I believe they mentioned it being 30-40 hours, so about the same as XIII,however,the different dialogue choices and options is supposed to entice you to play multiple times.
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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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I believe they mentioned it being 30-40 hours, so about the same as XIII,however,the different dialogue choices and options is supposed to entice you to play multiple times.
You can beat the main story in about 30 hours.
30-40 hours seems to be what reviews are saying
FateBreaker
Member
He, obviously, gives a shit. I think he has a valid point. Some of the scenes are awkward if you have a family coming in and out of your room.
Castor Krieg
Banned
Family knows your hobby, so it's fine. It's mostly the fact that every jRPG has that in abundance (except RoF, that game was excellent in terms of character development). I need to force myself to take story seriously with all the moans and 13-year olds saving the world. Lightning was great as the main character, she at least was mature. Now we get Serah, so it's kinda a step back.
AMoreHumbleSquare
Banned
The queues for the launch party...
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...A couple dozen it looks like.
...A couple dozen it looks like.
Zoe
Member
HamPster PamPster
Member
This was asked earlier in the thread but it might have been to early for a good answer, have any of the streams shown meaningful differences in the story from dialog options?
Some Japanese have finished the game in 20 hours (easy mode) and there is a serious risk of
FFXIII-3.
Well some guy rushed through the game in 20 hours and appears to have skipped all the cutscenes. He fought one hell of epic final battle and then got what could only be considered the bad ending (realllllllllllllllllllly bad). Hopefully it's the bad ending. People are freaking out on Gamefaqs because after you get this ending, it says TO BE CONTINUED. You also get:
So caution: if you rush through the game, you may just get the bad ending.
edit: almost beaten!
"New Area Unlocked!"
"TIme Reversal Possible!"
"Item Get!"
"TIme Reversal Possible!"
"Item Get!"
So caution: if you rush through the game, you may just get the bad ending.
edit: almost beaten!
Well there was a serious risk of
FFX-3
TheJollyCorner
Member
the key is for you to start moaning and grunting louder than the game during those parts. It's a distraction tactic. I use it constantly.
Zoe
Member
Doesn't have to be. "W" just means warau, which could be either a smile or an audible laugh., ^_^;, and even oldschool "<g>" are all valid.
^^; just comes off as sheepish to me, and that doesn't fit the tone of those sentences IMO.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
I would be more embarassed if from my room came all the time sounds of shootings or other players yelling online in dolby "fuck you bitch, die, die, die! - HEADSHOT AhAHAHAhAHAHAh!".
What that "TO BE CONTINUED" means? Perhaps a reference to DLCs or sequels? It would be curious to find out if every ending ends up like that.
I hope kagari gets the game soon and starts giving us some concrete opinion on this game
I'm pretty damn sure its the bad ending, it's just gotta be. SE just slapped its fine in the face if thats not the case!
It's not at all the same. There's a lot more freedom from the start, you are not forced to make your character a certain way, but have some choice in how to develop Serah & Noel. It's not completely changed so it's still a kind of different version of Sphere Grid, but yeah, it gives you some choice instead of just going forward in a straight line with some dead-end side-paths here & there.Crystarium is still a straight line. They've set it up to look like there's more choice when really it's the same old (terrible) system
It could've been, but it seems they've really put effort into it and it really doesn't feel like an afterthought, it's basically deeper than Pokemon (though, with more color palette swaps).
ZephyrFate
Banned
Every Crystarium level up you get choices -- adding ATB bars, boosting the power of certain roles, opening up new roles, acquiring certain abilities... it's a much more open and nonlinear Crystarium and everyone will end up with different characters.
The only Crystarium that is linear are monster Crystariums, but you can move abilities that monsters learn over to other monsters, so it becomes very open-ended there, too.
The only Crystarium that is linear are monster Crystariums, but you can move abilities that monsters learn over to other monsters, so it becomes very open-ended there, too.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Man all the Crystarium talk just reminds me how mind-blowing it was to realize 13's was completely the same every playthrough. IMO that was their only real big mistake with 13. I'll go check out the stores this weekend to see how used prices are and if it's anything like the nosedive 13 took.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Man, I'd explain that one, but I'm not gonna because I don't want to spoil anyone here. That made me lol, though. It was awesome.
I actually came really close to going on P-A and ordering it at that point. Seriously!
But it definitely seems like SE was right... there are
multiple endings, but the player seems to have unlocked the best one!
maybe in XIII-3.
Actual spoilers:
Looks like she could be the main villain, or at least an antagonist in XIII-3, assuming such a game is made.
maybe in XIII-3.
That's what I meant, I made a typo. ;_;
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Sounds to me like everyone's been Toriyama'd! Ahahahaha~. Toriyama writing at its finest.So after trophy inspection, it seems that... *spoilers*The horrible ending everyone assumed to be a bad ending is actually the "true" ending
Did the guy check the trophies at the end and unlocked the
Epic Finisher trophy or did it just seem like he was a few steps towards the Anomalous trophy?
Because that one looked like an
alternate paradoxical ending
get all 160 fragments to get the real ending and that guy had less fragments than teakdoc did. Teakdoc's actually going out of his way to get most of the fragments, it seems. Plus didn't the guy get that ending like, 20 hours in? Seems to me like he ended up rushing through it.
that takes some serious balls, lol.
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
The queues for the launch party...
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...A couple dozen it looks like.
nice legs.
ZephyrFate
Banned
I don't think that ending is the true one.
ZephyrFate
Banned
RyougaSaotome
Member
Quick impressions after spending a few hours with the game last night.
Really dig the musical transitions in the game. Haven't heard any of the truly crazy tracks yet, but on the whole the music seems to work just fine in-game.
The opening is really cool and an exciting way to present a few of the new game mechanics. It makes you feel badass and it's something different from XIII. The first battles you get into as Serah introduce a majority of the system features (save for monsters), which automatically makes the game feel a lot better paced.
The first 'dungeon' is small, but filled with windy paths and people to talk to. This alone creates a very different feel from the beginning of XIII. I actually got lost a couple of times due to getting turned around. That never happened in the previous title.
Story is pretty bat-shit insane. I'm OK with this though. I'd prefer the game go all the way rather than only part way. The conversation choices are also MUCH more frequent than I was expecting and very cool. Really changes the way that dialogue flows. Hopefully it continues to be frequent as the game goes on.
My biggest gripe so far is probably the visuals. It's a good looking game, but it's clearly a step down from XIII. From far away the textures generally look fine, but closeups? Not so much. In particular, the first shot of Serah is a close-up on her body and the textures look pretty iffy. Not a huge issue, but worth mentioning.
I've really enjoyed my time with the game thus far and I'm looking forward to diving back in tonight after I get home from my day job.
Really dig the musical transitions in the game. Haven't heard any of the truly crazy tracks yet, but on the whole the music seems to work just fine in-game.
The opening is really cool and an exciting way to present a few of the new game mechanics. It makes you feel badass and it's something different from XIII. The first battles you get into as Serah introduce a majority of the system features (save for monsters), which automatically makes the game feel a lot better paced.
The first 'dungeon' is small, but filled with windy paths and people to talk to. This alone creates a very different feel from the beginning of XIII. I actually got lost a couple of times due to getting turned around. That never happened in the previous title.
Story is pretty bat-shit insane. I'm OK with this though. I'd prefer the game go all the way rather than only part way. The conversation choices are also MUCH more frequent than I was expecting and very cool. Really changes the way that dialogue flows. Hopefully it continues to be frequent as the game goes on.
My biggest gripe so far is probably the visuals. It's a good looking game, but it's clearly a step down from XIII. From far away the textures generally look fine, but closeups? Not so much. In particular, the first shot of Serah is a close-up on her body and the textures look pretty iffy. Not a huge issue, but worth mentioning.
I've really enjoyed my time with the game thus far and I'm looking forward to diving back in tonight after I get home from my day job.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Yep. Are people flipping out about this ending elsewhere, I wonder?
Does anyone have the original Japanese text of that
Epic Finisher
Because it might just be for an ending in the original text.
Edit: nvm, here it is:
It just says,
"Followed the story to its conclusion/Witnessed the end of the story."
it's a true ending trophy looking at that text, otherwise it would have said so
the player was given the ability to go back and reverse time, apparently since I heard the Historia Crux music. So based on that, it looks like all the endings might be done in expensive CG, and not in-engine?
Anyway, I'm not thinking much of the writing in this. The dialogue is really ehhhh... But since I'm finding amusement in the game overall, I think it's better than XIII (which I didn't really care for much since I thought it was pretty boring). It's... a Toriyama story.
I just don't see SE doing that much CG animation for a fake-out ending... unless they did CG animation for all the endings.
demosthenes
Member
Yea but games cost more. And if they can reuse all these assets for a XIII-3 on PS3/360 they will certainly do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcLetgnrcIo&list=UUP9M2u5YRwq0qL1caM0tSOA&index=5&feature=plcp
Noel's theme is lovely.
What visual downgrade? From what I saw game looks as beautiful if not more so in comparison with FFXIII.
Noel's theme is lovely.
What visual downgrade? From what I saw game looks as beautiful if not more so in comparison with FFXIII.
RPGCrazied
Member
Maybe he's playing the 360 version?
RyougaSaotome
Member
No. I'm playing the PS3 version. It may very well be my HD TV, but the textures don't look as good to me. Like I said, from normal perspectives/mid-range they look fine. But close-ups in cutscenes etc aren't so great. It's super obvious in the hair too.
I don't think you can really notice a lot of this in the videos/streams though, as I certainly didn't leading up to the release.
It could just be me though. Anyone playing wanna confirm/disagree?
I don't think you can really notice a lot of this in the videos/streams though, as I certainly didn't leading up to the release.
It could just be me though. Anyone playing wanna confirm/disagree?
I think this time 360 version is 720p. At least from what my trained eye can see in released 360 footages.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
I see people talking about a giant spoiler on the previous page. My question is how big is it and will I know it when I see it?
Problems with hair is called shimmering caused by alpha-to-coverage and will cause hair to look fuzzy.
xion4360
Member
You need to play FFXIII, give it a good look. I feel like people are still comparing XIII-2's cutscenes with XIII's pre-recorded ones.
Light's model is the same, they just gave her hair that shiny coat. Other models are generally better - More round less blocky, Animations and effects are better. Its a better looking game once people actually compare it like for like and not in hindsight.