{"id":2017,"date":"2010-02-16T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/16\/ffxiii-sucks-on-the-360\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T20:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T01:37:37","slug":"ffxiii-sucks-on-the-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/16\/ffxiii-sucks-on-the-360\/","title":{"rendered":"FFXIII Sucks on the 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, not really, but as I said earlier today, just for the hell of it I will fan the flames.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowgamer.com\/news\/2526\/ffxiii-significantly-poorer-on-xbox\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nowgamer.com\/news\/2526\/ffxiii-significantly-poorer-on-xbox', 'NOWGamer');\" target=\"_blank\">NOWGamer<\/a>, some sacrifices had to be made in order to accommodate this game on the 360:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* While facial detail appears largely unchanged, the characters\u2019 clothes appear at first glance to be lacking finer details, with notably lower resolution textures.<br \/>\n* Incidental environmental objects and enemies appear less detailed, both in texture and geometry.<br \/>\n* The game\u2019s CG is extremely compressed and pales alongside the stunning HD goodness which blu-ray offers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be a travesty if 360 gamers had to experience less detailed incidental environmental objects.  You have been warned!  Now go have a cold one and celebrate the goodness of Blu-ray.  It is calling your name, even if Sony is not allowed to advertise how much goodness awaits your cotton candy, graphic whoring FFXIII pleasure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, not really, but as I said earlier today, just for the hell of it I will fan the flames. According to NOWGamer, some sacrifices had to be made in order to accommodate this game on the 360: * While facial detail appears largely unchanged, the characters\u2019 clothes appear at first glance to be lacking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/16\/ffxiii-sucks-on-the-360\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FFXIII Sucks on the 360<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,22,11],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-14","tag-final-fantasy","tag-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}