*** Final Fantasy XIII ***

Really excited for this now - might stick on ff10 soon and try and get it finished once and for all! hate having to trudge through the start section again :(
 
Yeah, I always want to play the older games but I've done the start sections so, so many times ;)

FF8 or FF9 it will be for me I thinks.

Also, this just got released, not that impressed by the box but it's only a box :p

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Some recent in-game shots:

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Hmmm... never fully played a FF game before. May get it when it comes out on the 360 as long as I can skip cutscenes. Nothing does my mallet in more than cutscenes you cannot skip.

I do realise that the designers and so on put hours of work into them but sometimes they really need to let their egos lie.
 
Got a PS3 last night and downlaoded some tasty 1080p vids.

I have to say this game looks spectacular and I am about as excited as is humanly possible.

(Also playing through FFVII, PSN YAY!)


Well one thing is slightly odd, for some reason Fang sounds like a *****.
 
arghh id be so tempted if i could get 7,8 and 9 on the pspgo - would just be great for the bus / train rides I need to take! Must look in to the normal psp and getting them on it. ( have a big craving for 9)
 
blairw said:
arghh id be so tempted if i could get 7,8 and 9 on the pspgo - would just be great for the bus / train rides I need to take! Must look in to the normal psp and getting them on it. ( have a big craving for 9)
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Only one downside: You'll start playing and not wanna get off the bus :P
 
flibby said:
Only one downside: You'll start playing and not wanna get off the bus :P
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This is very true ! I had to go down to London for work the other week and I decided to take my psp. I finished FF7 quite a while ago but I have recently got into FF9 again :)

I was playing it on the train down and once it got to my stop all I could think about was "imagine how much more time I would have to play if I didnt get off" :p
But I was there for a meeting I couldnt miss so I had to stop :( Man I forgot how much I loved FF9 such a great game really. Vivi is THE BEST character ever :p
 
Well it got 39/40

Apparently they gave FFXII a perfect score and FFVII 38/40 so it's safe to assume they have no idea what they are talking about and we can disregard their review as absolute rubbish.

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Ok this is bugging me, why the hell would they give FFXII a perfect score?
 
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Fenris said:
Ok this is bugging me, why the hell would they give FFXII a perfect score?
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Because it was a bold step into a different direction for a main numbered Final Fantasy game, the obvious part being the battle system, and not to mention it is one of the best looking PS2 games.

I personally thought it was great. People always complain about how you don't get a feel for the characters and there is no development or backstory to them. Whilst true in one way, especially in terms of what the game portrays to the player via cutscenes or the linear story route, I find that if you dive really deep into it, exploring as much as you can, talk to every NPC, or read much of the lore avaliable within the beastiary logs, there is a crap load of information. Huge text reading isn't exactly fun for a lot of people. Another big factor is that this game was originally concieved by Yatsumi Matsuno, and so his way of telling a story with the Ivalice world that he created in this and other related games is very different.
 
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Because it was a bold step into a different direction for a main numbered Final Fantasy game, the obvious part being the battle system, and not to mention it is one of the best looking PS2 games.

I personally thought it was great. People always complain about how you don't get a feel for the characters and there is no development or backstory to them. Whilst true in one way, especially in terms of what the game portrays to the player via cutscenes or the linear story route, I find that if you dive really deep into it, exploring as much as you can, talk to every NPC, or read much of the lore avaliable within the beastiary logs, there is a crap load of information. Huge text reading isn't exactly fun for a lot of people. Another big factor is that this game was originally concieved by Yatsumi Matsuno, and so his way of telling a story with the Ivalice world that he created in this and other related games is very different.
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The battle system was a bold step I wil admit, unfortunatly it sucked (for me).
I hated every character besides Balthier, they were either winy, obnoxious, stupid or self rightouse and few of them were really explained, the side characters were enfuriating (That bloody child that kept following me around I wanted to kill on several occasions) and the story really lacks explanation.

For instance, Balthier and Fran for the first part have no interest in helping anyone but themselves but later on for some unknown reason have a complete change of heart just because that stupid lizard man gives them a talking to....THEY'RE PIRATES FOR GOD SAKE!

In terms of combat what really killed it for me was the games complete obsession with status effects, for a lot of bosses it seems I can do literaly nothing to them without complying to some stupid status gimick which I just found tedious.

However, it is not a bad game really, I enjoyed it relatively, no where near as much as 7-10 but I really don't think it deserved a perfect score in anything, innovation is good but the innovation flopped.
 
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Im sorry but I just laughed at this. The game was made entirely of squares. It wasn't a bad game and I enjoyed the different battle system but it was horrible graphically.
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This is true, it was hardly an improvement over X, you spent most of your time walking around copy pasted hallways, desert and jungles, I actualy got lost a few times because everything looked so similar.
 
feeddagoat said:
Im sorry but I just laughed at this. The game was made entirely of squares. It wasn't a bad game and I enjoyed the different battle system but it was horrible graphically.
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I can say the same thing for Shadow of the Colossus, just squares full of blacks, greens and greys.

You have to remember that these games were created and released during the end lifespans of the PS2 and they were pushing the console to it's limits, so not exactly surprising that the games look heavily pixelated. If you can look past that, you can easily tell that the art style, designs and archetecture is what make up for it.

The Esper scenes in Final Fantasy XII may as well been benchmark demonstrations for what the aging PS2 was able to produce.
 
Fenris said:
For instance, Balthier and Fran for the first part have no interest in helping anyone but themselves but later on for some unknown reason have a complete change of heart just because that stupid lizard man gives them a talking to....THEY'RE PIRATES FOR GOD SAKE!
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Because both of them are an example of the cliche where fate got them caught up into something even bigger when they met Vaan and the others? Balthier's past history and relationship to his father Cid's obession with magicite & nethicite is one major plot point that ends up being connected to the main story.
 
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