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Darc Requiem on 19 October 2010
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thismeintiel said:
Carl2291 said:
Barozi said:

Looks just like FFXIII to me.

Also stop exaggerating so much. Everything from chapter 11 til the end of FXIII fitted on one disc. That's basically half the game (25 hours not even counting the side quests). And yes that's the non-linear part.
3 DVDs would be a good bet. Maaaaaybe 4.

We know that it was technically inferior because they were starting too late with the port and didn't have the time to do a proper job.

Maybe they're already porting Versus right now. If they do, we should see a better result this time around.

I disagree.

I'm not exaggerating anything at all really. And no, Gran Pulse isn't half of the game. And it's not even really that much of a big area... The area's it spans off onto are Linear as hell too... And the side quests again, aren't that big. An enemy spawns somewhere and you have to go kill it. Wooooo! That's making the game so much bigger!!! No.

Final Fantasy XIII was 3 discs. And the game was practically on-rails. Versus XIII has a FULL open map world. Towns. Shops. Airships. Blood! It's a far bigger project than XIII was. No offense, but you obviously haven't been reading up on the Versus XIII news... No way Versus would be on 3 discs if a 360 version was released. Not a chance, unless the version would be an even worse port than the FFXIII 360 copy...

Plus, those 3 discs had very compressed CGI cutscenes.  If they hadn't been so compressed, like on the PS3 version, than it probably would have required 4-5 discs.  The way Nomura puts it, it seems he is only making this for the PS3 so that it will be an optimized experience for his vision.  If there is a port, it will almost 100% be guaranteed that it will be handled by another SE team, or maybe even outsourced to an outside team.  This will definitely result in a worse port than FF13 turned out to be.

If FF13 really showed me anything, it's that it going multi-plat only divided the audience it formally had, as opposed to bringing in new gamers.  I mean according to VGC, FF13 has only sold 4.3 mil units (with Wiki saying it has shipped 5.75 mil).  Just going by shipment numbers, that's just on par with the previous installment that was only on the PS2.  It's also 2.2 mil less than what FF10 sold (according to VGC) on just the PS2, and that launched on a smaller install base.  With the extra time and money it must have cost to create the 360 port, it doesn't seem like it payed off.

No those discs had poorly compressed scenes. Not to mention the fact that the first two discs of the 360 version of FFXIII had 1GB of of unused space each. I'm not saying that VsXIII on 360 would be identical to the PS3 version but if Treyarch can port CoD4 to Wii, I think VsXIII can be ported to 360.