Final Fantasy XIII Impressions

Bond · 03-09-2010, 03:06 PM

Wanted to separate our actual impressions of the game from the previous thread. Possible spoilers may follow.

Typhoid · 03-09-2010, 04:32 PM

I picked this game up today and I'm only about an hour in - and I love it so far.
One of the best looking games I've played, and the storyline actually doesn't seem too bad.
The transition from battle to 'world mode' is flawless. I like how you enter an oldschool FF-style battle in this one.

This game also has it's own Zell, Tidus, Cloud and Rikku.

Bond · 03-09-2010, 05:49 PM

What do you mean by "enter an oldschool FF-syle battle?"

Typhoid · 03-09-2010, 11:43 PM

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What do you mean by "enter an oldschool FF-syle battle?"

A separate screen for battles. They don't just take place on the world map.

TheSlyMoogle · 03-10-2010, 12:41 AM

Totally decided not to get this right now, as too many of my electronic systems r failing right now.

Typhoid · 03-10-2010, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

Totally decided not to get this right now, as too many of my electronic systems r failing right now.

Bad choice.

TheSlyMoogle · 03-10-2010, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Bad choice.

Meh need to fix my computer first.

DarkMaster · 03-10-2010, 06:28 PM

I'm about 3 or so hours in. I do love it so far, to play an actual RPG again is a great feeling. The game is insanely beautiful, and the combat very impressive thus far. Can't wait to have a final fantasy weekend this weekend.

Bond · 03-10-2010, 11:52 PM

Good to hear you are enjoying the game so far, Typhoid. I can't wait to start playing in about two weeks.

TheSlyMoogle · 03-11-2010, 04:14 PM

Don't know if you guys have Costco anywhere near, but FFXIII is only 49 dollars there.

I picked up a copy. Impressions to follow soon.

Also the costco I went to only had 360 games no PS3. SORRY!

uber_paddler · 03-11-2010, 05:00 PM

Put about 10 hours into it day one, absolutely love it. Unfortunately, I haven't had any time to go back to it since then. It's killing me.

ZephyrFate · 03-11-2010, 05:33 PM

This game has: amazing music, amazing graphics, and the best jRPG battle system I have ever played.

That said, the story is garbage.

TheSlyMoogle · 03-11-2010, 09:54 PM

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This game has: amazing music, amazing graphics, and the best jRPG battle system I have ever played.

That said, the story is garbage.

I'm going to disagree about the battle system. At what I first thought was depth has turned into "mash a until hp is low, shift to healer paradigm, let heals happen, mash a again"

This probably slightly changes later, as I'm open to more abilities, but I'm a little over 5 hours into the game and it has yet to change.

The game is beautiful. BTW all those screenshots from the 360 version, I don't see any of that blurry lines bullshit. The only problem is, when the game does the soft load stuff like when you're running and stuff through the areas, it will sometimes give a little jump similar to when you lag online for a split second, but not as bad even. I wouldn't call it a problem, and not sure if it happens on PS3 or not. I did however catch a glimpse of the loading times on PS3... Jeezus christ.

Baby Chocobo is super kawaii uguu! (That means super cute in Japanese!)

I've got this strange feeling I aint seein any moogles in this game.

Uhm I find I'm not entirely hating the Crystal grid. Even though everyone has a ravager class right now, each of them learn different spells and abilities which is pretty cool.

The other thing that bothers me is Preemptive strikes in this game. It would have been nice if it just said "Preemptive strike" instead of you actually going around with your leader and attacking each enemy. I got into a battle with 10 enemies earlier and managed to preemptive strike them, and found myself wishing I hadn't. Took like 2 minutes for lightning to go around and whack them all with her sword.

Surprised to say the voice acting is actually pretty good. Snow and Sazh have great voice actors, and lightning isn't so bad.

Absolutely hate Leona Lewis and the fact that her song is in this game makes me feel a little nausea when I hear it. Also when I see the commercial.

For the most part find myself hating all the characters in this game so far except Sazh.

Vanille's Voice actor is fucking terrible, but I enjoy her character so far.

Snow isn't so bad I guess.

Mostly just Lightning and Hope really bug me.

Also lightning's hair just looks stupid.

Oh and I agree with the story being garbage.

Typhoid · 03-11-2010, 11:06 PM

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Vanille's Voice actor is fucking terrible, but I enjoy her character so far.

Nobody likes Australians, eh?
Just me?

I don't think the voice actor for Vanille is bad at all. In fact, I quite like the voice acting for her. She's just sounds like a peppy Australian who lived half her live there, and the other half in the UK.

I'm about 13 hours in, and I like the game a lot.

I also haven't noticed any framerate issues, load issues, graphic issues or anything. Maybe I'm just not looking for things to dislike.

TheSlyMoogle · 03-12-2010, 01:02 AM

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Nobody likes Australians, eh?
Just me?

I don't think the voice actor for Vanille is bad at all. In fact, I quite like the voice acting for her. She's just sounds like a peppy Australian who lived half her live there, and the other half in the UK.

I'm about 13 hours in, and I like the game a lot.

I also haven't noticed any framerate issues, load issues, graphic issues or anything. Maybe I'm just not looking for things to dislike.

Yeah but I'm playing the 360 version, which was supposed to have some problems.

You kids and your PS3.

None of the little 360 quirks make it unplayable though. It's noticeable, just not that big of a deal.