FFXIII and FFVersusXIII direct feed HD realtime shots from IGN (56k stuck on SD)
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The reason the characters have no self-shadow is:
If characters had self-shadows, it would cause ugly artifacts on them during cinematics due to the low texture resolution shadowmap. As a result, they prefer to remove them outright.
It's not that costly to have self-shadows on a few characters, it just results in ugly artifacts.
That's my guess anyway.
If characters had self-shadows, it would cause ugly artifacts on them during cinematics due to the low texture resolution shadowmap. As a result, they prefer to remove them outright.
It's not that costly to have self-shadows on a few characters, it just results in ugly artifacts.
That's my guess anyway.
people are complaining about characters having too many bead-string necklaces/bracelets/whatever :/Assembly Required said:
come on.
The only game I can think of where the "Nomura likes belts and zippers" meme really applies is Kingdom Hearts (I guess the same could be said about FF8, but eh). If you ask me, there's nothing wrong with having layered clothing, especiallly in the cold. What exactly do you not like about the character designs, anyways? We've only seen 3 main characters, and a bunch of enemies, and somehow I doubt Nomura's directly responsible for enemy design.
As for Versus, we already know that the clothing is from a real-world expensive brand. As for hairstyles and character design that we've seen for the Prince and his friends, its clear that its very east-asia/Japan centric.
Nomura's always been about trendiness. In fact, I think I've seen a photo of him wearing a white belt D:
Death_Born
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Raging Spaniard said:
But does she have BELTS?
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Death_Born said:
If .. she could afford them .. sure! yes, belts for everybody. Belts with self-shadowing, even
MassiveAttack
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thuway said:
You're not the first to post this. ;-)
Lovely Salsa
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To be honest, from the little you saw from the gameplay of the xbox 360 trailer, the environment looked pretty dull. (talking about the forest one)
Lovely Salsa
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Hesemonni said:
Whats your point?
nelsonroyale
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Lovely Salsa said:
I thought it looked absolutely stunning...it was shown in the original trailer as well though
BrLvgThrChmstry
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Nooreo said:
What the fuck has this thread turned into?.
A thread of skepticism, profound opinion, the birthplace of make believe, Very big technical terms and fanboyism... J/k. Sorta.
Well what did you expect.. SE releases some media and spectators begin to speculate. You were expecting unicorns and rainbows, huh? ..No matter the calibur of the developer people are going to have questions ..some are going to doubt, others will proceed to wet themselves and claim "It's the best game ever" Though they've never seen it in playable form.
You see my son ..I'm just rambling nonsense for your displeasure and Fuck y0 couch.
EDIT: Just for the sake of staying on subject. I think the game looks great. I'm actually looking forward to the demo.
Amir0x said:
Amir0x said:
For once, I agree with you on something.Amir0x said:
Which is also the reason why I feel that Beautiful Katamari was such an immensely lost opportunity; they could have done so much more, and didn't.
I would love to see a game that looked like an animated version of any given concept artist's work, moving in a 3D space. Okami did a pretty good job, and anything by Vanillaware is always visually stunning, but something that looks like something by Amano? Or Kojima (Castlevania)? Or Shinkawa? I mean, sure, Shinkawa's pretty happy with how his 2D pieces translate into 3D as is, but I'd love to see something that should be flat, but moves perfectly in 3D, while maintaining a painty look.
Callibretto
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in regards to shinkawa and to lesser extend Amano's art. their art has that abstract quality to it that I need to take a moment to understand what I'm looking at. imo, that's the beauty of their work, I can just sit there and watch the static picture for a long time and I may find something new and appreciate their art.
to make a whole game replicate that look, even if it's possible, I don't think it will make the game playable well, in Shinkawa's case, the game may look like ink blotches moving. it may get your eye tired faster.
to make a whole game replicate that look, even if it's possible, I don't think it will make the game playable well, in Shinkawa's case, the game may look like ink blotches moving. it may get your eye tired faster.
well, if what they did with ashley wood's work for the digital graphic novels, and looking at pieces like theseCallibretto said:
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I find it easy to imagine it seamlessly moving.
In a way, I think Madworld is fairly close to what a game based around shinkawa art would look like, in terms of how much contrast there is with black, white, and color. But I guess, with the way lcd screens are nowadays, black blotches moving would be counter-intuitive for an enjoyable experience.
As for Amano's work, I think there would be a shit load of detail in any given frame of a fully rendered screen, but with the way I'm thinking, there would be enough detail and animation for someone to be able to distinguish the background from the foreground.
I guess what people would want out of an Amano-based visual experience would be to see the ornate designs and details in motion. Maybe a game wouldn't necessarily work, but I'd like to at least see it :/
Callibretto
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Darkpen said:
I think I get what you mean about wanting to see Amano's ornate design and details in motion. I also agree with you it'll work better as a movie because you're paying your full attention to the moving picture and no need to bother yourselves with gameplay element. if you need to keep up with the gameplay, all those detail may end up being a distarction.
nelsonroyale
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MrDenny said:
yeah, I much prefer ffs pseudo realistic designs/proportions, than the generic anime in most other jrpgs....
Lightning said:
Actually no. Since the SNES days, FF has been about pushing graphics. That's why it jumped to PSX. There is no way they are going to gimp the main-series games graphically to fit on Wii. The series is their show-piece SW.
As Revelations stated, the DQ series has always been open to placement on systems with high sales potential ... regardless of graphical abilities.
Zedsdeadbaby
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This is Final Fantasy. Leave it alone and let's celebrate its existence and eventual arrival guys 
GeneralIroh
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You probably hate rock huh?Orlics said:
I'll take the interesting hair styles over the generic space marine look.