• Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC



    Final Fantasy XIII Will be available for your PC consumption on Oct 9th. What? It's going to be available on steam? Yes. Yes, it will.

    Currently the first game is slated to come out October 9th, 2014 while the others have not yet been set with exact dates but have received a "coming soon" from Square Enix. They stated they are aiming to have the other two, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, released by spring 2015. This could be a way to attempt to promote the March 2015 release of Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. As the Type-0 world is connected to the XIII lore and world.

    If you preorder it through steam you'll get the game 10%. The normal rate will be $15.99.

    Will you be purchasing this version?
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC? started by AaronSOLDIER View original post
    Comments 63 Comments
    1. Ergroilnin's Avatar
      Ergroilnin -
      To be honest, they won't. Every single PC port had their good share of problems and I knew that when I pre-purchased FFXIII but to not be even able to start the game with my high-end computer is bulltrout. It means they didn't even try to fix the most basic problems of the port. They just went the easiest possible way to get a lot of money.

      Surely you would be angry if you bought a cheap PC that you had to repair for it just to work even though it was advertised as fully working machine right?

      I am pretty angry about this, I am really only not making THAT much of a scene because I don't have time to really play the game much for the time being so I hope that they release patches in next two-three months so the game actually works without me having to use 3rd party programs just to play it.
    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage -
      works for me without any major tweaks. the port is ass, though.
    1. DMKA's Avatar
      DMKA -
      For those who want to beat the resolution lock...

      http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=624

      You can run it at any resolution you want if you install that bad boy and it looks AMAZING.

      Sadly my graphics card is crap so I can't run it at any reasonable resolution at more than 10fps.

      I would love to play the game in 1080p at 60fps so maybe I'll have to remedy that now.
    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage -
      Too bad the UI resolution still sucks, and there's no way to fix the dithered transparency on things like hair, except perhaps insanely inefficient supersampling. driver-based forced antialiasing will smoothen out everything else, but it won't fix the hair.

      The movies we are forced to download are also in 1080p even though there exists no official way to play the game in that resolution, so they're making us download ~15 GB that they don't intend us to get anything out of. What the smurf is wrong with you, SE? Get a grip. Not to mention, it's 15 GB on my HDD that I can't use for more interesting things.

      On the bright side, you can safely delete all the japanese version video files if you don't plan on using the japanese language option (or vice versa if you prefer japanese). The game won't notice, and you're saving space. In fact, the game doesn't even seem to notice even if you delete the videos it is set to use. The video is just skipped entirely, without any error message or any side effects. You'd never know there was supposed to be a video there, if it wasn't for the fact that you'd probably be confused over the game jumping from one thing to another with no explanation.
    1. DMKA's Avatar
      DMKA -
      Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
      The movies we are forced to download are also in 1080p even though there exists no official way to play the game in that resolution, so they're making us download ~15 GB that they don't intend us to get anything out of. What the smurf is wrong with you, SE? Get a grip. Not to mention, it's 15 GB on my HDD that I can't use for more interesting things.
      Yeah, Square has a long running history of crappy PC ports dating back to the PS1 era, and this is another lazy, shoddy port to be sure.

      But who knows? They're still porting the other two games so when they see all the negative feedback regarding these specs maybe they'll patch it themselves? Not that I'd hold my breath (again, this is an SE PC port we're talking about) but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
    1. Markus. D's Avatar
      Markus. D -
      i'm not surprised but ... it's a terrible impression on SE's part. they do it for their other published IPs, why not their main squeeze, right?
    1. Fox's Avatar
      Fox -
      As both a developer and publisher they've shown they now how to do a good PC version of a game. Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Final Fantasy XIV: ARR, all really good. The fact that they spent so little effort here is just so disappointing. I mean, resolution options are the basics of the basics.
    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage -
      None of those, except FF14, were developed by any of the people who work on final fantasy games. FF14 was developed with the PC in mind from day one, not as an afterthought port of a console game.

      I'd argue that outside of those who were into the design and programming of FF14, none of their in-house devs have any real understanding of what's expected from a PC game.
    1. Vyk's Avatar
      Vyk -
      Agreed. Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex and stuff were designed by the actual developers to run on PC. Square had little to do with that stuff

      Kinda sad though, it sounds like all they needed was ONE worthwhile IT/programmer dude on the team and things would have been peachy
    1. Markus. D's Avatar
      Markus. D -
      i just got a chance to play around with it. lightning's hair looks like oatmeal spaghetti, and her eyelashes were filled in with a cheeseblock of charcoal. that's ... incredible.
    1. DanielCLFFF13's Avatar
      DanielCLFFF13 -
      Quote Originally Posted by DMKA View Post
      For those who want to beat the resolution lock...

      http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=624

      You can run it at any resolution you want if you install that bad boy and it looks AMAZING.

      Sadly my graphics card is crap so I can't run it at any reasonable resolution at more than 10fps.

      I would love to play the game in 1080p at 60fps so maybe I'll have to remedy that now.
      How do you install it? I've downloaded it but I can't understand how it work. There are only some few settings in Final Fantasy XIII .ini file. What should I need to change in the value for make Final Fantasy XIII looks better? Or the current value should fit to make it better?
      Thanks
    1. Fynn's Avatar
      Fynn -
      Am I the only one who is simply satisfied I can finally play this game on my PC and can't even tell the difference between 1080p and 720p in practice?
    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage -
      You might want to consider glasses if you can't tell the difference between those two on a computer monitor at typical viewing distances. I am not even trying to make fun of you now.
    1. Fynn's Avatar
      Fynn -
      I do play with glasses on, actually

      All I'm saying is this port really isn't the disaster people are making it out to be. The resolution, to me, is not that big a difference, considering what we got is exactly how it looked on the XBOX 360. Remember the FFVII port way back? That thing needed five patches to run without crashing completely (and chocobo racing was completely broken on windows XP, anyway), the soundtrack was replaced with crappy MIDIs, the graphics looked weird, with everyone having these stupid O-faces, and the default keyboard setup was on the fricking num pad. FFXIII runs smoothly even on my low-end laptop, without bugs or crashes, the music is left intact and the instructions even display the proper gamepad or keyboard controls, unlike some vague info like "assisst button". I may just have low standards, as I'm no PC gamer, but I'm really satisfied with this port and fail to see why people call it such a huge disaster.
    1. Vyk's Avatar
      Vyk -
      I'm with you. I can tell the difference between 1080p and 720p, but the difference is generally negligible. And not nearly the difference that graphical fidelity offers. Playing Skyrim on Ultra, there's barely any difference in how the game looks between the two resolutions. But if you play it on Low, you can start to see the difference, things get stretched out, blurry, and jaggy/pixelated. I think texture resolution is way more noticeable and important than screen resolution
    1. Colonel Angus's Avatar
      Colonel Angus -
      1080 is a bigger deal when watching things like live sporting events. Anything else, 720 is good enough.
    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage -
      I dunno, i notice the difference much more easily in a game than in anything that involves the real world. Then again, it also greatly depends on the equipment the real world was captured with. Poor equipment will make 1080p look worse than what good equipment can do with 720p
    1. DanielCLFFF13's Avatar
      DanielCLFFF13 -
      I have bought Final Fantasy XIII on Steam. But have to wait until Monday to download it. Can't wait to play it
    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage -
      The same graphics options that will be available in FF13-2 are also coming to FF13, the official final fantasy facebook group just posted.
    1. Vyk's Avatar
      Vyk -
      Did they make 13-2 prettier I take it? That's cool that they're offering options across the board, especially since it sounded like they got super lazy with the first one
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