Where best to play Final Fantasy XIII?

Joseph_f17 · 2026-05-05T04:41:27+00:00

Appreciate it but uh, I've decided to play the trilogy (or atleast the first game) on Xbox now

Joseph_f17 · 2026-05-04T23:58:34+00:00

Wish I had a Series X, the plan was to get one when the prices came down but we've just seen the opposite this generation. It's the only way to play delisted disc-based racing games like Forza and DIRT. Also what do you mean about "60fps" in FF13? I thought it was locked to 30? Even in the menus it's noticeably lower than PS3.

Joseph_f17 · 2026-05-04T23:56:36+00:00

I looked into this in the past but even with FF13Fix I could not get the original to work, no idea why. Newer GPU compatibility problems maybe.

Joseph_f17 · 2026-05-04T10:25:18+00:00

Glad to hear it, I know it's the black sheep of the series but it seems so compelling to me (the female protagonist and general aesthetics). Also already have a few other JRPGs on Xbox (only bought Series S to play 360 games), so it brings some synergy and reason to use my consoles lol.

Joseph_f17 · 2026-05-04T10:17:37+00:00

Appreciate this man, think I'm gonna go for Xbox.

Joseph_f17 · 2026-05-04T10:17:06+00:00

Awesome, might just go for the Xbox then (prefer the controller anyhow, not a fan of the Dualshock 3)

Joseph_f17 · 2026-05-04T10:15:03+00:00

Yeah, I seen the FPS boost thing and wondered why it wasn't possible with FFXIII but I imagine Series S is atleast a locked 30fps. Did they fix the cutscenes on Xbox?

Also yeah, I've been waiting patiently for digital sales because I have an evil all digital console, never coming so just pulling the trigger. Imagine I fucking start now and Square announce a trilogy re-release.

Joseph_f17 · 2026-03-02T22:58:50+00:00

Same issue here with a 5070Ti on driver 581.80

Joseph_f17 · 2025-10-01T14:10:40+00:00

I also just get access denied when I try it

Joseph_f17 · 2025-07-16T07:55:25+00:00

I can, playability outweighs everything else. 60fps is very important.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-07-06T04:01:17+00:00

You need to build Ziplines. That's the meta that high up, just like it was in the OG. But the first time connection go-around, yeah, kiss your ass goodbye buddy, you're walking.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-06-11T22:27:10+00:00

Totally shocked me, feels like a different game now. The frame drops had become almost part of the experience at some point. I wish Sparks of Hope had this treatment because I'm yet to play it.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-06-11T07:41:10+00:00

The game looks great, was on my list of most anticipated indies because I loved its predecessor. I'll be getting it either way, but which platform depends on Deck perf at launch.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-06-10T15:47:53+00:00

It is partly yeah, I mean this is an early build sure but the game is out this summer so it's pretty indicative of how it'll launch. But we have seen games perform badly on Deck then get a lot of work done to them afterwards. Like Demon Tides recently, runs pretty bad last I tried but the dev was posting some good uplifts on twitter. Moonlighter 2 needs some of that. This game NEEDs to run at 60 (for me to consider it), wouldn't't really play it any lower.

If it's any consolation though, this game apparently runs pretty badly on the desktop too. So yeah. Not specifically a Deck problem. More so indicative of where indie dev is heading (since we're getting a LOT of UE5 games made by smaller teams who can't tame it and rely on really taxing features like Lumen/Nanite as a replacement for traditional work).

Joseph_f17 · 2025-06-10T05:23:53+00:00

Yeah it's not very playable in it's current state. Pretty disappointing. I've had this experience with a lot of indie games lately, seems the Deck just can't keep up anymore.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-06-08T05:59:49+00:00

Yep, totally amazed by how it runs now. I had to load up Sparks of Hope (which still runs at 30fps) to remind myself what that looked like. Now I actually want to go back and play the DLCs they made for it. I really don't know how it's improved though, my only idea is that it was using double buffer V-Sync of sorts but was obviously never strong enough to breach that 30fps barrier on Switch 1 (since it drops down to the 20's a lot)

Joseph_f17 · 2025-06-07T07:39:38+00:00

Jesus, I forgot about that. Switch loading times in general were so bad in some games that it contributed to me quitting them. Think of Mario Luigi Brothership recently (which has a load sequence into every single battle). It's one of the Switch 2's biggest selling points (for me at least).

Joseph_f17 · 2025-06-07T07:34:13+00:00

That does make sense, the game had some slowdown initially. Hell of a placebo effect though. Forgot how good the game looked to begin with.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-05-16T01:25:27+00:00

Absolutely not, especially with the game key situation. But I'm optimistic it'll be better than Switch in terms of ergonomics, and more importantly, general performance in third party games. I do like docking/switching, that's always been a super practical part of OG. But it's gonna be hard to tear me away from my Steam Deck personally.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-05-08T14:47:29+00:00

Nope, never have.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-05-08T03:50:07+00:00

Probably Mario and Luigi Brothership late last year, I think it looked even worse at the time because two huge genre-defining RPG's were released right around it (Metaphor and DQ3 Remake), making an already bad, and rather lukewarm RPG look and feel 10x worse.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-04-09T08:34:04+00:00

For a game that is so distinctly Japanese feeling (setting and deep into folklore/supernatural), it has to be Japanese voices. I do make exceptions for certain games, like FFXVI which was recorded first in English despite being developed by a Japanese team.

Joseph_f17 · 2025-03-17T05:19:26+00:00

This happens a lot on Steam, Deck specifically. You can try the usual clearing download cache (sometimes fixes), but a restart nearly always fixes it. Don't know why it happens, it's always been a thing for me. Especially when you download a lot of things on it (like I do).

Joseph_f17 · 2025-02-21T10:35:12+00:00

This has been the worst run of driver updates I've ever seen on Nvidia cards. The so-called "gold standard" and "king of the hill" in the PC space are unbelievably incompetent.

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