Visual Comparison: White Knight Story vs. The Last Remnant
- Posted October 7th, 2007 at 07:28 EDT by Justin Pinter
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With so many great role playing games coming out within the next year, we thought we might compare two of the most anticipated titles on PlayStation 3: White Knight Story and The Last Remnant (assuming Final Fantasy XIII isn't due out within the next year).
While details are still scarce, we can compare the visual styles and graphics of each title. The following images are not final product screenshots so keep in mind that things may change over the coming months.
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 7:41am BST - October 7th, 2007
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White Knight Story looks way better..those screens don't do justice
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*Chris*
- 7:48am BST - October 7th, 2007
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@Dave: Yea, those screen shots are pretty poor quality. I have seen better for both of them. But WKS still has a long way to go. In the trailer I seen of the battles, the main character attacked the enemy and it died floating in mid-air, and then sort of...appeared on the floor afterwards. I'm sure after it is finished though, it will be great. The Last Remnant will probably outsell WKS though, seeing that it is on both 360 and PS3.
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just8
- 8:25am BST - October 7th, 2007
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i think wks looks loads better! theres alot to be said about games keeping there vibrancy and colour when consoles have the power to create the real and the gritty! look at halo 1,2,3 there all great games and they have some what unrealistic and colourful enviroments which make them so playable! its something i fear ps3 games maybe be lacking, and is hence refreshing to see here in wks!. go ps3
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royboy |
bigfreezy1975- 9:18am BST - October 7th, 2007
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just bring on the games man! LR looks a little better than WKS here on these screen shots. My thing with this blasted FF thing is i think that Square doesn't know what to do with this franchise! I mean one minute this wasn't coming out, before that one of the FF titles was supposed to be on multiple consoles then people crying for square to remake Vll on next gen plats! Just how many FF titles are out there?? I get so tired of hearing about Square's undecisive selves no wonder why I don't get into any of those game. That being said, I may give WKS a shot. But i'm by far NOT the biggest RPG fan so......
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Honorabled0
- 10:30am BST - October 7th, 2007
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in want white knight cause of how they had the game play sent up
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darkswordsman |
Wakka- 11:14am BST - October 7th, 2007
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I think WKC looks slightly better. I will probably be buying WKC over Last Remnant. SO many games coming out soon, I won't be able to buy all of them. :(
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rbrtchng
- 11:28am BST - October 7th, 2007
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I have to agree with Dave. Besides their art styles are so different, you really can't compare the two. It would be like comparing viewtiful joe with ninja gaiden sigma. White Knight is definitely more stylized and more colorful; whereas, Remnant is darker and going for a "realistic" look.
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kingiceeater |
The_Fifth- 2:24pm BST - October 7th, 2007
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I'm more a WKS person myself, though I suspect I'll get both.
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Scarecrowi |
Ifrit99- 3:47pm BST - October 7th, 2007
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Both look good but White Knight story's more SOLID graphically.
Can't wait to get both
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MephistoSoze
- 5:46pm BST - October 7th, 2007
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The Unreal Engine 3 is cheating in graphics. It's something I've noticed with games using UE3, I don't know if any of you guys have. The UE3 has jagged edges like crazy. Anti-aliasing doesn't even cover them well enough, they also use "Bloom" blur or "Bloom" effect. Notice on the last screenshot, the edges of the characters faces, hair and clothing. Doesn't White Knight Chronicles look much smoother? It's a proprietary engine, isn't it? Last Remnant just like it has crazy jaggies.
Granted these are screenshots, and when in motion you'll hardly even notice these issues. But I just wanted to point out a gripe I've always had with UE3. Cheating by blurring the edges. In any case, I've seen some HD trailers of both, and both look brilliant, graphics-wise. Although I'm leaning more toward White Knight Story for something new.
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mustang750r |
MUSTANG750R- 5:54pm BST - October 7th, 2007
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last remnant looks more realistic but they both look good for their styles
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TestosteRohne |
TestosteRohne- 5:59pm BST - October 7th, 2007
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A very good comparison PSU.
After spending the afternoon playing PS2 at a mates house, the above both look brill to me.
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Nosferatu
- 7:55pm BST - October 7th, 2007
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Both visuals are fair.. and i honestly think last remnant battle visuals may be more immersive. But also white knight story isnt fully done yet and they could add more elements to their battle system. like people in the background fighting and having reaction sorta like whats in last remnant.
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YamatoKei
- 10:06pm BST - October 7th, 2007
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>> Notice on the last screenshot, the edges of the characters faces, hair and clothing.
This is because in TLR, the hair/clothes don't use alpha-channel. Without alpha-channel, everything looks solid like rock. In WKS, the characters' hair and clothes use alpha-transparency, which lets the artist simulate natural antialiasing of thousands of hairs, saving the drawing of hundreds of thousands of polygons for just 1 object and huge antialiasing. Obviously it's like looking at a FMV versus real-time-rendered scene. But this alpha-channel requires that these hair/clothes polygons have to be all sorted before drawn (first draw the ones further). Sorting of polygons can take-up a lot of cpu. I.e drawing 10 times more such polygons means up to 100 times more cpu used. Fortunately there are tricks to speed it up :).
Anyway, I'll probably first get WKS and then TLR.
>> (assuming Final Fantasy XIII isn't due out within the next year).
FFXIII is coming Q1 2008 in EU, according to latest official data. Hopefully it isn't pushed-back anymore. 13-Versus is a whole year afterwards, though.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 4:39am BST - October 8th, 2007
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Actually imo,both of them look like cr@p,but Last Remnant looks better.
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RagingStorm |
RagingStormX- 10:23am BST - October 8th, 2007
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I am getting both so it doesn't really matter to me....
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The Master
- 11:18am BST - October 8th, 2007
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The Last Remnant definatly looks much better in these comparisons. Not only graphically, but it looks like the gameplay/fighting system, will be much more enjoyable.
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Anim3Fr33K |
Anim3Fr33K- 10:38pm BST - October 9th, 2007
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There both PS3 games so what does it matter lol
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FlameDragoon |
Anim3Fr33K- 11:57pm BST - June 10th, 2008
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Last Remnant seems t ohave slightly better graphics, but WKS seems to be a better game to me. I'll be getting it, you can count on that!
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Large_Tonberry |
Jon_Bright- 7:17am BST - August 11th, 2008
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The Last Remnant obviously looks better visually, but I'd put money on White Knight being MUCH more enjoyable, and a better game in general.
I've always loved every game that Level 5 have done, but I've been quite disappointed with the garbage SquareEnix have done recently.
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