Comments on: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Hands-On Impressions: The Worst Gets Better

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:33:00 +0000

You neglected to mention whether it was open world, like the old FF games used to be. Or is this just another version of their “look how pretty this long corridor is” style of game play that they’re doing now. If that’s the case I’m not wasting my money, I don’t care what they fixed. I’m not spending another 50 hours of my life walking down “Corridor A” to “cut scene A”. Then on to “Corridor B” to the next freaking cut scene. No. (SMT: Persona and don’t look back.)

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:42:00 +0000

These things all do sound like improvement, but as you say its a matter of switching jobs and pushing X. They seem too obsessed with making a quick battle sequence to make the fights look like AC, but XIII was so quick you didn’t even notice what they were doing, you were watching the ATB and break bar, you didn’t notice when lightning did a backflip, or care. They need to add the ability to manually change party leader during a fight like in 12. Scrap auto-battle thats the biggest problem (After the break bar which essentially made every single fight the same).

minus the MMO’s, I’m a big fan of the original series 6-12. This game had a very weak battle system for me, replacing strategy with reaction times. Not enough control over the other 2 other than job, they’ always do buffs in strange order I didn’t necessarily want, if i did it manually to play as hope i’d likely die. No autobattle, even gambits would of been better.

Its also looking like it has a weak plot. I don’t get why they’re so against doing what everyones been asking for and remaking 7, i’m not even 7’s biggest fan but i’d welcome a full new game as opposed to yet another sequel. Instead of doing new sequels and spin offs, why don’t you finish versus, or better yet make final fantasy 15

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:37:00 +0000

In reply to Minhalshah13. thats not true, they intended to use recycled content, but they found it didn't work and have made it over from scratch

By: Kensy1999

Kensy1999 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:50:00 +0000

In reply to Minhalshah13.

This IS a sequel. It’s just not like other sequels.
Xbox could handle it, just on different disks.
This is a whole 3 years later, video games don’t just have one huge story line then jump 3 years into the future with a completely different story line.

By: Minhalshah13

Minhalshah13 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:13:00 +0000

This isnt really a sequal it was all suppose to be in the first game. SE took out most of the second part out because the xbox couldnt handle it

By: GaryASwaby

GaryASwaby — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:02:00 +0000

In reply to mlahk7. Yea I agree, it baffled me why they would make a sequel to this game. FFX was actually a great game (arguably the best), so I can understand the sequel. But to do it for XIII was kind of odd. But just like you I hope the game turns out way better than XIII itself.

By: GaryASwaby

GaryASwaby — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:32:00 +0000

In reply to Saints Row Booth Babe. lol nice one

By: Saints Row Booth Babe

Saints Row Booth Babe — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:02:00 +0000

Gary didn’t play the game, this preview is based on posters he saw at the train station

By: Wreckrium

Wreckrium — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:50:00 +0000

In reply to Cdpaoli. this is a forum about a videogame who cares

By: GaryASwaby

GaryASwaby — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:05:00 +0000

In reply to Eddy564.

Yeah I originally hated FF13, but I think it was just the shock at how much it changed compared to the last few games. Once I sat down n played it a second time without trying to compare it to other games in the series I enjoyed it more.

With that being said, it’s still the worst in the series.

I think FFXIII-2 will be better though.

By: GaryASwaby

GaryASwaby — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:03:00 +0000

In reply to Bulmasan. Thanks, my bad, the spellchecker corrected it that way.

By: Elvin Araujo

Elvin Araujo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:42:00 +0000

i want to get this but they need to hurry up with that versus 13

By: mlahk7

mlahk7 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:02:00 +0000

wow great article! it seems like you have the same viewpoint as me. the fact that they even made a sequel to a sub-par FF game annoys me, but I secretly want the game to be good. now i have hope!

By: Bulmasan

Bulmasan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:07:00 +0000

I think you mean “per se” rather than “parse” in the first paragraph.

By: Eddy564

Eddy564 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:46:00 +0000

Completely agreed with you, I liked this article because you didn’t steadily list all the faults and over exagerate them. Of course FF13 had issues, and compared to FF7 some aspects fell flat, but it really wasn’t a bad game like a good percent of the populace that played it suggested.

I’m definately looking forward to FF13-2, I’m so glad Square looks to fans ideas for improvement. Because of that, I’m sure FF13-2 will fair much better in its reviews, and overall enjoyment/playability.

By: GaryASwaby

GaryASwaby — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:33:00 +0000

In reply to Cdpaoli. Lol thanks for picking that up.

By: Cdpaoli

Cdpaoli — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:58:00 +0000

“(not counting the MMO’s)”

It’s “MMOs.” I see someone didn’t go to journalism school.