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Final Fantasy XIII |OT|
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Dedication Through Light
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sloppyjoe_gamer said:The battle music, and victory fanfare is starting to grow on me.
On another note, im in chapter 5 right now...should i be trying to upgrade my weapons or should i save the items im collecting and upgrade them later on?
The weapons start causing Target Time to decrease which gets annoying, I collected all items, saved all money, and just switch my characters what what items I found. Actually at End game, all my characters had their second weapons equipped, lol, crysterium upgrades seemed to cause better benefits than weapons for the fights.
The battle music vanishes in chapter 6 and doesnt reappear until like the 10th chapter then vanishes again and doesnt come back, to my memory. Battle Theme in chapter 6 is fantastic though!
FateBreaker
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jiien said:
THANK YOU! lol, finally got an answer.
Katana_Strikes
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So I don't like Vanille much as a character but I'm using her in my team as she has some great debuffs... however one thing that's caught my attention is another little annoyance from her... she sounds like a fucking chimp with her grunts and groans. Seriously I feel I've got a monkey on my team and I can't unhear it.
Katana_Strikes
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Xpliskin said:
Spoilerz!!
Skilletor said:
Yeah I hated it in 12 as well.
The problem is that if first time users are given all the tools right off the bat, they get overwhelmed and frustrated.
ZJS fixed 12's mistake by dribbling the gambits to you at a much increased rate, so by the time you got out of Barheim Passage, you had them all.
CruxisMana
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Wow. The chapter 9 boss is a total bitch.
I think I might max out Lightning/Hope/Fang's Crystarium before I try again - just because I can.
I think I might max out Lightning/Hope/Fang's Crystarium before I try again - just because I can.
Katana_Strikes said:
I've maxed all my base crystarium levels and gone a bit into the others. I really, really want to finish this to completion but I am a bit burnt out. It's such a grind.
Cactuar
Sazh goes after the giant one
KZObsessed
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Why hello thar Titan!
Dedication Through Light
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CruxisMana said:
The strategy should just be to Relentless Assault, go to whichever Healing Paradigm you like (I guess mine was Combat Clinic or Protection) (or you dip into 1000 HP) and more Relentless Assault. Should still finish in under 10 minutes. Really the fastest way is to just deal as much damage as possible in the fastest amount of time. Oh and also utilize the technique renew, so you can at least Stagger the boss.
I forgot if he uses Thanastonia Laughter but try to heal or be in the process of doing it immediately after a stagger period or you get into under 1000 HP.
Katana_Strikes
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CruxisMana said:
Take out the 4 side pieces and then the main part is easy enough. Watch for the powering up attack, though I believe if you give him enough damage while he's doing it (he takes a while to build up, but there will be a visual clue when you've give him enough) then the damage isn't as extreme when he lets loose.
Though I do believe I'd maxxed the characters up to full by then, so it probably made it easier.
Kagari said:
They were surprising the first time I heard 'em, and now I can't make a party without her in it. LOVE THOSE NOISES.
And the goofy things she says at the end of battles sometimes, if she landed the last blow.
"I'm tougher than you thought, eh?"
"That wasn't scary at all!"
Sometimes I'll purposely try to time it so that she gets the last blow, just to hear her.
If I wasn't such a sucker for women with cool ass swords (<3 Lightning), Vanille would be my favorite character just because she's so goofy and expressive.
CruxisMana
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Katana_Strikes said:
Dedication Through Light said:
Thanks. Admittedly, I only tried once and even then I had bad luck as all of my characters were standing together as the -aga spells began.
Lost Fragment
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I think I spotted the Biggs and Wedge cameo.
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edgefusion
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jiien said:
"Let's go! Hecaton!"
Just makes me think of "Let's go! Hammertime!" it's just the way she says it.
Lost Fragment said:
Oh shit!
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Oh yeah... I ended up getting two copies of the LE Guide, and I just sold one on eBay for nearly $100 @_@
So all you crazy kiddies who want to keep it sealed... I was wrong. There probably is money in this.
So all you crazy kiddies who want to keep it sealed... I was wrong. There probably is money in this.
Oh shit. Megaton. :lolLost Fragment said:
DownLikeBCPowder
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edit: nm, got it.
Awesome game.
Awesome game.
mjemirzian
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RS4- said:
Yep. Which is why I won't be doing them. I have no interest in FFXI Lite.
Unknown Soldier
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jiien said:
Sounds like we have another recruit for the VDF.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Unknown Soldier said:Sounds like we have another recruit for the VDF.
Dedication Through Light
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A datalog about the ending would have been nice but anyway one more thing that confused me about the ending
Beating Orphan caused all the power on Cocoon to go out thus resulting in its(?) destruction if Fang and Vanille hadnt stepped in (and that it would crash to Pulse as well?)
This seems like potentially the right place to ask. I have never played a Final Fantasy game ever.
I am heavily considering jumping into XIII but wondering if I should get some of the older PS1 titles on PSN. My friend said FF7 is mandatory before the new games, is that true?
Also as someone that considers Shenmue/Zelda/Metroid Prime/Resident Evil as my favourite sort of games, will I enjoy this title?
I am heavily considering jumping into XIII but wondering if I should get some of the older PS1 titles on PSN. My friend said FF7 is mandatory before the new games, is that true?
Also as someone that considers Shenmue/Zelda/Metroid Prime/Resident Evil as my favourite sort of games, will I enjoy this title?
Xpliskin said:
Hate it or love it, that's the format for 80% of the main story.
If you do sidequests about 60% into the game, it becomes a little less monotonous. Assuming you enjoy killing stuff in this game all day, that is.
I still say this game needed special Ediolon minigames within the story. It'd help to keep the level design from getting so repetitive and the transformers concept wouldn't feel so unnecessary.
master15 said:
If you like those you will probably like the series, but keep in mind that the battles are slow-paced in most of them except FFXIII. FFVII is certainly a good entry point and more complex than FFXIII, so get that one, see if you would like a game which is mostly a crazy battle system and crazy graphics until a certain point in the story, and then decide to buy it or not. It's pretty cheap too, so it's probably the best choice, but I think you'd like both.
Castor Krieg
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Dedication Through Light said:
This was what
Barthandelus meant by "murder", the fact that Cocoon will crash into Pulse killing all its human inhabitants, thus bringing back the Maker
This is also when we learn that
one can alter their own Focus, or Fang's and Vanille's Focus was to save Cocoon from the beginning, thus when Fang became Ragnarok 300 years ago the Godess stepped in and turned both Fang and Vanille into Crystal, as to prevent Cocoon's destruction. The only thing that ending lacked was an explanation whether Cocoon Fal'Cie survived the destruction of Orphan.
BertramCooper
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Personally, I do enjoy killing stuff all day in this game. I'm on Chapter 7 and I don't think I've avoided a single fight yet.Rpgmonkey said:
I do agree with those who think you should be able to switch who you're controlling mid-battle, and that getting an insta-GAME OVER when your party leader goes down is really stupid. Other than that, though, it's a ton of fun.
CruxisMana
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Chapter 9:
Chapter 7+9: One thing I don't like though
I really liked the whole joke with the random colour alerts, especially when Jihl got confused towards the end. :lol
Chapter 7+9: One thing I don't like though
is the totally shit deaths for both Yaag and Jihl, especially considering how prominent they were in pre-release media.
Castor Krieg said:
Anima's motivation was probably completely different from Orphan's motivation, seeing how they were created by completely different "gods".
Besides, the party's Focus vision in Chapter 3 was composed of fragments of the ending and Ragnarok in the ending was some kind of weird organic mixture of Vanille's Hecaton and Fang's Bahamut. But who knows, maybe Hecaton and Bahamut were "created" by Vanille and Fang being the holders the Ragnarok instead of Ragnarok being shaped by Hecaton and Bahamut.
CruxisMana said:
Everything about FFXIII's pre-release media was extremely misleading. :lol
13 is probably harder than a few SMT games.Dresden said:
Then only reason people aren't so scared off by it is because there are save points EVERYWHERE and if you die in a fight, then you don't have to reload a game or sit through massive cutscenes.
I'm at chapter 9. So far, only one death - the very first eidolon battle with Shiva. And that was only because I was confused about the directions the first time around.
If I was to judge the game up through chapter 9, I definitely would say it IS one of the easiest FF games yet. But, like everyone KEEPS SAYING, after fifty hours the game finally picks up or some shit, so I'm trying to wait until Chapter 11. Dear God I wish I could skip these chapters.
If I was to judge the game up through chapter 9, I definitely would say it IS one of the easiest FF games yet. But, like everyone KEEPS SAYING, after fifty hours the game finally picks up or some shit, so I'm trying to wait until Chapter 11. Dear God I wish I could skip these chapters.
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