PhoenixSFT
Member
Eh, I think the whole "AVALANCHE trying to combine" thing would have been hilarious, though I think Honeybee Inn was fine the way it was.
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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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Eh, I think the whole "AVALANCHE trying to combine" thing would have been hilarious, though I think Honeybee Inn was fine the way it was.
Mattakuevan
Member
Wow wtf is this. Toriyama is crazy.
Anyone?
Yes there are some bonuses for having a cleared save. I don't remember what they are exactly besides a PS3 wallpaper.
StunandStab
Member
I'm all for games being more perverted. Bring it on Toriyama. lol
Thanks!
RPGCrazied
Member
Almost here guys. 
Who's gonna play all day Tuesday? I know I will...
Who's gonna play all day Tuesday? I know I will...Almost here guys.
I would play all day, but I have work. So I will when I get off. 4 day weekend though for me!
StunandStab
Member
Almost here guys.
I definitely will. I'm bored out of my mind right now... I have no idea what I'm going to do all day Sunday and Monday!
Hopefully I will be! I work from home, so as long as it's a slow day....Almost here guys.
RPGCrazied
Member
I'm unemployed at the moment. So much free time, lol.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I wish! School/work, and it's also a weekday, so that means no console games until Thursday night.Almost here guys.
(Oh screw that, I'm going to find a way to play a bit on Tuesday night... and Wednesday afternoon. It's a new FF, after all.)
Almost here guys.
Not sure about all day, but two hours at least!
The bonuses aren't that great. I'd take a bit better framerate and clean FMV over achievements.
If you really want to you can download a FFXIII save and it'll read it anyway.
RPGCrazied
Member
The framerate in the 360 version is worse than the PS3 one? It's not so hot in the PS3 version, well, the demo had some problems, but wasn't that bad.
Averages a few frames lower.
Haha, yeah it was absolutely terrible. At least this time they actually went back to making the English a variant of the Japanese song.
Yep, I wanna get the better version this time around. Know where I can download a PS3 save file?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Gosh, that was a load of crock. :lol
The instrumentation of that Leona Lewis song wasn't completely awful and the climax of the instrumentation in that song flowed well with the scene, but Kimi ga iru Kara ultimately fit better.
The song had a real message about showers and makeup duder. It was deep.
toastyToast
Member
No song could have saved that ending
Unknown Soldier
Member
I finally played the demo.
I'm glad to see they now have QTEs in Final Fantasy. I was a little disappointed when Serah and Noel didn't team up to slowly rip the twitching giant's head off it's shoulders while blood spurted everywhere. Whenever I see QTEs without excessive brutality I get sad and miss God of War.
The whole thing really does feel like they took a page straight out of FFX-2's playbook. Mission-based areas, loads of sidequests, free roam of locations, etc. And I guess time travel.
Motomu Toriyama: "I don't know how to cohesively follow up a game with a conclusive ending, so time travel!"
The biggest problem with FFXIII was the first 20 hours being tutorial. Everything else wrong with FFXIII, like 78. Pretty Line Syndrome, incomprehensible plot which required you to study the Datalog and read a web novel that wasn't translated from Japanese to understand it, cast of annoying characters, and Deus Ex Machina ending because the game was 3 years late and they still didn't know how to end it, none of those were that important compared to not actually being able to play the full battle system for 20 hours. It's not as if the battle mechanics were THAT COMPLICATED in FFXIII to begin with. FFXIII-2 dispenses with all that and lets you play right away it seems, which is kind of nice.
I'm glad to see they now have QTEs in Final Fantasy. I was a little disappointed when Serah and Noel didn't team up to slowly rip the twitching giant's head off it's shoulders while blood spurted everywhere. Whenever I see QTEs without excessive brutality I get sad and miss God of War.
The whole thing really does feel like they took a page straight out of FFX-2's playbook. Mission-based areas, loads of sidequests, free roam of locations, etc. And I guess time travel.
Motomu Toriyama: "I don't know how to cohesively follow up a game with a conclusive ending, so time travel!"
The biggest problem with FFXIII was the first 20 hours being tutorial. Everything else wrong with FFXIII, like 78. Pretty Line Syndrome, incomprehensible plot which required you to study the Datalog and read a web novel that wasn't translated from Japanese to understand it, cast of annoying characters, and Deus Ex Machina ending because the game was 3 years late and they still didn't know how to end it, none of those were that important compared to not actually being able to play the full battle system for 20 hours. It's not as if the battle mechanics were THAT COMPLICATED in FFXIII to begin with. FFXIII-2 dispenses with all that and lets you play right away it seems, which is kind of nice.
StunandStab
Member
I think I'm probably going to like this game a lot more than the average person.
Haha, oh dear, I read this and had to see it for myself. Thanks for the laughs!
Unknown Soldier
Member
Purple is now the Official Villain Clothing Color?
StunandStab
Member
Purple is the official colour of evil things in Japanese video games. I thought this was common knowledge.
Electivirus
Member
LIAM. FUCKING. O. BRIEN.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
So he's a Tales villain.
(One of Tales of Xillia's bosses is named Gaius. lol. Caius just happens to be the Late Latin pronunciation of Gaius (see: Caius Iulius Caesar -- you'd pronounce this as "Gaius Yulius Kaiser" in Classical Latin because the Latin alphabet at the time when praenomen were being developed did not distinguish between the letters G and C, as the written 'g' was not introduced in written alphabet yet). In reality "Gaius" is how you would pronounce it.)
But honestly, I'm okay with Caius for now since he's voiced by Liam O'Brien... who unfortunately isn't using his Dist voice, but I'm fine with that.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Liam O' Brien knows how to put on a good show.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Purple is gangsta colour. Saints Row 3 told me so.
I also hope that Caius will have enough screen time. We will see soon enough (well, in two days for you US players ; I'll have to wait a little more here).
I've been following the thread for a while (a long while), so now that my account is validated, I want to thank you, fellow NeoGAFers, for the information you provided. Thank you also Kagari for your great review.
I'm still hoping that the in-game tracks won't be changed for the US/EU release. We "lost" "Invisible Invaders", but it seems that the others remain unchanged (though I'm still wondering if the "Crazy Chocobo" theme is intact, since I'm not sure anyone here could verify). Well, my fingers are crossed.
I've been following the thread for a while (a long while), so now that my account is validated, I want to thank you, fellow NeoGAFers, for the information you provided. Thank you also Kagari for your great review.
I'm still hoping that the in-game tracks won't be changed for the US/EU release. We "lost" "Invisible Invaders", but it seems that the others remain unchanged (though I'm still wondering if the "Crazy Chocobo" theme is intact, since I'm not sure anyone here could verify). Well, my fingers are crossed.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
^ based on the IGN live stream, most other tracks seem to be intact. I'd be surprised if anymore were cut.
I don't know why Crazy Chocobo would be cut, seeing as how it's one of the most Anerican tracks to ever appear in the series.
StunandStab
Member
Whenever I hear Liam O'Brien I can't help but think of Dr. Stahngun from Professor Layton... Oh, and Luke's father. Vincent's friend in Catherine, as well, I forget his name.
UberTag
Member
The story may be disjointed but developing a compelling villain is the one area XIII-2 completely nails.
And Liam was also inspired casting as he's got the vocal chops to really own the role.
Big Papa Husker
Member
I was thinking about that yesterday. What a joke of a video. Lol!
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
OXM's review too speak of a good story with a very good cast, I really think people should just judge this aspects by themselves and not relying much on reviews. We all know we got different sensibilities, histories, expectations ect. in regards to that, so it's difficult to trust another's guy opinion on something like this. When many told me XIII's story was shit infact I blinked, while I recognize faults in it, I had many emotional goosebumps during the course of the story, and I'm thankful enough to had some, that's why I can say "I liked it".
FFXIII's story was pretty nice... Until the very end, where all hell broke loose, and when deus ex machina were flying all over the place. Oh well, that's not the subject.
Anyway : I'm not expecting much from FFXIII-2's story. I'm looking forward a good game with a good gameplay, but I've given up any hope about the scenario.
Anyway : I'm not expecting much from FFXIII-2's story. I'm looking forward a good game with a good gameplay, but I've given up any hope about the scenario.