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Final Fantasy XIII PC |OT| Lightning must not be forgotten
- Thread starter Yoshichan
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Got my GMG right now too.
By the way it's so weird to see Square Enix counter-marketing themselves if the dual language option is true (it probably is, since the "orange box" got edited).
The orange box still shows only english audio for my language, but it's just because they haven't edited it yet I believe.
Edit: downloading right now, how much time will decrypting at launch take?
By the way it's so weird to see Square Enix counter-marketing themselves if the dual language option is true (it probably is, since the "orange box" got edited).
The orange box still shows only english audio for my language, but it's just because they haven't edited it yet I believe.
Edit: downloading right now, how much time will decrypting at launch take?
KojiKnight
Member
"No keys available for this game"
Same
And PC People at that! Console guys wouldnt had
asked
Is my 3rd playthrough now with the PC Version. First 2 were on PS3.
FFXIII-2 on the other hand... I never finished that. Lost interest. Hope it comes end of year to PC.
KojiKnight
Member
baaaah want to start my preload before I go to bed dammit!
Here's hoping! It's gonna be a long download.
KojiKnight
Member
Indeed. Till then GMG will suffer with my F5 attacks until it appears. I need to get to bed soon and I really want to get this going... My home connection is 60mbps, but the computer I'm going to download it to is restricted to 10-15mbps (power line adapter).
KojiKnight
Member
If it really is 60GB once installed, it probably is. There is only so much compression you can do on video/audio files before switching to lossier encoding methods, and those can fuck themselves.
Novum_Veritas
Member
I guess this game would be even larger without high compression, something like 1 TB maybe.
Tizoc
Member
Just got my key~
60 GB install too.
Will start it later tonight before going to bed :V
Novum_Veritas
Member
I'm not a huge fan of the FF 13 trilogy, but the 60fps thing has me intrigued, maybe I'll give it a go again too. I still remember how it played on PS3, and 60fps with 1080p seem to be a real benefit this time, especially with Japanese voice acting now available.
Just dual audio
BillGaitas
Member
Yeah got my key, downloading at 7.5 MB/s at my university, I guess I will be playing this when it unlocks
Korialstrasz
Member
Steam newbie here. Will games run well if installed to an external hardrive ?
blankempathy
Member
Today i will play one of the newer final fantasy games on the pc with a nintendo controller. What a time to be alive.
KojiKnight
Member
Completely uncompressed video/audio? Much much much more. 1920x1080x24(24-bit color)x30(30fps)= 1,492,992,000bp/s. That's 177 megabytes per second of video. Modern day video compression is a thing of ungodly beauty.
That depends on the type of external HDD. If it's USB3 or eSATA, it should work fine. Not so on USB2.
BillGaitas
Member
No problem. I have a USB 2.0 external HDD where I put some games and it runs so-so, but it's a lot better if it's USB 3.0.
Novum_Veritas
Member
Well I only was just guessing, so I got no exact data or anything, but uncompressed this game would be even more huge, I guess 60 GB is a good accomplishment.
KojiKnight
Member
Depends on the game and if it does a lot of streaming. I'd never put an open world game on a USB2 hard drive. A game with a lot of load screens is going to be loading entire areas into ram at once and stream very little and will therefore work really well (aside from slow load screens, but USB2 would still be faster than PS3 Blu-ray read speeds)
Brerlappin
Member
Fuckabout, 60GB? That must surely be the new champion for install sizes? Wolfenstein TNO was the largest game i have installed to date at 50GB. I was going to take a gamble on buying this but god damn, dat 60GB tho..
UnrealEck
Member
Just got it for £4 by selling a bunch of cards and buying a few keys and trading those for it. 2 hour download though. Wish the Japanese audio was optional. What were they thinking?
VIII is a better game, though it's not exactly a great FF either.
VIII is a better game, though it's not exactly a great FF either.
brotkasten
Member
I activated my key at work and now the game doesn't show up on my account on the Web or the mobile app which means that I can't remotely start the download. Ugh!
TheBlackMarvel
Member
25 hours to go... Luckily my home internet is MUCH faster so I should be playing asap!
KojiKnight
Member
If you don't intentionally break it, it's fine. If you do intentionally break it? Well you made the game easier for yourself.
Still waiting for my GMG e-mail... god I want sleep...
I'd argue that a person who has never played the game and doesn't read a guide would have a hard time breaking it the first time around.
KojiKnight
Member
I dunno, I managed to break it pretty hard my first time through, but it wasn't until I was already 2/3rds or so through. (subsequent play throughs grabbing the magic forging ability make it easily). Though again, breaking it takes a conscious effort. You can't really 'accidentally' break it.
It is so easy to break once you know how.
I don't mind though, I enjoy it. <3 FFVIII, my favourite FF
But yeah to the question of which to play, both!
Breaking the game is half the fun though
IMO FF VIII is better in every aspect so I'd suggest that one, but why not just play both
KojiKnight
Member
The fact that FF8 has triple triad automatically means it's better than 13. If you have to choose between FF8 and FF13 right this moment? Play FF13 just because there is a lot of hype going on in this thread and it's fun to participate in. That said FF8 is easily the better of the two games.
Steam saves in-progress download status, iirc.
KojiKnight
Member
Woot! An hour or so behind everyone else, but I finally got my GMG key! Now to preload like a champ!
And off to bed!
And off to bed!