lol FF8 had far better use for summons though!

I know what you mean.  I haven't touched Mass Effect 2 since I got FF13.  And a ton of other games including Assassins Creed 2 and GTA Episodes from Liberty City are totally ignored, too.  FF13 is RPG crack.

I don't see any summons in FFVIII turning into a horse and letting you ride them, do you?  But yeah.  FF8 (and FFX if I remember correctly) had some kick ass timing based summons.  I can't remember jack about FF9.  Old age, I guess.

lol FF13 summons are MUUUUCH BETTERRRRR in looks & the GESTALT thing

BUT I used to spam GF's in every battle in FF8

in FF13 the summons seem really underpowered to me

I LOVE to see the summon animations.....but I just never bother using em :(

If there's one, ONE thing that pisses me off is how it constantly reuses names from other FFs!

Cid, the Lindblum, Eidolons, Odin, Shiva....

I guess it's not that annoying, it feels like a tradition, but HONESTLY.

What I didn't like about the FFVIII summos was that I had like 2 of them in the beginning and they were really powerful. I was like "How can a low level SeeD recruit have these huge monsters? O_O" It felt out of place in the beginning. But spamming them was fun, that's how I fought every battle.

I completely agree with this thread. FFXIII's battle system is miles ahead of any other RPG I've ever played.

Are you my opposite? o.O

I had those as well just sitting there until I beat XIII. Lol.

I still can't stop playing it! I played God of War 3 for about 20-30 minutes on release day, and I kept thinking...if only I could see the damage I do(like 99999 damage chains I do with Fang) so I went back to playing Final Fantasy XIII. And Resonance of Fate is still in the shrinkwrap...I'm just killing random stuff in XIII and still having fun!

I disagree, i find XIIIs combat system to be boring and repetitive.
I do not like the fact that i only control 1 character, i dont like the fact that if the leader dies the rest automatically dies, i dont like the class system.

Basically i find the AI of your partymembers to be too retarded, deciding to cast esuna to get rid of slow instead of healing the guy at 5% health, and when i go control the medic myself, the other members usually use questionable spells/abilities.

i agree with those who mentioned the combat system of the Grandia games, now that is a system that works and is fun.

oh and btw, i have beaten FF13 so don't come saying i haven't played it enough.