lordfuzzybutt
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Final Fantasy XIII PC |OT| Lightning must not be forgotten
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threelights
Member
Sorry I meant the 3 or 4 stupid CG scenes where your party is in a ship/thing that is gonna crash in a minute. Explosions everywhere, no sense of danger, bad angles, too fast, you name it.
I had no idea what was even going on most of the time and when I did it felt unnecessary and far too much.
Holy shit it's way past time to give the team a smaller budget.
Lumpy Onion
Member
It's funny, but even though I liked those scenes I would have to agree with them being kinda overdone visually. I enjoyed the cutscenes in something like Xenoblade a million times more. I could at least follow the action there easier and felt an emotional investment. With XIII it's like "Look at all these awesome effects!".
Oneironaut
Neo Member
After delving into it some, I'm not a fan of the crafting system. There's no indicator of what kind of catalyst you need to upgrade an item or if that item can in fact be upgraded unless you already have that particular catalyst in your inventory. It feels like the system expects you to use an outside information source like a wiki to use it properly.
I completely disagree.
Not every scene was hard to follow.Only the one after lake bresha was relatively hard to do.
Also there are many great central CGI in the game.The intro the scene, the scenes on pulse and the ending.
You can't possibly say the CGI work was poor in the game.You may have ridiculously high expectations though.Which is fine.
The covers I made turned out pretty good I think
You should try out the full game sometime. Be it when it comes out on Steam or pick up the relatively cheap PS3 copy
You should try out the full game sometime. Be it when it comes out on Steam or pick up the relatively cheap PS3 copy
The covers I made turned out pretty good I think
You should try out the full game sometime. Be it when it comes out on Steam or pick up the relatively cheap PS3 copy
that is so much better than the official box art
threelights
Member
So, how do my characters learn more stuff?
So far Sazh is only a Ravager, Light is only COM and RAV, and Vanille is RAV and MED. Is it just game progression?
EDIT: Also, when you finish the crystarium for one role, is it over, or is there more for that role later?
So far Sazh is only a Ravager, Light is only COM and RAV, and Vanille is RAV and MED. Is it just game progression?
EDIT: Also, when you finish the crystarium for one role, is it over, or is there more for that role later?
threelights
Member
Sorry, I thought that was something super basic, so I didn't even look =P
Thanks though, good to see that there's a lot more to it.
No prob. Be careful while visiting the wikia though, its full of spoilers.
Nope.
lol you have a freaking 970 and you get stuttering.
This game is so incredibly demanding on Ultra settings!
SE screwed up big time with the port unfortunately
I have a 980 and I get stuttering.
I'll probably waste more time taking screenshots of Serah than I will actually playing the game.
This game didn't get the port or HD version it deserves.
Why do Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs get new editions when FF gets nothing?
I know Type-0 is getting one but that doesn't cut it.
This game needs a port a 1080p with high poly models in real time(they ALREADY have these)
Luminous lighting incorporated, re-rendered CGI up to 1440p etc...
Instead we get a botched version that Durante saves :/
Why do Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs get new editions when FF gets nothing?
I know Type-0 is getting one but that doesn't cut it.
This game needs a port a 1080p with high poly models in real time(they ALREADY have these)
Luminous lighting incorporated, re-rendered CGI up to 1440p etc...
Instead we get a botched version that Durante saves :/
watervengeance
Member
I just got to Gran Pulse, and the difficult just went through the roof. I thought that my strategy was pretty good since I almost always 5-star all the encounters.
threelights
Member
It was pretty clear they were just porting for Dive In, even the lack of marketing said that. I don't know why people expected a completely remastered version.
They butchered in the fps and resolution department, and that's inexcusable, but even if they didn't, I highly doubt they'd go through the trouble of re-rendering 40gb worth of cutscenes.
If we ever get a remastered version it'll probably be on the PS4/Xbone, and it'll be a couple of years before that happens, and they'll advertise it a lot more.
They destroyed this.
Also they should've swapped the models with the high poly ones(for high settings).I don't think that would be hard at all for a company like SE.
They aren't indie developers and this is mainline FF.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
I've officially given up on this port. Durante made it gorgeous, I'll give it that, but the performance is a complete bummer. Even locked at 30 it just feels a little off.
But I got myself all hyped up, so I'm replaying the PS3 version, yet again. It's a bit blurrier, but at least it's working as intended. Maybe I'll finally get that Platinum!
If the next two are the same story (which of course they will be) you can bet I won't reward this kind of laziness again.
threelights
Member
They didn't even bother giving resolution settings, why would they swap models? It's probably a port made by one or two guys to go with Dive In.
To put more effort and resources into the port, it would make it more expensive, they would have to advertise it, and of course it wouldn't be a cheap game, it would probably be a 40$+ title.
It's better they just do a cheap port now, and announce an HD version later than doing a "definitive edition" without any previous warning whatsoever.
Oneironaut
Neo Member
I had the same issue. I found the difficulty curve much more forgiving when I did a bunch of the Cie'th stone missions before continuing the story.
SirNinja
Member
Pulse is a pretty notorious difficulty spike, yeah. As Oneironaut mentioned, doing the Cie'th Stone missions can help quite a bit. You really should do them anyway, as completing them gives you great items, fast travel to various places on Pulse, access to Chocobos, bonus areas, and lots more.
watervengeance
Member
I've been following the Cieth stones, but they still take me to pretty dangerous places. I've been getting mostly 3 stars per battle now. I'm enjoying the difficulty spike because I love it when the game gives me a challenge. I just hope the battles don't get increasingly long.
Following the Cieth Stones through to Yaschas Massif(Think that is its name?) helps quite a bit. You still have to pick your fights carefully, though.
Honestly I think they kind of intended you to go there anyway. There is missable scenes in the Yaschas Massif. Some of which you can't get if you progress too far in the story.
Honestly I think they kind of intended you to go there anyway. There is missable scenes in the Yaschas Massif. Some of which you can't get if you progress too far in the story.
I fail to see that in her
Perhaps they will do so for the 30th anniversary pack for the PS Quatro
Imagine this but in 8GB GDDR glory
But knowing Square they will probably only remaster FFIV on the PS4 since they have a hard on in place that game to everything imaginable.
Actually they did. The pre-rendered videos are neither directly from the PS3 version nor the 360.
Not sure they re-rendered them from the original source or just re-encoded the PS3 videos but at least they did make extra versions for the PC release.
threelights
Member
They most likely re enconded the PS3, otherwise why would they intentionally make a worse version?
I still think they'll make and HD collection, maybe after type-0 hd is out, maybe after XV is out, but the game already has everything for an HD port, they just need to put some money into it.
ShinobiFist
Banned
The music is too low for me. I'm playing through my HS50 monitors. Shit is low my dude.
Even with re-encoding they could have made higher quality videos. Maybe they just wanted to make the download not too big. Those 10GB that the game is smaller compared to the PS3 version would have certainly made a difference if used for video compression.
threelights
Member
Indeed, maybe it was incompetence from the team (not really the first example of a japanese game poorly ported over). Either way, they should really patch the performance and get their shit together for the next ones, that would be a way of showing that they at least didn't intend for the port to be so lacking.
Also, I don't play on mobiles at all, but if iPhones/iPads support 60FPS, those performance issues will probably appear in the Dive In version as well, so it's a higher chance for a patch (because that's really the version they care about).
MrChowderClams
Member
Hehe yup! I remember seeing the steam rumor thread on GAF and thinking "WUT?!?!?! This can't be real." Just got to Gran Pulse today so I'll probably get a comparison up soon. The PS3 version looks so blurry in comparison.
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On another note, I zipped up all of my save files up till Chapter 10
The beginning of the Ark
Does anyone else have audio that's out of sync with the cinematic video for the English cinematics? The video seems to be delayed by maybe half a second or less for me and it's really irritating.
I am running GeDoSaTo (4K -> 1080p) and using RTSS to limit the framerate to 30. Not sure if those things are affecting it.
I am running GeDoSaTo (4K -> 1080p) and using RTSS to limit the framerate to 30. Not sure if those things are affecting it.
threelights
Member
Whenever it desyncs for me it's because the video drops frames (That's because of my laptop though, not really the game). Every time the cutscenes run smooth, everything is synced perfectly.
MrChowderClams
Member
Yep, happens for me too in the JP cutscenes. The audio will play first, then the video + subs will kick in 1-2 seconds later. I think it is because of dropped frames. @IcyStorm do you usually have stuttering in your cutscenes? That could be the cause..
Nevadatan
Member
believe me. they would have used GFWL if microsoft hasnt turned the marketplace down. last year.
After the MASSIVE improvement in PC developing From Software got with Dark Souls 2 you would expect that a company like S-E wouldnt make the same mistakes.
threelights
Member
Also, for the most part, the audio only kicks in when the character starts talking, so even if the first two or so lines get out of sync, if the game stops dropping frames the next dialogue line syncs itself again.
Happens a lot when Lightning starts talking. She and her glossy lips make my lappy go nuts and lose sync... And then it comes back to normal when someone else starts talking.
I am playing the English version though, so maybe that's different from the Japanese?
Truly the most compelling drama of our times.
Nevadatan
Member
your lappy cannot keep with the goddess. thats the reason.
also im testing a postprocessing preset i fetch from the community hub, adds a nice contrast boost.
Hm... I just ran it without GeDoSaTo and it doesn't seem to have changed anything. I've tested this with Japanese audio and that seems perfectly fine.
I don't think stuttering (which I do get when downsampling) is the issue though. I just noticed that both in the pre-rendered and the in-engine (or I think they are?) cutscenes, English audio is ahead of the video the entire time. The Japanese audio seems fine in both cases.
It's because I have empathy that I know I wouldn't try to murder someone in that situation. Just about nothing shows an utter lack of empathy more than murdering another human being in cold blood.
ShinobiFist
Banned
Operation Nora>Gossip Girl Season 3. And Season 3 was goat tier for GG. XOXO Homie.
I don't really get a shit port complaints. I always thought that shitport is when you can't play a game, it crashes, fps drops to unplayable, controls don't work, saves get corrupted, there are gameplay breaking bugs and such.
It surely isn't top notch port, in fact it's as cheap as ports get, perhaps, but in no way it's shitty, so far I had 0 problems with a game itself.
ya, I don't get it, definitely.
If it's shitty what you call ports or games that are unplayable when released?
It surely isn't top notch port, in fact it's as cheap as ports get, perhaps, but in no way it's shitty, so far I had 0 problems with a game itself.
ya, I don't get it, definitely.
If it's shitty what you call ports or games that are unplayable when released?
Not sure if serious. Apart from flat out not working, this port is as shitty as it gets.
While XIII Steam is far from perfect, there are plenty of far worse ports in immediate history.
Ghosts for one.