THE FINAL FANTASY XIII TOPIC

post=127740
I don't know about these new RPGs. To a guy that hasn't played one in earnest since FF7, these new FFs seems like dauntingly steep learning curves, and I usually just won't bother. I miss the good ol' days when all you had to do was select FIGHT, SPELL, ITEM, or RUN from a menu. *spits into a spittoon*

Same applies for new FPSs, and fighting games. Do you guys remember when you only had two buttons? A and B?

Most older RPGs are about 10000000x harder than new ones.

post=127740
I don't know about these new RPGs. To a guy that hasn't played one in earnest since FF7, these new FFs seems like dauntingly steep learning curves, and I usually just won't bother. I miss the good ol' days when all you had to do was select FIGHT, SPELL, ITEM, or RUN from a menu. *spits into a spittoon*

Same applies for new FPSs, and fighting games. Do you guys remember when you only had two buttons? A and B?

It's NOT 1992 anymore. Get with the program! =P

kenton is a dad he doesn't know how to work anything

don't let him near a blender for god's sake

post=127887
...and it's with the trailer: Why oh why did they use Leona Lewis for the music, of all the people on earth, they had to pick her -.-

Thankfully, I am yet to hear any of her "own" songs ingame. I'm not sure if she sings anything else in the game, but if she didn't write it, that's usually good, since apart from her ultimately generic style, she is a good singer.

Also, I like this game so far. I don't really understand what's people's problem with the story. Don't be intimidated from the plethora of new names, (most FFs try that anyway) they are all explained rather soon in the datalog anyway, ( upt to five times, depending on their importance...) and even if you just play the game, there will be an explanation later on. Apart from that, I can't exactly say that the story is too complicated so far. I mean, there are quite a few games here on RMN that have a more complex story. So I think the problem is with the new words, which threw me off-balance too. Also, the main quest is revealed around the begining of the third chapter. There are a lot of white bits, but I like that in a story.

And one more thing: the stuff FFXIII does, the few battles then cutscene: that's exactly what I was talking about in Salerius's article's comments. There is the obvious lienarity, which pissed off quite a few fans, but I think they did quite a good work with keeping the player connected.

Actually he might be right. This game does not have a complex story by any means. Behind all of the flashy graphics and world history (which I wouldn't really call history since nothing is explained), it's just about fate and heroes going against their predetermined fate. Even though the story isn't great, the characters more than make up for it. They're easily the main focus of the game. If they weren't as good as they are, this game would not be able to hold its ground at all. I don't think many other main ff series characters can match them. If FFXII focused on the characters the way this game did then I would probably say otherwise but that game was a mess storyline wise.

Anyway, who got to the battle that is equivalent to the Seymour fight in FFX? It's on chapter 10. That was tough!

I'm so confused right now.

post=127917
I suppose, if you're talking about the main narrative. It's not that complex, no. Entertaining, yeah. I wouldn't call it "not great", though. It's not the best, but come on, don't be cynical, it's pretty good!

I agree, I think it's good too. Not exceptional, but good.

post=127917
However, I stand by my statement regarding the 'complexity' if we're talking about the sheer amount of content the setting has. There IS a lot.

There is a lot of content, but it's hm...I think it's mostly the names.

SPOILER:
fal'Cie: Angels
Pulse fal'Cie: Demons
l'Cie: Prophets
Cocoon: Earth, or a Cocoon literally
Pulse: Hell (it even says so in the description) or maybe Heaven/The Great Unknown
All the other stuff has a rather simple "IRL" match.
This is a bit forced and I'm not too far in the game, but I think these would be the conventional names for them.
END OF SPOILER

I agree though that it's a bit much to take in at first...
It's looks like somewhat standard anime stuff though. The characters too, sometimes, but it's true that they are very well written.

All in all, I still find the game great. (Although the damn battle rating system seem overly random to me, as well as the stuff I receive at the end...I mean, even if I get 20k points, sometimes, I get nothing, and if I'm super slow and get 2 stars, I receive rare drops just as often as with five stars. Or at least it seems like that to me.)