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[Haunted]

Looks rough.

Some forced AA on the PC version will do the game good.


That said, the battle system certainly sounds interesting. Still a buy.

 

[PillowKnight]

:lol It's basically one tile copied and pasted eight times over.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Loving this low poly sword.

Seriously some stuff looks really good and some stuff looks really bad. It's all over the place. In motion though it probably looks fine.

 

[Darkpen]

wow, what's with the lack of some AA? But I'll just assume it'll be totally engrossing and worth checking out. I like the art direction, anyways.

 

[Paznos]

Hmmm it looks kind of rough.... I wonder if the PS3 version will have AA.

 

[KTallguy]

I'm interested in the battle system mainly. Graphics are passable.

 

[gregor7777]

Screens look rough, but I'm definitely eagerly anticipating any info they let out on the game.

I can get past some rough visuals in my RPGs as long as there is enough depth.

 

[Tiduz]

The Last Jaggie.

 

[Dante]

Yuck! I guess all the real talent is on FF13 and Vs.

 

[No_Style]

The Last Jaggie.

That deserved a chuckle. :lol

 

[Dark Octave]

Yuck! I guess all the real talent is on FF13 and Vs.

I've passed on quite a few RPGs this generation so far. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are the only two, and Phantasy Star Universe because it was cheap.

Sad thing is it'll probably end up staying this way until FFXIII comes out in 2027. Not much is interesting to me, and most RPGs this gen are using Tri-Ace's Star Ocean action battle system style, which is awful.

 

[KingJ2002]

they should have never used the unreal engine.

 

[ixix]

I would have thought that hiding your computer cursor was a standard part of taking screenshots.

It's kind of nice having it there, though. Adds a certain ambiance.

And it apparently wasn't a one-time mistake.

 

[chriskun]

Really?.... Really?

Shane????

 

[dark10x]

Pretty disappointing visuals. This looks SIGNIFICANTLY worse than FFXIII and doesn't even stack up to Lost Odyssey, really. I suppose UE3 allowed them to get the game out the door earlier (this year) while FFXIII has taken a much larger budget and additional time, but you'd think they'd want to put their own technology to use after spending so much on it.

Hmmm it looks kind of rough.... I wonder if the PS3 version will have AA.

It's UE3. Very rarely do UE3 console games use AA. There's certainly not AA present in Gears of War, Mass Effect, or any of the other top shelf UE3 titles yet they still look fantastic.

 

[Paznos]

Pretty disappointing visuals. This looks SIGNIFICANTLY worse than FFXIII and doesn't even stack up to Lost Odyssey, really. I suppose UE3 allowed them to get the game out the door earlier (this year) while FFXIII has taken a much larger budget and additional time, but you'd think they'd want to put their own technology to use after spending so much on it.


It's UE3. Very rarely do UE3 console games use AA. There's certainly not AA present in Gears of War, Mass Effect, or any of the other top shelf UE3 titles yet they still look fantastic.

That's true but wasn't Lost Odyssey also using UE3? I don't remember it looking this jagged.

 

[djtiesto]

Graphics look murky and muddy as hell, too much brown, yadda yadda... but the battle system sounds unique and interesting.

 

[kevm3]

Looks terrible. They probably should've stuck to one system and focused on that.

 

[Lebron]

Doesn't look so hot. Then again, wouldn't be a first time a bad batch of pictures for a UE3 game has popped up. I still remember the Mass Effect fiascolol). Not saying this is the case here, but I'm just saying. Anyway, the brief(real brief) gameplay segments they've shown in the trailers looked interesting. And the write up Duckroll posted is as well. I'm not really "that" interested in it, but I'll still play it for kicks. Maybe it'll surprise me. Hopefully they'll release a demo or something.

 

[DarknessTear]

Looks like shit. I'll probably still rent it via Gamefly though.

 

[truly101]

I'm actually pretty interested in this game and I hope it turns out great, but to say it looks like a PS2 game is an insult to FFXII and Valkyrie Profile Silmeria. Even Grandia III looks ready to fight.

 

[freezo]

Wow that is ugly.

yeah it reminds me of LO
i hate that art style yuck

 

[mochuuu]

I wasn't as turned off regarding these screens as much as most seem to be. Definitely still on my radar, and hopefully will have solid characters, story, and music to make up for the slightly rough graphics.

 

[dark10x]

That's true but wasn't Lost Odyssey also using UE3? I don't remember it looking this jagged.

Yes, it used UE3 and no, it didn't use anti-aliasing. Image quality can vary greatly depending on how you design your assets. Gears looked very clean as a result of its art direction.

If you look at direct feed LO screenshots you'll see that the image quality is very similar to what we have here.

 

[BeEatNU]

ewww

 

[permutated]

I think I want it...not sure though, hopefully they'll have a demo.

 

[Kagari]

I think I want it...not sure though, hopefully they'll have a demo.

Square releasing a demo outside bundling it with something? lol.

 

[Durante]

wow, what's with the lack of some AA?

Welcome to non-bullshots of UE3 console games.

If you look at direct feed LO screenshots you'll see that the image quality is very similar to what we have here.

This.

 

[aparisi2274]

Wasn't this called Lost Odyssey? Seriously, it's all running together and looking the same now.

Thats what I was thinking...

LO
IU
LR
FF

All the SE games seem to be blending together into one unrecognizable mess...

 

[BlueTsunami]

This looks fucking horrible :lol

 

[lastendconductor]

Save the HD res, FFXII looks better than this :/. I still have hope in the rest of the game anyway.

 

[nelsonroyale]

funny thing is, despite the bitching, Mass effect seems to be the best looking UE 3 rpg

 

[RiZ III]

I don't mind the art style, in fact I really like the shanty town with the repetitive roofs, but man UE3 just doesn't handle textures or depth of field very well.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

The gameplay better be there or no buy. The visuals certainly leave a lot to be desired.

 

[Hwang Seong-Gyeong]

Looks horrible, then again I bough Enchanted Arms. What's my excuse not to buy this?

 

[disappeared]

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[duckroll]

Pretty disappointing visuals. This looks SIGNIFICANTLY worse than FFXIII and doesn't even stack up to Lost Odyssey, really. I suppose UE3 allowed them to get the game out the door earlier (this year) while FFXIII has taken a much larger budget and additional time, but you'd think they'd want to put their own technology to use after spending so much on it.

Doesn't Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song look SIGNIFICANTLY worse than FFXII? It's just par for the course.

 

[Pein]

I have no faith in the PS3 version at all

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Well, wasn't Frame City Killer using unreal engine technology? I know it wasn't made by the same company, but we all remember how that looked, don't we? This definitely looks better than that to me, but it still looks, kind of early. Maybe some developers are having a somewhat difficult time getting a grasp on how to properly use UE3. I think the game will still be good though.

 

[rollingstart]

This game looks like shit.

 

[Zzoram]

I have no faith in the PS3 version at all

It's an Unreal Engine 3.0 game, so you're probably right.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

I have no faith in the PS3 version at all

Sadly, I don't either.

 

[Witchfinder General]

I think the roughness of the graphics can be excused if the game will be throwing around numerous characters on screen at once.

 

[DiddyBop]

didnt know rpg gaf were such graphic whores. the game looks decent enough,you all should be worrying about gameplay. id sacrifice textures for decent framerate any day of the week.

 

[Conflict NZ]

This is GAF alright, I'm looking at the screens thinking "These look pretty good" then the next five posts are "LOL PS2 GRAFIX". After Persona 3 and 4 I thought JRPG fans would learn that graphics aren't everything, apparently not.

 

[Rpgmonkey]

Some look pretty decent, others look pretty bad (especially the second one, ugh).

Gameplay sounds interesting, and I guess I'm the only one that actually kinda likes the dreariness of the battlefields.

 

[BlueTsunami]

didnt know rpg gaf were such graphic whores. the game looks decent enough,you all should be worrying about gameplay. id sacrifice textures for decent framerate any day of the week.

You and everyone defending this game need to see the writing on the wall. This is obviously a poor effort by SE, a company that seemingly prides themselves on fantabulous visuals. I doubt this game will even have good gameplay. The battle screen looks convoluted has hell.

 

[Zeliard]

The character models look blocky as hell, with few curves and too many straight lines. Ugh. To top it off, the aliasing is horrible. What happened to this?

 

[Sinatar]

Almost looks like a Musou game.

 

[PROOP]

I have no faith in the PS3 version at all

I really hope it's fine... My 360's DVD drive is starting to crap up. I just finished LO, but I had lost maybe 5 hours of gameplay on the last disc alone to DRE.