Xanadu is also a series of video games by Nihon Falcom. Maybe the name change is to not create a correlation between the two?
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FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 |OT| Change the Future
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Xanadu is also a series of video games by Nihon Falcom. Maybe the name change is to not create a correlation between the two?
Wasn't there one for the US release of 13?
Rahxephon91
Banned
But the releases are so much closer this time, what would be the point? Importers and Japanese gamers may still be playing it when it comes out in the west.
Free release date? Isn't it normally one dollar? Unless you have Prime I guess.
ZephyrFate
Banned
I think FFXIII-2's OST is gonna grow on people. I'm starting to love songs I initially didn't like, like the Invisible Depths tracks. The Aggressive Mix is freakin awesome.
Ah yes, but still, $1 for release-date delivery? That's much better than like $8 for One-day shipping if you ask me!
Also it wasn't available for most people till now :/
brandonh83
Banned
I think it's a cool sounding soundtrack but a lot of it is too sporadic to really be that memorable, to me anyway. It's nowhere near as good as the FFXIII soundtrack but that doesn't come as a surprise considering Hamauzu's reduced level of involvement.
It's not bad though, and makes for good background listening music, but it's not going to be remembered as a terribly thematic soundtrack.
RyougaSaotome
Member
I'll be grabbing it after work today hopefully.
The OST has some real gems on it, even if not all of the music is amazing.
The OST has some real gems on it, even if not all of the music is amazing.
ZephyrFate
Banned
I don't really mind that it isn't a thematic soundtrack, the individual tracks make me wanna groove and dance. I love it. Fans of all electronic genres are gonna have a LOT to love here.
It's eclectic to the extreme, and for that I like it more than nearly every other OST in the series before it.
marathonfool
Member
I haven't heard most of the OST, but is there a lot of vocal tracks?
Listened to the Chocobo and new Steppe theme has made me cringe. Heavy metal and generic jpop. The FF13 was great.
Listened to the Chocobo and new Steppe theme has made me cringe. Heavy metal and generic jpop. The FF13 was great.
ZephyrFate
Banned
There are quite a few, but most of the soundtrack is instrumental. The Steppe track grows on you, at least it did for me.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Best thread title change in a long time. Bahahahaha!
Just a sec. I need to forward that to one of my former profs because that is just fantastic. Let's parse that nonsense. Thanks for the full quote, btw. 
Longe is an adverb which can apply to both time and space. But if we're going for literal and careful interpretation, we'll go with "throughout time" since that, contextually, makes sense for the game.
Lateque is late (everywhere/far and wide) + que (and) = and everywhere; I'd translate this to "and span" since that's basically what they're going for.
Aetatum = genitive plural of aetas = of lifetimes/of generations/of ages
Lumen = 3rd dec nom = light
Illustrans = Square-Enix needs to proofread. It's the present active participle of illustro (to make clear, to illuminate, to reveal). This means that it'll translate directly to "illustrating". You do not use a participle. You use the indicative. LOL. There are two ways they can do this. They can use the present indicative illustrat, or they can use the future indicative illustrabit. I'd advise using the future indicative since they're still going through the journey.
Verum (acc) = the truth
Using illustrans amused me. The new thread title staying and this messed up Latin are the best things ever to wake up to. If I were to translate a corrected version of that, I'd take a few liberties (just because that's the way I approach translations for better flow in English) and go with: "Throughout time and [the] span of generations, light will reveal the truth." ("Shall" usually applies to first person singular/plural, but I'd take the liberty to use it in English.) I'd assume the quote has a double meaning, given that Lightning's nickname is "Light".
Correct. Square-Enix has decided to utilize ungrammatical Latin again and it's cute. It's odd because they do have actual Latin translators working on the soundtrack (at least for FFXIII), I think. I'd like to think that they would have consulted with some scholars for accuracy. But no, this is SE we're talking about. :lol
Longe is an adverb which can apply to both time and space. But if we're going for literal and careful interpretation, we'll go with "throughout time" since that, contextually, makes sense for the game.
Lateque is late (everywhere/far and wide) + que (and) = and everywhere; I'd translate this to "and span" since that's basically what they're going for.
Aetatum = genitive plural of aetas = of lifetimes/of generations/of ages
Lumen = 3rd dec nom = light
Illustrans = Square-Enix needs to proofread. It's the present active participle of illustro (to make clear, to illuminate, to reveal). This means that it'll translate directly to "illustrating". You do not use a participle. You use the indicative. LOL. There are two ways they can do this. They can use the present indicative illustrat, or they can use the future indicative illustrabit. I'd advise using the future indicative since they're still going through the journey.
Verum (acc) = the truth
Using illustrans amused me. The new thread title staying and this messed up Latin are the best things ever to wake up to. If I were to translate a corrected version of that, I'd take a few liberties (just because that's the way I approach translations for better flow in English) and go with: "Throughout time and [the] span of generations, light will reveal the truth." ("Shall" usually applies to first person singular/plural, but I'd take the liberty to use it in English.) I'd assume the quote has a double meaning, given that Lightning's nickname is "Light".
If this were the case, it would also apply in Japan, no? (Xanadu seems like a better fit based on its connotations. When I think "Serendipity", I think "awful romantic comedy starring Kate Beckinsale which my friends forced me to see in grade school".)
Femmeworth
Banned
Oh no, you did not just diss Serendipity.
RPGCrazied
Member
Any impressions yet?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I haven't seen it since I was 13, so maybe I might like it now...? I wasn't into romantic comedies back then much. I swear they only wanted to see it because they wanted to see more movies with Kate Beckinsale in it, as they thought she had great chemistry with Josh Hartnett in Pearl Harbour.
Part of my dissatisfaction came from my friends constantly quoting it at school or when we went out. They did make up for it via A Walk to Remember a few months later!
Pai Pai Master
Banned
FFXI Omega rules all. This FFXIII-2 design is god awful.
ZephyrFate
Banned
How is it awful? It's the exact design of FFV's Omega.
wtf, omega can be turned into an allied mob?
MIGHT hAVE TO PREORDER FROM amaZON DAMNIT
I hope it's available for DLC at launch or something.
I just want to pre-order at gamestop so I can trade in games and get the serah costume.
and why are you hating on the design? looks exactly like FFV omega
MIGHT hAVE TO PREORDER FROM amaZON DAMNIT
I hope it's available for DLC at launch or something.
I just want to pre-order at gamestop so I can trade in games and get the serah costume.
and why are you hating on the design? looks exactly like FFV omega
AMoreHumbleSquare
Banned
Prob already discussed but...
It's nice that SE is having the usual FF launch event extravaganza but with reservation numbers we could be seeing ALL THIS for a less than 500k opening debut (biggest launch fanfare bomb since the original XB in back in '02??). Hopefully not, I'd like to see this surprise everyone and put up much higher launch sales closing the gap towards a million quickly.
The perfect Famitsu score should change some minds among those who'd otherwise have skipped this, it's sure changed my mind, I'm asking for a PS3 this X'mas. lol
It's nice that SE is having the usual FF launch event extravaganza but with reservation numbers we could be seeing ALL THIS for a less than 500k opening debut (biggest launch fanfare bomb since the original XB in back in '02??). Hopefully not, I'd like to see this surprise everyone and put up much higher launch sales closing the gap towards a million quickly.
The perfect Famitsu score should change some minds among those who'd otherwise have skipped this, it's sure changed my mind, I'm asking for a PS3 this X'mas. lol
Riposte
Member
Not to get off topic, but A Walk to Remember was the first movie that made me cry in theaters.
PumpkinPie
Banned
Whether it's good or not, I'm skipping it out of principal after the first one. In an ideal world it'd bomb and Squenix would finally take their heads out of their arses.
Zoe
Member
They don't really follow copyright as strictly over there...
RedRedSuit
Member
Famitsu review scores have little meaning. 39/40 for FF XIII, for example. Is 40/40 really that much different?
It's a marketing magazine basically. The absurdity of their reviews go beyond the whole "Japanese people like very different things than us" thing.
I mean I *hope* it's deserved... a great FF again would be amazing event indeed... but it's impossible to draw any real conclusions from it.
AMoreHumbleSquare
Banned
You're prob right, there's the sympathy factor for the continued decline of sales of the FF series AND Zelda, with Skyward Sword's recent perfect score...
Still waiting on my copy, but I have sampled several streams.
Some observations:
Overall performance seems to be better than the build I played. Camera is still a bit off in places though.
360 version installed still has frequent loading between menus and long loading when using the Historia Crux. Doesn't seem to make much of a difference in that respect.
Lots of recycling... kind of annoying they didn't create many new enemies :< Areas are also copy/paste even though the timeline is different. A lot of old music tracks are back.
I've only been watching random streams here and there, so I won't comment on the story just yet.
Some observations:
Overall performance seems to be better than the build I played. Camera is still a bit off in places though.
360 version installed still has frequent loading between menus and long loading when using the Historia Crux. Doesn't seem to make much of a difference in that respect.
Lots of recycling... kind of annoying they didn't create many new enemies :< Areas are also copy/paste even though the timeline is different. A lot of old music tracks are back.
I've only been watching random streams here and there, so I won't comment on the story just yet.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Was there a seperate thread for the crazy chocobo song in this? Because I'm trying to find that thread now and failing hard.
Found it:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455562
Found it:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455562
Ummm... XIII-2 IS a game about them "taking their heads out of their asses". They made XIII, it didn't go too well with the fans so they listened to pretty much every complaint people had with the game and changed it for the better in XIII-2 (well, the story still seems overly melodramatic, but gameplay-wise).
Is the difference mostly Bink video?
Undoubtedly, the videos are compressed using Bink Video on 360. I'm curious how much of the PS3 version is video file this time.
Most likely. If I remember right, the actual game content size of FF13 was relatively small.
Also, for anyone interested the FF13-2 Guide by Piggyback is up on Amazon's website.
A joke about that lame chocobo song.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Stream started back up, and they're at an area that I really wanted to see in action. http://ja.twitch.tv/teakdoc. Looks a lot better in motion, imo... However, maybe it's the stream, but the ground texture...
Oh my gosh...
It also doesn't help that a few of those streaming are being really stubborn about their Optimas and are not utilizing the flexibility that the system allows. I do think the FFXIII-2 Crystarium system is an improvement. You're still connecting dots, but the "Crystarium Expanded!" bits are neat in that you can choose what you want to add first. Also, you can finally grind at will. There are some improvements like lack of that asinine camera panning and lack of dumb lengthy optima shift signal animations which were in FFXIII's battles, so they seem to be trying.
Yeah, I don't feel the story is very compelling at the moment.
Oh my gosh...
The monsters in battle are also covered with snow... and snow's still falling during battle. Too bad they don't seem to leave footprints in the snow, or at least I can't see them.
Ehhh... as much as I complemented the gameplay, I wouldn't say it's a huge improvement yet (at least, I need to test it out myself to get a feel of the system). The monsters' animation attack speeds and their Synchro Drive animation length bug me a little.
It also doesn't help that a few of those streaming are being really stubborn about their Optimas and are not utilizing the flexibility that the system allows. I do think the FFXIII-2 Crystarium system is an improvement. You're still connecting dots, but the "Crystarium Expanded!" bits are neat in that you can choose what you want to add first. Also, you can finally grind at will. There are some improvements like lack of that asinine camera panning and lack of dumb lengthy optima shift signal animations which were in FFXIII's battles, so they seem to be trying.
Yeah, I don't feel the story is very compelling at the moment.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Oh! Ok ._.
Dark Schala, why are you watching so much of the game on streams
I stopped watching... <_< waiting for my copy to ship now.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'm more interested in the battle and ability systems, and animation speeds, than the story. And to be fair, this guy seems to be grinding and unlocking more abilities than progressing, which is exactly how I play RPGs. But it doesn't really help that this player is focusing so much on using certain roles rather than showing off the entire deck. :/Dark Schala, why are you watching so much of the game on streams
I miiiiight stop watching before the final chapter, or when he unlocks a certain story trophy, though. I want to figure out how to beat the final boss myself.
Edit: Serah's healer animation speed is kind of weird. It's too bad he doesn't seem to use it until he's about to die, though, so I can't see it often enough! I'm starting to warm up to Noel's Blaster animation speeds, or at least the animations themselves.
ULTROS!
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