New Final Fantasy XIII Screens Sure Are Pretty

Vivi - 57 days 5 hours ago

Direct links to the images so you don't have to open up each one individually on the Famitsu site. Should load faster since they're re-hosted.

(All in-game)

Oreba Yun Fang looks so awesome. Oh and in b4 the butthurts arrive, love watching them cry. ^_^

http://i36.tinypic.com/2j4x...
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Grimm10 - 57 days 4 hours ago

^^ Thanks, really appreciate all the effort =)

You missed this one btw.

http://i37.tinypic.com/2drx...

The location looks so nice and the detail they have put in designing them is great. I know Hamazu will provide excellent music as a backdrop to these locations. He did so with X and one of the reasons XII was lacking in the music department was because he wasn't the composer!

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zlatko - 57 days 4 hours ago

I'm digging this new character. She kind of has that Lulu vibe to her. Idk if that was a staff weapon or a polearm she was using. If it was a staff it seems like she'd be a blackmage type of character, but if it's a polearm she's a lancer like Freya from FF9.

Either way it's great to see another character added to the roster. :)

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rockleex - 57 days 4 hours ago

EVERYONE has slender bodies. No one has any unique physical attributes to their appearance.

The main characters don't stand out because they all have the same body shapes.

For example, in FFX. Auron was the 40 year old kickass guy. Kimari was a beast, literally. Tidus was the weak looking boy. Lulu was all about the curves. Rikku was the skinny little teenage girl. Etc.

Really. As of right now, I can't tell which character I'm most likely looking forward to playing as because they all look the same.

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stb - 57 days 3 hours ago

tha picture of that gul, turn me on, love that kind of glance. would really break that.

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pixelsword - 57 days 1 hour ago

...It's a rule: no fatties allowed in games or sci-fi EVAR!

http://webpages.charter.net...

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Bubbles - 57 days ago

yes i am

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Danja - 56 days 23 hours ago

The graphics looks ok... not great just Okay im a little disappointed but the game looks to be similar to FF12 i really hope im wrong though but either I will be buying this when it launches cant wait ...

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Ravage27 - 56 days 2 hours ago

FF13 looks good no doubt, but with such a long dev time and an unmatched budget size, it is to be expected.(I expected more actually.)

Maybe it is because they took too long to release this game, it would have the 'FFX-effect' had it launched a year after the PS3, but right now, the FF series no longer set any benchmarks when it comes to graphics.

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leeger - 57 days 4 hours ago

Yes, the graphics of this game will surely blow away all other 360 games!
(just can't help myself lol)

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swiftshot93 - 57 days 3 hours ago

This is one of the best looking games of this generation.

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Serial_EDX - 57 days 1 hour ago

Grass has always been low-res in FF,

And if that's your biggest complaint for not buying it, there's really something wrong with you

"the grass looks to 2d, WAAAA!" T_T

Seriously are you gona pick up the grass and use it for a attack?

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pixelsword - 57 days ago

everything's always been low-res in FF EXCEPT for the video: that was my point: I'm waiting to see if the game is actually going to look this good, or it's video on the really nice looking parts, or it's a mix of video and bullshots.

Capiche?

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Vivi - 57 days ago

That area acts like the overworld in the game and is insanely enormous so due to that I believe thats why the graphics took a bit of a hit. I mean the place has Behemoths, Ferrel dogs, Flans, Flying birds and even dinosaurs walking around live on the field so I think it's understandable they couldn't push high res textures all over that location. However it does look slightly better in some shots.

(Screen grab so forgive the poor grainy quality)
http://i37.tinypic.com/2itg...

Other locations look better.

(most of these are also screen grabs)

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pixelsword - 57 days ago

I see what you are saying, and I do understand that the game covers a large arena, but I've seen two games that cover a live area that are as large, if not larger and the ground textures and bitmaps are very well done. I'm not knocking the game, I'm just saying that for it to be in the late '09 to early '10 there should be a little progression since then (I'm also taking into account that none of the pics I've seen are high-res, so it may look gorgeous and none of us might know yet).

Here's a couple from Lair:
http://www.psu.com/viewimag...
http://www.psu.com/media/la...

The first pic was from a stage that was about 18 square miles from the perspective of the game player, and the other stage covered a nearly 27 square mile radius and that is an in-game screenshot; and it came out in '07.

and one from red Faction from '09 (I don't know where the ostrich came from):
http://cache.gawker.com/ass...

again, a large area that still has pretty good textures; granted, it's all rock-based, but I'm sure a grass area can use the same textures or even a small, repeating high-resolution texture.

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Serial_EDX - 57 days ago

You also have to keep in mind, that games like FF13 have a much larger environment scale they have to cover, then games like KZ2, UC2...not only that but the game more then likely over 4 times longer.

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z-hayden - 57 days ago

you got a link to prove that???

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Noct - 57 days ago

This is what you call complete BS considering the 360 gameplay footage shown at E3 looked the exact same as the Japanese PS3 demo. Textures and character models were no worse.

Only difference was the lighting was darker and not as varied but thats just down to the differences in hardware and since the 360 port was only 2 months old at that point.

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NecrumSlavery - 56 days 19 hours ago

http://www.ps3center.net/ne...

not trolling. I don't want a botched game for "fairness" to the inferior.

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Pozzle - 56 days 15 hours ago

The entire "PS3 FFXIII has been adversely affected by 360" article was false. It was a complete and utter misinterpretation of an interview that Square Enix gave to Gametrailers. In the interview, Square Enix said the PS3 version of FFXIII HASN'T been compromised. (and for some reason ps3center.com got their wires crossed and assumed Square were saying something else completely).

This is what Square actually said:

"The 360 and PS3 versions really don't have any differences. When we first announced that Final Fantasy XIII was gonna go multiplatform, we already had a PS3 version that was on its way to completion, and we took that exact game and transported it to the 360 version, so there was nothing that affected the PS3 version in developing the 360 version."

"The decision to take out the Japanese voice option was not so much a result of seeing the differences between the hardware, but really the mission for the team for Final Fantasy XIII was to bring it out to a worldwide audience as soon as possible.... Because when they decide to include multiple language tracks, there's a lot of testing that you have to go do that might delay..."

The PS3 version was made first, it is THEN being ported to 360. Square Enix have NEVER stated that they are compromising either the PS3 or 360 versions due to the opposite console.
It's a shame that one made-up article put doubt in fans' minds and had fanboys flooding the FF forums with utter hogwash.

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The Creep - 57 days ago

oh saaking just shut up

it just gets tiring after a while

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akuna - 56 days 22 hours ago

atleast it will be 1080p for us ps3 owners

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Pozzle - 56 days 13 hours ago

The entire "PS3 FFXIII has been adversely affected by 360" article was false. It was a complete and utter misinterpretation of an interview that Square Enix gave to Gametrailers. In the interview, Square Enix said the PS3 version of FFXIII HASN'T been compromised. (and for some reason ps3center.com got their wires crossed and assumed Square were saying something else completely).

This is what Square actually said:

"The 360 and PS3 versions really don't have any differences. When we first announced that Final Fantasy XIII was gonna go multiplatform, we already had a PS3 version that was on its way to completion, and we took that exact game and transported it to the 360 version, so there was nothing that affected the PS3 version in developing the 360 version."

"The decision to take out the Japanese voice option was not so much a result of seeing the differences between the hardware, but really the mission for the team for Final Fantasy XIII was to bring it out to a worldwide audience as soon as possible.... Because when they decide to include multiple language tracks, there's a lot of testing that you have to go do that might delay..."

The PS3 version was made first, it is THEN being ported to 360. Square Enix have NEVER stated that they are compromising either the PS3 or 360 versions due to the opposite console.
It's a shame that one made-up article put doubt in fans' minds and had fanboys flooding the FF forums with utter hogwash.

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Noct - 56 days 22 hours ago

It would have played like a JRPG.

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chrisulloa - 56 days 21 hours ago

"I'm not buying it because it's multi-plat." -PS3 fantards

You guys sure don't play a lot of games.

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