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13Mar 12
I am going to say this out right. The original Final Fantasy XIII was a terrible game. One of the worst games I have personally ever played if not the absolute worst. With terrible characters, story, linear areas, and no room for freedom when it came to developing your characters, Final Fantasy XIII was a drag. It was mind numbing and boring. With extremely low expectations, I entered XIII-2.
Here we Go
Final Fantasy XIII-2 came around and improved EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING terrible about the original. I found myself surprised when I started having tons of fun. Let's start off with improvement number 1: characters. The original XIII had characters like Hope: **** little mommy's boy who you wanted to get shot every time he said anything. Well in XIII-2 Hope is back but heis now 10 years older and is an actual sensible human being. Likewise, the main protagonists, Noel and Serah, are two well developed characters who have good chemistry. No longer must you cringe at cliche characters with no personallity, the characters in XIII-2 are likable and believable.
The story in XIII was a convuluted mess that tossed around mumbo-jumbo words like Fal'Cie and L'Cie. It was about people with missions and something about two planets and..... well who really cares? The story seemed abstract and was crushed by thepoor characters. XIII-2 is focused and has enough developement to make you want to know what happens next. I am hard pressed on figuiring out why some people thought the original XIII had a better story. In XIII-2, I actually got excited for what happened next and the more I played, the better my understanding of the world was. In XIII, the more I played, the more obscure everything seemed to get.
XIII had a huge problem with linearity. The game drove you down an extremely narrow pathway with no room to explore and no way to revisit previous areas. In XIII-2 you are given wider areas with sidequests. In the game, there are artefacts you try to collect for experience so you can continue foward in the story. There are 160 artefacts in the game and most of them are gotten by exploration and side quests. So there is plenty of space to explore and plenty of incentive to explore unlike the original. You are free to revisit areas as you see fit and it is easy to hop between major areas.
In XIII, characters had specific roles such as Ravanger (magic-attacks) and Commando (physical-attacks). The problem was that the game forced a single character to be a certain role for a majority of the game and when the game finally let you chose who had what role, there was no reason to switch. When you have a level 80 Commando, why would you suddenly start developing a Ravanger role for him 20 hours in? In XIII-2, you have complete freedom of which roles Serah and Noel develop from the very begining. You have true control over how your charactersprogress and what they specialize in.
Square Enix listend to the fans and fixed the problems present in XIII. If you hated XIII, give XIII-2 a try, you may be pleasantly surprised.
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I agree with you to a great extent. I tried to play FFXIII and it felt like such a chore that I couldn't get past the 3 hour mark. Everything was so bland and generic; nothing felt compelling enough to keep me playing and see it through to the end.
I agree with you to a great extent. I tried to play FFXIII and it felt like such a chore that I couldn't get past the 3 hour mark. Everything was so bland and generic; nothing felt compelling enough to keep me playing and see it through to the end.
I've tried to play FFXIII a couple of times, but it's just too linear, the characters make me throw up in my mouth (except for Sazh) and the story is pretentiously stupid.
I've tried to play FFXIII a couple of times, but it's just too linear, the characters make me throw up in my mouth (except for Sazh) and the story is pretentiously stupid.
@Double_Wide This is what made me actually get it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epj5Zc5maYc&feature=plcp&context=C4448d6aVDvjVQa1PpcFOm68X6HMRmbeU591ItS3oNeEaqLK9XZx0%3D
@Double_Wide This is what made me actually get it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epj5Zc5maYc&feature=plcp&context=C4448d6aVDvjVQa1PpcFOm68X6HMRmbeU591ItS3oNeEaqLK9XZx0%3D
@nate1222 There is no doubt in my mind that Final Fantasy VII is the best one in the series and X is definately up there. Regarding XIII-2, it is actually in my opinion really high up there and it fixed a lot more than the linearity problem.
@nate1222 There is no doubt in my mind that Final Fantasy VII is the best one in the series and X is definately up there. Regarding XIII-2, it is actually in my opinion really high up there and it fixed a lot more than the linearity problem.
@matastig When I was playing the original XIII I honestly felt like I was doing a chore. XIII-2 definately does feel like a brand new Final Fantasy game and I love it for it. It is so addicting.
@matastig When I was playing the original XIII I honestly felt like I was doing a chore. XIII-2 definately does feel like a brand new Final Fantasy game and I love it for it. It is so addicting.
I played about 6 hours of FF XIII and got bored.... it's nice to hear the sequel is better.
I played about 6 hours of FF XIII and got bored.... it's nice to hear the sequel is better.
Thanks for this! I hated FFXIII and really wanted another fan's feedback as to why I should even bother with FFXIII-2. I may eventually give a try after reading this.
Thanks for this! I hated FFXIII and really wanted another fan's feedback as to why I should even bother with FFXIII-2. I may eventually give a try after reading this.
FF7 (PS1/PSN) is still my all-time fav. And FFX (PS2) was the last truely great game in the series. But, if I were a PS3 owner, FFXIII-2 would be on my radar simply for fixing the linearity issues of its predecessor.
FF7 (PS1/PSN) is still my all-time fav. And FFX (PS2) was the last truely great game in the series. But, if I were a PS3 owner, FFXIII-2 would be on my radar simply for fixing the linearity issues of its predecessor.
Well Final Fantasy XIII wasn't that bad as you stated (to me at least :P) but sure it wasn't the best , XIII-2 was like x100 times better, i loved the crap our of it, everything was improved from graphics to Game-play, atmosphere and of course the characters. the old FFXIII influence faded away by reaching the end of Episode 3 and it felt more like a fresh new FF title, which is imo a good thing:)
Well Final Fantasy XIII wasn't that bad as you stated (to me at least :P) but sure it wasn't the best , XIII-2 was like x100 times better, i loved the crap our of it, everything was improved from graphics to Game-play, atmosphere and of course the characters. the old FFXIII influence faded away by reaching the end of Episode 3 and it felt more like a fresh new FF title, which is imo a good thing:)
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