Is it just me or does XII-2 look worse than XII?

[ZoroDaOtter]

Title. Am I imagining things or does this game look worse than its predecessor?

[Ryrin]

The XIII series got progressively worse looking as it went on. Oddly enough it also had progressively worse performance as it went on too. Consequences of a shrinking budget, I suppose.

Some of the textures in Lightning Returns are just dreadful.

[Rockon]

It may have had something to do with XIII-2's more open level design. More space to fill in with detail can have an impact on performance.

[Ryrin]

Originally posted by Panopticon:

Aesthetically perhaps..

FFXIII-2
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8638/15384819124_ec28858713_o.jpg
http://abload.de/img/292140_2014-12-12_002gkdrm.png

FFXIII
http://abload.de/img/screenshot_2014-11-30q4cwu.png
http://abload.de/img/screenshot_2014-11-30ducli.jpg

Can't really make an accurate judgement based on two sets of screenshots.

Although the difference between 13 and 13-2 isn't nearly as bad as the difference between each of those games and Lightning Returns.

[W r a i t h]

I think its the opposite. Either that or I've been looking at FFXIII 720p for too long.

I guess I would still argue that some of the textures in the environments are higher res in FFXIII-2. But again, 720p for 50 hours versus 1080p. Should check what 1080p looks like on FFXIII later.

Also your title says FF12 and FF12-2.

[A Greg to the Past]

I prefer the look of XIII-2. I don't know. It looks more..."slick", if that makes any sense.

[SHMIZZLE]

I noticed it right away but only during battles. The world and cutsceanes looked the same to me but for some reason the battles looked like they scaled down graphics for performance.

[NightDreamer]

It is worse, the rain, the sunlight, the worst is when i met this giant jelly in AF300 sunleth waterscape. I can't even hear the sound effect of any attack.

But i still can bear with it as im digging the story not graphic

[PanicButton]

Originally posted by ryan0991:

Consequences of a shrinking budget, I suppose.

That can be felt in every aspect of the game. Don't get me wrong, i love FFXIII-2 so far, but it could have gotten much more polish. (

[Gregory]

It has more life in it and more open world.In XIII the one and only place that was open, was Gran Pulse (Archylte Steppe) and that wasn't even filled with life.Here you can see in Archylte Steppe tall grass even.Makes sense to me.About the performance i agree too.In xbox it was SUPER bad.The port also here is worse than XIII too.Explains why i can't hit 4K like i did with XIII.