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Finally [Final Fantasy] Thread has Something New to Talk About!

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  • DelphinidaesDelphinidaes FFXIV: Delphi Kisaragi Registered User regular
    What is the FC ? I'm super noob at FF online

    FC = Free Company = Guild
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  • TakelTakel Registered User regular
    Takel wrote: »
    rpshoggoth wrote: »
    The game is great, come join us on Sargatanas and feel the lurve.

    If you're story gated by a dungeon, just post in FC chat that you are story gated and sad and would like some help.

    Sargatanas? Is that where everyone else is? Darn

    Yeah. Near 300 of us.

    Damn... I'm going to have to wait until the world transfers open up then uproot myself from Siren.

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  • ArteenArteen Adept ValeRegistered User regular
    It's the opening cinematic to Lightning Returns!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Qy_jTK74M

    Someone needs to tell Lightning she's trying way too hard with that outfit.

    Everything is so weird with XIII-3, between the setting, the story, the visuals, and even the gameplay change to focus only on Lightning instead of a full party. Whether the game is good or bad, I feel compelled to play it.

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  • kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    I like Lightning, but I'm not sure she's really a strong enough character to pull a game on her own (story/characterization-wise). I haven't really paid attention to anything about Lightning Returns, but I'm worried :(

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Takel wrote: »
    rpshoggoth wrote: »
    The game is great, come join us on Sargatanas and feel the lurve.

    If you're story gated by a dungeon, just post in FC chat that you are story gated and sad and would like some help.

    Sargatanas? Is that where everyone else is? Darn

    Yeah. Near 300 of us.

    From the forums? Hot damn.

  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    Arteen wrote: »
    It's the opening cinematic to Lightning Returns!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Qy_jTK74M

    Someone needs to tell Lightning she's trying way too hard with that outfit.

    Everything is so weird with XIII-3, between the setting, the story, the visuals, and even the gameplay change to focus only on Lightning instead of a full party. Whether the game is good or bad, I feel compelled to play it.

    Kagari hinted that she has seen the ending.
    the reaction was not kind.

  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    Arteen wrote: »
    It's the opening cinematic to Lightning Returns!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Qy_jTK74M

    Someone needs to tell Lightning she's trying way too hard with that outfit.

    Everything is so weird with XIII-3, between the setting, the story, the visuals, and even the gameplay change to focus only on Lightning instead of a full party. Whether the game is good or bad, I feel compelled to play it.

    Kagari hinted that she has seen the ending.
    the reaction was not kind.

    I don't know, even if it is shit, the opening cinematic pretty much sold me on the game. I was worried they would have Snow completely lose his mind and be the primary villain, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Hell, they even had a friend fight. I know it was pretty obvious Sera lookalike was at least a primary villain, but it's nice to see at least her and Snow aren't exactly on good terms.

    So what the hell, I'll give it a shot.

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  • kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    So, the trailer looks pretty cool.

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    I just need closure at this point. I don't care how far down the rabbit hole we go, I'm prepared for it.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    I just need closure at this point. I don't care how far down the rabbit hole we go, I'm prepared for it.

    After the first two games, only madness lay before us. My body is ready.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    I am pretty amazed at how much the characters changed. I do like end of the world stories though.

    Krathoon on
  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Takel wrote: »
    rpshoggoth wrote: »
    The game is great, come join us on Sargatanas and feel the lurve.

    If you're story gated by a dungeon, just post in FC chat that you are story gated and sad and would like some help.

    Sargatanas? Is that where everyone else is? Darn

    Yeah. Near 300 of us.

    From the forums? Hot damn.

    We did the unthinkable.

    We got G&T and SE++ to combine their powers into a super Arcadian entity greater than the sum of its parts.

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  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Arteen wrote: »
    It's the opening cinematic to Lightning Returns!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Qy_jTK74M

    Someone needs to tell Lightning she's trying way too hard with that outfit.

    Everything is so weird with XIII-3, between the setting, the story, the visuals, and even the gameplay change to focus only on Lightning instead of a full party. Whether the game is good or bad, I feel compelled to play it.

    Basically, this game looks like it has nothing to do with FF13 or 13-2 at all. It's like how Leon in Kingdom Hearts isn't the same guy as Squall from FF8.

    I do like what they're doing with Snow though, and those Anubis monster designs are rad.

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    It actually looks like a really fun game.

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  • BillmaanBillmaan Registered User regular
    Arteen wrote: »
    Someone needs to tell Lightning she's trying way too hard with that outfit.
    I dunno, I like it. It has a "valkyrie" sort of vibe to it (which was probably the point). All she needs is a pair of wings.

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Ok, so in FF2, is there a trick or gimmick to beating the Emperor at the end of the gamer? I can't out-damage his lifetap. My guys are only doing a fraction of their normal damage to him. Firion, who normally does about 2K damage combined total from his dual wield swords is doing 0/0 with his swings. Guy, who I have been leveling as a monk/fist user generally punches for about 1600, and his punches are only doing about 150-200.

    And then the Emperor will punch someone, doing 3k damage and lifetapping 1500 back.

    My toad ability isn't landing on him either. After about 20 casts spread over 3 fights, I haven't ever landed it.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Billmaan wrote: »
    Arteen wrote: »
    Someone needs to tell Lightning she's trying way too hard with that outfit.
    I dunno, I like it. It has a "valkyrie" sort of vibe to it (which was probably the point). All she needs is a pair of wings.

    The glasses were way dumb tho.

  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Ok, so in FF2, is there a trick or gimmick to beating the Emperor at the end of the gamer? I can't out-damage his lifetap. My guys are only doing a fraction of their normal damage to him. Firion, who normally does about 2K damage combined total from his dual wield swords is doing 0/0 with his swings. Guy, who I have been leveling as a monk/fist user generally punches for about 1600, and his punches are only doing about 150-200.

    And then the Emperor will punch someone, doing 3k damage and lifetapping 1500 back.

    My toad ability isn't landing on him either. After about 20 casts spread over 3 fights, I haven't ever landed it.

    Use the Blood Sword.

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  • TakelTakel Registered User regular
    Takel wrote: »
    rpshoggoth wrote: »
    The game is great, come join us on Sargatanas and feel the lurve.

    If you're story gated by a dungeon, just post in FC chat that you are story gated and sad and would like some help.

    Sargatanas? Is that where everyone else is? Darn

    Yeah. Near 300 of us.

    From the forums? Hot damn.

    We did the unthinkable.

    We got G&T and SE++ to combine their powers into a super Arcadian entity greater than the sum of its parts.

    Well, server transfers are apparently mid next month...

    And hot damn I just got my arse kicked in by the Stone Vigil dungeon. Time to mull over the encounters and plot how to best handle them in my head

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Ok, so in FF2, is there a trick or gimmick to beating the Emperor at the end of the gamer? I can't out-damage his lifetap. My guys are only doing a fraction of their normal damage to him. Firion, who normally does about 2K damage combined total from his dual wield swords is doing 0/0 with his swings. Guy, who I have been leveling as a monk/fist user generally punches for about 1600, and his punches are only doing about 150-200.

    And then the Emperor will punch someone, doing 3k damage and lifetapping 1500 back.

    My toad ability isn't landing on him either. After about 20 casts spread over 3 fights, I haven't ever landed it.

    Use the Blood Sword.

    Hmm. Ok... I don't seem to have that.

  • Fleur de AlysFleur de Alys Biohacker Registered User regular
    kime wrote: »
    I like Lightning, but I'm not sure she's really a strong enough character to pull a game on her own (story/characterization-wise). I haven't really paid attention to anything about Lightning Returns, but I'm worried :(
    The trailers I've seen show a lot of interactions with previous characters in the series, and they all seem at least as interesting as they did before. I'm not too worried about this :)

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Ok, so in FF2, is there a trick or gimmick to beating the Emperor at the end of the gamer? I can't out-damage his lifetap. My guys are only doing a fraction of their normal damage to him. Firion, who normally does about 2K damage combined total from his dual wield swords is doing 0/0 with his swings. Guy, who I have been leveling as a monk/fist user generally punches for about 1600, and his punches are only doing about 150-200.

    And then the Emperor will punch someone, doing 3k damage and lifetapping 1500 back.

    My toad ability isn't landing on him either. After about 20 casts spread over 3 fights, I haven't ever landed it.

    Use the Blood Sword.

    Hmm. Ok... I don't seem to have that.

    I looked the sword up on the FF wiki, and they say it only appears during a small window of time in the story. You get it from Paul before you summon the wyvern to take you into the cyclone. Since I'm well past that part in the story, going back to get it isn't an option.

    Gamefaqs is unfortunately blocked here at work so I will have to wait till tonight to find alternate strategies.

  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    What system are you playing it on?

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  • Chomp-ChompChomp-Chomp Shonen Princess Registered User regular
    Hot damn, Lightning Returns looks like my kind of mess.

    I haven't played 13-2, which made the trailer extra ridiculous...

    Y'know, I think I'm good without it. I'll just jump in the crazy end of the pool.

    Deaderinred
  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Blackjack wrote: »
    What system are you playing it on?

    iOS.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Hot damn, Lightning Returns looks like my kind of mess.

    I haven't played 13-2, which made the trailer extra ridiculous...

    Y'know, I think I'm good without it. I'll just jump in the crazy end of the pool.

    13-2 is plenty worth playing tho. It's a lot of fun.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    You're just going to have to buff your team in battle (I mean use buff spells against the emperor, not grind), then..I think there's only one Blood Sword in the iOS version. :(

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  • Chomp-ChompChomp-Chomp Shonen Princess Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Hot damn, Lightning Returns looks like my kind of mess.

    I haven't played 13-2, which made the trailer extra ridiculous...

    Y'know, I think I'm good without it. I'll just jump in the crazy end of the pool.

    13-2 is plenty worth playing tho. It's a lot of fun.

    So I've heard. I suppose I have time...

    I just really don't want 13-3 to make any sense

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Hot damn, Lightning Returns looks like my kind of mess.

    I haven't played 13-2, which made the trailer extra ridiculous...

    Y'know, I think I'm good without it. I'll just jump in the crazy end of the pool.

    13-2 is plenty worth playing tho. It's a lot of fun.

    So I've heard. I suppose I have time...

    I just really don't want 13-3 to make any sense

    Have faith. When has an FF game ever made sense?

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    There's not wanting for it to make sense, and then there's something on the level of jumping into Game of Thrones in the middle of season 3, mid episode, mid-sentence. I think you'd just end up being plain lost and rapidly lose interest.

    At the very least read a synopsis or something. Then again I would imagine the game would include one itself anyways.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Ok, so in FF2, is there a trick or gimmick to beating the Emperor at the end of the gamer? I can't out-damage his lifetap. My guys are only doing a fraction of their normal damage to him. Firion, who normally does about 2K damage combined total from his dual wield swords is doing 0/0 with his swings. Guy, who I have been leveling as a monk/fist user generally punches for about 1600, and his punches are only doing about 150-200.

    And then the Emperor will punch someone, doing 3k damage and lifetapping 1500 back.

    My toad ability isn't landing on him either. After about 20 casts spread over 3 fights, I haven't ever landed it.

    Use the Blood Sword.

    Hmm. Ok... I don't seem to have that.

    I looked the sword up on the FF wiki, and they say it only appears during a small window of time in the story. You get it from Paul before you summon the wyvern to take you into the cyclone. Since I'm well past that part in the story, going back to get it isn't an option.

    Gamefaqs is unfortunately blocked here at work so I will have to wait till tonight to find alternate strategies.

    If I recall correctly, if you grind the Toad spell up the wazoo you can defeat the Emperor with it.

  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Lightning Returns looks to have very little to do with 13-2.
    Some guy broke time, the end of the world is nigh.

    That about sums it up.

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  • Fleur de AlysFleur de Alys Biohacker Registered User regular
    LR is a consequence of 13-2's events, and the whole thing will probably be set up such that the previous games will be like the "backstory" already present in any other story game. The designers have stated they're trying to make it where you can play LR just fine without ever having played the previous titles (because obvious reasons).

    That said, I think it would be better if you played the previous games because of the character interactions. It'll be a lot more fun to witness the exchanges between Lightning and Noel, Caius, Yuel, and Snow if you've played the previous games. In this I think 13-2 is even more essential than 13-1.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    My last numbered Final Fantasy was XII. Ever since somewhere in the middle of that game, I've been sitting here, tilting my head, trying to get my bearings.

    Didn't realise that Bravely Default was getting so close.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Shen wrote: »
    Lightning Returns looks to have very little to do with 13-2.
    Some guy broke time, the end of the world is nigh.

    That about sums it up.

    Yeah, no.
    The characters in 13-2, one also from 13, killed the Goddess and broke time after being manipulated and let Chaos into the world. Lightning, a character from 13 AND 13-2 is ressurected to save the souls of everyone before the world ends and is either helped or hindered by all the characters from the other two games.

    Plus pretty pretty princess dress up.

  • WydrionWydrion Registered User regular
    I am really not that excited for LR:FFXIII. I liked the first two games, but this seems like bad fanfiction. Or as people put it above, a 'hot mess'.

    I really wish S-E would just localize DQ7 for NA. Like, waddafak.

  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    PLA wrote: »
    My last numbered Final Fantasy was XII. Ever since somewhere in the middle of that game, I've been sitting here, tilting my head, trying to get my bearings.

    Didn't realise that Bravely Default was getting so close.

    Wait, does it have an official release date?
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Shen wrote: »
    Lightning Returns looks to have very little to do with 13-2.
    Some guy broke time, the end of the world is nigh.

    That about sums it up.

    Yeah, no.
    The characters in 13-2, one also from 13, killed the Goddess and broke time after being manipulated and let Chaos into the world. Lightning, a character from 13 AND 13-2 is ressurected to save the souls of everyone before the world ends and is either helped or hindered by all the characters from the other two games.

    Plus pretty pretty princess dress up.
    I wonder if we're going to see something similar to FFX-2's dressphere system, where the costumes equate to a class system et all. I would be ok with that.

  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    edited September 2013
    I don't think very much of what you did in 13-2 is going to have much of an impact on LR at all. It was all about fixing time paradoxes, finding a way to stop Cocoon's pillar collapsing and finding Lightning. Those plot lines were resolved and LR provides a new premise, setting Lightning up as the saviour of lost souls. Really, the only thing from 13-2 that informs the setting is that
    Caius broke time.

    It's not like we were introduced to a whole bunch of important characters in 13-2, after all.
    Noel - hung out with your sister
    Caius - immortal bad guy, broke time
    Yeul - prophet, died a lot
    Serah - Lightning's sister, prophet, died (not even a new character)

    Shen on
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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    Shen wrote: »
    I don't think very much of what you did in 13-2 is going to have much of an impact on LR at all. It was all about fixing time paradoxes, finding a way to stop Cocoon's pillar collapsing and finding Lightning. Those plot lines were resolved and LR provides a new premise, setting Lightning up as the saviour of lost souls. Really, the only thing from 13-2 that informs the setting is that
    Caius broke time.

    It's not like we were introduced to a whole bunch of important characters in 13-2, after all.
    Noel - hung out with your sister
    Caius - immortal bad guy, broke time
    Yeul - prophet, died a lot
    Serah - Lightning's sister, prophet, died (not even a new character)

    You forgot one.
    Alyssa who was supposed to have died in the "right" timeline, so sells Noel and Serah out to Caius to stay alive.

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    Ehh, you're kind of extremely glossing over the "how" and "why" of everything, which is also kind of a big deal.

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