Unskippable: Final Fantasy 13
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I beat disk 1 and remember why I never cared to continue. I'm surprised you didn't cheap shot the battle system for thinking that you have less intelligence than a kitten.
Wow after seeing the opening cutscene with the highest production values ina ny game ever you decide against the purchase...to quote a battle droid; does not compute.Jim Grim said:
There fandom "I really like him" and there fandom "I want to skin him and live inside him". You're getting closer to the second one.Blue-State said:
Yes, there a plot. They have to fulfill something hinted by a vision. If they don't, they turn into zombies, if they do, they turn into a piece of rock. That's your plot. Now, drop the FF13 disk on the ground and run like it was a live grenade.Blue-State said:
I could tell that those two were just about to laugh out loud when they were talking about that scorpion ship and the buzzsaw hands.
"Why does this game need me?" was the feeling I got. Hell durimg one battle I manged to beat the Hive Mind in Dead Space. When I'm turning to other better gmes for my entertainment it's time to stop.himemiya1650 said:
Niceeee, but just seeing footage from FF13 again just pissed me off.
Fuck this game, I finished it because it was a Final Fantasy game, and it wasted 60 hours of my life that I'll never get back.
Fuck this game, I finished it because it was a Final Fantasy game, and it wasted 60 hours of my life that I'll never get back.
Now that you say that.... it does make sense. I'll look into it.riottrio said:I didn't find the commentarys all that funny, but i did laugh at certain points. anyway, i just realised how much this is actually trying to be a Final Fantasy 7. No, hear me out. Yahtzee said you were on a train, going to fight an evil corporation with a black sidekick. but not only that, you're also an ex soldier (just like how cloud was an ex-SOLDIER). Also, there are some crappy useless guys who you don't here anything more about who help you and who come on the train with you. on top of all THAT the first boss you fight is a big scorpion thing. really... really really really. here is the first boss battle to FF7 just incase you didn't know.
okay, sure, the mechanical scorpion boss comes later and cannot fly in FF7, but seriously, there is something severely wrong with this opening. and i'm a big fan of Final Fantasy, but the only 2 bits i noticed which seperated the FF7 and FF13 openings (excluding the obvious different names of evil corporation and characters) was that the black guy didn't have a gun for an arm and that the "badass" protaganist is now a "badass" (i.e. total *****) girl rather than a whiney boy.
oh, that and the extreme sci-fi/technology differences.
Alright I haven't actually played Final Fantasy 13 yet, maybe it's really bad of even conveying meaning through context, but here's something to keep in mind everyone.
If each character was to spit out a minutes worth of dialogue to explain each and every term, the game would have just as much problems with their dialogue sounding stilted and robotic. You don't tell someone you had a PB&J sandwich for lunch and then detail to them the history of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich because you already expect them to know what it is. That's how people actually talk to each other.
If each character was to spit out a minutes worth of dialogue to explain each and every term, the game would have just as much problems with their dialogue sounding stilted and robotic. You don't tell someone you had a PB&J sandwich for lunch and then detail to them the history of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich because you already expect them to know what it is. That's how people actually talk to each other.
Replace PB&J with something like...SW&R and that'd be a bit closer to the mark. And no, neither myself nor anybody else knows what the hell an SW&R sandwich is.Slycne said:
Rangers. IN SPACE! I'm sorry but I just fucking had to... At least power rangers in space had a good space setting. *awkward silence and birds tweeting* Yeah I'll just show myself out.Blue-State said:
Fun is subjective...Space Jawa said:
I've played for 100 hours.
Way to completely undermine what is actually a really interesting plot marred by terrible execution. I could rant (and have done) for a long time about this game and the many executional flaws the story holds, yet I still thoroughly enjoy it - primarily because I'm a big RPG fan; but there's something about the game that stops me hating it despite its flaws - the atmosphere I believe. I'm going off-track here; this game, in my opinion, has a really interesting plot that, bar the main villain, is well thought out and diverse. The problems are in the writing, the way the story is told, and the linearity.Akalistos said:
"I purged my bowels of the fecal material, and MAN, did it feel good."Blue-State said:
See? Not entirely evil!
OT: Oh god, I laughed so hard at, "...And I brought a junior rowing team with me!"
I don't even know why.
No! BAD! There no excuse for the story. NONE. When you FAIL do engage the players. When you FAIL to place exposition to get the people up to speed. When the plot is mostly padding. When you FAIL to make a believable world. THERE IS NO EXCUSE. Not one author would get aways with a single book that need a full encyclopedia to understand. I love RPG. But there flaw that should NOT BE EXCUSE IF WE WANT GAMES TO GET BETTER AND BETTER.D_987 said:
And if you're such a fan of 13, how about buy my copy before it dump it in a fire?
