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Oct 19, 2013
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Not wanting to bring other board's drama here, but since I don't post on NeoGAF, who is this Verendus cat? The way he posts -- and the fact he isn't banned -- seem to indicate he's some sort of PM in 3rd-party relations at Sony.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214982130&postcount=452
Works for Sony. Started teasing the real FFVII remake since early 2013 (part of the reason why I joined GAF at that time, heh).
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=91158373&postcount=13861
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=101145962&postcount=60
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=142521175&postcount=2037 (in response to me asking after the Hashimoto troll announcement of FFVII PS4 at PSX '14 if that was the "remake" he's been teasing, lol)

Then he also mentioned FFXVI since 2013:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=129895715&postcount=336
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=94912759&postcount=346
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=129895715&postcount=336

The latest list of games he teased last year was this, including a FFX and FFVII spin-off, and a FFVI remake (though both the FFX spin-off and FFVI remake weren't certain at that point):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=169350163&postcount=13930

Has been right on many things, though often the posts are very cryptic and trolling, except for when he talks openly about SE's internal problems or about the whole "Versus != FFXV" thing yesterday:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214982130&postcount=452
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214989504&postcount=486
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214999944&postcount=520

About FFVIIR story changes:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=169176782&highlight=#post169176782

Also he likes to say how people don't realize how FFXV is much more ambitious than FFVIIR (he just said it again in one of the posts from yesterday in the "Versus vs. FFXV" discussion):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=169225002&postcount=8467
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=200253516&postcount=69
 
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Tornak

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So, the first half of the game being open-word and the second more linear... 15 chapters in total.

I think this is very interesting. And certainly original, as it's the opposite most games do (including FFs themselves). It also should ease any worry about the game being too fetch-quest-ish or dettached from plot. I wonder how they're going to tackle it.

And I mean, beyond a few scenes, have they really shown anything that could be consider late game? We've mostly seen Leide and Duscae, as well as Altissia. I wonder whether after Altissia and Levi, something interesting happens. Also, the whole Plague of the Stars thing: I wouldn't be surprised if another World of Ruin happens here (as many have said already) and I would fucking love it.

And the fact that the latter half of the game is more linear and that they haven't really show much of it makes me think that we could be playing the timeskip for a longer time than expected. Anyways, I'm very interested in seeing how the latter half is going to be, and how they're going to handle this change of pace.
 
Oct 19, 2013
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Oh man, these CEDEC slides spoiling every remaining location in the game it seems. Time for a real blackout now (this time for real :D). I know everything I need after the gamescom build. Everything from now on is just reducing suprises of my own playthrough.
 
Jul 16, 2015
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CEDEC images











is that a Greek inspired city? omg Ravus looks badass. Imsomnia!?

stop playing with my fucking heart SE. : (

give me this game already
Yea I was thinking the same thing about that little town on the sea. It looks like Santorini which is in Greece.



Absolutely gorgeous little town. This was the inspiration for the city of Termina in Chrono Cross just fyi. This is so great. So happy about this.
 

Bobjam

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Sep 14, 2014
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I'm looking forward to seeing the comparison's between the old map model we had from a couple of years ago and the one they have shown today. Is it smaller? By the looks of it things have moved around but I'm sure someone will give some great comparison's :D

Edit: False Alarms, it's been confirmed to be the old map before they later expanded it (phew)
 
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Works for Sony. Started teasing the real FFVII remake since early 2013 (part of the reason why I joined GAF at that time, heh).
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=91158373&postcount=13861
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=101145962&postcount=60
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=142521175&postcount=2037 (in response to me asking after the Hashimoto troll announcement of FFVII PS4 at PSX '14 if that was the "remake" he's been teasing, lol)

Then he also mentioned FFXVI since 2013:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=129895715&postcount=336
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=94912759&postcount=346
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=129895715&postcount=336

The latest list of games he teased last year was this, including a FFX and FFVII spin-off, and a FFVI remake (though both the FFX spin-off and FFVI remake weren't certain at that point):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=169350163&postcount=13930

Has been right on many things, though often the posts are very cryptic and trolling, except for when he talks openly about SE's internal problems or about the whole "Versus != FFXV" thing yesterday:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214982130&postcount=452
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214989504&postcount=486
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=214999944&postcount=520

About FFVII story changes:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=169176782&highlight=#post169176782

Also he likes to say how people don't realize how FFXV is much more ambitious than FFVII (he just said it again in one of the posts from yesterday in the "Versus vs. FFXV" discussion):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=169225002&postcount=8467
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=200253516&postcount=69
Thanks for the info. This guy sounds like SE is one of his responsibilities. And he'd better be pretty high up to make those sort of posts - if I talked about this level of detail on, say, a hypervisor forum, I could be subject to termination.
 
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llazy77

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Oh man, these CEDEC slides spoiling every remaining location in the game it seems. Time for a real blackout now (this time for real :D). I know everything I need after the gamescom build. Everything from now on is just reducing suprises of my own playthrough.
Most of these are old areas tho Im sure we havent seen alot of the areas yet. They are not "spoiling every remaining location in the game".
 
Oct 19, 2013
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Most of these are old areas tho Im sure we havent seen alot of the areas yet. They are not "spoiling every remaining location in the game".
Before I could react fast enough my eyes caught at least 2 or 3 new places, including a Mediterranean town or something like that.
 

wmlk

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Sep 5, 2014
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Wow those shots must be ridiculously old to have the 2013 UI in them.
Yeah, so I hope the town scenes aren't cut from here. You can easily tell what's old and what's new. The stuff from Insomnia has to be old as it's very Japanese and they've changed Insomnia since.

I think the Insomnia stuff is cut and was from a prototype build.
That coastal town reminds me of Balamb a bit
Termina from CC!