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Direct-feed Final Fantasy XIII screens look predictably more gorgeous
by Andrew Yoon 
on Jan 9th 2009 11:11AM
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:16AM (Unverified) said
Its still weird for me to look at the "Filed under" and see "Microsoft xbox 360" there...
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:19AM (Unverified) said
You know, I might be excited about XIII if we got a little more information than "there is a female lead character who is good at posing in otherwise uninteresting scenes."
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:36AM (Unverified) said
zertoss, if you've never played other jrpgs or watched anime, then there's no reason for you to be cautious. If you have, then you should know that males are never given boobs, no matter how effeminate. Except for that saxophone player in cowboy bebop. But he had drug issues. And preteen male characters sometimes dress up like girls, but of course no boobs because they're preteens.
Anam, I feel the exact opposite. I don't care too much about the info, but all these new amazing screenshots makes it so much more unbearable to wait for this game.
So far i know that this game, KZ2, U2, and Heavy Rain will look amazing from beginning to end. I'm not saying Sony has the best line up, but these are the 4 games that just stand out [FOR ME] in terms of visual quality (which i know isn't everything, so don't you dare try to remind me).
Can't wait.
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Anam, I feel the exact opposite. I don't care too much about the info, but all these new amazing screenshots makes it so much more unbearable to wait for this game.
So far i know that this game, KZ2, U2, and Heavy Rain will look amazing from beginning to end. I'm not saying Sony has the best line up, but these are the 4 games that just stand out [FOR ME] in terms of visual quality (which i know isn't everything, so don't you dare try to remind me).
Can't wait.
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:38AM Esat Dedezade said
The men in JRPGs must spend a fortune on moisturiser and exfoliators.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 12:33PM (Unverified) said
That's true, zertoss. Let them be whatever you want them to be. Like the youngest Hanson sibling during the 90's. She was cute.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 4:05PM The Blank Mage Returns said
Hey not ALL female characters have blue hair. Just the emo quiet ones, and Konata from Lucky Star. And Kaname from Full Metal Panic.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:20AM (Unverified) said
Why no gameplay screens? If I made a gorgeous looking game I would show the world. Then again, if I made an ugly ass game I would hide it.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:37AM (Unverified) said
Earlier article here shows ingame screenshots from magazine scans. Too lazy to find the link for you though. They look amazing.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:23AM (Unverified) said
I can't wait to get this for the 360:)and is there any speculation on when this game is published?
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:29AM MyAbsolution said
I think its 2009 for Japan... (i think they get a demo in next few months)
and who knows for everyone else.
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and who knows for everyone else.
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 12:12PM Negatron said
Really...
Good looking or not, 2010 is a long fucking time. They better not take that long, before it gets the Duke Nukem stamp of approval.
Reason for my saying this is because, SQNIX fired off prematurely at E3 08' about its coming to the 360 etc. That news could have waited, if its 2 years down the line. As good as it is for hype, it just as lethal. (IMO)
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Good looking or not, 2010 is a long fucking time. They better not take that long, before it gets the Duke Nukem stamp of approval.
Reason for my saying this is because, SQNIX fired off prematurely at E3 08' about its coming to the 360 etc. That news could have waited, if its 2 years down the line. As good as it is for hype, it just as lethal. (IMO)
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 1:00PM Dirty said
I think the timing of the announcement was appropriate. They took a feather out of sony's cap before the holiday. Why give the competitor the appearance of having exclusive AAA titles coming down the road? Future games weigh more heavily on someone looking to purchase than do past games...IMO.
But yea 2010 seems like forever.
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But yea 2010 seems like forever.
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:30AM Archwright said
Ok, so the lead character is female... but she looks more manly than any of the recent male leads.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:40AM (Unverified) said
manly isn't the right word. they didn't make her muscular. Think of nariko from heavenly sword. Just bad ass and stoic. Then again, nariko did talk too much, but you get what i mean.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:49AM Archwright said
I suppose she reminds me of the main character from FF: Tactics. I confused her for a dude at first.
I do hope that this starts a trend away from wimpy looking leads.
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I do hope that this starts a trend away from wimpy looking leads.
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:53AM Archwright said
I take it back, they put her in a stupid-looking mini skirt. Does it count as character design if the design leeches all the character out of someone?
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 11:47AM (Unverified) said
I wonder if the game will be native 1080p? My hope is that FF XIII will be 1080p and then scaled down to 1080i or 720p for the XBox. But I guess that's a development cash sink hole.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 12:08PM darkinchworm said
Just making sure: You know the 360 can support 1080p now, right?
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 12:22PM (Unverified) said
Well I hope it runs at 480p on PS3 with framerate issues and 360 gets a boost of 1080p, 60fps plus FFVS.13 as free preorder content.
Did I just do the fanboy shuffle or what?
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Did I just do the fanboy shuffle or what?
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 5:06PM (Unverified) said
I hope the Gamecube version comes with a Darkwing Duck™ soup thermos and the Genesis cartridge comes with monaural sound and pizza blasted Pringles™.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 5:16PM KarlW said
I hope it's 1080p on the PS3 too.
Couldn't give a rat's ass what it's like on the 360. Never going to play it on one. In fact, if I predict the world as it would be if the 360 didn't get FF13, it's pretty much exactly what I predict the opposite to be like. Without the rain of fire and rivers of blood, of course.
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Couldn't give a rat's ass what it's like on the 360. Never going to play it on one. In fact, if I predict the world as it would be if the 360 didn't get FF13, it's pretty much exactly what I predict the opposite to be like. Without the rain of fire and rivers of blood, of course.
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 7:48PM (Unverified) said
Wow... everything needs to be specifically worded on the internet lest it be chopped to pieces and labeled fanboy. 'Twas not the intent of my original post to start a flame war.
@Thief: Though by the hasty labeling of Fanboy you indirectly cause yourself to look more fanboy than I.
Starting to hate posting on Joystiq now because of jackasses like you.
@The-Award (followed by long rest of name): No actually I ddin't realize they updated it to support 1080p. That's good thing actually! If it supported it way back when I bought a PS3 I might have gone that route...
It`s starting to get very difficult to post anything on Joystiq that isn`t attacked or labeled.
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@Thief: Though by the hasty labeling of Fanboy you indirectly cause yourself to look more fanboy than I.
Starting to hate posting on Joystiq now because of jackasses like you.
@The-Award (followed by long rest of name): No actually I ddin't realize they updated it to support 1080p. That's good thing actually! If it supported it way back when I bought a PS3 I might have gone that route...
It`s starting to get very difficult to post anything on Joystiq that isn`t attacked or labeled.
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 9:00PM (Unverified) said
Alright, I'll give you a second chance: What did you mean by saying "I hope it's 1080p on the PS3 and 720p on the 360"? Just curious.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 10:29PM (Unverified) said
@ ryan
Not initially knowing that the XBox now supports 1080p was the problem here. My point is that if a dev creates a game in 1080p and then scales it down to support another system it would be a bad business move as the extra effort and funding to get it to perform well for 1 of 2 systems. Thus, my wish was that they would still make the game in 1080p regardless of saving a little money.
Since I've been corrected however you can just truncate the damned post to "I hope the game is native 1080p!"
I can't go wiki researching what's supported by the latest firmware for each damned system before each one of my posts. So before going fanboy nuts just ask the OP to clarify!
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Not initially knowing that the XBox now supports 1080p was the problem here. My point is that if a dev creates a game in 1080p and then scales it down to support another system it would be a bad business move as the extra effort and funding to get it to perform well for 1 of 2 systems. Thus, my wish was that they would still make the game in 1080p regardless of saving a little money.
Since I've been corrected however you can just truncate the damned post to "I hope the game is native 1080p!"
I can't go wiki researching what's supported by the latest firmware for each damned system before each one of my posts. So before going fanboy nuts just ask the OP to clarify!
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 2:07PM FxDr said
@ xtreme
Try telling that to Mr. "Christopher Poole":
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1821435-1,00.html
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Try telling that to Mr. "Christopher Poole":
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1821435-1,00.html
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 12:49PM (Unverified) said
Day 1 purchase for 360 for me, kthx. I want a flying futuristic mech-airship lookin thing, damnit. But really, this game should be really awesome, and get people noticing the JRPGs again.
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Posted: Jan 9th 2009 1:42PM (Unverified) said
I hope they ad more belts to all the characters.
You never have to many belts on one guy/girl.
O and as for the difference between preteen guys or girls, most anime/manga/jrpg will put heavy heavy boobage on 12 year old girls with no remorse.
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You never have to many belts on one guy/girl.
O and as for the difference between preteen guys or girls, most anime/manga/jrpg will put heavy heavy boobage on 12 year old girls with no remorse.
Posted: Jan 9th 2009 4:10PM The Blank Mage Returns said
O rly? Name one, eh? No, Japan hearts lolicon, they have other characters to heap boobage on. Shakugan no Shana for the slightly embarrassing win.
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