ugh.. FF stopped being fun after FF VII. Now it feels more like a job to play. Now that i think about it, its like a console version of WoW.
Final Fantasy XIII Demo is Enormous
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Just call it intermissions as do you whine when adds are on when watching a movie then just as getting to good bit adds come on? Only happen about 4 times 4 times in a 72+ hour game, and they always swap at end of a critical section what is usually time get up and get a drink then carry on. Square Enix a lot of practice with multiple disks so I doubt will screw up immersion.Onmi said:
Saying that no plans to get the game hate jrpg's as are just interactive movies what afraid the player might cramp its style and remove all the cool bits from the users hands leaving them to fight measly foes not worth the cool finishing moves of the boss battles, or weakening the bosses off the for the highly stylish finishing move. And seen movies with better plots half the time anyway
"Hey, Marty, when did you get this compilation of every Final Fantasy game ever made?"
"Lol, noob, that is teh ausomeness of FFXIII!"
"Lol, noob, that is teh ausomeness of FFXIII!"
You mean watch it?Indigo_Dingo said:If he was tied to a chair how would he play it?Catkid906 said:But what if let's say there was no proof of the escapist actually having anything to do with Tying Yahtzee to a chair? It would be worth it.CantFaketheFunk said:He might be based in Australia, but we're in the US, and the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.Indigo_Dingo said:
If a software entity like Skynet ever becomes reality it will probably have a birth scream to rival that of Slaanesh at the moment of it's sentience emerging due to the amount of unwarranted fanboy stupidity it will encounter at near light speed as it absorbs the entire internet. Each and every nuke that falls on a major city will be because of barely literate twelve year olds who are unable to accept that more than one console exists.
C'est la vie. Not that much of an issue, really. If they reduce graphics, no real biggie - I'm so used to my greys having too much colour might kill me anyway, or extra disks, I'm sure I'll live.
Although, the Xbox's smaller disks seem to mainly fail it in the realm of JRPGs or similar - I swear with that much story telling MGS4 counts - and frankly that's really not what the core demographic of the Xbox is interested in, let's be honest. If the console I got for action games gets the lengthier JRPGs too, I'm grateful, even if they are less pretty or convenient than the PS3.
Also, I find it amusing that people heap scorn on the continuing fascination with graphics, yet the moment something like this happens the graphics are suddenly the most important thing in the universe.
Although, the Xbox's smaller disks seem to mainly fail it in the realm of JRPGs or similar - I swear with that much story telling MGS4 counts - and frankly that's really not what the core demographic of the Xbox is interested in, let's be honest. If the console I got for action games gets the lengthier JRPGs too, I'm grateful, even if they are less pretty or convenient than the PS3.
Also, I find it amusing that people heap scorn on the continuing fascination with graphics, yet the moment something like this happens the graphics are suddenly the most important thing in the universe.
Can anyone confirm if it's a second disc they packaged with Final Fantasy: Advent Children Complete or is it included on the same disc? If it's seperate disc I wouldn't be surprised if they said "bugger all" to compressing it at all, hense the larger then average file size.
I never really minded it, but once every 10 hours was not always the case. Often times some of the old multiple disk RPGs that weren't a straight linear railroad to a conclusion, would break up their content into areas. So moving from one zone to another would force a disc change as would going back to where you just were.D_987 said:
Look, the reason why people complain about changing and having multiple disks is that we've already grown, technologically, past that phase.D_987 said:
I'll agree with you somewhat that it's just 10 or so seconds of time wasted, but maybe that's 10 seconds to many? Why do I have to give up my play time just because the developer was too lazy to compress enough or take out some debatable unnecessary things? I shouldn't have to get out of my enjoyment of something just because I have to do an admittedly minuscule thing that shouldn't be there in the first place.
Imagine during a movie, you're watching the movie and halfway through it stops and the film operator has to look for the next part of it, put it in, then continue on taking at most 1 minute to switch. What the hell is that? I understand that that was probably the case when movies were just starting, but there is no reason for that now as we've gone past that technological barrier. Everyone would be thinking "What the hell? They couldn't just cut some scenes out to fit on one role of film?" and the ratings would go down. You shouldn't have to lose even partial enjoyment because the makers of the movie too ambitious with their film. Sure, they've put a lot of work into it, and that's great, but if it's that much then make a sequel with those scenes.
Games have gone past the barrier of having multiple disks, or at least they should have as Lost Odyssey and others have proved otherwise. Now, I get it, games are very different from movies in that they can utilize the disk space much more effectively by putting a bunch of content in there. That's why I am willing to accept a game having 2 disks, and at a very far stretch 3, but 4 is just overkill I think.
It's really the principle of the matter, it's a minor inconvenience that really shouldn't be there in the first place. Do you really want to have to switch disks? Of course not, nobody wants to switch in between disks just to continue a game. Nobody wants to get up, open the disk tray, take out the disk, put in the new one, close it, and start playing again. Some people don't mind and they live on. Some people absolutely hate it and say "What the hell, I'm your customer, why are you doing this to me?".
I'm willing to say, "Okay, it's not that bad but it's still pretty stupid" because as long as new format comes out with more space, developers are going to want to maximize their content, but multi-disking shouldn't be an issue to begin with. It doesn't help that matter that MGS4 even mocked the idea of having a disc 2 (I literally panicked when that scene happened XD).
One thing I don't like about switching disks, though, is the broadening silence of it after you stop playing. Like, after a huge action scene it says "Please insert disk two" and it's just silence after that. You open the disk tray and hear it go out, clank the disk out, pop the case open, clank the other disk in, close the tray......and it's all silence during that period. It completely kills the mood of the game with just..............silence. That's just a weird thing I've noticed about it anyway, and now I'm ranting, so sorry.
EDIT: And wow, I just realized how much I posted. I'm in a ranty mood today, eh?
Well provided the PS3 version is not scaled down, Square has just given me enough reason to buy a PS3. I should congratulate them.
