Final Fantasy XIII better than Final Fantasy XII?

[lestatdark]

Hero_time88 said:

lestatdark said:

 

You played for 170 hours and didn't collect everything? Sorry, but I call BS. 

I did 100% on my first playthrough on FFXII in less than 120 hours. On my second playthrough, I forged my first Tournesol at 65 hours and defeated both Yiazmat and Zodiark at 90 hours, finished everything up at 98 hours.

So you took your sweet time with FFXII and are trying to pass that up as a proper measure to FFXIII? At least, be fair.

Oh, and I love how you're taking your points to people less knowledgeable with FFXII and avoiding discussion with someone who probably knows as much or more than you about FFXII :P 

Nope, I did never beat Omega and played with a Strategy Guide, and you must be either a exceptional good gamer or just lying, because at gamefaqs there are people who have played it for more than 200 hours when they reached Omega.

Finding some hunts alone can take hours if you do not know what to do, it did take me 5 hours alone to beat Yiazmat, and it doesn't sound believable at all to reach Yiazmat and Zodiark at the same time when one the bosses literary takes a couple of hours and the other one is deep in a cavern (though he himself doesn't take that long to beat) and getting everything else 8 hours later. Yiazmat is not the strongest boss at all in FFXII.

 

I have the official strategy guide from Piggyback, it's actually quite easy if you follow it. 

Omega wasn't even hard. Decoy and Reverse strategy using manual output, not gambits, was a sure fire way to win in under 15 minutes. Getting through the Great Crystal of Giruvengan prior levels before Omega, that was the tricky part. The Shambling Corpses could tear you apart due to sheer numbers.

Yiazmat was easily taken down in less than two hours if you prepared accordingly to him. Three sets of Yagryu Darkblades or Danjuros, coupled with Auto-Haste accesories and Genji Armbands to your party leader, would ensure over 8-10 hits per attack, at 9999 per hit (6999 when he hits the defense cap). The main difficulty was keeping up your health when he starts spamming Cyclone and Deathstrike (and it's obnoxious 25% instant death rate if you Auto-Shelled your party, 50% without shell). A couple of Megalixirs, or some good healing strategy, like keeping a character exclusively for group healing (mine was Ashe) would do wonders in keeping up the rythim of attack.

Zodiark was easily taken down in 15 minutes (5 if you were lucky to one-shot him with a 12-hit Quickening + Dark Hole before he put up paling and Magick Barrier when he gets to 20% health), getting over to him in the Henne Mines took 1 hour at best if you knew your bearings. So, it's possible to do all that in less than 5 hours.