Final Fantasy XIII DLC Dead
Game's director quells former DLC plans, producer talks of Xbox 360 release
The director of notorious JRPG Final Fantasy XIII, Toriyama Motomu has recently explained in an interview with Japanese games magazine Famitsu that he and his team intended to release DLC for the title... but didn't.
Toriyama said in the interview:
"We were planning to make some DLC, but that plan wound up not happening,"
Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase also commented on the upcoming Xbox 360 release of the title in Japan, explaining the reasons behind waiting until later this year to release FFXIII on Microsoft's machine:
"Thanks to the new [slim] system and such, the situation's a lot different than it was in July 2008 (when Square Enix announced at E3 2008 that FFXIII would be PS3-exclusive in Japan)."
The Xbox 360 release on December 16th is being touted as the International Edition, which will include the options for English voices and subtitles. It also has the English theme song My Hands - sung by Leona Lewis. What's also interesting to note is that a booklet of concept art will be include in this edition together with deleted scenes that did not make the original release on the PS3.
Will you be picking up the International Version of FFXIII when it is released this December? And how do you feel about the planned DLC never seeing the light of day? Channels your thoughts into the comments below.
Via 1UP
Toriyama said in the interview:
"We were planning to make some DLC, but that plan wound up not happening,"
Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase also commented on the upcoming Xbox 360 release of the title in Japan, explaining the reasons behind waiting until later this year to release FFXIII on Microsoft's machine:
"Thanks to the new [slim] system and such, the situation's a lot different than it was in July 2008 (when Square Enix announced at E3 2008 that FFXIII would be PS3-exclusive in Japan)."
The Xbox 360 release on December 16th is being touted as the International Edition, which will include the options for English voices and subtitles. It also has the English theme song My Hands - sung by Leona Lewis. What's also interesting to note is that a booklet of concept art will be include in this edition together with deleted scenes that did not make the original release on the PS3.
Will you be picking up the International Version of FFXIII when it is released this December? And how do you feel about the planned DLC never seeing the light of day? Channels your thoughts into the comments below.
Via 1UP
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Comments
Hookey 8 Sep 2010 11:16
1/3
Thank god for that. Terrible game! It shouldnt even be classed as an RPG.
Ryan550 8 Sep 2010 18:18
2/3
@Hookey
I too thought it was terrible.. the majority of the entire game felt like one massive corridor as you kept going forward.. I distinctly remember a junk yard that you and your party had to go through and i can honestly say that was one of the most boring experiences i ever had in a videogame... it wasnt by any means "difficult" as the entire game is quite easy but just incredibly tedious and the rest of the game wasnt much better.
I too thought it was terrible.. the majority of the entire game felt like one massive corridor as you kept going forward.. I distinctly remember a junk yard that you and your party had to go through and i can honestly say that was one of the most boring experiences i ever had in a videogame... it wasnt by any means "difficult" as the entire game is quite easy but just incredibly tedious and the rest of the game wasnt much better.
Daz 8 Sep 2010 20:36
3/3
I personally love the game, the "corridor" effect it's got going on wasn't a problem first time round but second and third it gets annoying having to wait to be able to level your characters, other than that, great game, shame about DLC would have loved to fight more Fal'cie (mainly Titan) or see more of Gran Pulse, but they did say they wheren't bringing any out, I fail to see why he'd bother to mention that they thought about it but didn't? what's his angel?