Final Fantasy XIII

[The Dude]

I really want to rocket punch overdramatic fanboys.

[Sephiroth]

I love the whole dramatic fan war over Fianl Fantasy VI and Fianl Fantasy VII which is the best game and best Villan you just have to read what half of they say it's so funny.

[Gradon]

Final Fantasy 6 owns 7 and 8 anyway.
I can't wait for this game.

[Carnivol]

32gb FMVs, 1.5gb duplicate data, 260mb system update and 6.2gb of game
(In other words - The game could've likely fit on a single DVD, had it pulled everything off in realtime.)

[Vector]

I don't know much about data and gigabytage and stuff, but that seems like a lot.

Any word on what the install size is on PS3/if there is one? It better not be that 6.2gb I see...

[Carnivol]

Nah. No install as far as I've heard.

[Zombie Fred]

Looks like it could easily be done on three DVD9 Disks for the 360 version. Not bad at all.

[A-J]

If they're going to reduce CGI to 720p for the 360 conversion, that'll probably cut a big chunk of the space. 3 discs sounds reasonable enough

[Sephiroth]

Well I will addmit I've been whaching some live streams of XIII from what I've seen the game looks great the music at some points for me is alittle daf but apart from that there nothing I can complain about.

[Darinl1979]

If they're going to reduce CGI to 720p for the 360 conversion, that'll probably cut a big chunk of the space. 3 discs sounds reasonable enough

[Carnivol]

If they're going to reduce CGI to 720p for the 360 conversion, that'll probably cut a big chunk of the space. 3 discs sounds reasonable enough

I dunno what the audio codec is for general speech in the game, but assuming that they wont do something stupid and don't split locations around the discs, a general downconvertion of the FMVs to 720p, ditching LPCM tracks and settling with standard XDK WMA for both FMVs and speech... to then make sure no speech repeats itself across discs unless needed (so story progression controls disc swaps)

3 should indeed be the magical number... at maximum. (Though, I bet it technically should be doable on 2, but that'd probably just look bad to them that their "massive" game only needs two discs.)

[A-J]

A 50 hour JRPG like Tales of Vesperia was do-able in a single disc. Square Enix relies way too much on CGI.

[capcom-fan]

For a Final Fantasy last boss, it's going to be pretty hard to top sephiroth.
Every Final Boss after Sephiroth has been pretty lame.

Final Fantasy XIII is going to have changes that we all must come to eccept.
In my opinion there has never been a bad Final Fantasy game, so don't be worried how XIII will turn out. Also this is Square Enix we are talking about, the kings of RPGs.

I am hyped for March 9th, cause this is probly the most wanted title for the PS3.

[I_Am_Nemesis]

I've never played a final fantasy game before because I dot like the style of gameplay they have. How e er the story has always interested me and the story to final fantasy XIII is lookig pretty damn good so I've decided to give it a try when it comes out. I just want to know if I need to play any of the older games before playing this one (I know you might not know for sure as it hasn't been released yet but if any one has any ideas about this I'd apreciate the info) innorder to understand this game?

[BadWolfX]

You won't have to play any others, although I advise you do because, for the most part, they're very good games.

Each one is a stand alone (with the obvious exception of the odd direct sequel) so you'll have no problem following the storyline.