The Final Fantasy Series

[Kageho]

Final Fantasy XIII-3 isn't going to be called that. Its going to be called Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Its going to be a combination of stuff from Valkyrie Profile (open world), Majora's Mask (time limit and travel), Dragon Quarter (using time as a type of currency/power) and Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Which seems awesome.

So how exactly do you think they are going to screw this up?

 

[Sabre]

Because it has ffxiii attached in the name.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

XIII-2 was far and away the most satisfying RPG experience that I've had in years.

 

[Smues]

So how exactly do you think they are going to screw this up?

To be continued...again

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

So how exactly do you think they are going to screw this up?

To be continued...again

Do we still have to put up spoiler tags for XIII-2?

Well, just in case .....

Spoiler

Where does all this go? The end of XIII-2 was pretty definite, and quickly cemented itself as one of my all-time favorite game endings. Everything is OK, a nice little J-Pop song is playing, and Serah and Noel are laughing and giggling about how they just saved the world and everything worked out. Then, Serah looked at Noel, said thank you, had a glimpse of the future and fell over dead while the happy song continued to play (wtf?!). Hope, who was a MUCH more tolerable character this time around, showed up and saw how devastated Noel was over Serah's death, who promptly explained why Serah was now dead. Noel then remembered what Caius had said, about the heart of Etro, and the J-Pop ceased, the bells tolled and doomsday began. HOLY FUCKING SHIT I MARKED THE HELL OUT AS THE CHAOS ENERGY DESTROYED THE WORLD and presumably killed Noel, Hope, and everyone else at the same time. Lightning was then shown crystalized, sitting on the throne of the goddess.

I guess they'll use a tried and true "McGuffin" to explain how anything is even happening at this point, but we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Smues]

The ending literally said To Be Continued. Worst ending ever.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Yea, I'm just trying to figure out how.

Spoiler

I'm just a sucker for doomsday endings to anything. One of the reasons I enjoyed "Knowing" so much.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Really, the protagonist

Spoiler

falls over dead and the end of the world happens

while THIS is playing

Charice - New World - The English Theme Song of Final Fantasy XIII-2 + Lyrics

I loved the ending and all but WTF Square-Enix?!

 

[Master Thrasher]

Do you have any tips for the slot machine in Serendipity or do I just put a rubberband on the controller and let the game play out itself?

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

That's the best advice I could give. I know one of the staff will tell you if the machine is paying out well that day or not.

 

[Jingus]

I recently got a shiny new Logitech controller for my computer. For some reason it only works correctly for my emulated NES games, and nothing else; so I've been playing a buncha old 8-bit classics. This includes the original Final Fantasy. Man, this game is time-consuming. Just buying and equipping your items is a chore which takes forever. And the grinding, oh the grinding. I've sunk at least six hours into this damn thing over the past few days, and I'm still no further than the Elf Kingdom. It's taking an eternity to earn enough money to buy all the magic spells I need.

EDIT: I'm also using dead old PsychoPenguin's walkthrough on GameFaqs, heh.

 

[Cerebus The Aardvark]

The sad part is all that grinding won't matter when you run into 4x Ice Dragons in the Temple of Fiends and they all just spam Blizzard on you before you get an action.

 

[Jingus]

I'm nowhere near there. I'm still grinding in Elfland. I've only got one mage (a Red, natch) and it's still taking a really long time just to earn enough money to buy both the level 3 and 4 spells which are for sale in this town. My party is fighter/thief/black belt/red mage, so I save the magic for healing and just have everyone attack. Even the strongest enemies here can be one-shotted by my fighter, but there's no good place nearby to fight slightly tougher foes. The only new place I can go is towards the swamp cave, and there's so many poisonous enemies that you quickly use up all your Pure potions while just walking around. My party's level 9, the walkthru claims that I could go ahead to the cave now, but I'd rather buy everything available first and it'll take a couple of hours to finish buying those higher-level spells.

 

[Angle-plex]

Why does this series keep doing xii-2s and sequals like that's? I liked them better as stand alone game. I was still in fucking high school when FF X came out. Can't believe there have been only three since then.

 

[Smues]

X-2 I think was made because the ending of X left a lot of people mad and they wanted some resolution with Tidus...so we got a sequel that had almost nothing to do with that.

XIII-2 I think they had spent so much time and money making the engine for XIII that they wanted to get some more use out of their investment.

X-2 was an abortion, but otherwise I don't have have a problem with direct sequels and spin-offs (FF7 Crisis Core, FF12 Reverent Wings, etc.). They create these individual universes that people like, why not use them more than once?

 

[vivisectvi]

Exactly. It's not like the direct sequels are half-games or something.

 

[Sabre]

Besides the charlies angels aspect of X-2, i actually enjoyed it, although having the j-pop concert in the middle of the thunderplains made no sense to me.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I thought Vegnagun looked pretty badass, especially in the up-close shots, up until I realized it was just a giant mechanical Butterfly. So, supposedly THIS thing was more than powerful enough to kill Sin, but was kept locked away? Yea, OK.

 

[Smues]

A couple of years ago on a FF8 play through I attempted the Queen of Cards sub-quest for the first time. It took for fucking ever, I only got I think 3 of the 5 cards, and I swore I was never doing that bullshit again. Well on my current play through I tried again, it still sucked ass (the reward shouldn't be cards, it should be being allowed to kill the bitch), but probably took me half the time I spent last time and I got all 5 cards. So for the first time ever (and I've probably played through the game a dozen times now) I'll actually get every single card. Just the UFO dude and a few boss cards to go. FUCK YOU QUEEN OF CARDS I BEAT YOU YOU CUNT.

Also in regards to FF8, after beating Bahamut I came back to that place to get the Eden GF, and couldn't figure out how the fuck to go down from the first level. I came back like 4 times and felt like an idiot I couldn't figure it out. I google and it and find you have to go to the conference room of the Ragnarok. Not for a scene or anything, you just have to go into there and now magically you can go down the deep sea lab. I assume that has to be a bug and not done on purpose, unless there was supposed to be a scene in there or something. I also don't remember that at all, so I assume I've googled it every time I've played through the game. Weird bug.

 

[Smues]

Final Fantasy Lightning Returns (XIII-3) will be released 'worldwide' this fall. I didn't expect to see it until 2014, and I really liked XIII-2, so color me mildly excited.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Same here.

 

[Master Thrasher]

Maybe FFX will come out this year:
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/18/final-fantasy-x-remaster-resurfaces-announcement-coming-soon/

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

About damn time.

 

[Smues]

That goes for both the FFX remaster, and something worth buying on the Vita.

 

[Kageho]

Considering they are remastering everything but FFVII, that's probably going to be an Orbus reveal.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Hell of a way to move Orbis' s.

 

[vivisectvi]

I don't even think I'd be interested in a remastered FFVII, to be honest. They seem to be spending too much time on releasing and re-releasing old content on every platform possible when they should be focusing efforts on fixing what is wrong with this franchise. XIII-2 was a step in the right direction, IMO.. but there could be so much done to really make this series stand out again as a leader in RPGs.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I don't even think I'd be interested in a remastered FFVII, to be honest. They seem to be spending too much time on releasing and re-releasing old content on every platform possible when they should be focusing efforts on fixing what is wrong with this franchise. XIII-2 was a step in the right direction, IMO.. but there could be so much done to really make this series stand out again as a leader in RPGs.

I am interested in a remastered FFVII, but overall you are correct. They need to sit back and find a way to salvage this franchise. Even 10 years ago, Final Fantasy was the marquee RPG franchise but it has been completely left in the dirt since then.

 

[Jingus]

As a business strategy: you'd think "hey, let's make some incredibly awesome games and thus earn shit-tons of money and respect" would work, since it was pretty damn successful for them back in the 90s. But apparently Squeenix has different ideas.

I finally got around to playing Final Fantasy XIII recently. Damn, but this game is linear. I know that I'm not saying anything which hasn't been said a thousand times before, but the game is so freaking linear that it deserves to be continually mentioned. The battle system is fun, but the story is pretty lame so far; we've seen all this done before, and done better. I'm somewhere around Chapter 6 now, after a restart. I thought the Components were just the loot you sold for money, so I'd been pawning all of them; thanks for never bothering to tell me that I was gonna want those later, game! Then again, levelling up your weapons seems pretty pointless so far, considering that the enemies and/or the grading of the fights just gets harder when you do that. What's the purpose of gaining levels and becoming stronger if everything else becomes stronger too and it's all moot?

 

[Cerebus The Aardvark]

I assume the remake of X is for Vita only...?