Board 8 > FFXIII-2 demo impressions from a guy that really didn't like FFXIII

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:09:00 AM
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This main title music is pretty good!

Now to see how Square will further ruin my childhood love for them.

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Senjougaharaism
01/11/12 10:10:00 AM
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this game apparently doesn't have dress spheres

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:10:00 AM
#3:


"When we reach for the future, sometimes we fall into the past."

yep, this is newage final fantasy

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:15:00 AM
#4:


"Wounded damage," huh. Looks like Cure gets rid of the red health anyway.

Battle music reminds me of DMC.

Mashing X with autobattle

where were all the FFXII complainers of "it plays itself" when XIII happened

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:18:00 AM
#5:


Having cutscenes built into battles is pretty cool.

These QTEs are not.

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tereziWright
01/11/12 10:18:00 AM
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The bosses and latter half of XIII required constant change ups of the paradigms and always being on your toes to shift when necessary.

There were bosses in XII that could be beaten without pushing buttons.

Not really the same thing.

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FlaireCarron
01/11/12 10:20:00 AM
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From: Weakupedia | #004
where were all the FFXII complainers of "it plays itself" when XIII happened


They said Paradigm shifting makes the game more intense. Funny that people want to settle for less.

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LeonhartFour
01/11/12 10:22:00 AM
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From: FlaireCarron | #007
They said Paradigm shifting makes the game more intense. Funny that people want to settle for less.


Sometimes less is more!

And less is not as boring when you're comparing XIII to XII.

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FlaireCarron
01/11/12 10:25:00 AM
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Total control over a battle vs not even the ability to move your leading character in battle. Ok.

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:25:00 AM
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Wow, these graphics.

Literally watching rain drip down Serah's skin as rain hits her.

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tereziWright
01/11/12 10:26:00 AM
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FlaireCarron posted...
Total control over a battle vs not even the ability to move your leading character in battle. Ok.

What does this even MEAN?

That MMO style moving your guy around **** in XII was like the worst part.

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:28:00 AM
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who the f*** is this chocobo lady LOL

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HeroDelTiempo17
01/11/12 10:29:00 AM
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Moving your character doesn't really matter when they hit you no matter what your position is anyways.

That said you should have been able to move your characters around in XIII and XIII-2 to avoid stupid big AoE attacks that hit your whole party and stagger them, wasting valuable time.

also lol auto-battle, who even uses that

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tereziWright
01/11/12 10:30:00 AM
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Weakupedia posted...
who the f*** is this chocobo lady LOL

She's out ****in' shop keep.

I've never skipped NPC dialog so fast.

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:30:00 AM
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i went through a majority of 13 putting in my own commands

then i got tired of battling and just auto-battled my way through any non-boss fights

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:32:00 AM
#16:


SWEET my favorite part of final fantasy games

having to talk to the same person multiple times to hear everything they say and invariably talking to them one time too many

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HeroDelTiempo17
01/11/12 10:34:00 AM
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Yeah I liked how in XIII all the NPCS (all three of them!) would just automatically say their dialogue when you went past them and it would pop up in the corner of the screen, and you could still walk around while they talked.

Now some of them do that and others don't for some reason

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FlaireCarron
01/11/12 10:34:00 AM
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From: HeroDelTiempo17 | #013
That said you should have been able to move your characters around in XIII and XIII-2 to avoid stupid big AoE attacks that hit your whole party and stagger them, wasting valuable time.


This is the main reason the ability to move your character would have been helpful. It's stupid to have your Sentinel stand RIGHT IN FRONT of your other party members drawing AOE attacks their way.

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:36:00 AM
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something about this camera feels off, but i can't really put my finger on why.

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SupremeZero
01/11/12 10:39:00 AM
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From: Weakupedia | #019
something about this camera feels off, but i can't really put my finger on why.
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Raindrops~?

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:40:00 AM
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MOG TALKS?

i hate this game

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The Mana Sword
01/11/12 10:40:00 AM
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The camera is zoomed in a little bit too much, I think.

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:43:00 AM
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oh whoa, you can fine-tune paradigms.

Normal, Cross, and Wide. Interesting...

also, i think that might be it, mana. that, at it seems to move on its own a little too freely, giving it a really loose feeling. was 13 the same?

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LowCalorieH2O
01/11/12 10:43:00 AM
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If you plan to buy the game then preorder from Amazon.

They are assclowns about their exclusive DLC.

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:46:00 AM
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i'm not buying this game for full price unless it somehow actually is an amazing game

if anything i'll just wait till black friday and get it for $15

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:47:00 AM
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using monsters as party members is cool, and each one has a feral link, neat.

but what's this, they make you do QTEs in each feral link?

ugh square

one step forward, two steps back.

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:47:00 AM
#27:


MAN i hope that stupid weapon upgrade system isn't back

please tell me it's not

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:48:00 AM
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"overlap from another reality"

what the s***

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HeroDelTiempo17
01/11/12 10:55:00 AM
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From: Weakupedia | #021
MOG TALKS?

i hate this game


....mog talked in FFVI, did he not? <_<

I guess there was no voice acting, though Mog's voice isn't that bad aside from the constant KUPO

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:55:00 AM
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i'm not understanding the new crystarium. it seems like there's a single board for each character, and it's shared by all of the classes. hrm.

EDIT: oh. it seems like each node can by anything, you just choose which class you want to level up using that node. i guess depending on your level with that class, you can learn a new ability or just get stat increases. i guess this leads to customized characters depending on how many total available nodes there are for each character?

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 10:58:00 AM
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i think i'd be more excited for this game if noel didn't look so stupid and seem so uninteresting

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The Mana Sword
01/11/12 10:59:00 AM
#32:


those pants

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LowCalorieH2O
01/11/12 11:01:00 AM
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Moogles did a good deal of speaking in FFIX

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 11:04:00 AM
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using items to level up monsters. sounds interesting. is probably more tedious than it has to be. i guess i'll hold judgement on that till i actually play the game, though.

you can also name your monsters and give them "adornments". you can also infuse monsters with each other and pass down passive abilities, it looks like.

they really went all out with this.

i wonder if any of this is necessary to the game or if learning how to use it well will just make the game stupidly easy!

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 11:05:00 AM
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i think it was mostly the voice that threw me off

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 11:06:00 AM
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i think i will just pirate this game because this chocobo lady is pissing me off THAT MUCH

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 11:12:00 AM
#37:


just out of curiosity, what are all the preorder bonuses for this game?

Amazon has Omega, Gamestop has the FF13 costume for Serah. Is that it?

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TheRock1525
01/11/12 11:13:00 AM
#38:


I just want to know when do we get the Ezio costume for Noel.

That's a deal breaker for me.

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LowCalorieH2O
01/11/12 11:14:00 AM
#39:


some foreign distributor lets you have cool weapons

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TheRock1525
01/11/12 11:15:00 AM
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Also, Gamestop has some costume that I've never seen before, so it isn't based on FFXIII.

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TheRock1525
01/11/12 11:16:00 AM
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Oh hey, this should help:

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Final_Fantasy_XIII-2_Downloadable_Content

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HeroDelTiempo17
01/11/12 11:18:00 AM
#42:


>swimsuit outfit for Serah

really

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 11:27:00 AM
#43:


live trigger event, huh. this game is supposed to have multiple endings, right? i wonder if it's like x-2's "multiple endings," where you just see extra scenes (granted, they were pretty important scenes).

and that gamestop outfit is kinda cool

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 11:32:00 AM
#44:


level bonuses for the crystarium every time it expands:

-COM bonus boost
-Rave bonus boost
-unlock Saboteur role
-increase ATB gauge
-increase accessory capacity by 20

i gotta say, this crystarium shows a lot more promise than 13's!

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BIGPUN9999
01/11/12 11:38:00 AM
#45:


Gamestop=Costume and Genji Bow

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Weakupedia
01/11/12 12:18:00 PM
#46:


Just beat up Atlas after some Cinematic Action stuff. Watched a pretty lengthy trailer after.

I thought i was controlling Lightning at first and I followed along with the QTEs, haha.

Overall...good demo. Got a good feel for the game, definitely shows more promise than I was expecting. The plot will probably just be a big Square clusterf*** with time travel and whatnot, though.

Still, not in any rush to get this game. Just slightly more hopeful for whenever I do play it.

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