Retro FF13 “Might Even Have Been Worth Playing Like This!”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 30, 2014 16:25 JST
- Tags: Parody, Retro, RPG, Square Enix, Video Gallery
The tortured hopes of Final Fantasy fans have been dashed yet again, this time by a rather well-received SNES-styled “retro-spective” recap of the Final Fantasy XIII story released to help players make sense of the storyline of Lightning Returns.
The trailer:
It seems to have secured a somewhat more positive reaction than the original, at least:
“What the hell…”
“Shame it is just a PV recap.”
“I want it.”
“The 8-bit version looks more fun than the original.”
“It looks godly, if you just look at this!”
“I would actually have pre-ordered this…”
“Die Square Enix, die.”
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I wish the entire game was like this, it 'might' be worth playing then
So it's the graphics and sound that make the game bad? What about the crappy characters and BS plot? Kinda shallow to think it might be redeemable by appealing to the SNES generation, as if it were the limitations of the previous consoles that made the past games good.
Hold on, that guy is still right.
It isn't the SNES graphics that would have made this game better, it's better because they cut out the awful character interactions and dialogues.
Though one could argue that by proxy the limitations made developers to focus on more important things, instead of disregarding everything else to toss out more eyecandy.
But the pile of crap that is XIII is out already, so turning it into a SNES port won't do a thing.
No it was the gameplay that was horrible (at least for me).
FF stories are always convoluted or confusing, no point griping there. But turned based party combat was perfected with ABS, the auto pilot gameplay in 13 might as well been a movie given the degree of interaction most of the game required. And, while one long hallway may be forgiven in the 8-bit, 2 discs of nothing but hallway and cutscenes are unforgivable in modern gaming.
that comment alone proves that the billions of fans of video games in general who say: "why won't they innovate?" are just hypocrites.
Why do you think that anon put inverted comma's there?
Kids these days can't even tell the difference between 8-bit and 16-bit.
But it was 16-32bits the company began to make millions ..
Someone on the board said they should go back to the basics and start again ..
I think they overreacted .. Look on the bright side no one can complain the port of the game can get worse than that ..
music isn't 8bit ?
nope, faux-chiptune with midi parts, so still 16 bits (at least, i'm not very good at that)
@anon 23:43 yeah, more capable to be
but still the sprites are way advanced..
It isn't even FF6 quality, except for the sprites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDMWp1oLoA0
20 years have passed since it came out. I feel old like Cranky Kong.
@anon 22:49 so it's TurboGrax 16 graphics?!
is mixed 8-bit and 16bit...
some parts uses only 8bit Frequencies
Sometimes uses 16bit (most of times in battles)
Is easy to notice by the frequencies that are used.
But most parts of the video uses 8bit..
derpherp ff6 quality? is SNES chiptune man.
snes chiptune was known to be the first video game to have orquestral emulation of sounds in their console. in the video they used is completely differente type of genre, inclusively chiptune
First half was great, but what the hell, even they gave up trying to summarize the time travel stuff, lol..
More like both games were so bad that even their creators gave up trying to tell us what was supposed to be happening in them...
Just to show how crappy the FF13 franchise is. It's a game that you can summarize in 7 minutes.
You could summarize both VII and X too, does that make them bad games?
What are you smoking? FF7's plot is amazing. It was very complex, maybe you just didn't understand it.
Yes, it does, ffVII is kinda nice for the materia system. The story isnt anything great. ffX.... well HAHAHAHAHAHA... do i need to say more?
you can summarize anything in less than a minute
so to summarize, anything that can be quickly summarized is lame?
There is a site that summarize famous movies in 30 seconds... With bunnies!
Uh, let's just try to look at the bright side. At least we can expect to have an actual RPG gameplay rather than watching the game play itself like how it was in the original FF13
clearly I'm not buying this for the story
back to square one, but seriously lightning looks better like this hah
Last story has a very old school feel to it with modern graphics (what counts as amazing graphics on the wii). Its a lot more final fantasy than final fantasy. We can only hope last story gets a sequal on a decent console.
The stuff that they left out of this recap is exactly what makes FF13 an awful game and an awful movie. For every part in the game where you are not directly controlling the game, any actual information about what is happening takes up only a small fraction of the time and that's if they are revealing anything at all.
The rest of the time is spent doing stuff that that only apologists of FF13 can possibly care about. I don't need them to waste my time showing me 5 seconds of an emotion on someone's face, 30 seconds of snow being cool to the people who are about to die anyways, 10 seconds of Sazh talking to his tiny chocobo. Hope and Vanille are already the punching bags of criticism for the game.
You know how people say this is a good game once you get past the boring parts and get past all the horrible dialogue? Great idea, anything can be good if you just ignore what makes it bad. Enjoy your game that you will never convince people it's good.
You guys forget something - playing FFXIII like this would only make you aware of how substanceless it actually was. All the crap that made up the game was masked with pretty graphics.
13 Hallway
13-2 Hallway again with stupid time travel story.
13-3 Fuck it, where going to try and be monster hunter with zombie Lightning.
wHAT PLATFORM IS THIS ON?
Your mom's vagina after I destroy it with my penis.
FFVI MASTER RACE
FF13 have story?
The quote “The 8-bit version looks more fun than the original.” 10/10
FF13 have story?, i only remenbed who have a aphatic prota.
Meanwhile in somewhere:
Sakaguchi: Oh crap that shitt again?
https://www.change.org/petitions/sega-increase-the-number-of-pc-releases-segapcports
check it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rB9G2m0IVxA
i played ff13 and hated it, but this version looks awesome
if only suikoden v has the gameplay like suikoden ii......
I remembered S_E saying FF13 is the last of it's type, so I assume FF15 (AKA Versus AKA funny DMC FF Styled Game) will be the new type of FF ?
thank god I didn't buy PS3 or PS4 to play this crappy game.
More games like FF6/7/plot wise (with actual plot) and more battle system of X-2 (changing class mid-battle, but not able to use all classes mid-battle is a plus, and being able to die quickly even on higher levels because some of the attacks enemies use are gravity based (tear 1/4th of hp or 1/2 of hp with one hit when you have 9999 HP is painful)
Graphics is just a bonus in a game, we need good gameplay, story and NO MORE FEMALE SEPHIROTH! (AKA Lightning)
She's female Cloud actually, but yeah it's pathetic. All the names have become pathetic.
I wonder... was FF13 such a linear piece of crap, because electricity/lightning follows the path of least resistance ?
Square Enix really has no idea what the fans want, do they?
Take my money!
The 8-bit rendition of "My hands" is now playing on your head.
good, it saves up the time of playing that FF 13. so pretty much FF 13 in a nutshell can be explained in a less than 10 min video
i actually loved XIII and XIII-2 and look forward for LR.
Statistically speaking, it is possible you might find 1 to 2 people who enjoyed the game out of the billions on this planet.
huh wat lol