Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums > Final Fantasy: The Smell of Fear > Final Fantasy XIII > Turns out the 360 really did compromise the PS3 version

[Zaskull]

Originally Posted by Balthier Rocks ^

Ps2? Thats a step to far to change a annoying bit about the game.

Thats a Step BACK in my opinion.

God, Screw the damn 360, just because it can't keep up with the PS3, don't saw the PS3's leg off to balence the damn scales.

GRRR.

/Agree. The Xbox 360 is holding this game back, and because of it's release on the system instead on the PS3 exclusively, FFXIII won't be as good as it could've been. Really sad, actually.

There's always FFvXIII, I suppose.

[Shiny]

To be honest, I think the series itself has been a downgrade since X-2. I wouldn't have bothered using extra features like the Japanese voices with English subtitles because it would take away from the visual experience of the game. As a result, I'm probably going to go ahead and get the version for 360 and then sell it because I don't have much hope for it being good enough to keep. I would much rather have it on a console like PS2 because buying a PS3 is really pointless to me, but whatcha gonna do.

[Wolf Kanno]

It is kinda sad, I think Agito is the only entry in the XIII project that actually intrigues me. I can't honestly say this info surprised me nor does it really bother me as I had little hope for XIII as it stands. I'm beginning to look even less forward to FFvXIII.

[Moon Rabbits]

Originally Posted by Shiny ^

To be honest, I think the series itself has been a downgrade since X-2.

Uh, what???

As for the topic - I don't care! I have a 360 and lack a PS3, so everything's still hunky dorey.

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Well this is what happens when money becomes more important.

And if this was about money, they would make the games different so that there would be a reason to buy both. Personally, I think they should go ahead and make the PS3 version more expansive ... I don't see why it's that big of a deal.

[Wolf Kanno]

They are trying to be fair. If you make one seem a little extra shiny (even if the other has its own unique shininess) both sides will call fowl. Fans are stupid and hardly know what they want. Just listening to people bitch about SolCal exclusive stuff and DLC content for newer games is more than enough for me to understand why marketing says they shouldn't go this route. Though to be honest they are in a "damn if you do, damn if you don't" situation, as we see now the results of trying to keep it fair.

The problem is just trying not to alienate one group from the other but I'm sure this news will have PS3 fans calling for a boycott of XIII.

[Jiro]

That's one cruel joke. It should have stayed a PS3 exclusive if this was going to happen. I was happy when it was announced on the 360 because I couldn't/can't afford a PS3, but now I don't even want to play it because I know it should have been better.

This is stupid. People are going to be furious. If a boycott does happen, it's going to cause a bit of a dent to SE's back pocket.

[VeloZer0]

Have boycotts actually ever successfully been pulled of for stupid stuff like this? I always hear people whining about them, but doesn't it always end with everyone just caving and buying it anyways?

If you look at what he said, it doesn't even look like that much of a change. 'Some areas will not be able to be accessed at all times' doesn't seem like a groundbreaking design constraint. I own a PS3 and no 360, so the situation is less than ideal for me, but when I read that the first thing I thought was 'oh, that kind of sucks but that's life'. The sense of entitlement amongst the gaming community is truly ludicrous.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

So, you won't be able to play the Japanese voice track. That's to be expected; most games don't give you this option.

Other than that, there'll be disc-specific side-quests, and you might not have access to all locations at the end of the game. I didn't have a problem with the former limitation in the PS1 games (and even single-disc games manage to lock out certain side-quests before or after certain points, anyway); the latter was annoying in FFIX, but it didn't break the game or anything. And I doubt the situation will be as severe as FFVIII, where everything was locked out. So, it's probably forgivable.

I'm not sure I see the cause for outrage, here.