Why can't you compress game assets and video? Isn't it just saved as a video format? Can't you just uncompress it once you download it? What's the reason for not being able to compress video and assets?
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Final Fantasy XIII PC |OT| Lightning must not be forgotten
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Why can't you compress game assets and video? Isn't it just saved as a video format? Can't you just uncompress it once you download it? What's the reason for not being able to compress video and assets?
Ganon Dragmire
Member
Where the hell is my activation code!?
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Dual audio and 60fps confirmed...I can't imagine a world in which those things are true, yet the game maxes out at 720p.
But SE is nothing if not a perpetual disappointment.
Still crossing my fingers.
But SE is nothing if not a perpetual disappointment.
Still crossing my fingers.
MrTeachwell
Member
It's time to start madly mashing that F5 key on your email inbox, greenmangaming games page, this thread, steamgaf, and random FF13 twitter accounts so that you can get that key as soon as possible.
legacyzero
Banned
60 FPS is good news. Lets hear the rest, S-E.
because the video itself already compressed
It may also be an automatic thing that happens when the day is the same as the release date of the game.
MrTeachwell
Member
That's quite true. If it is though I hope those keys will also automatically appear, I'd assume that they would already have the keys and simply need to tell their systems to release them, unless there really is someone sitting at a desk waiting for an email from Square Enix so that they can copy paste keys into their system (or better yet, receive a phone call and type them in by hand haha).
fluffydelusions
Member
SE baffles me if this is true. 60FPS, dual audio. Why would they not let people know about this?
PhillipCostigan
Member
I asked one of their marketing guys the other day if there would be a preload. He wasn't allowed to tell me.
Such is how these companies work I guess.
The Last One
Member
uncredited male
Member
So add SE to the list of gaming companies that Nintendo is secretly running?
fluffydelusions
Member
How reliable is this site anyway? Not really familiar with them.
It does get more people discussing the game. Some rallying up to support the game and others willing to buy it if demands are met. Those that aren't aware of the game or unsure of buying it are also more likely to buy it to support further iterations seeing that SE are 'supporting' the PC community.
Or there's no conspiracy and it's just business that they aren't allowed to reveal until a later date and approval
Or there's no conspiracy and it's just business that they aren't allowed to reveal until a later date and approval
Spectrasonic
Member
It's a shame the JP voices/CG wasn't optional DLC. I'll have ~25GB wasted space on my SSD. Hopefully those files can be manually deleted after the download.
gigantor21
Member
I've bought stuff from them several times. Never had a problem.
legacyzero
Banned
I just bought this, I don't know why.
As reliable as any legit retailer. Their sales are lacking most of the time though.
GavinUK86
Member
fluffydelusions
Member
I was actually referring to the info they have listed...60fps/dual audio
This.
Spectrasonic
Member
Looks that way.
Evidence towards JP language support
-In the Steam client, language selection in the game's properties lists Japanese
-50 GB download, which would make sense since JP version had different lip-sync'd prerendered cutscenes
-Gamersgate store page lists dual audio support
Evidence against
-Steam store page lists English audio only
Great summary. I hope it's true, but I agree with the idea that it should be a separate download. Baby steps though.
As I said as reliable as any legit retailer really.
And for someone in Asia, me, I get only a 27GB game. I only get Japanese voices.
Probably significantly less CGI cutscenes, just like LR and FFXIV.
Self_Destructive
Member
I hope they limit the CGI to the first cutscene and last cutscene if they do at all. My real wish is that they feel they are advanced enough with their real-time renderer that they have NO CGI in the game... but it's Square.
That's what they did for LR and Type-0, am I wrong?
Type-0 has a bunch of pre-rendered scenes. LR has like... 3.
I don't know, I still really like their CGI. I feel rewarded when I reach them.
As long as they don't go too crazy with it, to the point where they need to ship games with 2 blu-ray discs, I'm fine with CGI.
Its not just visual works that takes up space.FFXV will definitely get pre-rendered in-engine cutscenes.
No matter how good real time cutscenes can get they will never really catch up to pre-rendered stuff, which SE loves to make for mainline FF.
4 specifically, but they were all stacked together to look like 2...
Hmm, I haven't played Type-0. So there were a bunch of CGI in between the game?
That's what you get for cheaping out on the Goddess
The only thing I saw was that a 720p supported monitor was a minimum requirement for the game. Are there actual reports confirming a resolution lock?
The Last One
Member
Actually the only Final Fantasy they made pre-rendered in-engine cutscenes was FF XIII, wasn´t?
CGI and pre-recorded cutscenes, mostly the latter but they are video files that take up a lot of space.
FFX and FFXII surely had those too no ?
Self_Destructive
Member
Seeing things rendered in realtime is much more impressive looking in my eyes than things that are pre-rendered. Akin to how a decent looking game in virtual reality has the ability to blow your socks off more than something 2x as good displayed on a monitor.
Well, for me anyways.
thunder_snail
Member
Preloading! 4 hrs to go... Hopefully it unlocks at midnight, not in 15 hrs.