SquareEnix should just fold

[SantaC]

what i dont like is that the crystarium system is scaling with the story.

[TakingBackSunday]

So it's doing it's job!

[SantaC]

So it's doing it's job!

I have the points, but i cannot upgrade until next cut-scene or so. That's not how it worked with sphere grid system. (since it is pretty similar)

[TakingBackSunday]

Ehhh as far as I remember there were certain items you needed beyond certain points in the game (whether it be through chests or loot from battles later in the game) to be able to truly buff up your character further along the grid.  XIII is similar only this time its just contextual.

[OptimoPeach]

How much lame weeaboo j-pop crap with vocals is there on the OST? I thought the soundtrack was pretty hawt until someone posted the gayest song I've ever heard in the FF13 thread

[demi]

Shut up loser. Track is awesome. Come out of the closet

[TakingBackSunday]

So far in my game (only about 10 hours in) the only uguu~ song is the thing that plays when they talk about Serah...I've only encountered it two or three times.

[Beezy]

again,

this thread sucks


It also sucked last month when we had it



And it sucks when GAF has it once a week.

Get off of S-E's nuts and acting like they don't deserve any of this especially after the extremely stupid comments from them in the past few months.

Anyways, DQ rocks.

SE has released several GREAT games in the last few years [TLR, BBS, TWEWY, DQIV DS, DQV DS], some love/hate games [FFXIII, FFVII: CC, FFXII RW, FFIII DS, FFIV DS, DQIX, DQVI DS], and barely any "bad" games [].

FF, DQ, FF, DQ, FF, DQ...

So fucking annoying. I'm gonna go play Mass Effect 2.

[Don Flamenco]

I hope the next game makes it so that the characters run on their own and when you want to fight, you just hit a button.  The cinematic feel of this game is really hampered by having to point the characters down a field.  It's a linear path anyway, so why give me the illusion of control?  It's just busy work...they should run on their own.

[magus]

bebpo wins the thread

[Powerslave]

But seriously, is anyone really enjoying FFXIII's OST? Could it be the worst in the series?

Let's not get crazy now.  XIII's soundtrack is one of the series best, IMO, especially post VIII.  Even those who aren't fans of the game have commented on the great soundtrack.

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sounds so much like something out of FFX/XII

[Ichirou]

beezy wins the thread

Fixed.  Mass Effect 2.

[Smooth Groove]

I won't miss SE if they go away but I don't really get the complains either.  It seems like SE is still pretty much giving their fans what they want. 

[M3wThr33]

No! I still want Kane & Lynch 2!

[Powerslave]

SquareEnix more like SquareEatsDicks

[Raban]

FF XIII is enjoyable as fuck.  Why the hell do you care so much about graphics?  It's pretty entertaining to me and a lot of others.

But for my personal taste?  They should bring back the win the song.  That's classic.  Bring back world maps.  So much fun.  And don't factor in an Auto Battle next time.  Please

Other than that, they're not bad.

Hey Mups, why haven't you accepted my XBL friend invite? :'(

[recursivelyenumerable]

Quote from: BrandNew on March 19, 2010, 08:25:52 PM
I don't see how XIII's music variation (or, lack of said variation) differs from the rest of the series except for XII.  You have a main battle theme, a boss battle theme, and then probably an über boss battle theme.

I quite like the regular battle theme for XIII.

You're right. But it's 2010

FFXIII is probably the biggest soundtrack in the whole series -- it's 4 discs like the others since 7, but this time the majority of tracks don't loop.  It's hard to complain about volume/variety especially since most RPGs have 2-disc soundtracks nowadays.

[maxy]

Yes,FF13 sucks...garbage

SE should focus on remakes,at least that has a chance to be good.


 

[naff]

Yeah

XII - awful

XIII - awesome

Suck it bro. FFXII makes XIII suck a dick.

FFXII = pinnacle of gaming (as long as you ignore the story, hunts ftw!!!).

[tiesto]

I'm in the midst of ch 7 and I'm liking FF13 better than 12 so far, it's not one of my favorites of the series but it's far from the worst. I really do miss the towns and exploration from 12, but I'd much rather have a decent battle system and better pacing over that mess of a game. The story hasn't really grabbed me yet though.

Ch 6 had some absolutely incredible graphics though and I liked the jpop music in it. Ch 4 and 5 dragged on for far too long. But ch 4 had good music.

[Himu]

How does FF13 have better pacing than FF12? Its gameplay pacing is atrocious. Fight, cutscene, fight, cutscene gets old by hour 20. FF12 let you explore areas you didn't have to venture into yet via the story, hunts, and more.

If you're arguing story pacing, then I disagree point blank, though.

[originalz]

Yes,FF13 sucks...garbage

SE should focus on remakes,at least that has a chance to be good.
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I don't get what this picture has to do with anything.  Not surprising that the trade-in value of 13 is so low, it sold insanely well, people beat it, then they sold it.  Same thing happens with other games, I remember seeing copies of FF12 for like 1000yen a few months after release as well.  Hell, Star Ocean 4 360 also had a similar fate to this.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

My inner Japafag hopes that the reason why Japan is doing so badly this generation is that the near failure of the PS3 threw things so out of whack for Japan that the developers and publishers could not adjust properly in time for this generation.  So I'm hoping next generation when they aren't so stupid as to put all of their eggs in the Sony basket, they will be on top of their game again.

SE should not fold and most of the suggestions here to fix SE suck ass.  SE RPGs should not change (read: devolve) themselves to WRPGs, which are as painfully generic and bland as JRPGs have become (ie, it hasn't made a shred of progress since the mid 90s)  Both genres can co-exist.  Instead they should just make better games instead of Final Fantasy cash-ins and archaic updates to their 16 bit library.  They did it just fine before they realized millions of gibbering morons would buy anything with a "Final Fantasy" slapped on the cover.  I imagine it will be a long while before they want to focus away from FF or cheap port jobs for the DS.  I guess they make whatever makes them money.  They're giving their fans what they want, unlike Sony.

[SantaC]

How does FF13 have better pacing than FF12? Its gameplay pacing is atrocious. Fight, cutscene, fight, cutscene gets old by hour 20. FF12 let you explore areas you didn't have to venture into yet via the story, hunts, and more.

this

[Himu]

Anyways Santac, we already have a ff13 topic so thread this is redundant.

[Shuri]

I'm not all that far into the game, but I didn't notice any of the compression artifacts people talked about... What gives?

[maxy]

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I don't get what this picture has to do with anything.  Not surprising that the trade-in value of 13 is so low, it sold insanely well, people beat it, then they sold it.  Same thing happens with other games, I remember seeing copies of FF12 for like 1000yen a few months after release as well.  Hell, Star Ocean 4 360 also had a similar fate to this.

Seems fair...same quality,same fate

[demi]

I'm not all that far into the game, but I didn't notice any of the compression artifacts people talked about... What gives?

It's there man. It's a noticable "fuzz" filter, like something in Photoshop

[Kestastrophe]

What version has artifacting, PS3 or 360?

[demi]

360