Final Fantasy XIII Features 9 Hours of Cutscenes

Eighty88Eight · Dec 18 2009, 02:34 PM

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...17_336540.html
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/200...cinema_scenes/

I know some of you are fascinated by FFXIII's development, check out those links for an in depth look at how they did the games 9 hours of cutscenes. Apologies if this has already been posted.

Daisuki · Dec 18 2009, 03:34 PM

Thanks, these 2 are very impressive (demo version vs. final version)

I'd like to see the game like this: FFVII style:

gamespy · Dec 18 2009, 04:04 PM

Thanks, fun read!

At first I was mistakenly thinking, "wow, 9 hours of (pre-rendered) cutscenes!" but the article clarifies that about 6 of the 9 hours are rendered with the game-engine. The workflow diagrams are interesting too.

monkeybananayum · Dec 18 2009, 04:42 PM

heck yeah! I love cutscenes. I was hoping FFXIII would not have a shorter story than something like MGS4.

9 hours is insane. Might be too many for some people, but not me! Especially with such beautiful graphics.

Thunder · Dec 18 2009, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by monkeybananayum

heck yeah! I love cutscenes. I was hoping FFXIII would not have a shorter story than something like MGS4.

9 hours is insane. Might be too many for some people, but not me! Especially with such beautiful graphics.

Final Fantasy Stories and their characters are my reasons for buying FFs. I don't care about the gameplay......When am I going to care about the gameplay?

When Versus releases I love RPGs-Action

Ixion · Dec 18 2009, 05:39 PM

y'know, 9 hours of cutscenes is more than enough run-time to make a movie. Srsly! Square Enix should REALLY consider making a whole lot more movies like FF Spirits within & Advent Children. I'm usually more interested in seeing CG Rendered characters in a movie instead of real people. CG graphics are better used as a movie IMO

Thunder · Dec 18 2009, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ixion

y'know, 9 hours of cutscenes is more than enough run-time to make a movie. Srsly! Square Enix should REALLY consider making a whole lot more movies like FF Spirits within & Advent Children. I'm usually more interested in seeing CG Rendered characters in a movie instead of real people. CG graphics are better used as a movie IMO

That's my dream you know

I totally agree with you!

Daisuki · Dec 18 2009, 07:03 PM

The in-game cutscene's from FFXIII would also look awesome in a movie. Even from the low-quality streams the great quality and details are gorgous. I can't wait to see this on my HDTV in a few months.

Yuna00 · Dec 18 2009, 09:22 PM

Great find! I really like these production info and all. I'll try and read later with more care, as my jap is not as good.

But it's amazing to know the game has 9 hours of cutscenes, and there's more pre-rendered stuff than Advent Children.

Once I beat the game I'll try to find a way to capture all of it so I can watch later as movie.

NotitsMan · Dec 18 2009, 10:21 PM

Except that The Spirits Within sucked. I think their storylines work better in games with the player controlling the characters, myself, but I wouldn't argue if they wanted to try some more movies.

Falsate · Dec 18 2009, 10:28 PM

Mmm.. going to like this then.

Black Mamba · Dec 18 2009, 10:57 PM

9 hours?? Wow... it's going to be longer than the MGS4 ones.

alex. · Dec 19 2009, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by monkeybananayum

9 hours is insane. Might be too many for some people, but not me! Especially with such beautiful girls.

fixed it for you

Strife212 · Dec 19 2009, 12:18 AM

This is the same amount as Xenosaga if anyone has played that

That game was a lot shorter than this though, so most of it was the scenes.

Ixion · Dec 19 2009, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Strife212

This is the same amount as Xenosaga if anyone has played that

I've played Xenosaga Episode III so I see what u mean

Infinite Fantasy · Dec 19 2009, 01:21 AM

That's it 9 hours?.......
Maybe I'm all mixed up but I thought most RPG's had more. like 20....

NotitsMan · Dec 19 2009, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Infinite Fantasy

That's it 9 hours?.......
Maybe I'm all mixed up but I thought most RPG's had more. like 20....

This is JUST in cutscenes. Not in gameplay, or exploring. Literally three long movies of pure cutscene. Awwww yeeeeah.

burentto · Dec 19 2009, 04:01 AM

Xenosaga's problem was that it was ALL cutscenes... and most of it was just them saying ridiculous stuff like "There's a code 7 in the sector 23, we have a 234.999 chance of probability that the U.T.I.C.Gnosis blahblahblah"...

The movies in FFXIII are atleast coherent and interesting

eirias7 · Dec 19 2009, 06:28 AM

^Haha, I laughed when I read the previous post. Although I enjoyed Xenosaga's storyline, that is true a lot of the time. I suppose confusing works for me.

Oh yeah, I am thrilled about the 9 hours for FFXIII. Woot!

Blackwing · Jan 04 2010, 12:48 AM

Are there really 9 hours of cutscenes altogether? Doesn't seem to be anywhere near it from what I've seen, more like 3 hours max.