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Final Fantasy XIII Information Thread | March 9, 2010 NA/EU
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Rahxephon91
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How can you be worried about how the game looks when there have been enough reports stating it looks fine?neojubei said:
Shadowlink
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Same! Hopefully they don't cancel it.Cloudy said:Mine's not cancelled yet
DMeisterJ said:
I have to agree a steelbook LE version for both versions of the game would be a cashcow for SE. Looking at the debacle of the PR shots I do not think Square-enix has a clear cut agenda for the launch of FF13 in NA.
Rahxephon91 said:
Screenshots have more weight than reports from websites usually; it is hard to believe reports if the official screenshots do not look good. It is pretty bad on square if they cannot even make a good screen of the game, especially if the game is one of the big games of the year.
VegaShinra
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I hope they don't cancel mine. I'm not gonna pay $50 for one but for $10 it was well worth ordering a few. Even to sell the others on Ebay for a profit.Shadowlink said:
I still don't comprehend why people expect, or want, an LE. It's a mass-market product, if they want to sell $20 geegaws they can actually pump them into retail stand-alone (and retail will happily mark them up to $50 - lolBB), not force them in package with the title itself.
Would've been nice to get the Lightning PS3 though.
Would've been nice to get the Lightning PS3 though.
BlazingDarkness
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WTF
those shots are full of jaggies :lol
third time lucky SE?
those shots are full of jaggies :lol
third time lucky SE?
Rahxephon91
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No they don't. Screenshots are doctored all the time. I rather believe a report from a website then some pr tool.neojubei said:
Scythesurge
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It's the new Rick Roll.Firestorm said:What the hell.
I just got tricked into clicking an IGN link. Not cool
LEs=extra income. People will pay ten, twenty extra dollars for random, useless shit. It's dumb not to scoop out shit to people who'd happily consume shit and pay for it too.Mandoric said:
Limited editions are also more profitable when the game is popular in the first place. There's a reason why Modern Warfare 2 launched with like three different Collector's Edition packages.
Dresden said:
Yeah, but on the other hand, you're alienating the casual market and limiting your own sales of the given product. This really isn't a big issue with stuff like system bundles, but why should Square want to sell $70 games with a Lightning doll when they can sell $60 games and $35 Lightning dolls? Plus having to make large quantities for a demand spike, the rest of which will get remaindered out.
(There's also a bit of corporate culture going here in that US console games are the only place where there isn't a Square Tax.)
Rahxephon91 said:
Well you are entitled to believe reports than screenshots, but most people especially here love screenshots, take a look at the alan wake and god of war 3 threads, lots of screenshots there. Screenshots of games are huge in advertising a game and making people want it more. Why do you think a lot of reports have screenshots of games in the article.
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2526/ffxiii-significantly-poorer-on-xbox
Well this was a surprise. Don't know how credible this site is, but 360 textures and details lacking is unexpected. Guess porting does that to your game.
Well this was a surprise. Don't know how credible this site is, but 360 textures and details lacking is unexpected. Guess porting does that to your game.
Arpharmd B
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720p video, from what I've seen of it on 360 (Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon) is quite good. It's not going to be -as good- as 1080p on a PS3, but it's fine.
On the other hand, if the 360 version gets Bayonetta'd then you can consider my 360 preorder cancelled. No way will I subject myself to that.
On the other hand, if the 360 version gets Bayonetta'd then you can consider my 360 preorder cancelled. No way will I subject myself to that.
Perfect Blue
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Bayonetta PS3 was still playable. It's better than getting nothing.Arpharmd B said:
Arpharmd B said:
720p is definitely good enough, but today I was thinking the same thing with Mass Effect 2. I played the PC version and wondered about the CG video quality. Wish those were 1080p too as the game itself looks better than the cutscene videos in some parts.
Zoe
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Valkyr Junkie
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Arpharmd B said:
As mentioned above, resolution is not the issue, shitty bitrate is. Think of shitty $100 cameras that record 1080p versus an actual camcorder that records 1080p video.
Firestorm said:
You sure about that? I just checked the back cover and didn't see a Bink logo; I don't remember if the logo was there in the loading screens before the main menu for the game. Either way, LO has an extra DVD compared to FF13, and I think it's a safe bet that FF13 has more FMV. Maybe Bink can support a higher bitrate than 2.2mbps? No idea if I'm right though.
dreamer3kx
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I would be absolutely shocked if the game looked like that on the 360, some of those shots look like a good looking ps2/wii game, Im pretty sure it will look pretty much the same as the ps3.
Always-honest
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those screens are shocking... wtf?
wtf?InfiniteNine
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Guess I should be glad that I don't know what Bink Video looks like. Only game that has FMV's on the 360 that I own are Tales of Vesperia. :lol Please tell me it doesn't exist in Bayonetta.
Rahxephon91
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Magna Carta 2 uses bink video and all the cutscenes look good awful. They look very dull and washed out. I hate to say it but I feel XIII will share the same fate. Thank god for having a PS3.
Bink doesn't "look bad" it just depends on who uses it and how.
Heck, there are PS3 games that use Bink...so is not something "exclusive to the Xbox 360"..
In any case, (related to looking in the back of the boxes for the Bink logo), there are many games that use it, but list it only in the instruction booklet; at the end.
Heck, there are PS3 games that use Bink...so is not something "exclusive to the Xbox 360"..
In any case, (related to looking in the back of the boxes for the Bink logo), there are many games that use it, but list it only in the instruction booklet; at the end.
Whichever system you play it on, your experience will be pretty similar. If it's a good game, it'll stand on its own despite any technical shortcomings in one version.
I will agree that S-E screwed up royally with releasing those screens. I'm sure that person got reprimanded.
I will agree that S-E screwed up royally with releasing those screens. I'm sure that person got reprimanded.
Exactly. Is not like the ones that going to be getting the Xbox 360 will have less game, less characters, less story, etc.ghibli99 said:
In fact it would't susprise me that quite a few of the ones parading about "OMG 1080p movies on the PS3", doesn't even have 1080p-capable sets. Heck, from 3 people I know will be buying the game on PS3, 1 is going to get the "OMG 1080p movies version" to play it on a 720p LCD, 1 is going to play the "OMG 1080p movies version" on a 4:3 CRT/480i Panasonic and there was even one that was going to play it on his 720p-LCD; but at 480i with composite cables; till I actually made him buy HDMI cables to at least get a better 720p signal. All 3 were talking about how awesome 1080p movies were going to look.
Nah, they won't do anything. I've seen even worst things (like someone putting an ad for a new Nintendo DS lite bundle with 2 games in a few magazines,shoppers and newspapers, for ...$25. And all they said was "Oops!". Even when it costed the store thousands of dollars, because they had to sell it at that price even when they weren't related or even knew about that mistake. The person responisble is still working there.ghibli99 said:
Dead Prince
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I think Square should just print the 360 version on blu-ray disc. May as well seeing how things are going now :lol.
Arpharmd B
Banned
Valkyr Junkie said:
Well, technical stuff aside, the point I'm trying to make is it looked really good (in BD and LO's case at least), and I'm more than satisfied with it. I won't settle for significantly worse performance, resolution, textures etc. in the game, however.
Aljosa said:
"Still playable" is not acceptable for the greatest action game of all time. If I didn't already have a 360 I'd have gotten one for Bayonetta. Likewise if Final Fantasy XIII is as bad a port as Bayonetta was, I will not hesitate to buy a PS3.
neptunes said:
It does.
The cutscenes in BD and LO look flawless.
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