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General Discussion / Re: final verdict on ff13 and other games?

« on: 2010-03-29 18:43:58 »

I think the reason of why since after FFX the reason the story aint so good anymore is because they are pretty much lost their way. What their "old fanbase" wants. So instead of a great story/gameplay they give us "eye-candy" 

What they need to do. Is go back all the way, to how they did in FF6-FF7. And start priortizing what should be most important. Story-gameplay-"eye-candy" If they manage to do that in Final Fantasy XIII Versus. Then its gonna be the best FF ever done since ff7 

It may well be the best, but it will be a critical and commercial failure because, even though they won't admit it, most people do judge games mainly by their graphics. If a hyped game for the PS3 came out today looking like FF7, it would be laughed at mercilessly and lambasted by everyone, even if it were the best game ever.

your case and point is well illustrated by "Sacred 2 Fallen angel"..great game...yet bad graphically... ended up floping on the reveiws and in stores

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Gameplay / Re: Final Fantasy VIII Phoenix Rebirth Project, FF8 for PC like never before!

« on: 2010-03-29 17:05:03 »

either way i would love to see this happen...how ever it gets done...even tho i couldnt help if i wanted to...

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General Discussion / Re: final verdict on ff13 and other games?

« on: 2010-03-29 17:02:02 »

Well the answer to that is clear.  You simply keep with decent graphics but not overthetop and you direct the effort to story and gameplay.  They had people working on 1 rock for 3 days.  That isn't a good use of time or money.

problem with that is its not economically viable because they wont get the monetary return they need to make a next game... with the way games get more and more realistic or complex people want to see graphical improvements in every installment...expecialy if there playing it on a new system.  what were seeing is like the darwin effect...as some things improve ...others will die out...if we want quality, sooner than later the number of total games produced will vastly drop...

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Troubleshooting / Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8 [v.1-.7.6]

« on: 2010-03-29 16:38:38 »

oh okay!...thanks for your help anyways! im gonna go have a look see how far they have gotten with that...sounds very interesting!~

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Troubleshooting / Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8 [v.1-.7.6]

« on: 2010-03-29 16:26:08 »

Downloaded versions of the game are not supported.

oh i just meant i downloaded aalis driver?

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General Discussion / Re: final verdict on ff13 and other games?

« on: 2010-03-29 16:02:56 »

this may be slightly off topic..but i think its relevent...

books/novels/storys=art

drawing/painting/sculpting=art

music=art....

thus...video games in there own right ...are an art...

the quality of the graphics in ffxiii is undoubtedly superb..(even if they spent 3 days on a rock) and even though it is told mainly through cut scenes...the story is much better than most movies t.v shows or drama's...and even the music is quite catchy (its not like its something i would put in while driving to moms on Sunday but...well you know, its good for what its for)

i think the big issue is...competition...the sad part about the gaming industry today is its consumer base...we don't want a new game that looks like it was put out on ps2 and if it does... our first impressions at the store or while watching/reading reviews are definitely negatively altered....thus square had to pay attention to this...they cant get away with it now because of the standard they have previously set with games like X...we now want to see lips purse brows furrow and facial hair scruff all in H.D...im no programmer...but im sure it takes time and money from the over all budget to do this...

fast forward to my actual point

if we want a good final fantasy game...it will take..the amount of time it took to render the graphics for this game + the time it takes to make a quality gaming system like FF7 ,8,9 ....meaning it will cost that much more. my assumption is the economical factors that surround the creation of a game have turned the industry into a more broth less noodles type of set up.....pump as many games out as you can on time and you make money...make one good game for 6 years...you go broke...i just don't think they got the money to provide the time to make these games anymore..and us consumers wont let them have it unless they give us our eye candy, its a vicious circle....its greed...its the downfall of humanity when you look at it...its capitalism.

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Troubleshooting / Custom graphics driver for FF7/FF8 [v.1-.7.6]

« on: 2010-03-29 15:33:50 »

hey guys!

so i got this downloaded and installed(ff8)....Ive opened up my resolution to my w.s.monitors native of 1366 768...now Ive noticed that things are a little more pixelated (backgrounds, f.m.v) and also the opening sequence repetes the square logo instead of the slide show...the last problem i can deal with...but was just wondering if you guys know how to spice up them pixels make em look nice n crisp?...im not a programmer ..but i follow instructions well so please let me know!!...p.s ive tried magixs launcher 1.31 ...it didnt seem to work, i had a problem with the display not being centerd in full screen..

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Troubleshooting / Re: Help!FFVIII launcher 1.31

« on: 2010-03-28 15:58:14 »

hrmmm...greatly appreciated!...im gonna go find that and let you know what happens!...
..
....(20 mins later)>>>

soooo i got it installed and displaying my native res of 1366x768...
i figured out that i had to turn off maintain aspect ratio...
now...ive noticed some clipping and pixilation...should this just be expected with the higher res...or am i missing something?...
..

either way...youve reeeeelly reeeely helped me out man...kudos to you dude...

and the programmer of this patch/mod/upgrade

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Your favorite Final Fantasy game and why.

« on: 2010-03-28 13:58:14 »

VII, definitely. Storyline, yadda yadda. Most of you get it. I'll never forget the feeling it gave me the first time I played it. The music is fantastic also. I really think that the music in Final Fantasy is phenomenal (at least Nobuo Uematsu's, anyone else pales in comparison).

I think VII, VIII and IX are the strongest musically. He was definitely at his peak here (in my opinion).

I don't understand people that give up on a Final Fantasy while they're playing it. The only time I've ever been tempted to is during XII (because the storyline is baws) but I persevered. I do have a life, it's just that when a new FF game comes out the life disappears until I've completed it.

I finished XIII about an hour ago. Not as bad as I thought it would be but definitely shaky in some areas. Music sucks a bit. Like XII.

oookay...so bout the music in XIII ...there is this one theme ...its either just before or right at chapter 4...it has a jungle core beat and some female vocals singing over top...its such a good song man!..definitely saved the overall score of music in the game for me...i was like you thinking it sucked at first...does anyone know what its called or where i can get a copy of the music in the game?

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General Discussion / Re: final verdict on ff13 and other games?

« on: 2010-03-28 03:57:48 »

FF13 was kinda a let down IMO the games music was poor, you can only control one person at a time in the battle system & not to mention the game was extremely linear

cant agree with the music part...im a musician myself and ive been enjoying the tunes quite a bit!...and the battle system is cool man! but you gotta switch up your paradigms alot to get the full effect!..either way to each there own!

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Troubleshooting / Help!FFVIII launcher 1.31

« on: 2010-03-28 03:49:15 »

Hi
Ive installed ff8 and i got the patch 1.2 and now i put magixts launcher 1.31 (I also got that configuration tool from the enhancement thread)

i went to put my resolution at my laps native widescreen and what happens is the eddios logo will play correctly but everything after that is awkwardly positond to the top left of my screen...the screen is filled..but the movie or menu that is displayed is up left of the screen..

i tried other resolutions ...some 4:3 ones that my computer supports...the thing is they do the same thing but in a smaller box...

im not too tech savvy but i can follow instructions well...

please let me know if you can help...or even if its simply pointless...im sure i can just get a epsxe version that runs in a higher res no?

anyways your help would be EXTREMELY  appreciated...as im running out of rental time on FFXIII and soon i will have nothing to play!

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Your favorite Final Fantasy game and why.

« on: 2010-03-27 22:36:19 »

My fav is VIII simply because it was the first real rpg game i ever played... Im playing xIII right now and its actually pretty good...just takes a while to get a good thick game play system going.

I realy want to go back and play VIII but i cant seem to get my Launcher 1.31 to display properly...i had a question in
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=7248.0 for a few days but haven't gotten a reply...hopefully this will help get it noticed!

and for my quick FFVII input...i want to play it again...got to disk3 n quit because summer break was over...how far has the community gotten with the graphic modding? ...whats a good thread to catch up on that?

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF8 Launcher - Custom resolutions and 8-bit paletted textures fix (patch)

« on: 2010-03-26 21:11:46 »

Hey guys this is my first post on this Forum

so i got the launcher downloaded...i set it to be the same as my native desktop resolution...and now the game will play a nice properly formatted edios start up screen but after that when the squarsoft logo comes on its position weirdly to the top left...the rest of my screen is black...its making me go nuts i tried lowering the resolution to a non w/s  and it does the same thing just in a more narrow field of the screen...Ive been playing with it for a bout 2 hours and have gone through this forum quite a bit...i am getting dizzy with scrolling through other peoples questions so i thought id post ...

PLEAAAAAAASE SOME ONE HELP ME!...this was my favorite game as a kid and i cant afford to get XIII so i wanted to relive some memories

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