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Final Fantasy XIII PC |OT| Lightning must not be forgotten
- Thread starter Yoshichan
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I'll just confirm: fresh reboot before playing results in the smoothest game you could ever hope for. Nvidia 660 with up to date drivers paired with a 3550k i5.
Topical. My other half accidentally stepped on my windows key, dumping me to metro. On resuming the game, it ran like ass. I had to restart to get it back to smooth playing.
Not sure if anyone else experiences it like this.
Topical. My other half accidentally stepped on my windows key, dumping me to metro. On resuming the game, it ran like ass. I had to restart to get it back to smooth playing.
Not sure if anyone else experiences it like this.
Nope the random performance basically plagued the whole OT while it was active.
oh wow, euros got a physical PC version of XIII
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TOFI24S/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I'm tempted to buy it :s
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TOFI24S/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I'm tempted to buy it :s
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Oh I remember this and I still stand by my statement that it's a fugly cover.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Will buy!
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Will do! Gonna make some phone calls and see if the stores have'em in
R10Neymarfan
Member
Wonder how many discs FFXIII is? Anyways I hope they announce lightning returns soon. I want the trilogy on pc
GTAV is 7 disks at 60 GB. assume the same
Damerman
Member
I posted this in another thread, but i'm enjoying this game too much not to share:
i'm replaying through FFXIII, and holy crap... did they make serious changes to the PC version? because the game is way better than i remembered... from the story to the voice overs(heck, i can even put up with vanille). I'm even warming up to the lore(probably because i read through the database). the one thing that undermines each and every one of those elements is the corridor structure of the levels. it manages to make the in party dialogue have less of an impact because they spawn all of a sudden to the place they are supposed to deliver the line of dialogue, the separate screen for combat should have been done away with ever since chrono trigger... so there is that.
The two aspects that are impacted the most by the world design choice is more clearly seen in the story and the lore...for the story, the pacing is always move from point A to point B... drop some "subtle" exposition in between some decent dialogue and characterization. The lore... if it wasn't obvious before, its essentially delivered in a "LMAO DID NOT READ" wall-o-text format...open world exploration, speaking to NPCs and investigating points of interests should be the primary source of lore expansion... not some encyclopedia hidden in menus.
The game is really really really good... way better than i remembered... but man oh man, are it's flaws glaring.
after serious consideration and play throughs of other final fantasy games... i can easily, easily say that XIII is my favorite... I don't know how much worse it gets at XIII-2 or lightning returns, but i will find out. I already own XIII-2...just waiting on lightning returns to hit steam now.
EDIT: also, does anyone else agree that Paradigm shifts should be a final fantasy staple? along with the class system? shit, if i had my way the crystarium system would be a FF staple.
i'm replaying through FFXIII, and holy crap... did they make serious changes to the PC version? because the game is way better than i remembered... from the story to the voice overs(heck, i can even put up with vanille). I'm even warming up to the lore(probably because i read through the database). the one thing that undermines each and every one of those elements is the corridor structure of the levels. it manages to make the in party dialogue have less of an impact because they spawn all of a sudden to the place they are supposed to deliver the line of dialogue, the separate screen for combat should have been done away with ever since chrono trigger... so there is that.
The two aspects that are impacted the most by the world design choice is more clearly seen in the story and the lore...for the story, the pacing is always move from point A to point B... drop some "subtle" exposition in between some decent dialogue and characterization. The lore... if it wasn't obvious before, its essentially delivered in a "LMAO DID NOT READ" wall-o-text format...open world exploration, speaking to NPCs and investigating points of interests should be the primary source of lore expansion... not some encyclopedia hidden in menus.
The game is really really really good... way better than i remembered... but man oh man, are it's flaws glaring.
after serious consideration and play throughs of other final fantasy games... i can easily, easily say that XIII is my favorite... I don't know how much worse it gets at XIII-2 or lightning returns, but i will find out. I already own XIII-2...just waiting on lightning returns to hit steam now.
EDIT: also, does anyone else agree that Paradigm shifts should be a final fantasy staple? along with the class system? shit, if i had my way the crystarium system would be a FF staple.
They changed nothing.
Look forward to LR! My favorite. I'm talking about the battle system and music mostly. Story and plot are hot trash, of course, but I still loved the hell out of it and did every side quest I could in my first playthrough. Even on Normal it's probably the most difficult mainline FF, but in a good way. You have to use the system to its fullest by always choosing the right costume/equipment and skill decks (Schemata) for every encounter.
So fun.
You know, I never really actively disliked my time with the FFXIII series, even though it's everything that I don't want FF to be and does so many things wrong. I just never took them so serious and at least tried to give them a chance and enjoy them.
Sometimes there were rare, non-melodramatic moments of this very strange kind of melancholy in some scenes that I actually quite liked after I just embraced the silly, convoluted lore, e.g. the flashback part with
Noel
FFXIII's major issue is how the story dictates the game mechanics for the first 2 - 3 hours. Going into fights with your action set being Attack and Item made for some pretty dour battles.
Once you get your skills and can start developing, it gets better. The last couple of chapters before Gran Pulse do end up being quite the slog though.
The rest of it I was generally fine with.
Paradigm's were good fun but I found they devalued levelling. The best thing about going up the power levels was rolling out your new skill at a battle. In effect, your skills remain the shifts in paradigm and auto-battle, so you never really get to appreciate your new talents.
Yeah, you can micro manage the selections but the battles are blatantly skewered against being manual.
Once you get your skills and can start developing, it gets better. The last couple of chapters before Gran Pulse do end up being quite the slog though.
The rest of it I was generally fine with.
Paradigm's were good fun but I found they devalued levelling. The best thing about going up the power levels was rolling out your new skill at a battle. In effect, your skills remain the shifts in paradigm and auto-battle, so you never really get to appreciate your new talents.
Yeah, you can micro manage the selections but the battles are blatantly skewered against being manual.
R10Neymarfan
Member
LR was rated by esrb shouldn't be long now
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsi...INAL FANTASY XIII&searchkeyword=final fantasy
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsi...INAL FANTASY XIII&searchkeyword=final fantasy
Was just recently delayed to Autumn:
http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/...fantasy-xiii-release-now-planned-autumn-2015/
R10Neymarfan
Member
Well at least they will give us Type 0 in its place.
Hoping after the autumn release of LR they might trying porting over the FFX/X-2 remaster
Hoping after the autumn release of LR they might trying porting over the FFX/X-2 remaster
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Maybe if a lot of people bought and refunded it, SE might realize their low quality port is deterring sales and fix it.
Hopefully LR is included once it's available. The downloads size is too much for my plan (in AUSTRALIA) but sort of worth it as I've been playing FFXIII non-stop so far.
FinalxxSin
Banned
Maybe 2 generations from now, I'll be able to enjoy 60 fps new FF games on console 
. I hope you people enjoy FFXIII on PC and LR in the future.
. I hope you people enjoy FFXIII on PC and LR in the future.currently downloading it, will play it for the first time tonight.
Currently I have some questions:
1. Can I play with japanese audio and english subtitles? Are japanese subtitles included?
2. Which mods I should get? I'm currently looking at gedosato with the lightning overhaul
3. What kind of performance can I expect with my machine: i5 3570k@4.4; GTX970 SLI; 16GB Ram? I definitely want 60 fps, is there still room for downsamping?
Currently I have some questions:
1. Can I play with japanese audio and english subtitles? Are japanese subtitles included?
2. Which mods I should get? I'm currently looking at gedosato with the lightning overhaul
3. What kind of performance can I expect with my machine: i5 3570k@4.4; GTX970 SLI; 16GB Ram? I definitely want 60 fps, is there still room for downsamping?
You won't have any problems downsampling. What you'll have problems with is keeping a constant 60fps because the game has a fucked up framepacing.
You can play with English subs and Japanese audio, but I have no idea if you can have Japanese subs.
Gedosato is all you need really for downsampling and stuff, but I didn't follow if other mods came up for the game.
You can play with English subs and Japanese audio, but I have no idea if you can have Japanese subs.
Gedosato is all you need really for downsampling and stuff, but I didn't follow if other mods came up for the game.
You probably lost some settings when you updated GeDoSaTo. Did you create a custom file with custom settings?
I just installed it for the first time after formatting my PC. I guess Durante removed the settings because the FFXIII launcher now offers the same settings which were present in previous gedosato builds?
I'll check my settings when I get home and I'll edit this post.
Edit:
So here are my settings from a long time ago:
So yeah if you remove the renderResolution line (since you already have it in the launcher) you'll get the default settings.
I would recommend adding "enablePostprocessing true" so that you can use SweetFX's postprocessing. Here is a Steam guide if you don't know how to do it.
R10 said:
Please don't let this be. The only reason I didn't pre-order the remastered version b/c I thought they were going to port it over to the PC like FF13. Waited more than a year. Then bought it the ffx remaster for ps3 just last month. It would be a pain in the ass since I originally wanted to get it for the pc.
As for the ff13 pc stuff. If they are getting all of the dlc of 13-2, along with the 2 games for under 40 bucks is kind of giving the finger to their console customers imo.
As for the LR pc port if they end up getting it also w/ all of the dlc already. For 60 or less. I'm sure many will be peeved. I know I am going on a rant now & probably seem a bit petty.
But c'mon w/e happened to the console exclusive? B/c at this point it seems like only GoW & Gran Turismo are the only PS exclusives left at this point.
As for the ff7 remaster I'm sure it will be coming to the pc sooner or later so why bother with even getting a ps4 & wasting $$$.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
... what?
i was excited to see what revived this thread! i am not sure what is going on haha.
R10Neymarfan
Member
To reply the FFXIII PC ports are byproduct of the mobile streaming versions for iOS/android (which most final fantasy PC ports come from) well except for Type 0 HD but hopefully that does mean Square is serious and ports their more beloved titles to PC
I thought this was the case. We already getting Lightning returns and other Square titles on pc. Seems like a good idea imo. Specially since i skipped a lot of these games, and they tend to look better, run better (after some tweaking) on pc.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Cry Moar
I see. So the as for the 13 trilogy, how have the first 2 ports been? I have read & heard mixed reports.
Well I just hope now they bring FF7 the new one to PC relatively sooner than later.
SIT I already did that this morning. Thanks for rubbing salt into my wounds.
now whenever I'm reminded ' i cri every tim'.
But on a more serious note. For PC/Console gamers who play mostly JRPGs SE move to PC seems to me to mark a plunge in future Sony PS sales.
B/c @ this point besides RPG (like GoW which is done now I believe along with MGS & DMC) . JRPGs from SE & Level 5 seemed to keep it alive for many imo.
That just leaves for players like me racing, action & adventure games. Which the majority of them have already moved to the PC.
Imho PS5 just may be the last big console. And with the PS3 & 360 being the transition from true consoles to PC-wannabe consoles.
Sorry for the long rant.
I'm just going to go in a corner now & cry some moar.
Peace.
I think he just meant to say "PC FTW" after Persona 5 releases.
Thats what i understood. And something about Tim.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I thought there was news about Lightning Returns.
Sutton Dagger
Member
So I just got FFXIII in the square-enix holiday bundle. I'll have to download it over the next couple of days....
What is the best method of playing at 4K native with a 30fps lock? Cheers
What is the best method of playing at 4K native with a 30fps lock? Cheers
Anecdotal but I used to have real problems if didn't play from a fresh boot or if I did something like alt-tab out of FF.
If I started from a fresh boot, nothing open, the game was unfaulteringly smooth. Not sure if this pans out for others though.
For anyone having trouble with a xbox one controller, there's a community made fix for XIII now and 2
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292120/discussions/0/451848855027024475/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292120/discussions/0/451848855027024475/
Battlechili
Banned
Any chance of mods being made to replace the FMVs with PS3 quality FMVs? To this day they're still badly artifacted.