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Official Final Fantasy XIII thread

I am stoked. It has been a while since playing other FF games for me. I have thought about bringing out FF2 and 3 (according to SNES numbers) and playing them on my PS3.
 
hope it's better than the crapfest that was FF12

I feel like the FF games keep falling into the trap of doing things different just for the sake of doing things different, not because it actually adds anything fun to the gameplay.
 
I was stoked for this but as time went on, I found myself less and less impressed. Maybe because of the overbearing drama, the weird summons, and the fact that this game may have one of the worst theme songs I have ever listened to.
 
tenshodo13 said:
I was stoked for this but as time went on, I found myself less and less impressed. Maybe because of the overbearing drama, the weird summons, and the fact that this game may have one of the worst theme songs I have ever listened to.
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Yeah but combat similar to chronotrigger = total win
 
Gonna get this simply due to the amount of time and effort square has expended on this. But Versus XIII is still the one to get 😛
 
I got sick of Final Fantasy after IX. The graphics and design is always breathtaking, but I just couldn't deal with the childish scripts and playing as yet another androgynous character with spiky hair and a ridiculous name who is afraid of women (I know I'm making generalizations, but seriously). And then they brought in actual voice-acting, which made it worse for me because now I had to listen to garbage dialogue delivered by terrible actors.

Seriously, I'll always love FFVII because it just blew me away at the time, and FFIX because it returned the series (briefly) to its roots and got rid a lot of the high-tech stuff from VIII (and the cheesy love ballads). And FF Tactics was one of the most addictive and rewarding strategy games ever (story made no sense, but what beautiful music!). But after playing RPGs like Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, I just can't get excited about Square's (IMHO) offerings.

Hopefully I'm wrong.
 
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I'm putting in my pre-order now. Can't wait its only 2 weeks away. I'm clearing my social life calendar and polishing my 65 inch DLP for this....

FFXI kept me busy for the time being... and to think, I bought my PS3 a year after its release in NA to play this game and here we are now. I hope the wait will be well worth it!
 
I canceled my FFXIII pre-order and I got Star Ocean The Last Hope instead.

The graphics in FFXIII are definitely sharper and the facial animations and lip syncing looked superb in one of the clips I saw. But Star Ocean is more colorful and the effects, colors, lights during combat look a lot cooler then FFXIII's combat effects. There is more going on screen in Star Ocean combat, FFXIII combat looks plain in comparison.

But I'm a sucker for RPGs, I will probably give in and buy Final Fantasy later on when I can get it cheaper used.
 
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I'm getting a PS3 to play FF13.

I know it's going to be fun, but it's going to suck playing a female main character.

Hmmm, since FF10, I guess it wasn't far off anyway.
 
OptimumSlinky said:
I got sick of Final Fantasy after IX. The graphics and design is always breathtaking, but I just couldn't deal with the childish scripts and playing as yet another androgynous character with spiky hair and a ridiculous name who is afraid of women (I know I'm making generalizations, but seriously). And then they brought in actual voice-acting, which made it worse for me because now I had to listen to garbage dialogue delivered by terrible actors.

Seriously, I'll always love FFVII because it just blew me away at the time, and FFIX because it returned the series (briefly) to its roots and got rid a lot of the high-tech stuff from VIII (and the cheesy love ballads). And FF Tactics was one of the most addictive and rewarding strategy games ever (story made no sense, but what beautiful music!). But after playing RPGs like Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, I just can't get excited about Square's (IMHO) offerings.

Hopefully I'm wrong.
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Maybe i'm just bitchy today, but this often sounds a bad and unpersuasive argument.

You love FF7 and it blew you away, yet it relies on that spiky haired androgynous character. In fact, Cloud fits that description the best, all the way through his blithering "watch me get amnesia and knocked out" phase. The other characters, from Squall to (skipping over Zidane) Tidus were atleast more dynamic and didn't reach as 'emo' of a status that Cloud was (and that is saying a lot considering we are comparing him to Squall).

You also seem to not enjoy the 'high tech' stuff from FF8....yet FF7 was about Mako Reactors, driving in a car, cloud pimping off his motocycle, with a big ass fucking cannon in Junon, and genetic engineering up the wazoo. Cait Sith was a robotic droid doll controlled by the Turks, Cid Highwind had his own fucking rocket and was in training as an astronaut for Shinra at one point....and all those guys run around with guns! Hell the intro video started off with a fly by of the technological marvel of Midgar and having the Cloud leap off a mako powered train....You sure that FF8 was the one to add a lot of 'high tech' stuff? I'd say FF7 was the one to do it, yet people beat up on ff8.
And let us not even talk about cheesy love ballads LOL! Yeahhh the Tifa/Aerith question was not cheesy at all! Watch Cloud go for both, oh wait, there goes Aerith...and once he understands that Aerith and Zack were for eachother, he goes back to Tifa rediscovering his 'true love'. But none of this was after Aerith dies of course. And of course, you can't take either on a date, right? Nothinng was corny at alllllllllllllllll...at alllllllllllllllll. At least in FF8, at the very least, you could say that Squall's relationship, at the minimum, appeared more realistic - having no interest in a person, beginning to care for him/her but trying to deny those feelings because you don't want to get too close, and finally just becoming open and clear about what you want once you realize you are about to lose the person.

And if we want to talk about corny and ridiculous....FF9 "Oh watch now we care about crystals in the very last minute when it comes flying out of left field!" comes to mind. And as great as FF9 was, I ultimately remember way more details from 7 and 8. FF9 has way more haze, which makes me say "how memorable was it really, especially when people in the past have talked about how FF9 did a good job by taking one back to the roots?"


It seems there are quite a bit of 'generalizations' there...to where it breaks down your whole argument.

I don't know why people treat FF7 so much more different when it is actually very similar to the other FF games. I'm not a Ff7 hater, I like it very much as well, but let us be evenhanded about these things rather than setup a double standard because everyone imagines FF7 was something more than it really was.
 
OptimumSlinky said:
I got sick of Final Fantasy after IX. The graphics and design is always breathtaking, but I just couldn't deal with the childish scripts and playing as yet another androgynous character with spiky hair and a ridiculous name who is afraid of women (I know I'm making generalizations, but seriously). And then they brought in actual voice-acting, which made it worse for me because now I had to listen to garbage dialogue delivered by terrible actors.

Seriously, I'll always love FFVII because it just blew me away at the time, and FFIX because it returned the series (briefly) to its roots and got rid a lot of the high-tech stuff from VIII (and the cheesy love ballads). And FF Tactics was one of the most addictive and rewarding strategy games ever (story made no sense, but what beautiful music!). But after playing RPGs like Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, I just can't get excited about Square's (IMHO) offerings.




Hopefully I'm wrong.
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FFVII was the first FF I had ever played and it blew me away. 8 and 9 were great but X redefined everything. X was the best video game experience i had in a long time. XII sucked balls. hope XIII is worth it
 
magomago said:
Maybe i'm just bitchy today, but this often sounds a bad and unpersuasive argument.

You love FF7 and it blew you away, yet it relies on that spiky haired androgynous character. In fact, Cloud fits that description the best, all the way through his blithering "watch me get amnesia and knocked out" phase. The other characters, from Squall to (skipping over Zidane) Tidus were atleast more dynamic and didn't reach as 'emo' of a status that Cloud was (and that is saying a lot considering we are comparing him to Squall).

You also seem to not enjoy the 'high tech' stuff from FF8....yet FF7 was about Mako Reactors, driving in a car, cloud pimping off his motocycle, with a big ass fucking cannon in Junon, and genetic engineering up the wazoo. Cait Sith was a robotic droid doll controlled by the Turks, Cid Highwind had his own fucking rocket and was in training as an astronaut for Shinra at one point....and all those guys run around with guns! Hell the intro video started off with a fly by of the technological marvel of Midgar and having the Cloud leap off a mako powered train....You sure that FF8 was the one to add a lot of 'high tech' stuff? I'd say FF7 was the one to do it, yet people beat up on ff8.
And let us not even talk about cheesy love ballads LOL! Yeahhh the Tifa/Aerith question was not cheesy at all! Watch Cloud go for both, oh wait, there goes Aerith...and once he understands that Aerith and Zack were for eachother, he goes back to Tifa rediscovering his 'true love'. But none of this was after Aerith dies of course. And of course, you can't take either on a date, right? Nothinng was corny at alllllllllllllllll...at alllllllllllllllll. At least in FF8, at the very least, you could say that Squall's relationship, at the minimum, appeared more realistic - having no interest in a person, beginning to care for him/her but trying to deny those feelings because you don't want to get too close, and finally just becoming open and clear about what you want once you realize you are about to lose the person.

And if we want to talk about corny and ridiculous....FF9 "Oh watch now we care about crystals in the very last minute when it comes flying out of left field!" comes to mind. And as great as FF9 was, I ultimately remember way more details from 7 and 8. FF9 has way more haze, which makes me say "how memorable was it really, especially when people in the past have talked about how FF9 did a good job by taking one back to the roots?"


It seems there are quite a bit of 'generalizations' there...to where it breaks down your whole argument.

I don't know why people treat FF7 so much more different when it is actually very similar to the other FF games. I'm not a Ff7 hater, I like it very much as well, but let us be evenhanded about these things rather than setup a double standard because everyone imagines FF7 was something more than it really was.
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Cloud had an awesome taste in clothes though:

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OK, admittedly he took a lot of cues from his mentor:

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Vaan/Tidus always looked god damn retarded.

By the way, FF7 and FF8 are different because the main characters the strong silent brooding types. Yes, they had their emotional moments, but they were not the bubbly flippant women that Tidus and Vaan embodied. Now, we have a pink haired women. I think Tetsuya Nomura wanted a pink haired main character and found that it was impossible to make one even remotely male. So he gave up and voila, female main character.
 
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Krazy4Real said:
I'm going to be getting GT5, GoWIII, and FFXIII.... ouch.
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Every single thing I've read on GT5 says it's not going to be out till fall at least. It was slated for March at one point but at the 2009 Tokyo Game show they said it was delayed from that point.
 
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