The reason why FF IX didn't have the same level of "polish" is because it came out much later.
I know exactly what you mean. Alexandria did feel more lively and immersive than Midgar City. Although one could say it was because FF VII is a much darker game than FF IX.
A trend I noticed:
Final Fantasy VI - Most people who put this as #1 are those who began Final Fantasy from the SNES era and have a huge liking to the old traditional pixel graphics with textures on a 2D background.
Final Fantasy VII - Most people who put this as #1 are those who began Final Fantasy from the PS1 era and have a huge liking to the pre-rendered backgrounds with 3d models and 3d navigation.
The stories in FFVI and FFVII were ver...
Agreed, HL2 till this date remains as one of the prettiest games ever.
This looks amazing. The gameplay almost feels like an evolution of Crisis Core. The combat is much quicker, and there's a party of 3 characters. You can control your summons and you can use magic very easily. There's a world map and you can control an airship.
This looks to put FF13 to shame. Now I'm wondering when this will make it to the West. It's to be released in a few months in Japan. Hopefully, a western release date will be revealed this E3.
Misogynists or trolls.
I can't tell!
Unfortunately the franchise is owned by Microsoft. So it will only be on the Xbox 360.
Champion's League is watched by almost every single football loving (soccer) country in the world.
It would be weird if it wasn't bigger.
lol at you naive little n4g users arguing.
You guys have no idea how difficult it is to bypass software security made by some of the most powerful and smartest firms on this planet.
To call them kids only reflects on yourself really. There are definitely loads of 13 year olds who try to hang around the anonymous crowd because it sounds cool to them. They may probably be responsible for DDoS attacks too but did you know that to do a DDoS attack you just downlo...
Actually I heard that if they re-flash their drives again, it will work. The dashboard update only flashes the drive once.
Also, apparently, the infamous creator of the 360 CFW, c4eva, is planning to release a new version that combats this.
Yep! Although I must admit the battle and boss tunes of FF13 are kinda decent.
Wow! Can it be?! A comment about Raiden that doesn't contain the ramblings of a kid that's jumped on the Hate-Raiden Bandwagon!
As repeated countless times before.
Metal Gear Solid does not stand for Solid Snake.
The "solid" stood for the jump from 2D to 3D.
That's why it's called Metal Gear Solid Rising.
To correct you:
Used Games: One sale
Rent: Licensing Fee
Pirate: One sale.
The copy that was uploaded online to be pirated was due to "one sale." Someone had to buy the original before he uploads it. So it's the same thing really. A used game can be bought then sold over and over without the developers making any profit of it which is the same as piracy to them.
A lot of devs see second hand sales as worse for th...
Any info of when and if this is going to be released in the west?
Heh, I challenge you with this!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
and this!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Both story and gameplay was terrible.
They both have potential as movies. Interesting.
Yeah it loads faster but that doesn't say it was slow to begin with.
I always install my games on my xbox because it reduces the duration to like 1-2 seconds.
To be honest, it's not MS's fault because they released 360 in 2005, almost 6 years ago, a year before HD DVD and Blu-ray came out so it's not like they can do anything about it.
While it lacked a proper world map and was very linear but it still had very fun gameplay and a very interesting story. The voiced cutscenes added to both story progression and character development as well as the melodrama that was already present due to the fabulous soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu.