These Really Are Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Screenshots

ohhhh :/ hum well i have no complaints XD ! i also noticed star ocean colors are better when in full rgb , so ill stick to it .it did make a big diference in uncharted for me wich was the first game i tried … but ofc everything as its prons and cons…in end it all comes about on chosing what suits you best XD

” It's nothing 360 fans could complain about anyway.”

Most of them sure don't feel that way, as in my earlier post I have seen and talked to a number of people online who are no longer picking this up, most are either waiting for it to hit bargin bin or have switched their pre-order to another game, the extreme “fanboys” are demanding a written appology from Square-Enix. Which I find hilarious as this is still nowhere near as bad as Bayo on PS3. Like I said most 360 fanboys don't even care about this game they just wanted pairity between versions to rub it in PS3 fanboys faces.

yeah , so much i had figured ,its still preety cool after all the treat in FF is always the CG movies at least for me,but evne if it ran only at 720p if a very good one i wouldnt mind , i mean uncharted2 runs a perfect 720p and i dont feel the need for more XD!

(There are ways around it but I hate pixelation in movies.)

wich reminds me ……. i just tried running FF12 in my HD tv with component and lets just say its very bad …. ALOT of pixels in the CG movies T__T , on the contrary FFX is awsome ! *___* why didnt they just released 2 dvds of FF12 sigh ««….

Despite the silly responses, I actually agree with this. XII was the first FF game that I thought was at least decent in ages. It wasn't amazing, but I thought it was much better than the more popular numbers, such as VII or X.

I'm not so sure about that…

It's nothing 360 fans should complain about, but let's be realistic, we're talking about gamers. Gamers that are going to buy/rent/pirate a Japanese game. Doesn't get much worse than that.

Yes it had Joker as a playable character in mission mode, a bigger deal for PR then actual gameplay. Its a fantastic game though you should try it sometime.

I really never understood the opposition to XII (minus the lame treasure chest quest for Zodiac Spear). The game was very addicting and I'll tell ya, I was so glad to have a FF without the cliched phase in for battles. What's more, people don't realize that FFXIII's battle system was partially influenced by XII's.

Too true.

Though it seems sales are only healthy for western games on 360, and thats my concern. Knowing piracy is a problem (check the download data the ESA collects and some “other” sources) I just worry the 360 version of FF13 is going to hit the net any day now and considering what I said before I can imagine quite a few people downloading it rather then pay for it.

The difference in general between HDMI and Component is negligible. Besides HDMI's main gain of 1080p is a fabrication since Component has more than enough bandwidth. It is just the industry wants to shove the “secure” HDMI format down your throat so it is blocked by default on most HD TVs.

Yea, XIII's battle system was a mix of X-2, Xenosaga (breaking enemies by hitting their weakness), and XIII, except you don't need to do all the gambit micromanaging. The Optima chance/Paradigm shift pretty much takes care of your teammates' action, if he/she's a healer or attacker, etc. But still, they're rather different, XII was entirely too MMO-like and XIII is a fast paced real time turnbased game, but there's a preset AI that makes the best (relatively) automated choices if you don't have enough time to input your commands. There are many other differences of course, like how to continue from gameovers and restoring HP, etc… what bugged me about XII the most was the stupid license board for both skills and weapons, and gils were very hard to come by if you don't know how to chain kill certain enemies.. the story was pretty good, but again it's too MMO-like for me. so I have a love hate relationship w/ XII.

Personally XII ranked pretty low on my FF favorite ladder. It looked good sounded good, certainly ambitious w/ its scope, however I didn't like XI Online and the story/chars ultimately were not memorable (I don't mind dramas in the other ones), except for a few which were really good. I think Western audience liked XII better too since Jpn gamers usually prefer traditional JRPGs instead of open world MMO-like RPGs.

But yea, it's a more mature and subtle RPG, definitely would've been even better if Matsuno handled the whole thing instead of leaving midway.

XIII, on the other hand, has a so-so story that was presented rather weakly. One would appreciate the story and characters much more if you have read the prologue novel on the FFXIII official site (I just ordered the book), so that itself alrdy says something about the main game not being good, we shouldn't need to go to read something extra to feel for the characters, they should do that w/in the 50-60 hrs in the game.

Wow, I actually don't see much of a problem in the difference. All xbox 360 games have a more “rigid” texture style. Let me shed a little light on how the graphics don't make this a “whole lot worse looking game.”
Because the game was originally designed for the PS3 it isn't that great of a shock to see the “better and smoother graphics” on the PS3 version of the game. Although the xbox 360 graphics seem to be choppier and have more rigid textures this doesn't actually mean a fault in gameplay. I would like everyone to look at this comparison of xbox 360 and ps3 graphics.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6191251/index….

In these comparisons although the xbox 360 has more rigid textures it still might look like the “better graphic” choice. So as far as gameplay goes I don't think there will be any problem with the xbox 360 version. Only that there are multiple discs and that the ps3 has more “fluid” looking graphics which is better for square enix games because of the characters animated looks. All in all you'd be an idiot to get the xbox 360 version if you own a ps3. But for people, like me, who only have an xbox 360, don't let these pictures let you down.

As a side note for anyone who likes the FF13 OST, I found a fan made remix of the battle theme (electronic/Trance style) which I think is quite good and I dont usually like this style of music. Here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmyIcz7vLTw&feat…

Both consoles will probably run games on lower than sub-HD (though lately, companies seem to have finally learned how to make proper 720p games, even if sometimes they have to disable antialiasing to do so), and at the same time, both can actually handle more than 720p (though there are only a handful of games running on 1080p). Problem is, while people often put the two consoles together as if they were basically the same, they actually both have very different strengths and weaknesses. So, a game made to push one console will probably not work well on the other.

Aside from that, it also goes down to where the game started and how long it took to be ported. Vesperia started on 360, and was ported to PS3 relatively quickly. As a result, the PS3 version runs in sub-HD resolution, while the 360 was proper 720p. In the case of FF13, the 360 version was started late in the development cycle. Result: it looks worse. Wanting platform parity at all costs, would only serve to delay too much the release of a game. The obvious solution is when a game is announced being multiplatform from the start and they have a team working on each version, so that both can be made on a timely manner.

Otherwise, the other solution is to make what Dante's Inferno did, and make a graphic engine that is so lightweight (and indeed, the game looks like it could almost run on the Wii) that both consoles can handle it exactly the same. As far as I know, DI is the first multiplatform game in this gen to look absolutely the same on both platforms. Heck, they didn't even use the larger BR to improve CG quality on the PS3. That's how identical they are.

I agree, I feel the dev team did the best they could with such a short time frame. I would rather a dev take the extra time necessary to make it properly or not make it at all, though that was not the case with FF13. Microsoft petitioned S-E to do this port very late in the development cycle and part of the contract signed between them was that the 360 version had to ship day and date with the PS3 one, no exceptions. S-E was also facing pressure from fans to get this game out, and with the PS3 version being finished in Japan, I doubt S-E wanted to delay the game another year to release in the west.

Glad you liked the remix, I thought it was very well done.

I'm not really justifying what Dante's Inferno did (although I appreciate the rock-solid 60fps), but in today's industry, where multiplatform development is the only way to make a profit, you have to work with the lowest denominator… which means, basically, that you can't work on the strengths of either consoles, and in the meantime you have to consider the weaknesses of both.

Anyone else notice that the stance they're in and the text is diffrent in each picture? lol try putting them in 2 diffrent tabs and switch back and forth you'll see it…..