Game: Final Fantasy XIII

[Shadow Skill]

Just beat FFXIII. I am very disappointed in the game.

Graphics, not that great, not even after 4 years in developement.

At the end you get 7 pics for 50 hours of... not doing much, other than running from end to end of map many times repeatedly to gather enough CP to gain a skill. Crystal system is ok, but the cost is ridiculous.

4 years for a 50 hour game and you get zero in return for it.

The voice overs were actually good this time around.

Probably FFXIII's most defining feature is the voice actresses/Actors.

Other than that, not worth replaying or bothering with. I wish I didnt spend the $60 for this game.

I just hope the next FF game is actually a Role Playing game.

I posted FFXIII is a 3 out of 10 in another topic, when I first started the game. Now that I have finishe the game, I give FFXIII a 2 out of 10.

Craptacular and Shitastic game.

[UChessmaster]

Graphics, not that great, not even after 4 years in developement.

R.I.P your credibility

[Archangel]

R.I.P your credibility

I loled :P

Anyway he might mean the 360 version, some of the comparison shots i saw were certainly afar from the console's true potential

[UChessmaster]

I loled :P

Anyway he might mean the 360 version, some of the comparison shots i saw were certainly afar from the console's true potential

I looked for comparison shots too and couldn`t find anything importantelly diferent, can you show me the ones you find?

[Shadow Skill]

I have both versions. Games are similar, graphically.

Just on Disc 2 and 3, the game seems to be a lil pixelated during the game, not the FMV/CGI/ Movie parts. Just the actual game, the background. Could be cause I'm on a 52 Inch HDTV 120hertz refresh and what not. (Technically 60 hertz, game seems to only go that far.)

Other than that, 360 version and PS3 version are the same.

[Archangel]

I looked for comparison shots too and couldn`t find anything importantelly diferent, can you show me the ones you find?

Here

Looks pretty definite

[UChessmaster]

Looks pretty definite

I feel dumb for not noticing anything "definite"

[Archangel]

You maintain your claim even after seeing stuff like this?

[RyougaZell]

They probably are playing on SD monitors, that is why they don't see the difference between 576p and 1080p (on cutscenes) / 576p and 720p (on gameplay)

[Shadow Skill]

I refer you to my previous post. 52 Inch HDTV 120 hertz refresh played on 1920x1080 on PS3. (Which is really 60 hertz cause the game is not made for 120 refresh rate.)

The 360 version is on 1080P. I can tell you, both are exactly the same graphically. The size of my TV might make a difference.

I left it at Chapter 2 on my PS3 since I was on Chapter 5 on 360. I don't see the point in finishing the PS3 version since both are the same. Controller wise, the 360 is better suited than the Dualshock 3 controller. My own personal opinion there.

I finished it on 360 only cause I wanted the gamer points. PS3 offers nothing.

[UChessmaster]

You maintain your claim even after seeing stuff like this?

Oh i don`t claim they`re equal, just that i don`t personally see a gamebreaking difference.

[Archangel]

Oh i don`t claim they`re equal, just that i don`t personally see a gamebreaking difference.

Oh come on the left pic looks like a damn youtube video >_>

Sure in the long run it's a drop in the pond but it's still pretty annoying to catch glimpses of stuff like that after you just dropped 60$ for the damn thing

[animus]

I enjoyed FFXIII but didn't love it, but I don't see how any moron who hates it and gives it a 2/10 buys 2 copies, meaning $120. Or he bought the PS3 version and played the pirated 360 version, shrug.

Besides Shadow Skill lost all credibility even earlier when he said The Last Remnant had better graphics.

[RyougaZell]

I refer you to my previous post. 52 Inch HDTV 120 hertz refresh played on 1920x1080 on PS3. (Which is really 60 hertz cause the game is not made for 120 refresh rate.)

The 360 version is on 1080P. I can tell you, both are exactly the same graphically. The size of my TV might make a difference.

I left it at Chapter 2 on my PS3 since I was on Chapter 5 on 360. I don't see the point in finishing the PS3 version since both are the same. Controller wise, the 360 is better suited than the Dualshock 3 controller. My own personal opinion there.

I finished it on 360 only cause I wanted the gamer points. PS3 offers nothing.

Xbox360 forcefully upscales to 1080p. Its real resolution is 576p. Just like PS3 doesn't run the gameplay on 1080p but on 720p. The only thing 1080p on PS3 is the videos. Or why do you think the PS3 version if over 40GB while the Xbox360 version is just about 25GB?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...ostcount=12055

There where also reports of several textures or shadows missing on the Xbox360 version.

And to end it... here's a comparision video on this page.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...-xiii-face-off

How blind one must be to say they look the same (and yet whenever any games looks better on the 360 they claim it to the skies)

http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/a...badcg2.jpg.jpg

[darkshadow]

Irrelevance, Square enix just didn't care and put some idiot intern team on handling the encoding of the FMV's.
They are encoded at a CBR in Bink....incredible fail. It's not the 360's vault for looking worse this time.

[darkshadow]

I normally don't respond to reps, but seriously?
"here comes darkshadow spitting shit again". Uhh how about engaging in a intelligent convo instead? Or is gotwoot no longer capable of this?

..The tragedy here is that the CG is a core part of the presentation in FFXIII and it seems to be the case that the company has paid little attention to the poor quality of the final assets on the Xbox 360 version. The Microsoft XDK ships with a VC1 decoder, giving it the ability to playback video files encoded using technology supported by Blu-ray discs and players. Indeed, movie pirates out there get excellent quality VC1 encodes of Blu-ray movies that manage to fit onto a dual-layer DVD and run from the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Decent encoding takes time and effort, but the results can look good - even on challenging material. Combine this with the fact that the game doesn't need the 1080p-sized video the PS3 version boasts, and we have the ways and means with which to attack the compression issue from two different angles.

Square-Enix has bought in the Bink compression system for FFXIII on 360 and its failure in high-motion, colourful scenes does suggest a constant bitrate is being used as opposed to variable bandwidth that allocates more data to maintaining image quality on more complex scenes.

This failure is compounded by the fact that Square-Enix hasn't even made full use of all the disk space it has available. Around 1GB of storage is left empty on discs one and two of FFXIII, and you have to wonder why all that empty space couldn't have been repurposed for higher bandwidth encoding. Perhaps it's because of the background loading taking place while the cut-scenes play out, but regardless, the hit to quality using Bink is often unacceptably bad.
....

The results in Final Fantasy XIII aren't up to snuff - frankly, the encoding looks amateurish.

So please enlighten me how I was spitting shit?

[Dark Dragon]

I bought both the 360 and the PS3 version for comparison sake.

In game, the PS3 looks SLIGHTLY better and the 360 only really has lower res texture here and there. It's there if you look for it, but honestly most people wouldn't really notice the difference.

This is definitely one of the better looking games on the PS3, and to compare it to last remnant which was full of problems like texture pop-in just makes it seem you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. I have only played the PC version of Last Remnant which was suppose to be much better looking than the console version and even it doesn't look as good as FFXIII.

I think the battle system is a hit or miss. I enjoy it because it definitely speed up the gameplay, but i can see why someone might not. Overall this is a solid game and is definitely one of the better JRPG in recent times.

Edit: You know, i was hoping for some intelligent response but i suppose that was too much for ask for. I guess neg repping is about the only thing you can do when you realize that you're full of shit.

[animus]

I got 2 neg reps for my post, shrug.

[RyougaZell]

So yesterday I was on a local Mall. There's a store called Gameplanet there. They never have RPG's there unless its called Final Fantasy. And boy... they had lots of crap posted around about the game.

They where even giving away magazines with their own 'review' of the game.

I didn't bother reading it after I saw the screenshots. They were promoting Final Fantasy XIII using screenshots from Resonance of Fate.

I LOL'ed.

[Archangel]

So yesterday I was on a local Mall. There's a store called Gameplanet there. They never have RPG's there unless its called Final Fantasy. And boy... they had lots of crap posted around about the game.

They where even giving away magazines with their own 'review' of the game.

I didn't bother reading it after I saw the screenshots. They were promoting Final Fantasy XIII using screenshots from Resonance of Fate.

I LOL'ed.

xD Dude, get us some scans of it