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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
- Thread starter Kagari
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They somehow made an even worse story? Ugh. When will S-E hire a legit writer?
RPGCrazied
Member
Question.
Is there a datalog?
Is there a datalog?
xion4360
Member
Answer; Yes.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'd say the story is more batshit than FFXIII... ymmv, but I think this is a good thing. FFXIII's story was pretty boring for me. Good premise, poor execution.
Dead Prince
Banned
gross.
Like I was saying, I read the first part of it, and it's HUGE. At least, without knowing more about it. Definitely do not highlight it or read it, especially since I know you're a huge fan of the game and will likely be as saddened by it like I was
brandonh83
Banned
Popped in XIII yesterday and was fucking mindblown again by the graphics. Maybe I shouldn't do that again before XIII-2 comes out.
I think this part is what disappoints me the most. It's a sequel, it should have better graphics not worse.
The bad story/dialogue/characters I pretty much expected would carry over despite hoping they wouldn't.
You can't rush art.
It's a good thing games aren't art.
Square-Enix needs a new development model since their current one is trash and way too slow.
Maybe they should do the art and game mechanics design in Japan and outsource the grunt work of making a functioning game to America or something so that games actually get finished.
ZephyrFate
Banned
The art direction is miles ahead, to make up for it.
brandonh83
Banned
Well, not all art is good.
ZephyrFate
Banned
And there are games that can be classified as art, so... yeah.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Versus will be art worthy of the Hot Topic crowd. Maybe they should get Johnny Depp to voice the main character.
brandonh83
Banned
People have an easy time stating that a painting is art, or a film is art, but with videogames, some of them still create imagery and sound in order to put someone into a particular mood, so I don't know how that couldn't be seen as art.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Do you really want to read this spoiler? I'll try to be as vague as possible.
It plays the credits at the end of the scene, and the player unlocked the "saw a conclusion to the story" gold trophy. However, he could go back in time and reverse time (and get additional Time Fragments--how you get these is by doing sidequests to clear up time paradoxes in each era) to presumably get another ending since it took him back to the Historia Crux screen. He still had a bunch of nodes that were locked off from him as well.
LOL, I guess you're not looking forward to it, then? I'm not looking forward to Versus much either. The only thing about it that looks really cool to me is the background art (ie: the architecture).Rahxephon91 said:
I thought there was a Final Fantasy cycle similar to the Zelda cycle. Sonic Cycle seems to have been deemed irrelevant because it's only used for a certain type of shitty Sonic game (ex: 2006, Shadow)--and Colours, Generations and the new port of Sonic CD were well-received by a lot of people--but that discussion is completely OT.Vamphuntr said:
ZephyrFate
Banned
Way more fun, from what I've seen on streams. Everything's faster, WAY more to do, exploration, etc.
One of the streams got stuck on the casino for like an hour addicted to slots.
Flying Wonkey
Member
Dear lord, I saw the ending and its just ugh.
Wow.
They literally put a "To be continued" sign at the end of it too then credit roll.
Wow.
Spoiler tags? Did we all forget how to use them?
FFX-2 looked worse than FFX as well.
FFX-2 looked worse than FFX as well.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Some of the visuals definitely lack polish. They're not bad. Just some of the textures are a bit eh?
Game in its first hours is significantly more fun than XIII was at first. Hope that holds up all the way through.
Game in its first hours is significantly more fun than XIII was at first. Hope that holds up all the way through.
ZephyrFate
Banned
You can rack up tons of gil which you need to buy weapons and items to increase your monster's levels. Chocobo racing is much like virtual horse races, from the way you place bets and dealing with how tired your chocobo is and etc. It plays the classic chocobo theme except remixed.
badcrumble
Member
The character models were much better animated in FFX-2, and battles looked much better. It's mainly the (new) environments that suffered.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
I'm under the impression that people are enjoying this. The story sounds batshit, but that is to be expected.
I dunno, but judging by this video graphics look as good as anything in FFXIII IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqAMEpEnEfY&feature=related
charlequin
Banned
What? They added new stuff like moving hair to X-2, it was definitely a bit of a step up. (It did have like near-zero new assets, though.)
Zoe
Member
What status do you guys have on your PA orders? Mine still says preparing
But she's no longer single
But she's no longer single
Not to get the thread too off tangent, but have FF games ever had interesting/well designed dungeons? Or do you just mean Square RPGs in general? The PS1 era FF games (besides FFIX, maybe) have boring, 3-4 screen "dungeons" with barely any traps or puzzles. The dungeons in those games were more like scenarios with enemies (especially FFVIII).
The SNES and NES era FF games had actual dungeons, but even then there weren't too many interesting ones. FFVI had the most interesting dungeons (Floating Continent, Magitek Factory, Kefka's Tower, etc.).
I don't think dungeons were ever their strong points. I guess people like these games because of their flash and style. Sure, the battle systems are usually fun and the music is always notable, but their dungeon design has always been flat. They're a spectacle at this point and that does it for most people, I guess. I've grown bored with the franchise, honestly, and one major reason is because of the fact that they never produce anything interesting in the dungeon department.
From the looks of XIII, the hook looks like it's derived from collecting shit in larger environments and events that change here and there. I want to play this game at some point, but I'm not expecting any area/dungeon to set off those 'aha' triggers in my brain like the ones I get and from games like Wild ARMs and Golden Sun.