Final Fantasy 13 (PS3/XBOX 360)

[mrprice33]

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Got him!!! 5 starred it too!

Ok, here's what you do.

Spoiler

Make an Symbiosis (Medic+Synergist) Paradigm and set it as your default before the battle. Also equip any Spark Rings you may have. While Hope does Protect and Shield (Hope you have them BTW) on you and himself, heal who needs it. (It will start to fill Odins meter). When that is done, switch to War and Peace (Commando+Medic I think). Watch him and keep hammering him, as soon as he does his shield move, switch to Duel Casting (Ravager+Ravager) and demolish him, when he starts to attack again go back to War and Peace while switching to Symbiosis when buffs run out. When Meter gets high enough press X/Square. Hope that helps.

This is my strategy, I'm going to keep at it. The first minute of the fight is like mike tyson in the original punchout though, lol.

[BIG CAROLINA]

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Boy Snow really likes them Lil girls huh. Serah looks like she is 14 years old.

[CaptainZombie]

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I bought this yesterday over Yakuza and I am about 2 hours in so far. I really like the presentation, the cutscenes are utterly amazing in 1080p, and graphics are top notch. Having played every single final fantasy, except for XII I like this new battle system.......but boy does it take some getting used to. I bet it gets more complex much later.

I do not mind the story so far of just jumping around with the characters, gives you a different angle through each person's eyes. I am guessing that all these characters will slowly come together as Snow already did at the point I stopped last night. The beginning is fairly slow so far, but I want to give this to the 10 hour mark to see if the story is really going to hook me in or not. I do see some similarities to FFX which is my fav in the entire franchise.

For those that are much further along than I am, does the story really pick up later on and engross you? Everyone plays RPG's for many different reasons and for me the story is the main element.

[BIG CAROLINA]

Re: Final Fantasy 13 (PS3/XBOX 360)

I bought this yesterday over Yakuza and I am about 2 hours in so far. I really like the presentation, the cutscenes are utterly amazing in 1080p, and graphics are top notch. Having played every single final fantasy, except for XII I like this new battle system.......but boy does it take some getting used to. I bet it gets more complex much later.

I do not mind the story so far of just jumping around with the characters, gives you a different angle through each person's eyes. I am guessing that all these characters will slowly come together as Snow already did at the point I stopped last night. The beginning is fairly slow so far, but I want to give this to the 10 hour mark to see if the story is really going to hook me in or not. I do see some similarities to FFX which is my fav in the entire franchise.

For those that are much further along than I am, does the story really pick up later on and engross you? Everyone plays RPG's for many different reasons and for me the story is the main element.

Yes, the story picks up. I have viewed all of the tutorials which helps. I like how when you reload up the game and load your last save, it gives you a mini recap of what happened thus far so you feel back up to speed.

[Candyman5]

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I bought this yesterday over Yakuza and I am about 2 hours in so far. I really like the presentation, the cutscenes are utterly amazing in 1080p, and graphics are top notch. Having played every single final fantasy, except for XII I like this new battle system.......but boy does it take some getting used to. I bet it gets more complex much later.

I do not mind the story so far of just jumping around with the characters, gives you a different angle through each person's eyes. I am guessing that all these characters will slowly come together as Snow already did at the point I stopped last night. The beginning is fairly slow so far, but I want to give this to the 10 hour mark to see if the story is really going to hook me in or not. I do see some similarities to FFX which is my fav in the entire franchise.

For those that are much further along than I am, does the story really pick up later on and engross you? Everyone plays RPG's for many different reasons and for me the story is the main element.

Im about 12 1/2 hours into the game and they are starting to throw more difficult enemies at ya, there was one part where I literally ran arround the enemies because I am one party member short....As for the story it seems like the more you go on the more characters start to break down and show more about them selfs. (Lightning especially) Also I still cant grip everything that is going on story wise but I think they meant for that, just like the characters in game dont have alot of clue whats going on. You learn as they learn or when an Cutscene happens and the character tells you something new. Overall the story went from WTF is going on here to oh thats what they were talking about earlier at least for me.

[Pokes]

Re: Final Fantasy 13 (PS3/XBOX 360)

I bought this yesterday over Yakuza and I am about 2 hours in so far. I really like the presentation, the cutscenes are utterly amazing in 1080p, and graphics are top notch. Having played every single final fantasy, except for XII I like this new battle system.......but boy does it take some getting used to. I bet it gets more complex much later.

I do not mind the story so far of just jumping around with the characters, gives you a different angle through each person's eyes. I am guessing that all these characters will slowly come together as Snow already did at the point I stopped last night. The beginning is fairly slow so far, but I want to give this to the 10 hour mark to see if the story is really going to hook me in or not. I do see some similarities to FFX which is my fav in the entire franchise.

For those that are much further along than I am, does the story really pick up later on and engross you? Everyone plays RPG's for many different reasons and for me the story is the main element.

Yes, just wait til you get about 25-30 hours in. It gets pretty good and interesting there.

[ScoobySnax]

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Yes, just wait til you get about 25-30 hours in. It gets pretty good and interesting there.

Damn! I've never played an FF game, how long are these games usually?

[Pokes]

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Damn! I've never played an FF game, how long are these games usually?

On average at least 50-60 hours. If you try to do everything in them then easily 100.

[CaptainZombie]

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Big C, Candy, and Texan thanks for clearing up the story elements for me.

Damn! I've never played an FF game, how long are these games usually?

From what I have read, the game can be completed in 30 hours. Like Texan said, you can play this from 50-100 hours if you do everything. My goal is the 30 hours.....I have way too many other games on my plate right now so I just really want to enjoy this story.......but those 30 hours may not be enough if I need to spend time grinding.

[Pokes]

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Big C, Candy, and Texan thanks for clearing up the story elements for me.



From what I have read, the game can be completed in 30 hours. Like Texan said, you can play this from 50-100 hours if you do everything. My goal is the 30 hours.....I have way too many other games on my plate right now so I just really want to enjoy this story.......but those 30 hours may not be enough if I need to spend time grinding.

30 hours? I don't think that's possible at all, even with skipping the cutscenes. Unless you skip battles then that leaves your characters severely underleveled.

[CaptainZombie]

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30 hours? I don't think that's possible at all, even with skipping the cutscenes. Unless you skip battles then that leaves your characters severely underleveled.

Really, I will have to check the IGN review again. And a few others on the PSU board had said around 30 hours.

EDIT: I just looked elsewhere, and its about 40 hours for the main story.

[Flawless]

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FF XIII Director - Production Drove Content Decisions, Elements Will Return

"Personally, the Final Fantasys that I have worked on have been very story-driven, so in terms of the development I wanted to, of course, use my personal strengths which where those," said Toriyama.

However, he says that production on the current consoles does not allow the freedom the team has known in the past. "In the Final Fantasys on previous non-high definition consoles, we were able to kind of take everyone's ideas and include them in the games."

"I call it a bento box system, where you have all of the different little things in there. So we had minigames or towns were you were able to talk to all of the townspeople. But with the HD console you're not really able to do that because it takes so long to develop," said Toriyama.

"If you think about how long it's already taken to develop this game, to have to have included all of those other aspects, it would have been too long. So what we did instead was define what was truly important to the game, and include those aspects and really emphasize those items we wanted to include," he continued. "We had to consider the amount of time it took to create the game engine, which we built from scratch, as well, and so with that additional time included we had to decide what we could and couldn't do."

However, this will not continue for future games, he said. "Now that we have that base technology... The next time you see a Final Fantasy, we might be able to pack in more of those elements that existed in the past. And I also think that a game doesn't need to have all of those items in the future. We can create additional downloadable content for people to add, too. It doesn't have to come with that game itself."

So far Square Enix has not announced any plans for Final Fantasy XIII DLC, though the game's creators have left the door open to the possibility in prior interviews.

When asked if the team should have striven to improve elements such as towns, rather than cut them, Toriyama laughed and said "You can wait longer for the game where we can improve those elements!"

However, he said, "The next title that we will create will have those elements, and the improvements to those elements that you were mentioning. However, it's important for us to choose what we can and cannot include, and that's the role of the director to decide what we can accomplish in that amount of time."

[RealmK]

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Just started playing this about an hour or less ago. So far I like it especially for the real time battle system. Turn based really turned me off from JRPG's the last few years but so far so good. Graphically amazing game so far in the very short time I've spent with it. Looking forward to putting this iteration of the series through its paces.

[Jasong7777]

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Yeah, I am having a blast so far. The long wait has been worth it.

[goh]

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Teamxbox updated their review for anyone wondering. Still a 5.