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Blood_Tears on 19 December 2009

Final Fantasy XIII 360 Losing 15GB

Link : http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/12/19/final-fantasy-xiii-360-losing-15gb/

Final Fantasy XIII 360 Losing 15GB

Tags: Blu-ray, Final Fantasy, Ports, PS3, RPG, Xbox 360

Analysis of the content of the Blu-ray disc housing Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3 suggests some unpleasant compromises may be in store for the Xbox 360 version, in spite of assurances to the contrary and what many suspect to be reductions in graphical quality on the PS3 version in order to keep both versions identical.

The BD containing the game amounts to 38GB, whilst the Xbox 360 version has already been confirmed as being packed onto 3 DVD discs (offering an absolute maximum of 25GB or so).

Add to this the fact that each disc will have to duplicate key game resources and the amount of space available to the Xbox 360 version drops even further…

However, concerns over a crippled Xbox 360 version are misplaced – of the 38GB of data on the disc, only 8GB is game data, the rest being given over to sumptuous CG movies (see above), leading to the promise that the in-game elements will be “mostly” identical, whilst the movies simply enjoy far lower data rates to compensate, an admittedly dubious consolation.

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o187em on 19 December 2009

whats with all these in game cinemas? im getting sick and tired of watching 4-6 hours of in game cinemas and only getting 3-5 hours of in-game play. I know the story is an important part of the experience but come on i want to play my games not watch them.

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tedsteriscool on 19 December 2009

Well, not losing TOO much, at least not with the video. This of course is assuming their compression is as lossless as possible.

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huaxiong90 on 19 December 2009

o187em said:
whats with all these in game cinemas? im getting sick and tired of watching 4-6 hours of in game cinemas and only getting 3-5 hours of in-game play. I know the story is an important part of the experience but come on i want to play my games not watch them.

FFXIII is much longer than just 3-5 hours of gameplay.

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Pharaoh on 19 December 2009

o187em said:
whats with all these in game cinemas? im getting sick and tired of watching 4-6 hours of in game cinemas and only getting 3-5 hours of in-game play. I know the story is an important part of the experience but come on i want to play my games not watch them.

What's the problem with in game movies? Do you not like something resembling um a....story? This game will have as many hours of gameplay as you want it to. I know I will be spending 100+ hours on this. What's your problem with a story, character development, and plot? I guess you have never played a final fantasy game if you think you will only have 5 hours of gameplay. MGS4, had plenty of gameplay if you are trying to allude to that. And for fans of the series, and not someone playing MGS4 as their first game in the series(as were most of the people complaining about the cutscenes)...enjoyed the story as it tied everything together.

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Akvod on 19 December 2009

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Netyaroze on 19 December 2009

@o187em

4-6 hours cgi and 3-5 hours actual gameplay.

I know you are exaggarating. But you play normaly 50 hours atleast to finish the story. And most people try to solve everything so they can play easily 100 hours or more so its 5 hours Cgi and 100 hours gameplay. Or 5 hours Cgi and 150 hours gameplay or 5 hours CGI and 50 hours gameplay. The Cgi in FF is not as bad as it sounds. I never had a problem with it. Sometimes I was really looking forward to them because I played already 10 hours without seeing one and this can be refreshing.

The Cgi is an elemental thing in FF since FF 7 and its one of the few games where i like it actually a lot. Aslong if they make breaks between the Cgi the first hours of FF X was a to much CGI but then it suddenly stopped. CGI has to appear with the right spacing between the scenes.

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tedsteriscool on 19 December 2009

Oh, and @ the 25GB statement, 360 DVDs can only hold 6.8GB each, so it's actually closer to 20GB.

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theprof00 on 19 December 2009

o187em said:
whats with all these in game cinemas? im getting sick and tired of watching 4-6 hours of in game cinemas and only getting 3-5 hours of in-game play. I know the story is an important part of the experience but come on i want to play my games not watch them.

Never played FF?