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I am new to final fantasy and very behind. I know that explaining the storyline to me will most likely take hours but if someone could just give me the basic story line on them. I have only played a beat the first one and the most of the fifth one.

Also what is the difference between Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasty Versus XIII

and is every final fantasy a RPG with Battle Screens....

 

I just saw the two trailers for XIII and Versus and would really like to know some more before i buy one next year...

 

Thanks Alot. 



 

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Wii---------43,000,000 Wii fade starts to die out in summer 2008 and sales decrease

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Final Fantasy in a nutshell:

  1. Group of random people of varying yet equal power come together.
  2. Evil gets in the way
  3. Big plot revealed.
  4. Interesting twist at mid point
  5. Heroes fall
  6. Heroes rise
  7. Big confrontation
  8. Heroes win 


Im kind of lost my self :P



 

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Each new Final Fantasy game is a new world, unless it's like FFX and FFX-2. So there is no overarching story.

1-6 had a lot of themes that were very similar with each other. A lot of those were stripped away in 7, thoug some remain, like the naming of stuff... a lot of stuff from 4 on are still in it... but this is mostly just stuff like "There is someone named Shiva and she uses ice". Though Shiva is a motorcycle now... so she may not use ice. Hmm...

Regardless, with the PS1 and on games it's easier to treat each Final Fantasy as a new IP with some similar naming.



yeah but i was watching with a person who knows a lot about it and they where all like "OMG THIS PERSON IS BACK" and stuff like that..

I feel pretty left out not knowing who anybody is....



 

Predicted end of gen Results

PS3--------58,000,000  Ps3 takes the lead it late 2009 and never loses the lead again

Wii---------43,000,000 Wii fade starts to die out in summer 2008 and sales decrease

Xbox 360----27,000,000 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sicilian4391 said:
yeah but i was watching with a person who knows a lot about it and they where all like "OMG THIS PERSON IS BACK" and stuff like that..

I feel pretty left out not knowing who anybody is....

Nobody is back... the only recurring character in FF games is Cid, and he's a completely different character in each game.  Your friend may have swallowed some paint chips.  >_>



twesterm said:

Final Fantasy in a nutshell:

  1. Group of random people of varying yet equal power come together.
  2. Evil gets in the way
  3. Big plot revealed.
  4. Interesting twist at mid point
  5. Heroes fall
  6. Heroes rise
  7. Big confrontation
  8. Heroes win

 Insert "Ride Chocobo" to number 4 and push the rest up 1 number.



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twesterm said:

JRPG in a nutshell:

  1. Group of random people of varying yet equal power come together.
  2. Evil gets in the way
  3. Big plot revealed.
  4. Interesting twist at mid point
  5. Heroes fall
  6. Heroes rise
  7. Big confrontation
  8. Heroes win

 Fixed.... that sounds about right.



the only thing back i can think your friend was talking about is summons, not characters, cause yes shiva is back after missing FF 12. Im guessing they are returning alot of the old summons.

FF is how twestern explained, each one is pretty much like that, and emotional (cept 12). Each one is in a new world, though often they are called the same.


Versuses and FF 13 are taking place in different worlds, i have no idea behind all of it though



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do they all use battle screens????



 

Predicted end of gen Results

PS3--------58,000,000  Ps3 takes the lead it late 2009 and never loses the lead again

Wii---------43,000,000 Wii fade starts to die out in summer 2008 and sales decrease

Xbox 360----27,000,000