*** Final Fantasy XIII ***

GRRRRR the wonderful purple store is still saying Packing of my PS3 collectors :s its crap you pay for express delivery so they dont dispatch the day before (hopefully) if i got normal delivery it would have been sent on Thurs/Friday!! :S insane....

It better get sent today :O:O:O :(
 
Meh... Shopto hasn't dispatched mine and after having a gander at their forums it seems peoples copies are arriving today. I just cancelled my pre order so I can pick a copy up tomorrow morning from Sainsbury's or Tesco.
 
Matutu said:
GRRRRR the wonderful purple store is still saying Packing of my PS3 collectors :s its crap you pay for express delivery so they dont dispatch the day before (hopefully) if i got normal delivery it would have been sent on Thurs/Friday!! :S insane....

It better get sent today :O:O:O :(
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It would have been sent on Saturday to arrive tomorrow, I don't see the problem.
 
UnworthyBean said:
It would have been sent on Saturday to arrive tomorrow, I don't see the problem.
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Not what they just told me on the phone lol apparently if you went the standard delivery most got sent out Thursday/Friday last week :S, thats why some even got theirs on Saturday depending on how there royal mail works.
 
looks pretty good to me, Square made the effort to redo the lip movement for english versions, although i have maybe one or twice seen it slightly wrong. 12 hours played so far.
 
Matutu said:
Not what they just told me on the phone lol apparently if you went the standard delivery most got sent out Thursday/Friday last week :S, thats why some even got theirs on Saturday depending on how there royal mail works.
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Mine got dispatched Thursday and its still not here. Same thing happened with DJ Hero with Game, I vowed I'd never order from them again. Wish I could cancel it now and go pick it up at midnight from a supermarket :(.
 
lol my local adsa has already sold out ..... something tells me they were selling before the release date :p
 
Another question as i keep hearint it from other people but well they can be wrong 8 times outta 10 but they keep saying first hour you just basicly press a/x for battle meaning auto battle? If so thats crap i want to chose my attacks even if their aint many >.<
 
Mark1989 said:
Another question as i keep hearint it from other people but well they can be wrong 8 times outta 10 but they keep saying first hour you just basicly press a/x for battle meaning auto battle? If so thats crap i want to chose my attacks even if their aint many >.<
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First 20 hours, apparently. I am sceptical, myself.


rp2000
 
Well thats just crap i aint fussed about the linerty reports but if im just gonna tap x for 20hours thats just gonna be abore of battles, I played the jap demo and if im correct that was from very early part of the game and in that their wasnt many attacks i could do but it wasnt just press x/a i had to chose my attacks none of this auto battle i keep hearing =(
 
Mark1989 said:
Well thats just crap i aint fussed about the linerty reports but if im just gonna tap x for 20hours thats just gonna be abore of battles, I played the jap demo and if im correct that was from very early part of the game and in that their wasnt many attacks i could do but it wasnt just press x/a i had to chose my attacks none of this auto battle i keep hearing =(
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I am going to start playing the game soon, I will start a stopwatch and see how many minutes before I am allowed to press a button that is not X. If the naysayers are right I won't be posting in this thread again for 20 hours, at least.

Being realistic I suspect there is a lot of exaggeration going on to be honest, I am sure it may be linear, but I doubt you just watch the screen and tap X when prompted. Although such games do exist (they are called Guitar Hero and Dance dance :) )


rp2000
 
you can choose what ever spells etc you want, it's actually a lot to juggle one you get going with the Paradigms aswell.
 
I am going to start playing the game soon, I will start a stopwatch and see how many minutes before I am allowed to press a button that is not X. If the naysayers are right I won't be posting in this thread again for 20 hours, at least.

Being realistic I suspect there is a lot of exaggeration going on to be honest, I am sure it may be linear, but I doubt you just watch the screen and tap X when prompted. Although such games do exist (they are called Guitar Hero and Dance dance
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Cool let us know what you think i expect some comments shortly :P
 
Mark1989 said:
Well thats just crap i aint fussed about the linerty reports but if im just gonna tap x for 20hours thats just gonna be abore of battles, I played the jap demo and if im correct that was from very early part of the game and in that their wasnt many attacks i could do but it wasnt just press x/a i had to chose my attacks none of this auto battle i keep hearing =(
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hehe, its like that at the start as you just have att/blitz but as you progress (takes about 2 hours) you will unlock a lot of things like magic, aoe spells moves etc, who is going to be healer tank support etc, paradigms/attributes lots of diff weapons and armour, gets really good, but yes the first couple of hours is basically the tutorial for those who haven't pld ff before and gradually unlocks stuff.
 
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Yeah you don't start off with a lot, but eventually progressing through the game will unlock more. And you know the Auto-Battle command is optional for lazy battles, it's not like that is the only thing you can use.
 
Only played for an hour, therefore only have 2 abilities, one of which is direct attack and one is an area effect attack. I use both quite often, just trying to time area attacks when monsters are close together. It isn't exactly lots to do, but it's what you should expect from only have 2 moves :)

So far I'm loving the game! The battle system works very well I find, I was dreading it to be something like X-2 but the system is much more balanced and thought out. The linearity doesn't bother me in the slightest and I'm not sure why reviewers keep raising this point as the game was obviously designed this way. Seems a lot of people just rate it in comparison of what they expected compared to what it actually is.
 
Really though, it's no different to any past Final Fantasy game where all you have is Attack and a few magic spells like Fire, Ice, Thunder/Lightning when you start off and cannot upgrade or access the menu statistics for them until later on. Most of the time, I don't even use the magic spells until like the first boss battle, so it really is no difference if I just constantly use Attack till then.
 
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