Patrick Stewart voicing FFXII ads
Star Trek veteran to provide the voice-over for the British and Australian ad campaigns.
The voice of Patrick Stewart, the British actor best known as Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, will be used as part of the marketing campaign to promote Final Fantasy XII's PAL territories launch. The role-playing game, the latest in the popular Final Fantasy series, will launch in Europe and Australia on February 23, with the ad campaigns beginning on February 19. As part of the marketing push, there will also be a midnight launch event in HMV on London's Oxford Street. The executive producer and director of the game, Akitoshi Kawazu and Hiroshi Minagawa, respectively, will both be present at the event to sign games and answer questions. There will also be free goodies for people wearing the best Final Fantasy costumes, and the first 100 people to buy the game will receive limited edition Moogles and soundtracks.
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I liked FFXII, but it lacked something compared to the previous installments. I can't really figure it out.
topman_2005 McnabbsPHIeagle "There will also be free goodies for people wearing the best Final Fantasy costumes, and the first 100 people to buy the game will receive limited edition Moogles and soundtracks" Say What? Square Enix ain't gots no love for the west side(North America)? They's straight trippin dogs. Man they better give us KHIIFinalMix or ill boycott them mfers. You spoilt **** **** we've had to wait since the 31st of october, so, gtfo dick, we deserve it for always havin to **** wait. **** off and die. whoa whoa whoa there, i was takin a shot at square enix not you or europe or australia, man i didn't know fish and chips up someone's ass would give em pms, i know it sucks you had to wait, but its no excuse to get angry, my comment wasn't intended to offend you guys enjoy your goodies and remember my beef is with square enix , not you.... and BTW it scares me to someone use dick and f off together, checkyourself before you wreckyourself
Captain Picard voicing FFXII's advertisements? AHHAHA! I can no longer take the game seriously. Make it so!
McnabbsPHIeagle "There will also be free goodies for people wearing the best Final Fantasy costumes, and the first 100 people to buy the game will receive limited edition Moogles and soundtracks" Say What? Square Enix ain't gots no love for the west side(North America)? They's straight trippin dogs. Man they better give us KHIIFinalMix or ill boycott them mfers. You spoilt **** **** we've had to wait since the 31st of october, so, gtfo dick, we deserve it for always havin to **** wait. **** off and die.
"There will also be free goodies for people wearing the best Final Fantasy costumes, and the first 100 people to buy the game will receive limited edition Moogles and soundtracks" Say What? Square Enix ain't gots no love for the west side(North America)? They's straight trippin dogs. Man they better give us KHIIFinalMix or ill boycott them mfers
I think his voice should suit the kind of adventurous and deep storyline that final fantasy represents.
yeah..... I'm a big star terk dork.... but I just don't see anything exciting about Patrick Stewart voicing a FF ad, their all hype "it was 4 years in the making, billions of dollors spent, and it couldn't fit in a single motion picture, Final Fantasy 7." That's how all the FF ads have been. If he was like replacing some of those voice actors whom mispronounce the word "Marquis." Then I'd say that would be for the better.
Having lived on the road where Patrick Stewart was born for ten years (yes, seriously), I actually have links to this. I still live in his hometown and support the same football team as him as well.
I don't really like Star Trek, but it sounds interesting how Patrick is gonna be voicing FFXII ads. And because of my pre-order, I wonder if i'll be one of the first 100?
fi...nal...fan...ta...sy...now...pleaa..seee...dy..ing...foor...it ~eek~ NOW I WANT TO PLAY IT NOW AAHH too long since FFX... sigh
Ptrick Stewart is awesome. A great actor, great voice in video games, helms Star Trek better than any other... and he supposedly loves Beavis and Butt-Head. Awesome!
Kirkless born man. Patrick Stewart is the best! Please do another series of Eleventh Hour!
I'm pretty sure that I can safely say that Patrick Stewart is probably every geek's wet dream... at the very least, meeting the guy would be a check on my life-time-to-do list.
I knew I should have moved there years ago....sometimes it really sucks being American (I want a moogle, too...)
i really have had enough of all those american accent in games so things like ff12 and to a less then satisfying dragon quest 8 (though this had the typical pub english). Were a welcome. hmmm. maybe this'll educate people some 'real' english...and, and when square-enix re-release it as an international version to the japanese lot with subtitles, of course. It may even...lets just say the implications could be far reaching. I recall my english teacher on one occasion telling me that there is and should only be one english and that is the real/british english. All others are inaccurate and false in one way or another...that was some 30 years ago. These days we're all used to reading all those other versions due to the internet of course.............i'll leave it at that. I repeat, FF12 is fantastic in the voice acting etc. one might actually pick up a thing or two - possibly.
Nerds everywhere just rejoiced. Honestly, this may be the most nerdy combination ever. Picard associating himself with Final Fantasy.
Ha, I'm already playing the PAL version. Got my hands on the promo version. Works with Swap Magic 3.6 as well!
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