SQUARE ENIX LOSES ALL SANITY, ANNOUNCES FINAL FANTASY 13-2

Wow, I'm the exact opposite, actually. I like the Disney levels (wish there were more to 'em, though) and interactions, while I'm beginning to detest the actual original storylines. :p

Personally I love the Kingdom Hearts series, and out of the ones I've played (All but BBS) I've found the first game to be my favourite, even in the battle system. While there were improvements in the second game for combat, I just found it too easy (Demyx aside) in comparison to the first, which kicked, and is kicking, my ass quite heavily, and required me to use my magic way more than number 2, which was 'Hammer X for win' for most of the game.

CoM I find to be a pretty fun game, if a bit of an ass at times. Doesn't help that my cart keeps wiping my save every so often either >.>

358/2 I enjoy 'cause it bridges the gap between 1.5 and 2, as well as the battle system going back to how 1 played, with shorter chains and more use of magic etc.

As I've said already i have yet to play BBS, so I don't have much to say about that one, except WHY IS IT ALWAYS SOLD OUT DAMNIT :(

author=Crimson_Legionnaire
Wow, I'm the exact opposite, actually. I like the Disney levels (wish there were more to 'em, though) and interactions, while I'm beginning to detest the actual original storylines. :p

This is how I feel about it. The Disney shit is probably the only real well organized and imagined stuff in the games; the original stuff is usually pretty dumb! I mean, if you're a grown person and you can't own up to liking Disney (I mean come on. Who doesn't like Disney), that's your problem, not theirs!

author=Feldschlacht IV

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author=Feldschlacht IV
They're bringing back the world map for Versus, and they're doing a world map like thing for Dissidia as well.

because having a world map will clearly give the game a remotely coherent story and good gameplay

hey im just directly responding to what chaos said

real shit: my game clear of FFXII had roughly 160 hours because I spent so much time dicking around, exploring every inch of ivalice

People bitch about how that game had no story - that was the main draw for me. It introduced the cast of characters - Balthier, Ashe, Basch, and some tag-alongs - and then let you do whatever. Here's a main quest objective; it's on the other side of the world. In the meantime, have some Hunts! Have some sidequests! Have an Esper chillin' in these caves (fucking adrammelech massacred me because I just stumbled upon him; it was amazing)! The whole world was just teeming with life and begged to be explored. Stuff like Giza Plains that changed over time just sealed the deal for me.

I liked FFXII.

i have played every kingdom hearts game and the closest i came to liking one of them was the gba one with the cards

also the story is convoluted retarded horseshit, but Birth By Sleep is the worst offender for featuring this:
this looks like some shit i would draw in the 6th grade

fake edit:
thanks to the dumbass name (which is a terrible pun), the url doesn't even work. brilliant

real edit:
ff12 is one of the best ffs as far as i'm concerned
not as good as ffx-2 but close
though the story was, well, pretty lame (but balthier made up for it i guess)

real edit 2:
okay, the people that made the wiki were smart enough to redirect x-blade to chi-blade so here you go if you want to see the fantastic design of birth by shit
http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/X-blade

Unpopular opinion I guess, but I couldn't play more than an hour of FF12 at any given time. The game was stunning, but I'm not really THAT much of a gameplay junkie, so after a while I need something *more* to keep me interested. The characters were very, very, very plain and boring imho (sans Ashe and Balthier) and while the game definitely had a plot, it was so spaced out that by the time I had stumbled into the next cutscene, I had forgotten a lot of what had happened before.

And the game was just too goddamn long. I had about 55+ hours clocked in, saw that I was only at the midway point, and was like "ughhh..."

It definitely had a lot going for it, but it just wasn't for me.

I'm actually wanting Final Fantasy XIII-2. I mean yeah, Final Fantasy XIII had a pretty stupid story, but I still got into it, and I thought the combat was pretty fun...once you got past the 20 hour tutorial phase. And honestly, I think Square Enix could make this sequel surpass the original.

author=Lennon
Like, if they took out everything related to Squenix it (KH) would probably be a decent game.

fixed

All of the other games aside, Kingdom Hearts was a masterpiece. The combat system may have been button mashy and you had to roll around like a motherfucker to not get hit, but I always felt the battles were really intense.

But what really made the game was attention to detail regarding Disney's work. Not only did they do a lot of good work recreating all of the worlds and characters in 3d, but they got as many of the original voice actors as they could. They did a really good job of showing how each of the characters would react to all these heartless and incorporate these heartless into their storylines, and the overall story about hearts and kingdom hearts is something you could have seen in a disney movie straight up, and it felt like it.

Basically, it felt like I was playing a Disney Movie. But with final fantasy characters who were as happy go lucky as a disney protagonist. With themes you could find in a Disney movie melded into a Final Fantasyesque storyline.

This game is the most cohesive out of them all. If this had been a movie instead of a game, it would have been just as good.