official Final Fantasy XIII

[slyph]

Woot, all that is left is to 5 star 4 more missions, and upgrade about 8 more weapons (won't be difficult) have all my traps and I need 2 more dark matter then I have my first ever platinum trophy :D

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Okay. I just came across the Gigantuar. There is noooo way I can do that right now, so I got on with the game. :[

Unless I'm missing something? I must need 10k+ HP. And I'm like nowhere near that level. More like 1500+ and 2000+ at the min.

Beat Juggernaut pretty easily with some skill (Woop), and now I'm just making my way through .. er. Well, wherever it is I am. >.>;

[George P Global Moderator]

If all you want to do is beat the game you don't really have to max weapons up to tear 3, aka lvl100. But ofc it would make it even more easy if you can.

I mostly play for the story, so I'm going to try and do as much as I can before I go to the final chapter and end the story.

[Massiveterra]

qustion...how old is Vanille?

[Tharp Daddy]

qustion...how old is Vanille?

Mentally i think around 17-18, chronologically i think a couple hundred years?

So, was in the middle of playing Sazh and Vanille in chapter 9, i was fighting one of those dinosaur things with the scales that take forever to kill when my power decided to turn off and on, so i lost a good 10 minutes of progress in a annoying fight.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

The manual states she is 19.

Helps to look!

[Massiveterra]

The manual states she is 19.

Helps to look!

ah, i see. I'm renting the game, so no manual for me

and no reason to feel creepy LOL

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Ooooh. They take out manuals these days? I haven't rented in a really long time. :laugh:

[Massiveterra]

I rent through gamefly, so they just send you the disc(s) in the mail, similar to netflix. You can "keep" the game for $40 and they send you the box and manual

[DPyro]

The manual states she is 19.

Helps to look!

Technically she is 519 :laugh:

[Massiveterra]

Technically she is 519 :laugh:

This has actually been stated in a spoiler tag :rofl:

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Okay. I just came across the Gigantuar. There is noooo way I can do that right now, so I got on with the game. :[

Unless I'm missing something? I must need 10k+ HP. And I'm like nowhere near that level. More like 1500+ and 2000+ at the min.

Beat Juggernaut pretty easily with some skill (Woop), and now I'm just making my way through .. er. Well, wherever it is I am. >.>;

I barely beat him with 17,000 HP. He was probably the hardest battle. You need to cast slow on him

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I barely beat him with 17,000 HP. He was probably the hardest battle. You need to cast slow on him

Yup, I am definitely leaving that one til later. It makes the Grand Cactuar from FF8 look easy. And that thing had me crying for weeks trying to beat it. :laugh:

Currently dashing through Eden. How close am I to the end? I just beat my first Proto-Behemoth. Everything seems quite easy so far. I'm assuming it's quite a long dungeon, no?

[MindTrickz]

So i just bought Final Fantasty XII. I have been a major fan of the series since I interduced to FF7 back in the 98. I have since played every installment rreleased with the exception of Final Fantasy 10-2 and 11. I never got around to 10-2 and I don't care for multiplayer.

So I bought #13, unwrapped it and started playing. I'm currently 3-4 hours in the game and I find the game to be un-Final Fantasy-like with the exception of the battle system and the world-setting.

Here is my first impression of the game.

1. The game is too Linear.

One of the major aspect I love about this series is the game exploration and ability to travel around the world, vast badlands or from city to city. What I have seen in FF13 is that all I do is travel on a path[with different backdrop. May it be the City or Lake Bresha(SP?)]. It is visually stunning but gets boring verry fast. That is a major let down and game ruiner for me but I am trying to remain positive and complete the game to see if it really is worth all the rave reviews.

2. Wrong choice in picking the main protagonist.

I feel that the developers choose the wrong person as the lead character. Lightning is as one-dimensional and boring as a lead character comes. It might only be at the begining of the game but so far she comes of as cold, non-chalant and a bitof bich. There is no connection with the character and I really could not care for her. She lacks many of the traits that a main protagonist In the Final Fantasy series should have. It might change as the game progees but so far Snow seems like would have been a better choice for that role.

3. The way the story is told.... or not

I find it irratating and a major let down that I have to go inside the Datalog to read about what is going in the story instead of being told in the gameplay itself or the in the countless cutscenes.

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What do you guys think? Am i being too harsh, somewhere in the middle or is it spot on?

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

You're partially right, but like most people will say.. the game is different until a certain point. Lightning takes a back seat after a certain point and Vanille and Fang seem to take over. And while the linearity all but remains, there is a massive area with side quests to do much later in the game so theres a teeeny bit of non-linear gameplay.

It's not the best, but it's still fun to play! Plus snow may be the most hated character in the game. He's like the Cait Sith of FFXIII. :laugh:

[Pablo2008jedi]

Although, I'm slightly disappointed in VVXIII being so linear, I'm lso quite happy its not 90+ hours of gameplay I simply don't have the time for that sort of game these days :laugh:

[Massiveterra]

honestly, there are far worse things to complain about this game than the linearity

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Okay guys, I need some help on this part.

I haven't done much upgrading for weapons (all are maxed at tier 2, except Lightning, she has a level 48 Omega weapon (tier 3)) and none of my accessories are upgraded. I noticed that I can upgrade rings with HP up to 3000! So, I am currently doing one ring I found, it started with 800HP, now it's up to 1000HP.

However, I need MONEY! In order to beat the last few missions, I need to upgrade my weapons (getting those tropz, i found away to turn 1 tropz into 3..) but to upgrade my weapons, I need tons and tons of cash! Any suggestions?

[Tharp Daddy]

Just beat disc 2, i am quite enjoying this game so far. Lightning's personality change after her "being a pet" speach was refreshing, she acts like a real person now. I absolutely loved the scene with Sazh and Vanille

When he found out Vanille caused his son to become a l'cie, and i loved the scene where they talked, he almost shot her, and his eidolon (sp?) came out, i think he is my favorite character

[Slane]

Okay guys, I need some help on this part.

I haven't done much upgrading for weapons (all are maxed at tier 2, except Lightning, she has a level 48 Omega weapon (tier 3)) and none of my accessories are upgraded. I noticed that I can upgrade rings with HP up to 3000! So, I am currently doing one ring I found, it started with 800HP, now it's up to 1000HP.

However, I need MONEY! In order to beat the last few missions, I need to upgrade my weapons (getting those tropz, i found away to turn 1 tropz into 3..) but to upgrade my weapons, I need tons and tons of cash! Any suggestions?

Killing the turtles right? The platinum ingots sell for 150k.

[slyph]

Yeah, just farm ingots for a couple of hours. I got 1.4 million gil in about 45 minutes. with some lucky drops.

[George P Global Moderator]

Well, started doing some missions, did the first 4. Guess now is a good time to hit up that CP farming spot. w00t!

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Only hit chapter 7, so still quite early on, but I think this takes second place after Resident Evil 5 as my most disappointing "next gen" update to a series this generation.

1. RE5

2. FF13

3. SH5

As it stands.

Hate the characters, hate the linearity, don't care about the story, the only thing keeping me going just now is the fairly good battle system and an HD FF. Graphics are great.

So far as RPGs made by Japanese developers, Yakuza 3, Demons Souls and Valkyria Chronicles have trampled this for me, FF only prevails as a graphical masterpiece.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Yeah, just farm ingots for a couple of hours. I got 1.4 million gil in about 45 minutes. with some lucky drops.

did you farm the turtles? And where are these turtles?

[Massiveterra]

Hate the characters, hate the linearity, don't care about the story, the only thing keeping me going just now is the fairly good battle system and an HD FF.

Every single dialog in the game:

"l'Cie, l'Cie, Fal'Cie, l'Cie, Pulse, Cacoon, l'Cie, Focus, l'Cie, l'Cie, Crystal, Fal'Cie, Snow, Vanille, l'Cie, l'Cie, Fal'Cie, Pulse, Gran Pulse, Lightning, l'Cie, l'Cie, Pulse, Fal'Cie"

:laugh: