you know how this goes
WHEN YOU WALK AWAY PLEEEEEASSSSEDONT HAAAAATE MEEEEEDONT KNOWSIMPLE AND PEENI CAN PISS ON YOUR SPLEENIN A WEEEEEEIRD WAY
Kino soundtrack
This game was supposed to be Chrono 3 but Square decided to change it to a FF game instead.
I forgot it was an era of QTEs
>you can finally drop gil from fightsmy prayers have been answered
remember sen/sen/sen for boss super attacksgodspeed
>>695191113>mfw
>>695188246ARE YOU READY TO RIDE THIS CHOCOBO!?
>>695188583Fuck Square so much if this is completely unsubstantiated claim is true.
>>695191142Many such cases. This game crashed very frequently for me on loading screens.
>>695191331I just went and installed this bad boy https://mega.nz/file/b45wCIiB#Y6zHzAx8DW_IL5T2KCjWy3Q4fjVErhi9wlceN0snXck
>>695188246The last tier of crystals and engines for monster upgrading are actually a fucking slog to grind out.They should have actually let you just buy them. I hate fucking gambling for Mud frogs or killing the big fucker in the plains.XIII-2 is an improvement in some areas, but a total fucking degeneration in others.Sure, you get away more freedom to go through the game than in XIII but >Sarah can't learn Cura>Noel is a shit Saboteur>Accessory limit of 100 points means a hard cap on certain builds>Monster capture chance is still low even with the fragment skill>Unoptimized as FUCK on steam. Even XIII ran better albeit not great.At least you could make gil easier, and chocobo racing was fun. More fun than the actual game, if you ask me.
>>695188246I bought a huge thick guidebook for $5 and the game for $20 years ago but I never finished the first one, so never played it
>>695191331>>695191448>it worked
>>695188246I dusted off my old PS3 copy of this game recently, and the frame drops make it almost unplayable.
>>695191742time for kino
>the map is now unexplored by defaultlook, I don't know what the map layouts are gonna be like obviously, but at least psychologically speaking this is a lot better than opening the map and seeing the entire hallwayat least here I can hope to be surprised
>>695192069XIII-2 is a lot more open which makes for a much better video game but the story suffers for it because of times you can get a choice of like 3 or 4 areas to go to in any order, and in one area they'll learn some major revelation, and then you'll go to the other areas and there's something related to that revelation but they're suddenly completely clueless.
>>695192069100%ing the maps is a side quest but you can't do most of it until basically after beating the game
I like the mog clock
so I'm confusedbasically you have shared nodes? and you just select what role the node will be used for?
>>695193613Yes, and the role determines which stats you earn from it. You get bonus stats for the large nodes, and you can completely fuck your game if you use shitty roles like SEN for the big ones.
huge X/X-2 vibe from thisit might actually be enjoyable, nothing bad at all so far>>695193881if you reach a lvl threshold for a role that gives you a skill, do you still get the stat increase along with it?
>>695193996>if you reach a lvl threshold for a role that gives you a skill, do you still get the stat increase along with it?Yeah
>>695193881>you can completely fuck your game if you use shitty rolesI really don't agree. Only, if you aren't just getting through the game and want to fight DLC bosses. XIII-2 is the easiest game to get overpowered in the series, well, unless you know how to do it in VIII, then it's second.
>>695188246Best SE FF game.
the fact that trash fights are just already short to begin with and the 5-star rating seems to actually reward you proper means I care more about playing well>>695193881>if you use shitty roles like SENis it as effective as in the first game? because I thought it was pretty much huge for defence and it saved me from a lot of hassle
>>695194757SEN is great, you just want to be careful with your level ups.
>>695193996that is a beautiful screenshot
>>695195158huge X/X2 energy from this early gameGod I miss X so much /v/ros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZANmaUxS3A
>>695196282whole soundtracks' fantastic.>But what about Crazy Ch-yes even Crazy Chocobo.
>>695196671Crazy Chocobo was kino, was fun to hear it come back in Rebirth.
>>695196671I can understand why Crazy Chocobo doesn't really vibe with people who wanted something a bit more free and fun sounding as opposed to METAL AS FUCK but yeah it's gr8
/v/ros.........is this an actual video game
>>695196790slect ur boner anon-kun...........hurry...........
>>695196790Choices? In MY FF game?
>>695196912I don't know what to do, I didn't plan for that type of situationuhhhhhhh I'm GONNA NEED TO LOOK UP A GUIDE it's too complex!!I'm picking the ATB gauge desu
>>695197053The grid's long enough to get everything max lvl and all expansion bonuses, you're just deciding the order.
>>695197154Only if you take the time to grind it all out, which I'm sure anon isn't gonna do.
>>695197235probably not>>695197154yeah but that's the thing, even the order matters since for example getting an extra gauge early means things go fasterso it's cool
>>695197235>>695197296I can't speak for him obviously, but for me just the knowledge that none of them are "miss-able" is a weight off my shoulders for RPG's.
https://litter.catbox.moe/lh37b5.mp4comfy
a normal shop...... finally.......
I recommend everyone to play this game with Cheat Engine scripts that increase the difficulty. With hard difficulty mods this game is kino/10.
idk if it's because the port but the rain looks like total garbagethe good news though is there's some Kazooie-girl merchant
>>695199540Yeah there's a patch for the rain.
>>695188246Once FF7 Remakes end and the dust settles, I have a strong feeling I will look back more fondly on FF13 trilogy more.
>>695188246so you did finish XIII. i'll have to give it another shot; everyone praises XIII-2.
Why do pc fags suffer terrible port after terrible port. Just get a console you hippies
>>695199667I have a PSP.
Is this remastered?
>>695199812No, there's just the original broken port from 2014.
>>695199730Ill kill you, ill kill your family, ill kill your fucking dog.
>>695199919Yeah it runs like ass
>>695199667A bad port is often still less aggravating than putting up with a 15fps 720p console version that takes longer to install, is more expensive, and loads much slower. Depends on the game of course, Deadly Premonition for instance is pretty much unplayable even with the fan patch, it crashes so often.
>>695200042With ff13fix FPS will be fine.
>>695200574when I installed it the game wouldn't start anymore
>>695195259I always hated X. For me, it had the same hallway problem 13 has. The world felt so small and hemmed in, never anything interesting to explore.
>>695199567eeeyyyyyyyit worked
I feel like XIII-2 is just Snow getting cucked by Noel.Is it just me?
>>695200781just you.
>game is about collecting monsters>you are discouraged to switch between monsters because they don't level up like the 2 mcs but instead through monster specific drops from mobsone of the worst systems I have ever witnessed and fuck the lucky coin, it wasn't worth the grind for an additional 5 second ending cutscene
>>695201364>monsters can be raised without fielding them>this is somehow a discouragement to swap
>get a promising monster 30h into the game>have to go back to first levels and grind level up materials just to bring him up to the same of strength as my early game monster that I've been leveling since beginning
>>695201658My biggest gripe is the way you basically have to sacrifice monsters to put skills on one. It's tedious as fuck.
brainchads, our time is now
>>695202308Fuck you. Have you seen the ones with the clock? Pure dogshit.
>>695191142How does RPCS3 emulate it? The port is fucked beyond belief and I refuse to take out my hacked PS3 out of the tranny cave
>>695202975I don't know, I patched the exe of the game to allow up to 4GB of memory and haven't had a single issue since
>>695202308holy jesus; I think I had to use a web app to solve some of these fucking things back in the day
>>695203019I did all of that bullshit + more from the steam guide and the game didn't even launchIt doesn't seem to be worth more effort than that, I'll either emulate or wait for a cashgrab rerelease
>FFX-2>FFXIII-2>Jack's GameWhy are these the only 3D FF games that I've connected with and genuinely enjoyed?
>>695203354and FFXII too; almost forgot.
>>695203150Then you did something wrong. No idea why you're using some Steam "guide" either instead of just installing the fixes mentioned on PCGW. Maybe you're just too stupid to follow simple instructions. Best of luck waiting for a re-release of the most reviled games in the franchise that killed mainstream interest in it stone dead. It also can't be finished due to a bug on RPCS3 and just crashes constantly on Xenia. Better that than not being too retarded to install a few mods though, right?
>>695203396based
>>695203354You don't enjoy 9? That's my favorite.
>>695200601Yeah they're the same. X without the nostalgia is not really a better game than XIII
>>695202308Literally impossible
>>695203765keep bouncing off the artstyle.
>>695204109Understandable I guess. It read better on a shitty blurry CRT than the more realistic proportions of 8 but it definitely has a weird look to a lot of the characters. I just love the world and the cast far more than that of any other entry.
>>695203975I played X for the first time this month and it was fantastic, night and day between that and the garbage that is XIIIabsolutely nothing to do with nostalgia, that's cope
>>695203975It's funny, X turned me off JRPGs for a solid decade because everyone held it up as one of the best games in the series and I fucking hated it. I just assumed that that was what a JRPG was supposed to be and that the style I had actually enjoyed would go the way of the dodo.
WorldsCollide and people fadeSeeking Gates through timelinesWe've all prayedLet's fix the pastTrade in now to see smiling facesThisHopeHeart of Chaos can not takeParadoxes must breakThis is the path I must takeMy destiny may change your fateThe pain my heart feels is my strength
>>695194757XIII had a similar reward (x5 rare drop and 8x TP recovery for 5 star).The main difference in the star rating is that in XIII, the star rating was based on your time and your party strength vs the enemy strength. In XIII-2, your party strength doesn't matter to the time, so if you're overpowered you can get 5 stars easily, though that also means if you're underleveled, it's impossible to get a good rating.
>>695191458>achievement for gambling rngi did everything but it, bought dlc with sazh with the hope that it would help but nope. Fucking japs
>>695200781Consider that director Motomu Toriyama was also the writer for Bahamut Lagoon, which is basically NTR: The Game.
Fucksakes OP stop now. Any other jrpg you can find is better than where you are heading.
this is.... le deep.....
>>695205304anonI've been marathoning the series and I've definitely played JRPGs before
>>695188246>Final Fantasy XIII-2. The story so far.
I realised this was too far a gate to enter kek
I realised it's already been almost 8h since I startedthe game's actually fun and interesting to explore so I didn't see the time I guessI'll carry on in the next thread fellas but feel free to discuss anyway
>>695208383Will 13-2 redeem 13 for you by the end of this?
>>695208729no absolutely not, XIII will remain a piece of shit that's barely a game to begin with ; if I keep enjoying XIII-2 that will have no impact on what I think of XIIIalso I had no issue with the lore or the characters though, so in that sense I have no problem playing XIII-2 to begin withI wanted XIII specifically to end but I wasn't bothered by the take of XIII on the FF lore, if you catch my drift
Serah mating press
>>695188246All I remember about this game was that it played better than XIII, but the story got confusing with all the time travel shenanigans, and the game itself ran like total ass on my PS3.
>>695204238I also played X for the first time last month, it was very lame, i got to the part where Sin dps checks you and i just dropped the game, the only time i had fun with it was against Yunalesca, but that probably had to do with the fact that i was hilariously underleveled so the fight took a lot of effort to beat, it's exactly the same as XIII but with water football, and both are awful
>>695213253extreme skill issue
anyone else feel like XV and XVI lacked alot of soul compared to the XIII trilogy regardless of gameplay? Even all the menus got so much uglier
>>695214538>Stop disliking what I like
>>695191264https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU-T7mgJ6NQ&t
>>695210559
OP's rankings make zero sense
I wish they'd make a better PC port for it, this is the best soundtrack in the series with really fun gameplay and fun ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdendl7vGZ4
>>695217102I remember playing it with 30 FPS and lots of bugs. Absolute aids
>>695209097Filtered
>>695216471You post the sauce right fucking now, you hear me?
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN RIDE THIS CHOCOBO
>>695193881>you can completely fuck your game if you use shitty roles like SEN for the big ones.no you can't. the stat bonuses are minor. you're going to rely on equipment and monsters for stats, mostly the monster. for the main game you'll be fine with whatever, and the post-game is going to be a grind no matter what you do. "optimizing" the level ups just means maybe a tiny bit less farming for upgrades at the end.
>>695188246Glad I caught the thread. Such an underrated gem
>>695214538There wasn't any skill involved, i just rushed everything past guado and called it a day, i simply wasn't feeling it
>>695188246IT GOESIT GOESIT GOESIT GOES GUILLOOTIIIIIIIIIIIINE
>>695221836>the stat bonuses are minorIt's mostly 10% or 15%, what are you on about? You don't have points to equip those +25% or more accessories.
>>695221923This
>>695216305>first tried almost every single race>win the big cup with no restarts>esther doesnt even show up to congratulate me with her sexxo voiceFUCK YOU JAPAN FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>695208383>the game's actually funYes, XIII-2 and LR are actually good games. it's a shame you have to trudge through XIII first
>>695224091XIII is good too.
>>695223437you craft the weapons that give you +ATB and then serah and noel are gods. if you don't have those, a few extra points in serah's magic is not going to matter.
I really like Caius theme
>>695199591I think XIII got a terrible reputation because it released at the actual height of "Japan bad."Playing OG XIII myself, I liked the hallways because it gave time to look at the pre-rendered scenery and the story flowed rather well. Until you got to the actual grind dungeon where they tell you 'you could grind here.'Gran Pulse felt like it came at a bad time because you break pacing to basically get side quests that do not mesh with the up until several hours ago- was a totally linear story. Not only that, anti-rpg reviewers shit on the characters who were really just standard FF characters. Loud black dude, ice queen, misguided wannabe hero and emotionally intelligent genki. Honestly I can see why Lightning was so popular in Japan because compared to other FF protags her soft side she's desperately trying to cover up only shows in the JP version. Also falling for a shota.Best Gilgamesh unfortunately gets underplayed since no reviewer actually cared past the opening 3 levels of 2
>>695200781I always hated Snow and Serah. Meets a dude on spring break and decides to get married 3 months later. And this is played straight.Then Noel shows up, broken from missing out on the last cute girl on the earth- falls into a timeline where Serah exists and nothing comes from it. still fucking seething
>>695225642>+ATBThe best weapons are those you loot from the Immortal, the ones with +50% speed (aka Haste). Indir Rajeet and Panjesh or whatever pajeet names they had.
>>695226963They should have shown the fucking wedding, goddamnit SE you fucking shits.
>>695188246FINALLY a good thread!
>>695226723It got a bad reputation for being a bad game.
>>695221534go to rule34 and search for lazyprocastinator
I'm 1/7th the way into the OST for FFXIII-2, since there's all this praise for its soundtrack.I'm unimpressed. It's quite dull.I'm fairly certain I've listened to ALL soundtracks and what not before, but if this repeat means anything, I think the only track I've saved from this OST is "New Bodhum" (assuming that's not some other FF13 track).
>>695233352This. I'm from opposite world by the way.
>>695233352i've never understood the hype either
