IGN: FF13 Update

[Jedihillis]

The latest issue of famitsu magazine has provided some information regarding the three games in the Fabula Nova Crystallis series.

Final Fantasy XIII
- There will be no PS3 install
- Game saves will be around 500kb
- There are few load times, and are only seen when going between towns and the field.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- The footage at TGS was just test footage, and will not actually be in the game at all.
- The battles will be an extension of the Kingdom Hearts battle system, but with some traditional Final Fantasy elements as well.
- Lots of emphasis is going towards the level design.
- There will be a partner system, with your ally moving independently to each other.

Final Fantasy Agito XIII
- The battle system shown at TGS is close to the finalized battle system
- The game will be fairly difficult
Source: IGN

[FinalEvangelion]

Toriyama also shared some technical details on the game. Save data will take up 500KB. Trophy data takes up 3,080KB (yes, it looks like the game supports Trophies!). In case you were stocking up munitions for a big system wars battle, there won't be a hard disk installation.

No Hard drive install. That's definitely a nice thing to know.

It also said load times between towns and fields. Good to know there will be fields.

[Tuna_Caitsith]

no hard drive install? YES!!!!!!

[PhantomMemory]

There will be no PS3 install

*Cough* Keeping on the same level as the 360 version because of the M$ contract. *Cough*

Hehe, I could be wrong though. Uncharted 2 being a good example of no installs for a PS3 game. I'd prefer an optional install personally. I've upgraded my hard drive so I've got plenty of space. Would've been nice.

[Archer Mac]

Some websites write that there "won't be" installation, and some that it's "not required".
You can install whole games on the 360 so they can be played from the HDD while the DVD is inside the tray for the lulz, keeping the game from quitting (there is a small number of older games which cannot be installed).

So making absolutely NO installation would be a major fail because both consoles can install games. It's probably "not required but possible" and that gives you more options because you can, but you don't have to install to play.
....I'm sure they won't be so stupid to not allow installations at all.

[Shadowriver]

Well PS3 and 360 have deferent reasons that they have installs

Well, i'm happy with this news, this mean that PS3 version still have some things left from it's exclusiveness. Mostly multiplets got installs

[Tyke]

The battles will be an extension of the Kingdom Hearts battle system, but with some traditional Final Fantasy elements as well.

This is pretty vague. If they made it like KH but also with the ATB system being used in FFXIII (where the bar decreases with each attack/combo), I think it'd work out perfectly. But don't make every enemy a pushover, because in KH, it felt like every enemy I faced could be defeated with enough Keyblade blows, using no strategy whatsoever. Which is why I loved Chain of Memories so much, because the card battle system gave it a sense of strategy.

Lots of emphasis is going towards the level design.

I hope they give you various things to do in these levels. I don't want them to just be big, pretty spaces filled with enemies, people, and treasure chests. They should take a FFXII approach, and by that, I mean they should have almost every area include side quests, enemies that spawn at certain times (night/daylight/mid day/rain/snow/sandstorm/whatever), and secrets of some sort.

There will be a partner system, with your ally moving independently to each other.

Dear god... Please don't let it be anything like the Kingdom Hearts party AI. I want something like FF12's gambit system, so that I have total control over my partners' actions.

[Omen]

An optional instal would be nice so that we don't get the load times when moving from town to field etc.
hmm.

As for Versus XIII.. Co-op anyone? "Moving independently", why not online co-op huh?

(Also, screw gambits from FF XII lol. If it has a system like that I would just quit.
I hate gambits with a passion because if set up correctly, you didn't need to even be in the room to play the game.)

[Jedihillis]

I don't like the idea of another Gambit system unless it's significantly simplified.