wolfmat
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Quick Look: Final Fantasy XIII-2
36 minutes with Brad and Patrick
36 minutes with Brad and Patrick
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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
- Thread starter Gowans
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was hoping Vinny was in it just for Serah comments.
I think it's because he's so upbeat. it's a very positive dirtiness. The feel good vibe of his filth always catches me by surprise.
Not to mention all the other GB dudes try to pretend they're not pervs on camera. Vinny is proud and we all love it.
Riposte
Member
lol I can't watch this. Brad seems like he needs to watch someone else do a quick look to understand what is going on.
backflip10019
Member
This almost made me want to go back and finish FFXIII. Almost.
FF13-2 looks so awful. As someone who played 20 or so hours of FF13 I'm not sure you could pay me to play this. Hate basically every single aspect except the technical quality of the cutscenes.
Can't understand how people think this battle system is not a steaming pile of shit. Pick the correct roles and smash A. Brad even admits picking specfic techniques/spells is a waste of time. Yeah it's basically RPG meets Dynasty Warriors, make a correct strategy and then mass the button like a monkey.
Can't understand how people think this battle system is not a steaming pile of shit. Pick the correct roles and smash A. Brad even admits picking specfic techniques/spells is a waste of time. Yeah it's basically RPG meets Dynasty Warriors, make a correct strategy and then mass the button like a monkey.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Shit, now it's going to turn out to be a good game.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
I find myself weirdly curious about FF13-2. I kind of want to buy it.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
Mechanized
Member
It's weird, I seem to remember Jeff saying he was interested in it months ago and that they should do a quick look and then nothing since.
slaughterking
Member
Did they not say they don't know where their PSP capture kit is. Or they were missing a cable or something. lol
funkystudent
Member
serah is really the main character in XIII-2?
never gonna play this game now.
Lightning is in all the adverts.... Lighting is on the box.
Lightning was the only character worth a damn in the first game.
Wasnt she just in XIII for the weird creeper crowd.
I mean with having the big main male character in a relationship with the young pre teen looking girl. (but it says she is 18 in the instruction manual so it was ok and not creepy)
Its not exactly a character I would make the focus of a follow up.
never gonna play this game now.
Lightning is in all the adverts.... Lighting is on the box.
Lightning was the only character worth a damn in the first game.
Wasnt she just in XIII for the weird creeper crowd.
I mean with having the big main male character in a relationship with the young pre teen looking girl. (but it says she is 18 in the instruction manual so it was ok and not creepy)
Its not exactly a character I would make the focus of a follow up.
serah is really the main character in XIII-2?
never gonna play this game now.
Lightning is in all the adverts.... Lighting is on the box.
Lightning was the only character worth a damn in the first game.
Lets briefly look at a couple other Final Fantasy main characters in comparison:
Lightning - Military trained fighter who
is tasked with eternally defending the world in Valhalla
Terra - A half-Esper, half-human schizophrenic who leads a group of rebels.
Cecil - A disgraced Dark Knight-turned-Paladin orphan born from Moon People.
Serah - A 21 year old girl who acts like she's 15 and misses her sister.
slaughterking
Member
Quick Look: Soulcalibur V (Jeff/Brad) (29:13)
least hated.
Interesting conceptually.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
So what's the funniest/most entertaining Quick Look ever? Really bored right now.
SteveWinwood
Member
I saw a giant monster tomato and realized ff 13 2 was not for me.
Wipeout I think.
Riposte
Member
slaughterking
Member
Dragonball: Evolution or Darkest of Days for me.
Haunted
Member
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
funkystudent
Member
yeah.... thats probably it.
Her and Sazh where ok IMO.
They had pretty clear and probably cliche characters.
Light being the tough military brat and Sazh just a father who will do anything to get his son back.
everyone else was basically just the worst JRPG characters with poorly written characters and VO.
You know I would totally buy XIII-2 if it was a Sazh game.
if at the end of XIII he
didnt find his son and instead found some clue where to find him .... I would play that game.
Haunted
Member
wow, and people were so positive about it in the leadup to this game and even the OT.
FF fanbase has a bit of a Sonic cycle going on there this generation. They always think the next one is going to be THE ONE and it turns out to be a pos. Three in a row now. XIII, XIV and XII-2.
Small wonder there's so much clamoring for a FFVII remake. Fans want to get back to the (perceived) glory days of the franchise.
I kind of feel the same way. I'd really like for a pure JRPG to click with me again, specifically one with that classic Square vibe, and they're always on my radar. But that QL did absolutely nothing for me, and I've slowly come to accept that this generation's crop of JRPG's just aren't where my gaming tastes are at nowadays.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-wipeout-the-game/17-2860/
omg I'm dying here, lmao
Starts off slow but once they start playing instant hilarity ensues.
Will check out the other recommendations soon.
Haunted
Member
Wow, I don't see eye to eye with Jeff on a lot of things, but he basically perfectly encapsulated my thoughts on the franchise in this one.
The original Soul Calibur was incredible and it was all downhill from there.
Soul Calibur is in a tough spot with Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs Capcom dominating the genre.
MarkMan makes an appearance, lol
That looked horrific. I didn't pay much attention to any media of the game other than the basic premise and screenshots but wow. Confined areas, awkward area selection interface, random puzzles, awful talking moogles, monster companion system... I didn't realize they could actually manage to make a game that could look worse than FFXIII. Not off to a good start.
Another two, Rogue Warrior and Farming Simulator 2011
Soul Calibur games have historically sold more or as well than any of those franchises (besides SF in its heyday, which nothing even comes close to touching) and is one of the highest selling fighting game franchises period. They're absolutely fine, they're just not the enthusiast press's current affinity. As far as quality is concerned, different strokes.
People and reviewers outside of Edge are still positive about it. Judging a game solely by a GB Quick Look is not always the best idea.
Haunted
Member
Oh it does? I totally didn't know that. Interesting. Looks like they're good to go financially, then!
I had "scene" in my post before changing it to "genre", which I guess is closer to what I really meant. Although Soul Calibur was never that big in the competitive scene in the first place... oh well.
Especially when it's a Brad playing.
To compare: the new Mortal Kombat is widely considered to be a rousing success and a big seller. Last known numbers according to Wikipedia point to "almost 3 million" sold. Soulcalibur 4, a less popular entry in the series released without much fanfare has sold 2 1/2 million. There is definitely a trend away from 3D fighting games, punctuated by the fact that the competitive scene doesn't play them much, but they still sell surprisingly well and shouldn't be so quickly dismissed or need to undergo a massive transformation to keep up.
I'm of the mind that the 2D fighting resurgence is a small bubble that's going to slowly deflate. Street Fighter X Tekken will be the start of it.
To be fair though, I fully expect this game to sell even less than 4. Soulcalibur's on a downward spiral.
wait, really? i thought that was just some other mode.
Fleet_of_Foot
Member
Check out the quicklook for Ready to Rumble Revolution - that's a funny one I don't see mentioned too often.