I am aware the PS1 and PS2 FF games had FMVs. I'm just shocked this game has any. I would have though they would do the whole thing in-game. Heck, the trailers made it look that way.

32 GB means around 4 hours of 720p high quality video. In 1080p that would mean almost 3 hours, but i'm guessing the CGI is 720p in FFXIII.

I'm pretty cool with this, if we add the realtime cutscenes than we're definitelly looking at a pretty long and most likely incredibly well produced story.

Best news i heard all week ^_^ (too bad i already have a good deal on the 360 version...i hope the extra video compression will be acceptable though i'm definitelly expecting massive artefacts).

Hopefully they can get rid of the need for movies next generation entirely and just use in-engine cinematics. It'll definately save a lot of space and keep the costs from going any higher.

FF7 is your favorite game right?  (I thought so anyway.)

Final Fantasy 7 had the entire game on each disc.  ALL the monsters, locations skills, items, you name it.

The only difference on each CD was the cutscenes.

In reality, this kinda thing shouldn't surprise anybody.  I'd guess cutscenes took up the majority of ever Final Fantasy since then.  Except possibly 12... since 12 really didn't look much better cutscene wise then the in game engine.

"FF7 is your favorite game right?"

5th gen systems couldn't display scenes of that scale with appreciable quality.

I... don't get it.  He's complaining about the space of the cutscenes being more then the space of the game from what I can tell.

Which was the case starting with FF7.  FF7's cutscenes are the only reason the game couldn't fit on 1 disc.

I'm not trying to make this a JRPG / WRPG war, I'm a huge fan of both genres, I was just adressing the issue of what people were judging in FFXIII, nothing else. Almost every game now is filled with cutscenes and set pieces in which you don't have that much control, that was my point only >_<

Thank you very much sir. I was waiting for someone to state the obvious. FF has always had a lot of cutscenes and I've always thought they were awesome. IDK what changed among FF fans over the years that makes them complain now or maybe it really just the "others" complaining not the current FF fans. If you dont like the game, skip it for whatever reason you pull out your ass but please spare us the whining...geez.

Then the comment depends on if he is taking the older FFs into account or not.

Honestly the linearity ticks me off more. It makes it look as though the cut scenes were the point of the game instead of a draw like the other FF games.