Lightning Returns: FFXIII PC port now targeting autumn
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Did they come out and say the first two sold poorly?
Vincent Grayson
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Yeah, for sure. I bought XIII and XIII-2 on PC for completeness' sake. I'll buy LR because I want to play it at a reasonable framerate.
Fragamemnon
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Gotta think of it as a long tail sort of thing. They'll be able to sell the trilogy to PC gamers for $15-$20 for a long time.
The 340K (wonder what it will be after the Summer Sale) is really what you should expect of a JRPG on Steam. Unless you actually use the arcane and eldritch art of marketing. Then you could get more. Also don't make a 40 GB game that is simply a hallway simulator.
Rats Off To Ya
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Can't wait to play it at 30fps!
GhostTrick
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Considering the state the games were released, those are amazing sales.
Like, hundred times more than Squeenix deserved for the job.
the FFXIII port was pretty shit
But I kinda guess they did something, haven't tried it since they "fixed" it
Rats Off To Ya
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I can't speak to 13-2, but the first pretty much runs on a toaster. There are frequent drops to 30 on any system, something apparently inherent in the engine.
Vincent Grayson
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I'm sure the sales are lower than they would have been if it came out at the same time as the console versions. A lot of people are probably long-since finished even thinking about XIII, and were long before the PC releases happened.
That's not all though.
Valkyria Chronicles was a port of an even older and much less popular game, and it's already up to ~430k sold on Steam.
But Valkyria is
- A good game
- A good port
The thing is, you'll probably "maintain" the exact same fluctuating framerate at 720p and 4k. And with a LN2-cooled CPU twice as fast yet than yours.
The frame pacing is just that fucked.
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Jotamide
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LolI believe they are working on remaking this dog.
Explains the delay.
First time I'm seeing this.
GhostTrick
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Not only the state but the games themselves. FFVII and VIII are like more expensive and not really good ports. Yet they sold a lot more than this.
Old port of games no one wanted arent going to set the world on fire.
What's worse - if you try to lock to 30 fps the framepacer will fluctuate between 30 and 15 fps (with minimal CPU/GPU utilization to boot). The game is just a massive fuckup on the technical side.
Valkerionseven
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Looking forward to it. Figure I might as well finish the saga but the PC version was announced before the ps3 price drop. Hopefully the game is more optimized than the previous two.
Half refresh vsync worked pretty reliably for me. But I still went back to the 60/30 flip-flop in the end, because the 60 parts were so nice.
JudgmentJay
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I really hope they fix the frame pacing at some point. These games are on my backlog, and it'd be nice to play them at a solid 60.
Mauricio_Magus
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They shouldn't bother if it isn't 60fps. It's the only game in the series that I haven't played, if it has shit framerate like the other games then I'll just pass.
threelights
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If they're fixing the performance stuff, then please take all the time you need.
Hopefully the backlash on the port quality (and sales decrease) made them properly optimize the next game.
Or maybe Autumn is just when they plan on trying Dive-In again...
Hopefully the backlash on the port quality (and sales decrease) made them properly optimize the next game.
Or maybe Autumn is just when they plan on trying Dive-In again...
Crystal Tools really came to bite SE in the ass. I'm starting to think that it was developed around the cell and they fugged it up when they announced a 360 port.
Then again, it runs fine on PC and the Wii U with DQX
I'll buy ten more copies of FFXHD if it means Balthier will be the face of the game instead of Vaan
Then again, it runs fine on PC and the Wii U with DQX
I'll buy ten more copies of FFXHD if it means Balthier will be the face of the game instead of Vaan
R10Neymarfan
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Type 0 HD steam page is up
After the first big patch both run great on my AMD rig which is what most people complained of.
And available 2015
If I'm being honest, lr is basically the only game in the series that sounds interesting from a mechanics perspective. Two of my absolute favorite games of all time are majora's mask and dead rising, so if this game pulls off the limited time with side questing stuff even decently I'll have fun with it. Plus, all the stuff I've seen on it seems to indicate it dosnt really take itself too seriously, which is always a plus coming out of square's typical angsty cockpiddle.
One thing that does stay my hand is on wether or not the game, as a third in a trilogy, is too reliant on playing the last two to really enjoy it, because I don't really see myself ever completing xiii after my initial first impression was so bad on it.
One thing that does stay my hand is on wether or not the game, as a third in a trilogy, is too reliant on playing the last two to really enjoy it, because I don't really see myself ever completing xiii after my initial first impression was so bad on it.
BocoDragon
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Everything you've said makes me think you'll like LR. It definitely has that Majora style time limits+ side quests, and it does indeed err on the whimsical side of things.
The game concludes the stories of XIII and XIII-2's characters.... But the role in which they are placed in this new setting is so divorced from whatever happened in previous games, that I don't think you'd need to understand the previous games at all.
Revengineer
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Sorry - I had to.
Crimsonclaw111
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They should fix the shitty issues with the first ports. The game jumps from 60fps to 30fps like crazy.
I believe they are working on remaking this dog.
Explains the delay.
I found this guy in regular old vanilla XIII today.
god I hate this character.
If FFXV came to PC Day 1, I imagine the sales would be higher. The XIII games have a really bad stigma about them and there was a lot of time between their initial release and their Steam release.
And word spread about how hilariously bad the port was when it first launched. Even if you make amends, it can be hard to recover from that.
MidgarBlowedUp
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I believe they are working on remaking this dog.
Explains the delay.
Would make for an incredible summon.
Riposte
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Could you explain this issue a little more?
AcceptableGhost
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Tales of Zestiria on PC will probably be a good indication of how well a JRPG can do on PC considering it will be same day release and it will probably be a technically competent PC version.
FF15 would probably do great on PC if it was released close to release - but I doubt that will happen. It will probably get ported years later by interns at Square-Enix.
cleveridea
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This game would actually be really cool with fixed graphics (eg smooth framerate) and a hack to allow infinite exploration time
Concept was really interesting, has some cool ideas like the combat / garb system
Concept was really interesting, has some cool ideas like the combat / garb system
protomouse
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Well, if they're taking their time to ensure it's a solid port... why not.
Garrett Hawke
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These are making me want to buy XIII again even though I swore I'd never replay it. :-¬
That isn't saying much :/
royox
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Why? I ended loving her after the 3 games. I hated her during most of FFXIII but after reaching Grand Pulse and watching she crying I understood she was bearing a lot of shit over her shoulders.
And she's fucking hot dammit.
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