i remember FF12-RW on DS got a lot of hype and sold well too
this title lives on the bad impression ff13 left to the mainstream audience
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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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i remember FF12-RW on DS got a lot of hype and sold well too
this title lives on the bad impression ff13 left to the mainstream audience
Rahxephon91
Banned
I don't remember any hype for that game as it really was not the 12 sequel anyone wanted.
Lightning vs Caius doesn't count (got everything there, didn't get any Cinematic Action Perfect, but did get the trophy), and you're missing
Zenobia, boss of Academia the first time you go there
Well thats reassuring I guess. Sucks that it might not be near the top, but then again everyone has widely varied top FF lists.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Don't say "list" in an FF thread!!!
AngelSoldier
Banned
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
The only thing I care about:
What are the character menu screens like? Do they have those amazing animations like FF13?
What are the character menu screens like? Do they have those amazing animations like FF13?
No. Now they're just in-game models.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Has anyone tried battling more difficult enemies with all the monsters in the party dead, and thus having to use a Noel/Serah party?
Just wondering if that would knock the difficulty up a bit.
Just wondering if that would knock the difficulty up a bit.
Dead wouldn't even be necessary. If you don't want to use monsters you don't have to, just don't have any set in your slots and the party paradigms will be set for two characters. Would certainly expect it to make the game harder, though I've never tried it other than checking I could remove them for this post.
Angry Fork
Member
Whoever has played it, what do you think of it compared to FF13? What's better/worse.
Most of them are in Oerba... there's a bunch of them and I hate them too. I dread having to do them. :|
StunandStab
Member
Me too... just 29 days!
February? But won't you be picking it up day one?
Seems like most of the responses I've read all come to the conclusion that it's only marginally better than FFXIII. Apparently the story is still a cluster fuck.
Hopefully I've done the harder ones at least then
Glad it's not just me at least. The ones with set patterns and no timer aren't bad because you can just keep trying different patterns, but there's been about 3 sets so far that have just randomised every time so you're always back to square one. Think this is about #6 I'm on now.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
EU... 1st February ._.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Thanks for checking that out for me. There's one main game battle in particular where I think using a monster is essential, but outside of that, if I can stick with Noel/Serah alone for the majority of the game, that'd be nice.
Edit: Yeah, the clock puzzles are apparently dumb and frustrating from what I've seen and from what my friend tells me.
Hopefully I've done the harder ones at least then
Think this is about #6 I'm on now.
Oerba AF400 had some stupid long ones that I spent probably 30 minutes trying to finish... I really wish they were optional, but if you want the fragments, you need to finish all of them.
Oh god, I haven't even got access to AF400 Oerba yet, just 200 and 300. So the worst is yet to come. Awesome ;_;
Zoe
Member
Some in Yassaf too...
djplaeskool
Member
I know a couple of folks who like it "a lot" more. It seems to vary from person to person, but the consensus at the very least seems to be "better."
Also, the sequel to a clusterfuck is invariably, another clusterfuck. It's an inevitability in the entertainment medium, so I'm not even disappointed.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You have such little money...
Interesting that the attack and magic stats aren't blown through the roof despite being at level 99 for every role (and using the Attacker role no less).
So given that you're level 99 for everything and likely got to level 99 for a few of the roles around Episode 5, I'm guessing CP requirements for leveling up Crystarium aren't as ridiculously high as FFXIII's were.
Interesting that the attack and magic stats aren't blown through the roof despite being at level 99 for every role (and using the Attacker role no less).
So given that you're level 99 for everything and likely got to level 99 for a few of the roles around Episode 5, I'm guessing CP requirements for leveling up Crystarium aren't as ridiculously high as FFXIII's were.
Zoe
Member
I'm in post-game, and I still haven't maxed out everything.
Grow Egg should have come earlier :\
The Xtortionist
Member
Did I ever tell the story of how my friend used a save editor to give each of his guys 999,999CP in the post game three different times and STILL didn't have enough to max them out?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Bahahahahaha!
It takes like... oh man, I did the calculation a loooooong ago... it's somewhere in an email I sent to someone...
Here:
Lightning: 11 087 410
Snow: 10 949 820
Fang: 11 136 050
Vanille: 11 031 335
Sazh: 10 861 040
Hope: 11 054 955
WHY.
Did you spread CP around per role evenly? That's probably the smartest thing to do, actually.Zoe said:
Pretty sure I've got all of those at least. 4 left in Oerba 400, so I assume most if not all of these are the dreaded clocks. Fun times ahead, but if I'm going to do them I might as well get them over with.
They aren't, no. They amount required to level up goes up fairly slowly and the amount monsters give stays pretty consistent, usually about 350 CP or so per battle, while even with 373/594 levels it's still 870 CP every level. There's one enemy that's pretty easy and is uncommon at best that gives 2000 CP (+2200 gil) too. Most fragments give about 500, Paradox ending about 10000 each, bosses vary. I've just been piling all my CP into the most useful roles, Serah's been a L99 Blaster and Noel a L99 Attacker since chapter 3. Haven't had any tough fights for a long time, though it was fun to try Omega underlevelled, win after a tough fight and get... nothing for it. Was hoping it was 100% certain you'd get him, but apparently not.
I spent it all at the casino, lol.
i'm stuck at this episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5mEcwiidEc
i can't find a way to reach floor 13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5mEcwiidEc
i can't find a way to reach floor 13
Oh. You need to finish all the fragments in AF200 to get the item to access the 13th floor. See: http://ff12.jp/ff13_2_flagment10.html
The sequel thing to a bad game is still no excuse ...
Anyway I personally prefer 13. Its a fact that 13-2 does some thing better than 13, but lots of those things should have been in 13 to begin with. I kind of have a hard time to suddenly cheer for the good things in this game just because the creators fucked up the last game so bad stead of thinking some things over ...
And in other areas this game (IMHO) does a quite a few step backwards from 13, just to name one, the absolutely stupid and annoying puzzles that have been discussed on this page. They are "fun" and okay the first time you do them in the story, then in OERBA it turns into a huge pile of shit.
There is an Ending for the story. Then in lots of the areas there are optional endings, you get these by fighting bosses with grand cross, means they are much stronger than they were in the story and when you defeat them you unlock a new node in the historia cross with an new ending for you to watch. So it ist based on the fragments, except the final one whic you get for having and finishing the story with all fragments.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
So I've been on a blackout on this game since the original trailers until right now where I visited your page and watched the first video in the snow.
One question.
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENS WHEN YOU BEGIN RIDING THE CHOCOBO!?!?!?
My ears! I was literally watching with my mouth wide open.
I'm guessing I've already missed some almighty GAF outrage over this chocobo theme :lol
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
So there's no way one ends up watching an alternate ending if not by doing extra-suff? I thought sometimes in the story certain decisions lead to premature endings. Your implying something different right now, that is all the extra-endings are endings one must hunt to see them.
runlikehell
Banned
There was a thread, a title change and everything over that song. So good.
Zoe
Member
There's one paradox ending that doesn't require anything. The rest you need a fragment skill.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Haha I expected nothing less!
Aww :hug:
I hope I fall into the category of people who like this a lot better, but I guess we still have 28 more days until we find out
But hey, at least it's not like 5 years right -_-Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I miss the old thread title. That one was funny and relevant.
Thank you. That doesn't seem so bad. And it seems like CP totals given by enemies aren't bad (plus you can rewind time to do things again, I guess). Sounds far better than the CP totals that monsters give you in FFXIII, that's for sure.
While it seems like Omega is kind of an essential part of introducing the Coliseum, I have to wonder why it's retail-exclusive DLC over here. It still bothers me a lot. Getting monsters seem chance-based no matter what you do (save for maybe one or two from what I've been told).
ahahahaha oh god what
I was expecting a somewhat ambiguous ending. I wasn't expecting... that. Oh well, if the all fragments ending doesn't resolve that lot (I doubt it somehow) I guess the story DLC is going to be even more significant than I expected. Was expecting supplementary type stuff, not the real ending.
Oh well, 5 starred the last battle so up to 47% trophies now, 83 fragments, 453/594 Crystarium levels. 47 hours playtime but I'm a master of playing games slowly so that sounds about right. Time to work on the rest of the trophies.
I was expecting a somewhat ambiguous ending. I wasn't expecting... that. Oh well, if the all fragments ending doesn't resolve that lot (I doubt it somehow) I guess the story DLC is going to be even more significant than I expected. Was expecting supplementary type stuff, not the real ending.
Having it as retailer DLC is just dumb, at least all the retailer DLC in Japan was useless weapons that were outdated by the end of the game anyway, not letting people recruit a series regular monster is really shitty
Oh well, 5 starred the last battle so up to 47% trophies now, 83 fragments, 453/594 Crystarium levels. 47 hours playtime but I'm a master of playing games slowly so that sounds about right. Time to work on the rest of the trophies.
Zoe
Member
There's no reason to believe the "real" ending will be via DLC.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
You guys are ruining my hype for this game.