I finished fighting the Shiva Sisters about a week ago, having a hard time popping it back into the PS3. I know everyone's saying how great the combat system gets, but right now I find it incredibly boring. Can anyone point me to a youtube video showing how good the combat can be?
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Final Fantasy XIII |OT|
- Thread starter Kagari
- Start date
- Status
D
Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
I'm in love with this game.
There, I said it. <3
There, I said it. <3
Katana_Strikes
Member
Gotta say Chap10 was boring as hell. Awful, generic, dull dungeon that just dragged on and on. Thankfully I'm outta there and into the open.
berserk_ftw
Member
Can someone explain the Sentinel Paradigm to me? Because all Snow is doing is blocking, he doesn't counter anything.
CruxisMana
Member
berserk_ftw said:
The Vengance ability counter attacks.
However, the whole idea of the Sentinel role is to be a damage sponge.
berserk_ftw
Member
CruxisMana said:
So I always need to select it from the abilities menu?
vexvegaz said:
At the moment he's with Hope in the group, and Hope sucks at dealing damage kinda. :lol
So I hoped that he would do the Vengeance ability automatically with Auto-battle, guess I have to select it then.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Dra-Q said:Finally, I'm at chapter 9
Is Sazh really dead?
Do you think he'd have just gotten his Summon if he was? Worst, did he/didn't he? ever 
Katana_Strikes
Member
Wow, the Crystarium certainly eats CP up like nobodies business now. 6000-8000 a time. What role level is the max BTW? I'm heading for Lvl4 at the moment.
B-Rad Lascelle
Banned
It's Cowboy Bebop-esque. Very fitting given the early sequences of playing the Jet Black-Edward tandem that is Sazh & Vanille.Unknown Soldier said:
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Got Hope's tier 3 weapon.
Hope has some big-ass pockets.
Hope has some big-ass pockets.
Nexus Zero
Member
Yoshichan said:
I agree but that strikes me as a little bit chicken-and-egg, ie did they really say "hey guys, guess what this means? No towns!". Also as little sense as it makes, it doesn't matter; it is still to the detriment of the pacing.
Alex
Member
Nexus Zero said:
There's also several different things they could've done to improve pacing and flow and the game on the whole without even reaching to towns if they had just better laid out their game.
A lot of the existing content is just used very oddly, it's kind of sad to finish it all up and think back how it would've felt better with this or that done to the scenario or direction.
Almost everyone here has something to say on the matter, I mean usually people have complaints with a game, it's only natural, nothing is perfect. However with that they're usually just all around complaints, in the case of XIII a lot of it is shouted directorial advice.
Toriyama really needs to be demoted back to what he was prior to FFX-2. Just get Hiroyuki Ito in there to direct them all, clearly!
I dont understand the staff for these games at all though, really. Looking at the Wiki's, FFXIII had FOUR writers? Really? Isn't that kind of a clusterfuck when the best regarded games in the franchise usually have 1-2, often just spurring from the director?
I think I'm in Chapter 8
and I'm not clear on why
don't know if I missed something or it's cleared up later...
Sahz and Vanille are at the amusement park, the rest are all together
Sahz' son is considered a Cocoon l'Cie specifically and not a Pulse l'Cie?
don't know if I missed something or it's cleared up later...
luxarific said:
ah ok
I thought the cutscene showing Vanille holding the kid's hand was implying that she was the one who did it, and then her conversation with fang on at day 7 or something I thought she said that she didn't feel right doing it to a kid or something.
thanks for fixing my spoiler
Scythesurge
Member
It's really just not explained well, which is problem considering they refer to different things with the same word a lot.luxarific said:
levious said:ah okI thought the cutscene showing Vanille holding the kid's hand was implying that she was the one who did it, and then her conversation with fang on at day 7 or something I thought she said that she didn't feel right doing it to a kid or something.
thanks for fixing my spoiler
Wait...that's not how it happened? WTF...seriously the story in FF13 is messed up I seriously doubt even the writers know what they have written...
Really liked the end of "big blue forest" boss. Had a real ebb and flow between Dual-Casting, Super Soldier and War & Peace rhythm going, with a small period of hesitation causing a good flurry of panic ("oh god, I could be wiped out here!"). Liked the fact it took a decent effort to kill, even with launch sending the guy into orbit several times. Still greatly enjoying the game, can't believe how huge the "levels" are in this thing! The forest was an epic effort.
BJK
Member
levious said:ah okI thought the cutscene showing Vanille holding the kid's hand was implying that she was the one who did it, and then her conversation with fang on at day 7 or something I thought she said that she didn't feel right doing it to a kid or something.
thanks for fixing my spoiler
That was what I thought at first as well. They don't set things up terribly well, since I think at that point they had already shown
the conversation between Vanille and Fang talking about having turned a kid into a L'Cie...when it was really their presence that caused the Fal'Cie to 'activate' Dajh.
That's also why the L'Cie tatoo is different.
That's also why the L'Cie tatoo is different.
badcrumble
Member
F#A#Oo said:
FFXIII doesn't have a very good story.
I've looked around but really haven't checked the datalogs but I have a question maybe someone knows.
Is there anything in the inventory system or datalog that tracks stats like what items/weap/acc/components you have collected, not currently own but have collected. Also anything that tracks your Marks and ratings on them? I haven't seen anything like that for either of those and if there isn't getting those achievements is going to suck.
Is there anything in the inventory system or datalog that tracks stats like what items/weap/acc/components you have collected, not currently own but have collected. Also anything that tracks your Marks and ratings on them? I haven't seen anything like that for either of those and if there isn't getting those achievements is going to suck.
levious said:
In a way
she (and Fang) -were- responsible for Sazh's becoming a l'Cie since it was their presence the Power Plant Fal'Cie was reacting to. I forget what she said in the Day 7 conversation -
Scythesurge said:
I think the explanation is actually sufficient, but the similarity between the words l'Cie and Fal'Cie is confusing. Someone earlier in the thread referred to them as Prophets and Gods and that's much easier for my brain to process for some reason.
Cocoon Fal'Cie and Pulse Fal'Cie are warring Gods (who apparently want the same thing, the return of the Maker<--not sure about this bit, haven't finished the game) and their various l'Cie are Prophets.
I think
Orphan is Cocoon's Power Source and is, presumably, also a Fal'Cie, if I'm understanding things properly
Scythesurge
Member
Definitely in the end of chapter 9, definitely again throughout 10.Dead said:
zero margin
Member
chapter 8 was a breeze compare to 9 so far, tornado kick hurts.
badcrumble
Member
Right, I remember that now. The difference between the Ch9 and Ch11 exposition-fests is a bit of a blur, sorry.Ponn01 said:
Fimbulvetr
Member
RpgN said:
Fixed.
edgefusion
Member
squall211 said:That's such an inexcusable tease.
However it does
ask you to partake in a series of trials to win its favour.
edgefusion
Member
luxarific said:
My understanding is that Orphan provides power to the fal'cie Eden which then distributes and manages that power.
- Status