All that boring, uninteresting gameplay of turnbased combat finally got to them after so many games.
Final Fantasy Fans Boo Xbox 360 at London Event
- Thread starter John Funk
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Actually, Metacritic likes the XBox 360 version by 1 point. (And typing that might have been a bad idea)scotth266 said:
And just how is it terribly worse?Belladonnah said:
Frankly, I don't see a lot of difference graphically, but maybe that's just me.
And the rest of what you're saying seems a whole lot like blatant fanboyism to me. Do you have a source on it or is it just your own expert opinion based on the religion around your precious console?
Exactly what I thought. it went something like this:scotth266 said:
1. Play video
2. Ten seconds in, forget which one is PS3 and which one is 360
3. About a minute in, make it full screen
4. Realise that things in the background are in fact a bit smudgier on the 360!
5. Shrug
God, this thread gave me a headache. John Funk makes an uninformed newspost, then 5000 sheep come and post "BURN THE FANBOYS" like they have any idea what the fans are angry about.Brotherofwill said:
Yes, FFXIII was butchered at some time during its production cycle. The freaking devs admitted it. There was a newspost here on the Escapist about it. They said, themselves, that the things they took out of the game were so many that they would have been enough to make a WHOLE OTHER game. So, FFXIII started off as a titanic super project that would melt people's faces. Then they announced that it was going multiplat. Then they removed half the game. Coincidence? Who knows? The facts are two though:
1) FFXIII is half the game that they initially intended for it to be.
2) Multiplatform testing and optimization requires a lot of time and money.
Those facts might be unrelated, sure. But some people see a connection there, and I sure as hell can't blame them. This is the reason why Final Fantasy fans are mad, not because of some weird random hatred for the 360 users eating their cookies. If I was in their place I wouldn't boo though. I just wouldn't be there. What the hell were they doing there anyway?
*scratches head* I don't get it... I really don't. Is the Final Fantasy franchise gaining a wider audience damaging them in some way? If anything they should be glad, after the absolute trite that was Final Fantasy 12, allowing more people to play means more feedback and less crappy games in future. Though I'd like to think FF13 learned from the mistakes of 12.
It has to do with the whole final fantasy (at least since VII anyways) belongs to Sony's console thing. Then there's the thing about the graphics as a lot of people think that having it on the 360 also caused the graphics to be lesser than what they believe they could be. I don't know, I'll be happy when I go to the games store in a bit and pick it up for my 360 'cause then I won't have to buy a PS3 as that to me would be like buying a $300 peripheral to play a game.Random Argument Man said:
Kinda. In terms of character it certainly has. All the party characters are involved this time, and whilst I quite liked the perspective of an uninvolved observer swept along for the ride, which was what Vaan and Penelo were in XII, I have to admit that as of 20 hours in the cast of FFXIII is much stronger. Even Snow is growing on me, and I thought he was a pillock at the start.SmartIdiot said:
Though it could just be that it has a man with a chicken in his 'fro.
I'm not sure whether the changes to world structure are entirely positive. FFXII is very open, and every area feels huge, whereas FFXIII doesn't even try and hide the fact that it's one straight line for the first 20-30 hours (depending on how fast you go). I hear it opens up later on, but the linear bit is, I think, too long and too linear. Even Eternal Sonata didn't feel this linear (though largely it was).
Let's not forget that if it wasn't for Sony SE wouldn't even be around after the Spirits Within fiasco. Granted Sony never forced SE to an exclusivity deal for backing them, but to say SE owes nothing to Sony is total crap.Goombanator said:
As for FF 11 well of course it did better for the 360 since Sony did absolutly nothing with the online capability for the PS2. Hell once the slim came out anyone who played FF11 on the PS2 had to find a used older model system since the slim had no room for the HD.
*update* Back on the main topic it seems that so many people on this forum seem to see this as Sony Fanboys lashing out, but in the Koalition's page they even said that it was all the FF fans so really it makes FF fans look bad rather then Sony fans.
All that booing was unnecessary. As people have said already, They could just accept it and sell it on, free stuff is free stuff.
I never pay attention to comparisons between platforms myself, unless there's a critical difference. There isn't here, and hasn't been in most cases, regardless of which way people swung on the issue. Therefore I am calling him out for calling the 360 version a bad one.Mornelithe said:
