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OT: Anyone else snag FFXIII?


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Got it at midnight and put three and a half hours in so far. Initial impressions:

 

I *hate* Vanille. Sounds like she was voiced by an Asian pr0nstar and her little gasps and giggles drive me up the wall.

 

I love Sazh's "Dance like I'm white even though I'm black and have a Chocobo in my 'fro" dance after victories. :D

 

Just unlocked the crystal system and I think I'll like it. Not sure how I like the paradigm system yet. I think when I get used to it it'll be badass.

 

Lots of cut scenes and the story started out a bit slow but is picking up now. You need to read your datalog as it doesn't always go into a lot of backstory detail. Once I read that {censored} started making a lot more sense and I was more excited.

 

Since my point of reference is still the SNES versions I can't compare it to the others, but I enjoyed it so far. Also paid up my GoW III pre-order so I'll have that next week! :D

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I MAY have been playing it for a week ;)

 

I love Vanille. The whole asian pornstar thing is so played up, I love it. I hate Hope. Also, could Hope be more of a Roxas (from Kingdom Hearts) clone? I think not.

 

The Crystarium system for leveling is BADASS. I love it.

 

Also, when battling, you really need to work the paradigms and use the "auto battle" function instead of trying to input commands (with the exception of healing items).

 

That's what gives this battle system the immediacy and action-oriented feel that makes it great, IMO.

 

For what it's worth, this is the most beautiful-looking game I've ever played.

Period.

Bar none.

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I MAY have been playing it for a week
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I love Vanille. The whole asian pornstar thing is so played up, I love it. I hate Hope. Also, could Hope be more of a Roxas (from Kingdom Hearts) clone? I think not.


The Crystarium system for leveling is BADASS. I love it.


Also, when battling, you really need to work the paradigms and use the "auto battle" function instead of trying to input commands (with the exception of healing items).


That's what gives this battle system the immediacy and action-oriented feel that makes it great, IMO.


For what it's worth, this is the most beautiful-looking game I've ever played.

Period.

Bar none.

 

Being that I have no attraction to any asian pornstar EVER, that's p[robably part of why she annoys me.

 

But yeah, it's gorgeous. Equally as good as Avatar, but hopefully weith a better storyline... :cop:

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It's on 360 too, but the video quality took a hit.
:(

 

{censored} you it did.

 

http://www.videogameszone.de/aid,706189/Final-Fantasy-13-Grafikvergleich-zwischen-PS3-und-Xbox-360-Version/Bildergalerie/?menu=browser&mode=article&article_id=706189&entity_id=132140,216740&image_id=1256731&page=1&order=

 

If anything, sections of the 360 version look BETTER than the ps3.

 

[in b4 huge 360 vs ps3 war]

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I hear the first 20 hours are walking through a tube and pressing X to defeat enemies, while occasionally watching a cutscene. Is this the facts? If so, count me out.

 

 

This is not the facts.

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Which are?

 

 

if you saw them "side by side" then were the tv's the same model? Same manufacturer even? Were the myriad of tv settings (contrast, backlight, black level, etc etc)the same? What about cables? Were they both HDMI? Both component?

 

Then again, if you didn't see them "side by side" how can you make any sort of accurate interpretation of which is better? You would have to remember exactly how the first set was rendered...

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if you saw them "side by side" then were the tv's the same model? Same manufacturer even? Were the myriad of tv settings (contrast, backlight, black level, etc etc)the same? What about cables? Were they both HDMI? Both component?


Then again, if you didn't see them "side by side" how can you make any sort of accurate interpretation of which is better? You would have to remember exactly how the first set was rendered...

 

 

Gamestop had them both running on the same TV. The difference was definitely noticeable. Fine detail in hair and clothing is much better in the PS3 version, but the frame rate on the 360 gets a bit of an edge. The PS3 one just looks better, all around. In another week or so I can compare on my own home system but with these "variables" at Gamestop the PS3 wins.

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It was designed on the PS3, and they had to compress the resolution to fit it on 3 DVD's for the 360...I don't see how there is any question as to which system it looks better on :idk: Resolution = picture quality...Framerate = smoothness...The 360 has always been a little better at framerate, but I don't think that makes anything LOOK better, it just feels more seamless.

 

That said, I'm picking my copy up after work.

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I don't get these critics bitching about how it's linear :confused:

When have Final Fantasy games ever been examples of brilliant open-ended game design :confused: I think pretty much the whole first disc of FF7 was a straight line, and the only time you do go non-linear is to do some dumb {censored} like chocobo breeding :confused:

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The differences between the PS3 and 360 versions are negligible.

 

The game looked way better when it was still PS3 exclusive but they had to scale it down to ensure parity with the 360 version. This is why it went from day 1 purchase to "I'll wait til I finish my backlog before I play it".

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I don't get these critics bitching about how it's linear
:confused:
When have Final Fantasy games ever been examples of brilliant open-ended game design
:confused:
I think pretty much the whole first disc of FF7 was a straight line, and the only time you do go non-linear is to do some dumb {censored} like chocobo breeding
:confused:

 

I'm not far enough to know, but back on the SNES versions you had a lot of freedom to choose different paths at different times and just wander around and trigger a lot of events that didn't have a definitive time to do so.

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It was designed on the PS3, and they had to compress the resolution to fit it on 3 DVD's for the 360...I don't see how there is any question as to which system it looks better on
:idk:
Resolution = picture quality...Framerate = smoothness...The 360 has always been a little better at framerate, but I don't think that makes anything LOOK better, it just feels more seamless.


That said, I'm picking my copy up after work.

 

I will never understand how people get so butthurt that they have to resort to the "numbers"

 

One fact remains: if it LOOKS BETTER than it looks better. You could run a ps3 at 8000x4500 and the xbox version would look better because of the framerate.

 

I can jack the settings on my computer up as high as I want, but if the video card can't handle a high enough frame rate, the game is going to look like {censored}. Just my $.02

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http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/02/18/final-fantasy-xiii-xbox-360-version-is-not-hd-576p-confirmed/

 

I mean, not that I care too much. Obviously it was designed on the ps3 so I expect it to be better. Also with the lower read speed of Blu-ray It makes sense that the frame rate would be a bit slower. However, I'm not sure if the install would remedy that. :idk:

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