Time to follow your own advice.
Type-0 HD is just an up port of PSP with a few improvements. It's not even close to XIII in terms of anything.
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Final Fantasy XIII PC |OT| Lightning must not be forgotten
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Time to follow your own advice.
Type-0 HD is just an up port of PSP with a few improvements. It's not even close to XIII in terms of anything.
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KojiKnight
Member
I disagree. The translation is by no means bad... but it feels like it didn't have an English writer go over it for theme consistency. Instead it looks like a translation team had different members work on different parts of the script with only a few parts held up to any consistency... It's why some lines seem to be very literal translations, while others seem to be heavily stylized in changes.
Finally, it feels like the voice director either was in capable of making small tweaks to the dialogue to make it flow better or (more likely) had his/her hands tied and wasn't ALLOWED to. The voice actors were all technically good, but their readings were muddled by a poor flowing script.
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
Developmental hell is the reason for this. The localization director said that they'd finish a scene only to get another version of the script a few weeks later, meaning they'd have to redo the entire scene over and over again.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
So you're saying Hope, a kid with zero weaponrary experience, should have took the gun and die alongside his mother, thanks to the failure of plan that Snow had in mind.
Snow, as the leader, was responsible for those people lives, it wasn't supossed to be a suicide mission in which everyone were going to die. It was his responsability to get all the people alive there, or at least mostof them. His fabulous plan to charge with people who aren't used to fighting failed and the result was that eveyone died.
He didn't kill them, but his course of action was the direct result all of them dying. For a guy that spends a lot of time talking big about being a hero and saving people is laughable.
The Last One
Member
LOL you´re just trolling, right?
KojiKnight
Member
There is no point to a discussion topic if people are unable to discuss their opinions
b-but it's ps4 game bro makes it automatically look better!
thunder_snail
Member
This game looks amazing not because of its tech, but because of its art. No recent games come close to it imo, including XIII-2 and LR. (
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So in conclusion, yes the engine used is no where near the level of what we see these days but the art direction, of the environments especially, is beyond what's typical even to this day.
It's especially beautiful in some sections of Gran Pulse..., like the abandoned village or that canyon with the tower. So So Beautiful
So in conclusion, yes the engine used is no where near the level of what we see these days but the art direction, of the environments especially, is beyond what's typical even to this day.
threelights
Member
I'm enjoying the game so far
I thought the moms are though line is bad not because of the line itself, but because of the way they delivered it, kinda random.
The combat is pretty fun so far, can't wait for it to open up completely.
PSP, the screenshot is from the HD version on the PS4.
I thought the moms are though line is bad not because of the line itself, but because of the way they delivered it, kinda random.
The combat is pretty fun so far, can't wait for it to open up completely.
PSP, the screenshot is from the HD version on the PS4.
The translators described having to translate the entire game four or five times, due to constant changes in the script. It seemed like there wasn't much communication within SE's Japan studio, because the writers, producers, designers, and studio workers would all be giving them conflicting scripts on any given day. Which was weird, because Square wanted translations done as the game was made, which made it impossible to get a locked-down final version of a script to translate.
On the other hand, Square tapped their translators to come up with english-sounding terms to use on the Japanese version. Like "Nautilift".
So FFXIII was a special production
How u do
xBladeM6x
Member
Still surprised SE didn't put their hax engine like what the did with VII and VIII
MrChowderClams
Member
I hate this character so much.
Yes, but it's really, REALLY fucking easy. To the point where all the stuff that made XIII so fun is pretty much pointless here. XIII-2 is the mash X to win game that people who hate XIII accuse it of being.
Yes, but it's really, REALLY fucking easy. To the point where all the stuff that made XIII so fun is pretty much pointless here. XIII-2 is the mash X to win game that people who hate XIII accuse it of being.
It hurts so much, but I do it for Sazh.
Potash
Well, the final area can be challenging if you do none of the side stuff. I just wanted to run through the game quickly because I wasn't enjoying it so I rushed through and didn't do any side stuff. The final boss was anything but easy, it took out most of my characters health in just one attack.
Consequently, I feel like they balanced it around a person who didn't rush, but probably didn't do any of the side stuff either. Which means, if you do any of the side stuff you'll find it an absolute cake walk.
Oh, right, forgot to mention, the last boss was challenging, I agree.
I'm not even expecting resolution options and you're waiting for hard mode? Might be better to prepare yourself to be disappointed then
I'm not even expecting resolution options and you're waiting for hard mode? Might be better to prepare yourself to be disappointed then
It's modern day Square.
I expect love, but I get disappointment instead, yet I always come back to them
It's modern day Square.
I expect love, but I get disappointment instead, yet I always come back to them
I know that feel
I'm far more impressed with the level of detail and polish Square was able to put into FFXIII on the PS3 than any current-gen footage I have seen thus far.
Hype decreasing.
XIII-2 is definitely easier than XIII, but that doesn't mean it isn't a fun game. And some of the optional battles are plenty challenging. Especially the DLC fights.
The DLC fights are expected to be encountered near the end of the game. They largely seem super hard because the game allows you to access them incredibly early.
Nevadatan
Member
PSICOM see me hackin' they hatin'
If the DLC is included for no additional cost, then I'll definitely replay XIII-2 when it comes out on Steam.
Otherwise, I'll just skip it and wait for Lightning Returns
The ending is pretty cool though, I guess. And Caius is great, O'Brien was especially sexy with him.
EDIT: I like Noel too, I was expecting for Hope 2.0, but he surprised me. No BS allowed.
They're still harder than almost everything else in the game.
Great find. Puts a smile on my face to hear people enjoy FFXIII music. It also helps that it is a fantastic theme.
then your hype will be back up for LR.
Better combat and way more of a challenge.
God bless Tri-Ace
I gave up on trying to get this to run steadily and just decided to finish my old save on ps3.
I'm on the last battle with Barthandantalalalalalala. Can't seem to finish him off. Keeps casting doom on me, so I'm taking too long. I haven't had any problems thus far, so I don't think it's a level thing. It's been forever, though, so might be some stuff I've forgotten.
Tips?
I'm on the last battle with Barthandantalalalalalala. Can't seem to finish him off. Keeps casting doom on me, so I'm taking too long. I haven't had any problems thus far, so I don't think it's a level thing. It's been forever, though, so might be some stuff I've forgotten.
Tips?
Barty doesn't spew out much in the way of cartoonishly powerful attacks if you're laying into him, so I'd recommend trying a really aggressive paradigm deck with no SEN.
For instance:
Use COM/RAV/RAV and RAV/RAV/RAV (and maybe also SAB/RAV/RAV) to build up the chain gauge, and heal blazing fast with MED/MED/MED to quickly get back into aggressive offensive action. Remember, if you spend a while without hitting Barty with SAB or COM, the chain gauge will start to drain fast... so when you're building the gauge try to get some hits in with COM/RAV/RAV if you haven't done so extremely recently and think you're about to heal.
You might feel a bit on the edge, but if you're not underleveled it'll keep you hitting hard enough to easily avoid Doom.
Considering XIII-2 & LR is a downgrade compared to XIII I would hope not
Word.
Yeah, I've been conservative with COM/SEN/RAV and RAV/SEN/RAV. I'll just RTSD and see how that works.
Didn't they perform worse on consoles than XII? At least LR seemed to.
I'm saying that Hope didn't fight to protect his mother while his mother fought to protect him. This and other things are more likely to have Hope turn a sense of self-hate for his own weakness and cowardice (he isn't even able to confront Snow right after his mom's death when Vanille is telling him that she'd go together with him to talk to Snow) into a misguided blame game where he puts the blame on Snow (especially thanks to Snow's dumb hero talks) instead of the military because blaming Snow is easy while accepting the fact the military killed her and it happened because she wanted to protect Hope is harder to do for him.
Snow didn't plan for the civilians to fight, the civilians decided to pick up weapons and fight. They decided to follow him. The moment they decided to grab a weapon and follow him they were aware of the dangers. They knew that either they fought for a chance to survive, or they would simply be killed and that's why they asked to be allowed to fight too. As such it's not right to say that people died because of Snow's actions, it should be said that people survived because of Snow's actions given that many were saved. The people that died, died because of the military's actions.
Let's just look at what the game shows happening:
Snow's gang and civilians are shooting.
Military aircraft comes and starts shooting on them.
Snow's friend tells Snow to help them.
Snow tells Hope's mom to stay down and jumps in to try and grab a missile-launcher to destroy the craft but misses grabbing it.
Hope's mom fires the missile, hitting the craft and saving Snow, while reminding him that Moms are tough.
Much rejoice, interrupted by the hit craft firing toward the bridge,destroying it and making people fall down.
Hope's mom gets hit by the blast together with Snow and as the bridge breaks down, they too fall down.
Snow manages to grab onto something and grab Hope's mom hand.
Hope's mom tells Snow to bring him home and falls unconscious, letting go of Snow's hand.
Snow is visibly shaken and also wondering who is this him she was talking about.
Snow didn't manage to save her and many others but it wasn't his fault they died anymore than it was his fault the military wanted to eliminate them.
Kai Ozu
Member
No, it still looks like a PSP game. XIII looks fantastic.
XIII-2 performed fine. But it was a graphical downgrade compared to XIII
LR is a beautiful PS2 game. But the art direction balanced out some of the jank
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
Heh, frame rate chugging sub 20 and averaging well under 30 says otherwise.