biosnake20
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FFXIII-2 First Review in Dengeki
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Femmeworth
Banned
Damn str8! ... Goddamn it.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
♥ It's fine, I'll force you to love XIII-2 even if you'll end up disliking it!
So you promote torture and brain cancer?
Femmeworth
Banned
I'm not sure which scenario is worse. Watch both happen.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Damn son.
Augemitbutter
Member
i'm so excited! sure took them a while to release incomplete games.
sazh was one of the better things about XIII, so i'm not surprised they took him out.
sazh was one of the better things about XIII, so i'm not surprised they took him out.
Both.
I lol'd.
Crash Station
Member
Ugh, this is what DLC has done to the industry. All you crazies begging for it in the original, congratulations :/
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
I know. They're getting it all WRONG.
This isn't what we wanted when we said FF13 should have had DLC. Include everything you want in the game, then add onto there.
Something like Sazh is NOT something you leave as DLC...ugh. DLC is only good when done right. This isn't the proper application of it.
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On another note, Dengeki mentioned the game has long load times. This is definitely something I experienced when I got to play the first 3 hours of it a couple months ago.
how long? like DX HR or worse?
This may be a bit much to ask but a super quick and general answer will do.
How did you feel about XIII and how did the 3 hours of XIII-2 you got to play compare?
What kind of load times? Environment change? Battle transition? Menu navigation? I would be OK with the first one but I can't stand another Lost Odyssey.
You can read my write ups here:
http://www.rpgsite.net/previews/342-final-fantasy-xiii2-the-first-three-hours--gameplay-preview
http://www.rpgsite.net/previews/341-final-fantasy-xiii2-the-first-three-hours--story-preview
As for the load times, when you use the Historia Crux to go to new areas, the loading is really long. When you're in menus switching out stuff, there's sometimes weird load delay that wasn't really present in XIII.
Will do, thanks.
Less FMVs to hide them behind!
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
install the game to lessen this problem
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
This must be it ._.
The game has no install on PS3, Just 37MB needed for save data.
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
then the xbox version is the superior version which I will be getting
it has install, which fixes load times
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
That's an odd way of confirming things...
XANDER CAGE
Member
Does the 360 version have the terrible compression on the cutscenes like XIII did?
needs optional install, dammit
Yes.
And I saw the game running off 360 devkits. They still had the same long loading times.
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
Considering the compression was only for FMV cutscenes, and the fact this game has very little FMV cutscenes, I would have to say the compression isn't nearly as big of an issue as it was in FF13. Little scenes will be impacted by any compression. But since this game is only shipping on one disc, it might be uncompressed, I honestly don't know.
That being said, the ability for a game to run efficiently beats quality, performance over quality, and thus, if the ps3 version has no optional install, the xbox version it shall be.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
riveting.
The game is optimized properly to the point it doesn't need an install. See: Uncharted.
Also, there's more FMV scenes than you might think. There's no way they're uncompressed on the Xbox lol. Kitase confirmed to us the PS3 version has the same specs as FFXIII did.
Rahxephon91
Banned
And Uncharted also has long loading.
Whatever, will still buy for PS3. No doubt will be the better version.
Whatever, will still buy for PS3. No doubt will be the better version.
Only once at the beginning. XIII-2 does it at the beginning of each area, but in between battles and cutscenes, it's smooth.
... and they figured they wouldn't upset any Japanese fans by leaving him out of the actual game. Imagine the uproar if Serah or some other loli-idol character was made DLC? Pervy businessmen and horny high school students alike would be out in the streets protesting...
Yeah but each area of FFXIII-2 probably lasts as long as all of Uncharted!!
To Far Away Times
Member
Exclusive first review gives the a game a perfect score. Consider me shocked.
Nora Kisaragi
Banned
Even if it doesn't need an install, it doesn't mean an install won't help. They're optional for a reason, an install will only help this game; i'm not aware of any xbox game that isn't helped by an install. The only games an install won't help are some problem games released before the option to install came out; such as Halo 3, which copied data to the HD anyway.
I'm not saying I don't believe you Kagari, but i'm pretty sure disc-read speed will never match the efficiency of reading from the HD, at least on xbox. This shows on every game released on the platform; it doesn't matter how "efficient" it is. I install every game I play before playing and the option to install is critical to me when deciding a platform on which to buy a game. We'll see when more reviews trickle down, and i'll keep an eye on this topic for updates on this matter in the meantime.
edit: also, considering the fact the ps3 has a worse disc-read speed as it is versus the xbox, the option to install is even more necessary.
It's not just disc read speed either. Installing a game on a 360 once means you use the shitty ass disc drive to read the entire disc ONCE, and then for the rest of the 50 hours or so you spend playing the game, you don't have to worry about causing more potential damage to either your disc drive or your disc ever again. Plus it's quiet. So many benefits!
There are some.
But like I said, I got to see both. The Xbox one was installed as far as I know and load times were just as long. I can double check for you.
To add to this, there was some slow loading times in the party menu in the version we played. When you switch through the monsters crystals you've collected, they load the model and animation which takes quite a while to show up. It doesn't affect performance much, but a bit of cosmetic flaw.
Loading for battles and areas was pretty swift, however I noticed longer load times on enemies like Atlas who are pretty huge in size. Otherwise they're negligible.
Historia Crux seemed to take a bit of loading going from area to area.
I wouldn't say the load times are bad, just noticeable.
If you're an Uncharted speedrunner, sure...
ahahaha you bastard
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Shocking. Curious about the review text, though.
What is this nonsense that I am reading? Bad, Square-Enix, bad! This is not how you handle DLC. Finish the game, include all the stuff that should be on it like characters, narrative elements and whatnot, then add to it. DLC should not be an excuse to ship out an incomplete game. Utterly ridiculous.
Additionally, Sazh was my favourite character out of the main cast. Come on... :/
yeah, putting the drive through a game that might last 100 hours isn't very ideal, there were various reports of drive failure from the original, they should have had an optional install, not having any install isn't exactly something good...