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[SantaC]

Interesting stuff imo.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

This video covers the entire game and development history. Will have to watch the top one later but I can't see any video covering XIII better than this one.

 

[peronmls]

FF13 is very polished but not that well made. It's insane how long they were working on it. Just goes to show the merge with square soft and Enix turned into a complete mess with garbage management. They ruined a lot of their own titles.

 

[Rentahamster]

Was it because HD towns are hard?

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

Thank you, will watch.

Regardless of how hated this game is (reasonably or not), I have been wanting to play it for years now.
Just waiting until I get a PC to do it.

 

[mitch1971]

I liked 13.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I liked 13.

I have such a love/hate relationship with this game. It has probably my favorite battle system + OST in the series, and probably the best overall atmosphere + audiovisual presentation. On the other hand, the writing, characters, and linearity are absolute shit.

Overall I'd still rank it toward the top because the things it does well, it does very well.

 

[mitch1971]

I have such a love/hate relationship with this game. It has probably my favorite battle system + OST in the series, and probably the best overall atmosphere + audiovisual presentation. On the other hand, the writing, characters, and linearity are absolute shit.

Overall I'd still rank it toward the top because the things it does well, it does very well.

To be fair, it's the only FF I've played. Regardless, I enjoyed it. I was going to go for the Plat but I ended up putting the wrong save in the cloud (not the 20 hours grind after the boss save) but the one before the boss. I took that long to come back to it, I'd probably have to replay the whole game to get to grips with it's mechanics.

 

[Sephimoth]

Never actually finished it, I should give it another push one day.

Side related thought I had this morning, its nearly quarter of a century from the last 'traditional' Final Fantasy game (10). Crazy stuff

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

To be fair, it's the only FF I've played. Regardless, I enjoyed it. I was going to go for the Plat but I ended up putting the wrong save in the cloud (not the 20 hours grind after the boss save) but the one before the boss. I took that long to come back to it, I'd probably have to replay the whole game to get to grips with it's mechanics.

At this point I'm holding out for a remaster, I'm kinda surprised we haven't got one already.

There are some pretty amazing visual mods for the PC version but there are still unsolved problems (e.g. facial animations are tied to framerate so it looks ridiculous if you play at 60 or 120 fps)

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

+Great visuals
+Art direction
+Soundtrack
+Top notch CGI
+Very fun battle system in the 2nd half of the game with 3 characters and all systems in place
+Base mythology is actually quite interesting
+Gran Pulse/Oerba

-Everything else (characters, focus of the story, game design, map design, side content)

Much prefer, X, XII, XVI and VIIR to XIII.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Still surprised we don't have a trilogy remaster of this outside of the Xbox back compat.

 

[SantaC]

This video covers the entire game and development history. Will have to watch the top one later but I can't see any video covering XIII better than this one.

The one i linked had a very good story voice and never overstayed its welcome. Perfect lenght.