Final Fantasy XIII

[Folant]

CH 11

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FUCK this Vanille Eidolon.............help?

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I went SAB/SEN and MED/SEN. You seem to get more points on SAB than MED or RAV, and with Fang pretty much constantly tanking, you don't need to worry about healing Vanille too much so you can Spam enfeebs.

[Kirin]

Chapter 8

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Is there a reason why Dajh doesn't turn to crystal the same way Serah did at the beginning? Dajh just looks like hes captured and frozen, while Serah really turned to crystal.

[Despain]

Don't understand what you mean. It wasn't as dramatic, but its still all the same.

CH.9

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ROFL@ When everyone's all reunited, and Fang takes a look at Vanille's l'Cie mark. <3 how everyone just turns around and coughs as if nothing's happening. For some reason this part had me rofl'ing. I hope there's more little funnies like this as the game goes on, since I figure the entire crew's gonna stick together now

[Folant]

I think what he means is that,

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Sarah turned pure crystal, see through crystal, wheras Dahj just looked like he was incased in crystal.

[Lbelle]

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I went SAB/SEN and MED/SEN. You seem to get more points on SAB than MED or RAV, and with Fang pretty much constantly tanking, you don't need to worry about healing Vanille too much so you can Spam enfeebs.

yeah idk i dont have sab for her so this is fucking ridiculously hard, probably on my 20th try or more.

[Kirin]

I think what he means is that,

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Sarah turned pure crystal, see through crystal, wheras Dahj just looked like he was incased in crystal.

This.

Also:

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I think its neat how they change each characters fal'Cie mark, based on Fangs explanation of its progression from l'Cie to Cie'th, after strenous events or occurences. Like Sazh's gets points on the end of his after the Vanille/Brynhildr events, Hope gets some forks on his after the attack at his home, etc.

The attention to detail that only a game of this graphical level can achieve is really impressive to me.

Also, why so much hate on Hope, Vanille, and other dumb things? For real? As of chapter 9 I actually care for ALL the main characters AND most of the sub characters too, where as in other FF's you care for the 2 leads, and maybe one or two others...and thats it. The writers AND voice talent have done an amazing job, storytelling wise, fleshing out everything we see and they speak and making it real.

[Lbelle]

is there a way to flee battles

[Charismatic]

FF12 wasn't japan-y or anime-ish. (aside from the addition of Vaan [who actually mellows out quite a bit after Jahara and is no longer all Japan-y aside from his look] and Penelo)
Just sayin'

[Amiricle]

Dammmmn lol sucks I cant play with Vanille as lead worth shit cause her summon animation & gestalt mode are freakin awesome.

Edit: Lbelle:

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will be tougher but not impossible without Sab (doesnt she auto come with some sab skill?) but Id start fight as Rav/Com, swappin to Rav/Sen after round 1. Then keep swappin from either Rav/Sen to Med/Sen (Will be close on time but safer) or try to time swaps from Rav/Com - Med/Sen like Abandon said.

Also, have any shrouds? poppin some o those before entering cutscene would surely help. Thats what I had to do for Bahamut lol

and no, cant flee, but game autosaves before a battle anyway, so not really neccesary

[Kiarax]

is there a way to flee battles

Press Retry?

[Folant]

Lose and Retry. No Flee option or ability.

[Kiarax]

You can just pause it and hit Retry.

[Lbelle]

there are some battles I don't want to retry, and I want to run away from and not have to do, hence flee >_>

[Despain]

Retry puts you outside of the field before the battle takes place. Just avoid the mobs. Deceptisol helps.

[Pirian]

God I love this game. The story, the voice acting, the lip syncing, the seamless transitions and everything else that is just pure eye candy. Really this is probably the best FF in such a long time. I don't know why people were bitching about the linearity; it gave all the characters such depth, and it's not like the entire game is that 1-way. At times it feels a lot like I'm playing a movie, and I love it, lol. Oh, and special mention to doing away completely with the dialog boxes and having everyone have a voice all the time.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

what has happened to the FF series? I mean, I'm going to actually beat this one unlike FF12, but I haven't played a decent FF that really FELT like a FF game since 9. FF10 was good, but was the beginning of this line of strange departures. I really hope that FF15 goes back to the good old ATB battles where you need to strategically think things out, and has an awesome MATURE story - none of this anime fluff.

Then again, thats just me. Theres probably a bunch of weirdos that love the over exaggerated anime style this game has. /sigh another disappointment.

They are trying to pull in more casual rpg players/girls.
They do IX which is a throwback to classic FF's and it doesn't sell as well as VII/VIII

X to X-2 is square getting more and more accessible to casual players. They sell well. Then they do FFXII which had the open world and the complex gambit system and people complained/hated it.

They go back to Linear pop songs and eye candy and say fuck pleasing everyone yo, let's make sexy games that sell well and cross over to people who maybe never played rpgs but think snow is hot, or buy Leona Lewis CD's.

[Despain]

God I love this game. The story, the voice acting, the lip syncing, the seamless transitions and everything else that is just pure eye candy. Really this is probably the best FF in such a long time. I don't know why people were bitching about the linearity; it gave all the characters such depth, and it's not like the entire game is that 1-way. At times it feels a lot like I'm playing a movie, and I love it, lol. Oh, and special mention to doing away completely with the dialog boxes and having everyone have a voice all the time.

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The linearity hasn't bothered me the slightest. Honestly, character development in this game is phenomenal. This is the FIRST FF in a LONG time where I actually care and WANT to use every single one of my characters. HATE that I'm only limited to using 3 in battle QQ.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

I came into the game expecting to be REALLY turned off by the linearity, but honestly it doesn't bother me.
I am wondering if I'm gonna want to replay it after I finish it..
Also this is the first game other than ME2 that I would buy any and all DLC day one

alt costumes/missions/bosses/Eidolons c'mon SE DOO ETT

[TacoTaru]

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The linearity hasn't bothered me the slightest. Honestly, character development in this game is phenomenal. This is the FIRST FF in a LONG time where I actually care and WANT to use every single one of my characters. HATE that I'm only limited to using 3 in battle QQ.

Definitely agree with the second part (with the exception of Hope because he still annoys the shit out of me). This is probably the first FF since 9 that really captivated me into wanting to keep pushing and pushing because I want to see how each chapter wraps up.

[Lbelle]

CH 11, again

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I know on the map legend, it says "Active Cie'th Stone" but this is directing me to missions I've already done. Is there a way to find new missions that I have to yet complete?

Also, what is the icon under the wind in the libra/info pane?