renegadeleader1 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 It hurt to just watch that. Trust me, what you can do in Blitz: The League II is much MUCH worse. At least Sniper doesn't give you an achievement for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azrael Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Trust me, what you can do in Blitz: The League II is much MUCH worse. At least Sniper doesn't give you an achievement for it. Wait for a DLC or next year's version...That was a leg crossing moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeleader1 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Now that deserved an achievement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azrael Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I hadn't heard much from Hawken. I was wondering if it'd been released yet. As usual, the videos make the game look pretty awesome. Someone asked about Hawken? All Pilots to Their Mechs, Open Beta is Live! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Final Fantasy XIII-3. Or XIII-2-2. Or maybe "The really really real ending to XIII-2" Lightning's Return: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kicker773 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Bought a neo geo X gold today....excited!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Train Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Final Fantasy XIII-3. Or XIII-2-2. Or maybe "The really really real ending to XIII-2" Lightning's Return: Assassin's Creed: Lightning's Revenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Final Fantasy XIII-3. Or XIII-2-2. Or maybe "The really really real ending to XIII-2" I was actually hoping this was a joke. So Square Enix, any ideas for an original title? Square Enix: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GU-11 Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 They're probably working on the next, next sequel already. Final Fantasy XIII-2: Lightning Strikes Trice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltane70 Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 I have no problems with the new XIII game. I enjoyed both XIII and XIII-2. Lightning's Return looks pretty interesting to me, so I plan on buying it when it's released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uxi Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Just spent a couple hours with Batman Arkham City. Pretty cool. Still learning the controls but for a decent price ($39.99 at Target), feel it was very worth it. Armored for Wii U. Makes pretty good use of the gamepad, sometimes almost distracting but still trying to learn all the controls. Very much in the mode of the Nolan Batmans it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 I have no problems with the new XIII game. I enjoyed both XIII and XIII-2. Lightning's Return looks pretty interesting to me, so I plan on buying it when it's released. I tried to like XIII and just couldn't get over the first 25 hours of point A to B grinding. The characters nor story really caught on with me either. Then tried the demo to XIII-2 but didn't waste anytime on the main game. Final Fantasy basically died in my eyes when X-2 came around. Right now, I've started a playthrough of Parasite Eve. I never gave this one a chance when it first came out but became curious again after watching an old review of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benson13 Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 I was never more disappointed with a Final Fantasy game than I was with FF13. X-2 (FF's version of Charlie's Angels Full Throttle) was horrible as well but at least you could explore the regions. 6 and 7 are still my favorites. I start a new game of 6 everytime I get a new phone or find my Gameboy Advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommar Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Very much in the mode of the Nolan Batmans it seems. Just wait for it. Eventually... no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeszekely Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 I was never more disappointed with a Final Fantasy game than I was with FF13. X-2 (FF's version of Charlie's Angels Full Throttle) was horrible as well but at least you could explore the regions. 6 and 7 are still my favorites. I start a new game of 6 everytime I get a new phone or find my Gameboy Advance. I haven't enjoyed a numbered Final Fantasy game after IX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benson13 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Once I was able to look past Tidus being whiney, I was able to enjoy it a lot more. There were some slow parts but over all good story development. I kinda liked learning that Al Bed or whatever it was called language. I didn't play 11 because it was an MMO and I'm not interested in those. However I really enjoyed 12 and felt it was a solid game, it just lacked the epicness of 6 or 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) I think it's just safe to say that the series wasn't the same after Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu left. Square Enix let the franchise fall into mediocrity. VI and VII are still my favorites aswell. Followed by IX, V and VIII. Edited December 23, 2012 by Shadow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benson13 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I think VIII would've been a lot better if you didn't have to base all your stats on storing magic. Had the two been seperate the game would've been fine but that ruined it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GU-11 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I think it's just safe to say that the series wasn't the same after Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu left. Square Enix let the franchise fall into mediocrity. VI and VII are still my favorites aswell. Followed by IX, V and VIII. Quoted for truth. VIII was and is my all-time favorite, as well as being the first FF game I ever played. Music-wise, there hasn't been a memorable ending song after X. Once I was able to look past Tidus being whiney, I was able to enjoy it a lot more. There were some slow parts but over all good story development. I kinda liked learning that Al Bed or whatever it was called language. I didn't play 11 because it was an MMO and I'm not interested in those. However I really enjoyed 12 and felt it was a solid game, it just lacked the epicness of 6 or 7. Don't get me started on Tidus. He acts like my friend's 5-year-old kid! IMO, from X onwards, the main characters just went downhill from there. XII's Vaan was an exception, although he wasn't much of a protagonist--the whole story was more about Ashe and that pirate guy (no, not Al Cid, the other one with the bunny girl) than him. Come to think of it, the characters and story in XIII are fine, even squeaky-voiced Vanille and that kid with the boomerang whose names escapes me. It's just the awfully linear stages. They also artificially made the boss fights dificult by forcing a level cap on your characters. XIII-2, while an enjoyable distraction, seemed more like an excuse to milk some money from the main game. Supposedly it was to explain what happened to Lightning, but ended up being some muddled romp through time. The longer I played, the more confused I got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uxi Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Just wait for it. Eventually... no. Just the Batman look I mean. I was expecting the story skin/outfit to look more like the comic. Bane, Catwoman, etc are nothing like the Nolan obviously Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltane70 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I found FF VIII to be the worst of the series for me. I never finished it, nor have the desire to. There are a few that I still haven't played yet (I, II, V, IX), but do plan on getting to them eventually. The linearity of XIII never bothered me, personally. To me, it actually made sense considering that the character were on the run during most of the games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 You haven't played IX? It's one of my absolute faves. It's like IV-2 or VI-2 would be, thematically. It's the most classic/retro one of them all. I would highly recommend playing I first. Some things in IX harken back to I. It could almost sorta be a seuqel to I---the worlds possibly overlap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) I'd second the recommendation to play IX. To me, it was the last 'great' FF title. VIII was okay but has a number of elements that I just don't care for such as the junction system and enemies that level up with you. I also never got into playing the card game. The plot through the first 2 discs kept my attention but went downhill afterwards. Despite this, it's still one of the most memorable game in the franchise for me. Maybe it was because I also in high school at the time when I first played it and it was interesting having that kind of relation to the characters plus VIII made a major visual transition from what I had seen with VII. The music was another big winner for me with VIII. Edited December 23, 2012 by Shadow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radd Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I loved IX, but it felt incomplete to me. It seemed like most of the characters whose stories were building in the first half of the game wound up being entirely dropped, with no resolution, in the second half. Even so, it was a lot of fun and the last Final Fantasy game I thoroughly enjoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 For how many FF games fall apart at the end, X really comes together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radd Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I never felt any of them fell apart at the end until about VIII onward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaorin Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) i'm desperately looking for a halfway decent Anime-style PS3 RPG. i'm seriously considering this, it looks to be right up my alley. opinions/advice are most welcome; Edited December 23, 2012 by Shaorin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GU-11 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 (edited) I never felt any of them fell apart at the end until about VIII onward. Yeah. TBH, VIII was fine for what it was, basically a love story. It's just that they tried to turn it into something more, which is when the problems start. IMO, the whole concept of witches should have been made more present and apparent in their world from the getgo. The way it was represented in the game, it felt tacked on, to make the game feel less of a love story, which is precisely what it was. @ Shaorin: I haven't played this one yet, but you really can't go wrong with a Tales game. I've played Abyss and Legendia, and those were awesome games. Edited December 24, 2012 by GU-11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 (edited) To add what GU-11 said about VIII. I was turned off by the whole 'everyone just happened to grow up in the same orphanage element along with the GF taking up the characters memories to make these two plot elements mesh better. It just felt lazy to me on the part of the writers. @Shaorin: Only title I could give you is Tales of Symphonia. Edited December 24, 2012 by Shadow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Train Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 The best FF was XI ! You play a greedy adventurer who grinds and grinds and grinds to max out jobs only to find out that Prostitute Bard is the best job to get friends, parties, and invites to high level Linkshells. The game is pervasive, it never ends! Your main end game activity it to sit around for hours waiting for high level monsters to spawn, defeat it, and find out that whatever item you wanted did not drop. In the rare event that said item does drops, get ready for loads of entertainment as you and your adventuring buddies create an endless stream of drama to determine who gets what loot. Your reward for all this is so that you can stand in a very populated town with your character in full uber-looking gear and have people check you out, while you log onto your other PC and play WoW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GU-11 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 To add what GU-11 said about VIII. I was turned off by the whole 'everyone just happened to grow up in the same orphanage element along with the GF taking up the characters memories to make these two plot elements mesh better. It just felt lazy to me on the part of the writers. It's been over a decade since I played the game, but I think it was mentioned that SeeD soldiers (mercs, for all intents and purposes) were usually culled from orphanages to serve in different Gardens. But yeah, the whole thing with the GF's taking up their memories was kind of WTF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 FF VIII would have been much more interesting if Edea had been a PERMANENT addition to the party. Would have gladly traded Rinoa for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GU-11 Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Would have traded that Irvine cowboy dude for her. At least Rinoa was good to look at. A sniper that gets all jittery and sh!t before a mission...bleh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anime52k8 Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 I'll be honest, the only FF game I've ever played was X. I have fond memories of playing it when I was young but I've never hand any interest in going out of my way to play other FF games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hingtgen Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 My final party was usually Squall, Quistis, Irvine, only because Irvine's gun can be VERY useful when upgraded etc late in the game. Whereas Rinoa is useless when not casting, and has an often-useless limit break. Quistis is in the "never leaves the party" category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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