provoking and interesting stuff and there isn't any rush. There's a lull in SE news sure but if it gets too dire we can always whip something up from our many discussion threads.

 

[Flintlock]

The latest: Nomura announces Versus XIII announcement.

 

[Lex]

Hahahaha, I found that a few days ago and refused to put it in the Versus thread because of the whole "oh look, another announcement of an announcement of an announcement" thing.

It was slim pickin's again this week so I don't blame you for mentioning it in the roundup

 

[Kermitu Kleric Katie]

Well, that's the 499th article, better get working on the 500th article Tres..:monsgter:

 

[Flintlock]

Well, that's the 499th article, better get working on the 500th article Tres..:monsgter:

We're at 498 now, actually, thanks to a technicality.

 

[AvecAloes]

I don't know if this is worthy of mention in a roundup, but I thought it was interesting that it hasn't been released on PC in Japan before. I guess I just figured it would have been done at the same time as the original Western PC release.

http://kotaku.com/http-www-youtube-com-watch-v-g9jdiymlmyy-final-fantas-482220991