360 gets!

[magus]

oh god the love story in this game is so cringe worthy

i don't mind the character much but combat has been terrible... it feels like the game does everything for me and i just go "sure game go ahead!" by mashing A,the crystarium system seems pretty much like a lame-o version of the sphere grid,i don't like how you have to unlock it as you play,snow is already all filled out... and uh when do i get to use these material for something? for now they are just sitting in my inventory and it's starting to annoy me.... or am i supposed to sell these for money since it seems monster don't drop any?

[maxy]

Yeah you have to sell them if you want money,i think...forgot almost everything about this game

Combat is very easy first few hours,but then it kinda ramps up(you have to occasionally press some extra button,lol)

[magus]

there is one thing i don't understand... attacker keeps the chain going and wizard make the chain increase quickly,assuming there is an enemy with a really short bar,can't i just make a team of 3 wizard and go to town or heck use 1 attacker and 2 wizard and then switch to 3 wizard?

also should i worry about 5-star every boss fight?

[Positive Touch]

there is one thing i don't understand... attacker keeps the chain going and wizard make the chain increase quickly,assuming there is an enemy with a really short bar,can't i just make a team of 3 wizard and go to town or heck use 1 attacker and 2 wizard and then switch to 3 wizard?

also should i worry about 5-star every boss fight?

wizard makes the chain go up fast but also down fast.  you need an attaker to slow down its decrease between turns or while healing.  if theyre really weak tho then yeah you can use all wizards.  and fuck five stars; doesn't matter.

[Positive Touch]

and hold on to the items because youll use them for gamings worst upgrading system ever

[Himu]

oh god the love story in this game is so cringe worthy

i don't mind the character much but combat has been terrible... it feels like the game does everything for me and i just go "sure game go ahead!" by mashing A,the crystarium system seems pretty much like a lame-o version of the sphere grid,i don't like how you have to unlock it as you play,snow is already all filled out... and uh when do i get to use these material for something? for now they are just sitting in my inventory and it's starting to annoy me.... or am i supposed to sell these for money since it seems monster don't drop any?

you use the materials to upgrade your weapons.

it is the most obtuse and mundane weapon upgrade system i have ever fucking seen.

snow and vanille don't annoy you?

and yes, keep your items till like chapter 10 or 11.

[Himu]

there is one thing i don't understand... attacker keeps the chain going and wizard make the chain increase quickly,assuming there is an enemy with a really short bar,can't i just make a team of 3 wizard and go to town or heck use 1 attacker and 2 wizard and then switch to 3 wizard?

also should i worry about 5-star every boss fight?

five stars drops better loot but it rarely ever matters till you start doing marks.

and you got it. when you can make your own party, two magicians (ravager) and one attacker (forgot what the fuck it's called in game) is usually enough to decimate any enemy.

[maxy]

there is one thing i don't understand... attacker keeps the chain going and wizard make the chain increase quickly,assuming there is an enemy with a really short bar,can't i just make a team of 3 wizard and go to town or heck use 1 attacker and 2 wizard and then switch to 3 wizard?

also should i worry about 5-star every boss fight?

I don't think so,never cared about stars though

You can make a team of three wizards,but the bar will go fast down then.You need an attacker just to trigger the slow chain after that wizards will do the rest.

The problem is that later in the game you will need to heal,enemies will become stronger
Not sure how far you are but game will introduce something called "paradigm shift"...it will allow you to change "jobs,roles" on the fly...you can predetermine them in the menu

Powerful enemy

Enter as sentinel,healer,attacker
use them
paradigm shift
wizard,wizard,wizard
bar is gone...if enemy attacks are too powerful replace one wizard with a healer
paradigm shift
sentinel,healer,attacker
repeat

[Himu]

later battles are usually:

sentinel/saboteur/synergist
paradigm shift
rav/rav/com

with a combination

of med/med/sen

[magus]

snow and vanille don't annoy you?

snow not in the slighest,he kinda reminds me of laguna... vanille bothered me a little at the start when she wouldn't stop hugging the fuck out of everybody,what she is? a carebear?

i think the most cringeworth character are the NPC,MOMS ARE TOUGH! WE ARE NORA! FUCK YEA NORA! NORA NORA NORA! good thing they vanished into nothing

and yes, keep your items till like chapter 10 or 11.

does that mean that all my loot is for nothing until that late?
man that kinda sucks.....

[Himu]

fuck you. snow sucks.

HEROES NEVER DIE

[magus]

yea that doesn't bother me at all,it's all done to fit the idea that he's a loud mouthed idiot and.... it works! there is a scene where he is all alone and he goes like "YOUR HERO IS COMING!" there is no other point to this other than to extabilish that

you know i feel the same way when people talk about the dreaded FFX laughing scene "omg it sounds so awkward!" that's because it's supposed to be! people just seems to love removing the whole context just so that they can go on raving about how it would be much better if the character were better written tough better written always seems to be "more like the game i soooo much,matsuno ,bioware "

if i had to pick a PC that bugs me it would be hope,the whole reason he exist is so that we can have drama,it's a shit that RPG like to pull off once in a while,kill an unimportant NPC so the PC can rave about it for a while for dramaaaaaaaaaa

luckily the game structure counter balance this so if you have 5 minute of hope dramaaaaaaaaa,the next 5 minute would be sazh being all "YO MAN I'M THE COMIC SIDEKICK WHO'S TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT!"

[Himu]

Snow sucks though. FFX laughing scene was awkward on purpose but like, Snow sucks. Who goes around screaming YOUR HERO IS HERE outloud? God I hate that guy.

hope gets awesome BECAUSE of the drama though.

[demi]

Snow rocks... get real

Hope is my waifu

[demi]

there is one thing i don't understand... attacker keeps the chain going and wizard make the chain increase quickly,assuming there is an enemy with a really short bar,can't i just make a team of 3 wizard and go to town or heck use 1 attacker and 2 wizard and then switch to 3 wizard?

also should i worry about 5-star every boss fight?

You have to five star the final boss for an achievement. And I think there's something for five-starring the Cieth trials? Otherwise, its not a big deal for stars.

[Brehvolution]

Yeah, it's on Youtube.

Damn, the end of the year and one last annihilation.  Diunx found in 2012, still crying.

2012 might not be enough time. Iguessing more like

[Eel O'Brian]

[The Sceneman]

It warms my heart to see Magus enjoying real games

Meanwhile Borys is "building his library"

I lol'ed

[Purple Filth]

It warms my heart to see Magus enjoying real games

Meanwhile Borys is "building his library"

Borys got a TV?

[magus]

i don't understand this... from what i get,all i need to do to upgrade an item is sacrifice some of my materials but if it is that simple then why are there so many materials?

by the way i'm starting to like the battle system a little better,it's not very complicated but it keeps you on your toe's when fighting stuff that can kick your ass,which is more than what i can say about most rpg

oh by the way i just beated odin,that guy was a pain in the ass,while we are here someone wants to explain me the finicky of summons?

[iconoclast]

the upgrade system is kinda distinguished mentally-challenged, but IIRC, first you need to get your multiplier up to like 4x by using creature parts (since they give low exp but high multiplier), and then you load it up with mechanical parts (which give high exp but lower the multiplier). some parts are more useful than others. that's all there really is to it.

the battle system gets better once Lightning's main class switches from commando to ravager. when you're mainly playing a commando, you have like 3 attacks. and you play a commando for like 15 hours.
it's pretty fun though once you have a full team and everyone has access to their two or three primary classes. it's easily one of my favorite FF battle systems.

the battles against the summons are probably the toughest in the main story. i don't really remember much about them though. i don't remember much about FF13 in general actually. all i DO know is that Sunleth Waterscape is the best song ever

[Himu]

Summon fights are like these fights where you have to figure out their weak point before they kill you.

You use summons by summoning them if you have the ap. iirc you can only use one summon a battle, I don't fucking remember. you use a bunch of random attacks and then finish off with a lame special attack.

also, chapter 4 sucks. Have fun on chapter 5, it's almost as bad. Chapter 6-9 are pretty good.

[magus]

i'm on chapter 7 and i don't see the difference you say... if anything playing team sazh-vanille is a little annoying because it's pretty clear none of the two is suited for physical attacks which make random battle a pain in the ass....

oh by the way i leaved a chest behind a supermonster in chapter 6... am i supposed to come later? was there a way to make the monster leave? did the chest have anything important?

[maxy]

No you can't go back

[demi]

The only "missable" items are some items that you sell, that are required to make some accessories, afaik. These are found in chests when you get to the open area of Gran Pulse.

But chances are you arent gonna go for the "all items" achievement anyway, so I wouldnt worry about it.

[magus]

i checked a faq and apparently that chest just had some material so i guess i didn't miss anything important....

anyway you know what's the thing i hate the most about this game? the theme song! that shit is worse than fuckin eyes on me,i don't know how they even managed to do that

[demi]

You mean "My Hands" ? That song rox.

[magus]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

this shit here,it feels like my ear's are being stabbed by tiny angsty teenagers!

[demi]

hahahahaha. thats not the theme song afaik. but yeah you hear that a lot.

needs more snow theme.

[iconoclast]

Sunleth Waterscape is the ultimate evolution of Serah's theme

[magus]

hahahahaha. thats not the theme song afaik. but yeah you hear that a lot.

needs more snow theme.

i tought it was the theme song since it's get played even on the title screen
anyway i really like snow as a character,in fact i think he fits more than lightining... people says "final fantasy need better written character!" but never explains exactly what this entitles

EDIT HD CHOCOBO,THEY LOOK SO FLUFFY AND TASTY

[chronovore]

prototype is actualy..... kind of cool? a sandbox game? that's a surprise for sure,i guess when you are flying around,grabbing people and doing shit instead of dodging tree that appears out of nowhere these kind of game can actualy work

Prototype is what the Hulk: Ultimate Destruction team made after that gem, so there was a lot of hope that it would be some godlike new IP. Sega, in making the HULK game to coincide with the movie launch apparently aped everything they could out of H:UD but didn't do it particularly well. Sega's HULK is OK, but falls short of greatness at every possible opportunity. It's sad, because it clearly is approaching doing a lot right, but is hamstrung and just can't quite make it.

What little I've played of PROTOTYPE feels like Sega's HULK, but done much better. As such, I've set it aside until I could really absorb it. Um, no pun intended.

[magus]

i think i'm getting near the end of chapter 9... i swear whoever decided to make a random encounter with 3 heavy artillery needs to get punched in the dick! it takes 5 minute to take them down

5 WHOLE FREAKIN MINUTE FOR A RANDOM ENCOUNTER

but anyway i was thinking of getting katamari,just for a quick bost to my japafagness list of games,how does it compare to the first 2 on ps2?

[demi]

hurry up and get last remnant, play a super amazing awesome game.

[magus]

eeeeehhhh on my "list of jrpg to play" that's really quite low and beside isn't that a kawazu game? i don't trust kawazu game,they always seems to be perfectly designed to piss off player

[demi]

its the fucking best game ever magus, why would you say no to what i recommend. i'll gut you

i think FF2 and Romancing Saga are garbage. this game is amazing. GOD DAMNIT MAGUS

[magus]

alright fine fine it will come after FF13,lost odyssey and revenant of fate

[maxy]

Last Remnant is amazing,true next gen jrpg
No jprg has captivated me like Last Remnant,easily 100+ hours,so addicting
Have to replay it soon

play it magus

[demi]

If maxy bought games, his collection would be a grand total of ONE because of this game

[maxy]

Actually i have like 6 original 360 games,all bought before the first rrod(one year) and about 20 PC ones

[demi]

But if he DID buy those games, rather tha nreceive them as gifts, he would have a grand total of ONE - Last Remnant

[maxy]

hmm

The Last Remnant

[iconoclast]

alright fine fine it will come after FF13,lost odyssey and revenant of fate

well Resonance of Fate, Nier, and Vesperia are better than TLR. I'd probably put TLR above Lost  Odyssey and Blue Dragon tho.