(FFXIII) The "I Got It" Thread. - Page 4

**X-3** · 03-30-2010, 08:35 PM

This final area is...kinda weird. I'm probably going to do some grinding and missions before heading off to the room where the game probably has it's final battle.

Also, Fang's Highwind is pretty nice. I like using it when enemies are about to get out of...being staggered. GUESS WHAT IT DOES.

**LASER BEAR ASSAULT UNIT** · 03-31-2010, 08:01 AM

the ending was sad.

**X-3** · 04-04-2010, 11:23 PM

Bittersweet, yes. I'm somewhat confused about one or two things in the ending, but the Analects point at something that could explain it.

Erdawn Il Deus · 04-05-2010, 10:10 AM

Setting doesn't interest me, the game in itself looks like a high-octane GAP commercial, and the character's names - Snow? Lightning? Are you serious? Let me guess, Hope is a dark character who eventually, probably thanks to the super-fun-silly-happy-character (IE Yuffie, Selphie, Rikku, ah-haaa) Vanille, sees the silver lining. Chalk that up with a good mixture of linearity and my harrumphing of this new battle system (I don't play MMORPGs for a reason) and the fact I don't have that time to invest anymore, and I'm going to overlook it kthnxbye.

Erdawn Il Deus · 04-06-2010, 10:30 PM

Gonna tack this on actually - the real-time MMORPG battle system I think detracts from the player's appreciation ofm the enemy design - which is, as always phenomenal - in that menus and icons and all that crazy crap is popping up all over the place while you frantically select commands and control what your party is doing in combat. The way I see it, if you're going for an RPG, go for the whack-n-cast Secret of Mana style, or full out turn based. If half this game is art then we're really losing a chunk of that here, folks.

I am nobody · 04-07-2010, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Erdawn Il Deus

Gonna tack this on actually - the real-time MMORPG battle system I think detracts from the player's appreciation ofm the enemy design - which is, as always phenomenal - in that menus and icons and all that crazy crap is popping up all over the place while you frantically select commands and control what your party is doing in combat. The way I see it, if you're going for an RPG, go for the whack-n-cast Secret of Mana style, or full out turn based. If half this game is art then we're really losing a chunk of that here, folks.

The menus are actually almost always in a position where they are not covering anything but the stage design during battle, and the battle stages are usually nothing more than a big cubic room covered by the level's most common texture. As for not being able to see the enemy design, you have plenty of time to look at it while your characters are attacking. There's also the option of looking at the enemies in the bestiary, which only takes a few button presses to get to.

***Booyakasha*** · 04-17-2010, 10:19 PM

Rented it the other day. I haven't played much of it so far, and I doubt if I'll go much deeper---hasn't really grabbed me.

I am nobody · 04-18-2010, 10:51 AM

I ended up getting about 90% done and then sending it back. My patience for doing the same thing over and over again while being hit by the same attacks over and over again completely wore out after spending 30 minutes fighting a boss with 3mil health.

03-30-2010, 08:35 PM	#61
X-3 Useful as an Owl Join Date: Jan 2004 Gender: Posts: 15,943 Thanks: 753 Thanked 1,213 Times in 790 Posts Blog Entries: 10	This final area is...kinda weird. I'm probably going to do some grinding and missions before heading off to the room where the game probably has it's final battle. Also, Fang's Highwind is pretty nice. I like using it when enemies are about to get out of...being staggered. GUESS WHAT IT DOES.

03-31-2010, 08:01 AM	#62
LASER BEAR ASSAULT UNIT Videos Mod Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In my pants Gender: Posts: 4,613 Thanks: 2,502 Thanked 767 Times in 422 Posts	the ending was sad.

04-04-2010, 11:23 PM	#63
X-3 Useful as an Owl Join Date: Jan 2004 Gender: Posts: 15,943 Thanks: 753 Thanked 1,213 Times in 790 Posts Blog Entries: 10	Bittersweet, yes. I'm somewhat confused about one or two things in the ending, but the Analects point at something that could explain it.

04-05-2010, 10:10 AM	#64
Erdawn Il Deus Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Threading the jeweled thrones of earth under my sandalled feet Gender: Posts: 3,056 Thanks: 4 Thanked 47 Times in 41 Posts	Setting doesn't interest me, the game in itself looks like a high-octane GAP commercial, and the character's names - Snow? Lightning? Are you serious? Let me guess, Hope is a dark character who eventually, probably thanks to the super-fun-silly-happy-character (IE Yuffie, Selphie, Rikku, ah-haaa) Vanille, sees the silver lining. Chalk that up with a good mixture of linearity and my harrumphing of this new battle system (I don't play MMORPGs for a reason) and the fact I don't have that time to invest anymore, and I'm going to overlook it kthnxbye.

04-06-2010, 10:30 PM	#65
Erdawn Il Deus Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Threading the jeweled thrones of earth under my sandalled feet Gender: Posts: 3,056 Thanks: 4 Thanked 47 Times in 41 Posts	Gonna tack this on actually - the real-time MMORPG battle system I think detracts from the player's appreciation ofm the enemy design - which is, as always phenomenal - in that menus and icons and all that crazy crap is popping up all over the place while you frantically select commands and control what your party is doing in combat. The way I see it, if you're going for an RPG, go for the whack-n-cast Secret of Mana style, or full out turn based. If half this game is art then we're really losing a chunk of that here, folks.

04-17-2010, 10:19 PM	#67
*Booyakasha* SuperMod of War Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Wisconsinland Gender: Posts: 9,945 Thanks: 157 Thanked 1,481 Times in 763 Posts	Rented it the other day. I haven't played much of it so far, and I doubt if I'll go much deeper---hasn't really grabbed me.

04-18-2010, 10:51 AM	#68
I am nobody Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Over there. Gender: Posts: 5,515 Thanks: 309 Thanked 365 Times in 242 Posts Blog Entries: 7	I ended up getting about 90% done and then sending it back. My patience for doing the same thing over and over again while being hit by the same attacks over and over again completely wore out after spending 30 minutes fighting a boss with 3mil health.