Final Fantasy

[Tuffty]

I completed XIII-2 this afternoon. The end boss went from ridiculously hard to ridiculously easy after an hour or so of levelling. Did it first time round and whereas the last time I was relying a lot on paradigm shifts and keeping track of everything, there was no such need here. I blitzed through it pretty easily. Funny how the difficulty shifts in such a huge way like that. Hell, I even got the achievement for getting a 5 star rating on it.

As for that ending? The less said the better. I think it's certainly a better game than XIII, as in, there is more things to see and do that improves the longevity of it but I couldn't give two shits about the story throughout it. Now, every FF game has it's share of clunky dialogue, but it was just more prevalent here. I don't want anything more to do with XIII's world or it's characters.

[Henry Spencer]

^Wow, that's quite a turnaround of an opinion. So, Toriyama is a really bad writer, then? (Only played 3rd Birthday myself and the ending in that game is just...wow, oh so bad).

Also, on the Square-Enix community forums, all of the members are requesting Type-0 and Bravely Default localizations (it's gaining momentum and people are pissed, unsurprisingly)

All it took was for a Square-Enix rep to ask the forum members, "What are you looking forward to in 2013?" to which the response is "how about giving us your games, in English?!"

http://na.square-enix.com/go/thread/vie ... _2013?pg=1

It really is surprising and disappointing to me that both of those games aren't getting a release in either the US or Europe. Fuckin' Square, eh?

[Tuffty]

I don't think my opinion has changed all that much. I always gave it a good chance of it being a good game and saying that XIII had a good story if nothing special. The story was something I couldn't judge before the game was out obviously but I wasn't expecting much to begin with. But it is worse than I expected haha

[Axm]

I still need to complete 13-2. As a game it was better. And I do like the battle system.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

Believe it or not I do too, I just think theres a big gap they need to address.

[Axm]

Beta sign ups for FFFXIV for both PC and PS3: http://entry.ffxiv.com/beta/eu

Be cool to get a little Dojo clan going.

[Axm]

Already got the game on pre-order for PS3. We should create a Dojo clan for those of us who get it (Axm, Segata, Riku and if anybody else is? Tuffty?)

[Tuffty]

I don't have a PS3 I'm afraid! Cool idea though!

[Perfect_Chaos]

Already got the game on pre-order for PS3. We should create a Dojo clan for those of us who get it (Axm, Segata, Riku and if anybody else is? Tuffty?)

i'll be getting it on PS3.

but about FF13. i just started playing it. only about 7 hours in. but after upgrading weapons i find it hard to buy a new weapon. for example my current weapon stat wil be 50 because i upgraded it from its original stat. how do i know if a new weapon that i buy will be better than 50 after upgrading? get what im saying??

[Tuffty]

Already got the game on pre-order for PS3. We should create a Dojo clan for those of us who get it (Axm, Segata, Riku and if anybody else is? Tuffty?)

i'll be getting it on PS3.

but about FF13. i just started playing it. only about 7 hours in. but after upgrading weapons i find it hard to buy a new weapon. for example my current weapon stat wil be 50 because i upgraded it from its original stat. how do i know if a new weapon that i buy will be better than 50 after upgrading? get what im saying??

I believe that some of the better, high class weapons can only be obtained by upgrading weapons to a certain point. All lead to unique weapons as well I believe, so that sword you're upgrading now, could lead to a higher quality sword that can only be obtained by levelling up that sword. Also I think weapons grant passive abilities to your character as well, so yes a sword you acquire later may give you higher base stats, but it doesn't have the ability to recharge your ATB rate faster than your current sword. Those are the kind of decisions you make.

Be careful if you're going down the path of wanting to acquire the best weapons in the game though. Those require an absolute shit ton of gil (already a scarce commodity in XIII) as well as some extremely rare crafting components which you'll have to grind the hell out of some of the best monsters in the game. And be incredibly lucky in acquiring them too. Really, the permutations and conditions are so vast, that you can't acquire them without consulting a guide. You'll beat the game just fine without doing that though.

[Perfect_Chaos]

Already got the game on pre-order for PS3. We should create a Dojo clan for those of us who get it (Axm, Segata, Riku and if anybody else is? Tuffty?)

i'll be getting it on PS3.

but about FF13. i just started playing it. only about 7 hours in. but after upgrading weapons i find it hard to buy a new weapon. for example my current weapon stat wil be 50 because i upgraded it from its original stat. how do i know if a new weapon that i buy will be better than 50 after upgrading? get what im saying??

I believe that some of the better, high class weapons can only be obtained by upgrading weapons to a certain point. All lead to unique weapons as well I believe, so that sword you're upgrading now, could lead to a higher quality sword that can only be obtained by levelling up that sword. Also I think weapons grant passive abilities to your character as well, so yes a sword you acquire later may give you higher base stats, but it doesn't have the ability to recharge your ATB rate faster than your current sword. Those are the kind of decisions you make.

Be careful if you're going down the path of wanting to acquire the best weapons in the game though. Those require an absolute shit ton of gil (already a scarce commodity in XIII) as well as some extremely rare crafting components which you'll have to grind the hell out of some of the best monsters in the game. And be incredibly lucky in acquiring them too. Really, the permutations and conditions are so vast, that you can't acquire them without consulting a guide. You'll beat the game just fine without doing that though.

thank you. very helpful post.

how the hell do you get gill is this game????

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

well you have to grind some enemies, generally if you want gil kill lots of soldiers. They drop credit chips which have no value other then being sold.

Its alittle dumb (more then alittle) but instead of just giving you Gil you get lots of items that serve no other purpose then being sold. Generally humans drop em. Like toward the end of the game theres an enemy that drops Perfume and you can sell that for a ton of cash.

Also to clarify, don't sell stuff that monsters drop like wing, screws, engines, and tentacles, you'll need that for upgrades generally credit chips and stuff like perfume are sellable since you can't use them to upgrade.

[Absentia]

[Henry Spencer]

^My favourite flavour.

[Bluecast]

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