Final Fantasy XIII-2

[The Twilight Mexican]

What number was it, Tres? Because...Top 50? I know I liked the game and everything but I'm not sure I could NAME 50 games that came out this year, much less exclude it from such a list.

Rather oddly, they didn't give an overall ranking for each title. Within genres, though, there were titles chosen as the best. "Mass Effect 2" was chosen as best RPG.

FFXIII only had a nonsensical story if your IQ was somewhere in between full-on retard and a deep sea invertebrate.

Reminds me of this:

"But seriously, folks, the only thing dumber than a squirrel is a sponge! I mean, we're so dumb we don't even have a vertebrae!"

 

[Mariketsu]

I'm honestly not happy about this at all. FFXIII was a good game, had great story potential, granted it could've been done better, but it was decent. Regardless, this game needs a prequel to help explain vague events from before, like the event from 500 years prior involving Fang and Vanille. I don't see a good story coming out of a sequel being there was really nothing else much to say after the game ended. There's alot more potential in a prequel if anything.

Anyway, I'm not happy about this, but I'll see how it turns out. For now, I'm not interested in it barely at all.

~ Raz

 

[Tetsujin]

Meh@prequels.

 

[Alex Strife]

^I agree with this.

At first they were original, now they're all over the place. I still think some stories deserve a prequel, but they're just overly popular nowadays.

That said, I still like a good prequel every now and then.

 

[Russell]

^I agree with this.

At first they were original, now they're all over the place. I still think some stories deserve a prequel, but they're just overly popular nowadays.

That said, I still like a good prequel every now and then.

I'm still waiting for an FFX prequel starring Auron, Braska & Jecht. The story is obvious and the character development writes itself.

Braska’s inevitable martyrdom trying to rid the world of Sin for his daughters sake & lamenting the consequence of not being there to watch her grown up. Jecht’s tale of redemption from arrogant egotistical drunk to honourable man ready to die for his friends and regretting his poor relationship with his son, and Auron’s evolution to undead badass.

No winy Tidus, no painfully sickening romance story, no smurf-klingon-furry (or whatever the fuck that guy was) no “I love you but I have to die saving the world” BS from the equally annoying Yuna, just 3 guys out to save the world, it would have been a fantastic game.

But no. What sequel do we get for FFX?
A couple of Powerpuffs girls, a butch dike, and a guy named ‘Brother’ who wants to bone Yuna, his cousin. Yeah nothing sells a game like a unbalanced nutcase who’s only dream in life is incest.
FFX started with a futuristic city being wiped out by a giant floating ball of death to the soundtrack of Linkin Park, it’s sequel started with a miley-cyrus-goes-Japanence pop song.

It was as disappointing as it was headache inducing, but that could have been my brain saying “fuck this!” & trying to escape out of my head. @_@



Hmmm, appear to have gone on a bit of a rant there, my point: I found the only other FF direct sequel a disappointment.

My expectations for a FFXIII-2 are shitness of truly epic proportions. Still, we will all hope in vain for SE to learn from past mistakes and put a descent game out of it’s ass.

 

[Tetsujin]

An FFX prequel would have been pointless. It's literally the same as FFX, you travel through the same locations, get the same Aeons, it's the same journey only the starting point is different.
The story of those three was already told in FFX, through flashbacks and the spheres. We don't really need more than that.

 

[Tifabelle]

An FFX prequel would have been pointless. It's literally the same as FFX, you travel through the same locations, get the same Aeons, it's the same journey only the starting point is different.
The story of those three was already told in FFX, through flashbacks and the spheres. We don't really need more than that.

You know, I felt this way too for a long time too. I mean, I agree with the above. But they managed it with Crisis Core. I mean, we knew that story and how it ended, yet Crisis Core was a great game. (I know some people don't think so, but I do ).

I still think it would be pointless, but if they really wanted to, I bet they could pull that off.

 

[ForceStealer]

An FFX prequel would have been pointless. It's literally the same as FFX, you travel through the same locations, get the same Aeons, it's the same journey only the starting point is different.
The story of those three was already told in FFX, through flashbacks and the spheres. We don't really need more than that.

Off-topic for a moment, I always thought it was kinda lame that every summoner got the same Aeons. I mean I know that it's the same fayth, but it would have been cool if they manifested differently for each summoner. Just what I always thought when you had summoner duels. The FF-pantheon has a couple summons for each element at this point anyway. (For example, someone could get Ixion, someone gets Ramuh, someone gets Quetzacotl. Or even even if everyone got Ifrit they could be the different incarnations, like X's more bestial or VII's more humanoid.)

 

[Masamune]

An FFX prequel would have been pointless. It's literally the same as FFX, you travel through the same locations, get the same Aeons, it's the same journey only the starting point is different.
The story of those three was already told in FFX, through flashbacks and the spheres. We don't really need more than that.

I thought I was alone in this. People have been calling for this prequel since forever and I really don't know why.

Off-topic for a moment, I always thought it was kinda lame that every summoner got the same Aeons. I mean I know that it's the same fayth, but it would have been cool if they manifested differently for each summoner. Just what I always thought when you had summoner duels. The FF-pantheon has a couple summons for each element at this point anyway. (For example, someone could get Ixion, someone gets Ramuh, someone gets Quetzacotl. Or even even if everyone got Ifrit they could be the different incarnations, like X's more bestial or VII's more humanoid.)

That's a good point. It would have made the battles against Isaaru & Belgemine more entertaining. But why bother designing and programming new summons when you can recycle the same ones?

 

[Sheva Alomar]

Back to Fanille.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

An FFX prequel would have been pointless. It's literally the same as FFX, you travel through the same locations, get the same Aeons, it's the same journey only the starting point is different.
The story of those three was already told in FFX, through flashbacks and the spheres. We don't really need more than that.

I strongly agree with this. Those character developments Russell spoke of are already demonstrated to us in the original game. I also feel like those flashbacks carry more weight by virtue of you knowing what's going to happen to those three as you watch brief glimpses of them traveling the same road you're currently traveling.

Plus, the weight of Spira's history really dawns on you as watch those flashbacks and spheres.

Yeah nothing sells a game like a unbalanced nutcase who’s only dream in life is incest.

If

Spoiler: this

were my cousin, I'd be trying to tap that ass too. Hell, if it were my sister, I'd hit it.

 

[Alex]

Back to Fanille.

Back to back Fanille.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

@game:

is this a prequel fanille sex sim?

cause then id consider buying it

 

[Dana Scully]

@game:

is this a prequel fanille sex sim?

cause then id consider buying it

Yes.

The combat goes thusly: You must start off switching back and forth between Synergist/Saboteur to buff your sexiness and debuff their defense. At certain points there is a chance of being interrupted; you must switch to Sentinel and spam STEELGUARD to avoid being caught. Use Ravager to build up the arousal gauge and once you hit the breaking point go Commando to finish them off. If you get too sore or fatigued, just switch to Medic to heal yourself back up, then continue.

 

[Vendel]

If

Spoiler: this

were my cousin, I'd be trying to tap that ass too. Hell, if it were my sister, I'd hit it.

 

[Alex]

Yes.

The combat goes thusly: You must start off switching back and forth between Synergist/Saboteur to buff your sexiness and debuff their defense. At certain points there is a chance of being interrupted; you must switch to Sentinel and spam STEELGUARD to avoid being caught. Use Ravager to build up the arousal gauge and once you hit the breaking point go Commando to finish them off. If you get too sore or fatigued, just switch to Medic to heal yourself back up, then continue.

Staggering

 

[Ghost X]

In trying to be objective about this news of a sequel to FFXIII, I'm going to give it a chance. I never got into the story of Ivalice Alliance until I played FFXII after all. If they can make a good story and game play out of a sequel, and trailers impress me, I'll buy it. Odds are - given SE's record of late - it'll be a shit game, and I wouldn't touch it with a pole of indiscriminate size.

 

[Kobato]

" FF 14 is a huge failure, we've lost player trust "

I know. Lets make FF 13-2 ! That will get back the fans !

/face palm.

 

[Tetsujin]

I was pretty much expecting that those were just empty words. "We'll do everything better from now on, promise."

Nothing will change. They'll keep doing their handheld-spinoff-spam and whatnot.

 

[Shademp]

I was pretty much expecting that those were just empty words. "We'll do everything better from now on, promise."

Nothing will change. They'll keep doing their handheld-spinoff-spam and whatnot.

I am afraid that this pessimism is validated. I don't see any shining rays of hope emanating from Square Enix; no passionate inspired geniuses who are willing to create a game that people will laugh and cry over with great enjoyment.

I am growing tired of always hating on Square so I'm gonna try and just stop caring. They are what they are and I can't change that.

 

[Alex Strife]

I was expecting something like soon seeing a new and extremely promising FFXV trailer, or something like that.

I can't remember any moment where there hasn't been a new numbered FF entry on the horizon. I mean, FFXIII was announced before I played FFXII (I live in Europe, doh), and FFXII was announced, I believe, before FFXI was out. Before that, they used to create games faster, so there was always something in sight.

It's kind of depressing, seeing how FFXV doesn't seem to be near and Versus + Agito seem to progress tremendously slow. They don't even know where to go with Final Fantasy, and that worries me.

 

[Glaurung]

They created games faster, or they announced them when they were about to release them?

With FFXIII it pissed me off when I learned that, when they showed that pretty first trailer, they had almost nothing done of the game, while, for example, Bethesda seems to have been working on TES V during two years, and they announce the release only when the game is almost complete.

They shouldn't make those announcements with the projects recently started, as if they wanted to say: "Hey, we are doing something!" Sometimes fans get tired of waiting :/

 

[Tetsujin]

They shouldn't make those announcements with the projects recently started, as if they wanted to say: "Hey, wer are doing something!" Sometimes fans get tired of waiting :/

This. This a thousand times.

Square-Enix often rushes the announcements. They announce a title when they've barely started which results in endless waiting times.

When they announced the FNC, they should've just said, "yeah alright, so there's gonna be more FFXIII titles".
Instead they announced Versus and Agito when there was barely anything to show. It's been four years now and there is STILL barely anything to show.

The compilation of FFVII comes to mind as well. They announced BC, DC and CC all at once more or less and for the longest time, there wasn't even any footage of Crisis Core. Instead, the trailer consisted of footage from Last Order. =/

Square-Enix knows how to confuse building up hype with annoying fans with endless waiting times.

 

[Tifabelle]

@Glauring - I agree. They've been jumping the shark on a lot of their games recently. Versus anyone? Though they did do well with Duodecim I will say.

 

[Masamune]

Though they did do well with Duodecim I will say.

Only 'cos they didn't have to think up anything original.