FFXIII-2

[Niiro]

Thoughts

-Why are people excited about Serah being a playable character? To call her one-dimensional would be giving her too much credit, she was a comatose secondary plot point for 99% of the first game.
-As ^ mentioned, replace Noel with Auron (as if anyone could) and Serah with Tidus (making some headway in masculinity at least) and you have FFX's opening sequence.
-I'm anticipating more mashing of predetermined auto-battle scripts and linear character progression.
-Sequels
-I waited until XIII was half price before buying it, I don't think I'll be getting XIII-2 for quite some time.

[Hyan]

Fuck Toriyama, gawd. They need to /Yoshida him and Nomura. Also I bet focus groups wanted Noel as opposed to someone bad-ass like Auron, fuck them too.

I guess I like to make things hard for myself, as I never really used auto battle in XIII. I also ignored gambits in XII pretty much. I may have to this time if I need to swap characters though.

Also hoping they'll limit the character progression so you can't outlevel a boss or any stupid shit like that.

[Xno Kappa]

Same. First run-through I ever had on XII I basically had the game on auto-pilot while I made a sandwich. Second run-through was a lot more fun and rewarding when I ignored gambits.

[Hyan]

There really needs to be a hard-mode for these games imo.

[Tyr]

Thoughts...

I personally loved 13, but some of the cheese really hurt. The game was redeemed, and then some, by Fang and Lightning. I was excited from the initial trailer, thinking this would be lightning-centric (but sorta bummed when news spread abt fang being distant), but I will agree that I'm really skeptical of this Noel/Serah crap.

Just give me my damn Army of One...

[Lordender]

Really hope Lightning isn't the tidus of this game where you're chasing her the whole time.

[Nevex]

I always prefered the action games where going into the skill menu slowed down the game, or where skills are hotkeyed into certain buttons for quick use. I just don't really like smashing autobattle.

I never touched auto-battle during the whole game except when I felt really lazy because I don't like the idea of the game playing itself when I can avoid it.
I just played it like any other FF using manual commands and never had any issue whatsoever. The repeat option was really helpful and far superior to auto-battle imo.

[Kuya]

The game was definitely not set up for you to input every command manually. Only in very specific instances did you ever really need to pick a specific command rather than auto-battle.

[Spira]

ill admit i abused autobattle, but towards the end of the game u're gonna be using the full-atb skill and spamming repeat more often i think.. also when u're manually setting up buffs, you'll definitely not go with auto. also when I played with autobattle it wasnt that brainless cos I was still deciding when to pre-execute moves to keep enemies juggled or to prevent stagger from falling to 0.

I'd like to see things from Serah's point of view. Her character was not fleshed out at all in the first.. and if she was consciously sleeping throughout the first game she must have had a lot of thoughts to share.. which will come in useful from a recollection point of view.

for XIII-2 to be set a few years later gives them an excuse of time to have set up new towns and all.

I think Lightning wont appear until about 2/3s to halfway in the story.. and since we know shes got all that feathery etro going on, i hope the game doesnt allow us to play her unless everyone else gets their own powered up costume thing (which they probably will)...

[Gokulo]

Wasn't there some talk about Lighting ending up in another dimension too? Wonder how will they use that.

[Lucavi]

^ Of course she's in another dimension! Dissidia, remember? It all makes sense now.

[Tyrath]

I think Lightning wont appear until about 2/3s to halfway in the story.. and since we know shes got all that feathery etro going on, i hope the game doesnt allow us to play her unless everyone else gets their own powered up costume thing (which they probably will)...

You've gotta be kidding. I wanna play as Lightning. Serah can go fuck herself.

[ArchDizzle]

Lightning was one of the things SE did right so I doubt she will be absent for that much of the game. I'm thinking its more like XIII were Serah and Noel are by themselves and you play as different "groups" at some point.


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[Elcura]

remember?

Not in Dissidia though.

btw, didn't she and everyone else basically die at the end of that game?

[Kuya]

Did they? Sounds like the best SE game ever.

[ArchDizzle]

Not in Dissidia though.

btw, didn't she and everyone else basically die at the end of that game?

Fang and Vanilla crystilized while doing Ragnarok and holding up Cocoon, they were still concious it seemed tho just like in a deep slumber, everyone else was good.


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[Kaslo]

Fang and Vanilla crystilized while doing Ragnarok and holding up Cocoon, they were still concious it seemed tho just like in a deep slumber, everyone else was good.


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Talking about Dissidia I believe.

[ArchDizzle]

Well that makes more sense then lol


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[Lucavi]

I have no idea what happened at the end of that game. I'm just saying that it would be pretty funny (and possibly interesting) if that was canonically the reason why she was absent for a part of FFXIII-2. I could imagine her coming out of some spacial distortion with some boss-ass armor and skills from the other universe midway through the game and just beasting everything from then on.

[Alkar]

They don't really die, they just aren't summoned again and their souls are stuck in some sort of limbo until Chaos is actually killed in the 13th cycle.