gamersreports.com— Here are a bunch of images from Final Fantasy XIII for the Playstation 3. These are fresh off the presses from Japan.
May 17, 2006View in Crawl 4
MGS3 is my favorite game this gen so I will defend it to the death.I cordially apologize on behalf on Konami that you don't appriciate excellent storytelling and human drama. The game is more slow-paced than the others, but far from plodding. Further, the torture scene is the first time any game has nearly moved me to tears, which is an incredible development in gaming. I felt every hit and cringed for Snake's safety. It was simply a masterpiece of acting, sound and timing.The story isn't "artsy," it's hard-hitting, relevant drama. Perhaps the politcos of war hold no interest for you, but the world would be a much better place if more did.Of course, you are also in the minority for hating it, which may be your intention.
I think you overestimate the complexity of your "augmented reality" from the Eyetoy. I haven't seen anything thats giving an emersive 3D world composited over actual physical space. Everything I've seen is just basically composited in 2D and the interaction is just as simple as motion detection in 2D, which last time I checked you could get your LEGO Mindstorm to do the same thing years ago. As for the FFstuff, Square hasn't shown me anything interesting in years. FF stories have just gotten repetitive and boring. No advances in gameplay or interation, only improved graphics. The graphics BTW look nice, *If those are REAL in-game shots. IMO almost all of those shots look like development/concept stuff or pre-rendered movie stuff. Give me an innovative new experience or way of interacting like Gears of War or Spore any time.
this constitutes eye candy for most ps2 gamers, does it?it's like time travelling back 5 years to the land before shaders... plus a majority of these screenies aren't in game. A majority of japanese game developers seem to be struggling with 'next gen' eye candy from what i've seen. I suspect square enix are still pre-rendering most of their cutscenes, for some bizarre reason.... (read laziness)
This game could be easily done on the 360. Might just happen too, at least for American audiences. Has happened before. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete was Saturn-exclusive in japan and PSone-exclusive for America."ut this has at least a "small" chance of coming out for the 360 (sony has a 30% interest in SquareSoft) so I can hope"This only applied to Squaresoft. They went bankrupt (mostly due to the FF:TSW movie), and Enix bought them. Enix owns 100% of Squaresoft. Sony has no stake in the now Square Enix company. Hence the friendly playing with Nintendo recently.
And it's a straight conversion, too. No graphical enhancements or anything. I don't see how FFXI is going to push any 360 sales. I don't begrudge the 360 owners the opportunity to buy it, and the new expansion pack looks freakin' awesome, but it is an OOOOOOooooold game in the grand scheme of things. I'd imagine that most people that were interested in it already have it.
mercatfatMay 17, 2006
MGS3 is my favorite game this gen so I will defend it to the death.I cordially apologize on behalf on Konami that you don't appriciate excellent storytelling and human drama. The game is more slow-paced than the others, but far from plodding. Further, the torture scene is the first time any game has nearly moved me to tears, which is an incredible development in gaming. I felt every hit and cringed for Snake's safety. It was simply a masterpiece of acting, sound and timing.The story isn't "artsy," it's hard-hitting, relevant drama. Perhaps the politcos of war hold no interest for you, but the world would be a much better place if more did.Of course, you are also in the minority for hating it, which may be your intention.
shaun944May 17, 2006
I think you overestimate the complexity of your "augmented reality" from the Eyetoy. I haven't seen anything thats giving an emersive 3D world composited over actual physical space. Everything I've seen is just basically composited in 2D and the interaction is just as simple as motion detection in 2D, which last time I checked you could get your LEGO Mindstorm to do the same thing years ago. As for the FFstuff, Square hasn't shown me anything interesting in years. FF stories have just gotten repetitive and boring. No advances in gameplay or interation, only improved graphics. The graphics BTW look nice, *If those are REAL in-game shots. IMO almost all of those shots look like development/concept stuff or pre-rendered movie stuff. Give me an innovative new experience or way of interacting like Gears of War or Spore any time.
jrbrewinMay 17, 2006
this constitutes eye candy for most ps2 gamers, does it?it's like time travelling back 5 years to the land before shaders... plus a majority of these screenies aren't in game. A majority of japanese game developers seem to be struggling with 'next gen' eye candy from what i've seen. I suspect square enix are still pre-rendering most of their cutscenes, for some bizarre reason.... (read laziness)
kotatsuMay 17, 2006
Nice target renders. If the game was really as advanced as these shots suggest, it would have been playable at E3.
millixawMay 18, 2006
This game could be easily done on the 360. Might just happen too, at least for American audiences. Has happened before. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete was Saturn-exclusive in japan and PSone-exclusive for America."ut this has at least a "small" chance of coming out for the 360 (sony has a 30% interest in SquareSoft) so I can hope"This only applied to Squaresoft. They went bankrupt (mostly due to the FF:TSW movie), and Enix bought them. Enix owns 100% of Squaresoft. Sony has no stake in the now Square Enix company. Hence the friendly playing with Nintendo recently.
Closed AccountMay 18, 2006
Excuse me, this game is going to be on the Xbox 360 aswell.
samduMay 18, 2006
And it's a straight conversion, too. No graphical enhancements or anything. I don't see how FFXI is going to push any 360 sales. I don't begrudge the 360 owners the opportunity to buy it, and the new expansion pack looks freakin' awesome, but it is an OOOOOOooooold game in the grand scheme of things. I'd imagine that most people that were interested in it already have it.