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Is FFXIII-2 one of the worst games you've played since 2012?

Yes, it was terrible 18 26.09%
 
No, it was among the good games 34 49.28%
 
I didn't play it 17 24.64%
 
Total:69
Augen on 04 February 2013
Ultr said:
NintendoPie said:
I thought FFXIII-2 was supposed to be better?
Then again, I'm blind to what's a good game since I actually like FFXIII.


oh thanks Im not alone then. I thought FFXIII was an awesome game, I read EVERYTHING! every journey thingy EVERYTHING I really got into the story, I liked it.

I still have not started XIII-2 but I want to, once I have enough time for a 40h+ journey! :)


It actually is pretty good for short 2-3 spells of play.  I only had 1 or 2 marathon sessions as fine spending bit of evening each night progressing through.



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Boutros on 04 February 2013

It wasn't better than FFXIII but it certainly was a good game. The post-game content was actually better than FFXIII's though.



NintendoPie on 04 February 2013
Ultr said:
NintendoPie said:
I thought FFXIII-2 was supposed to be better?
Then again, I'm blind to what's a good game since I actually like FFXIII.


oh thanks Im not alone then. I thought FFXIII was an awesome game, I read EVERYTHING! every journey thingy EVERYTHING I really got into the story, I liked it.

I still have not started XIII-2 but I want to, once I have enough time for a 40h+ journey! :)

I didn't get into EVERYTHING! But I for sure liked the game. It wasn't bad by any means.



Dark_Lord_2008 on 04 February 2013

I played and hated FFXIII and I decided not to bother with FFXIII-2. From what I have heard FFXIII-2 fixed some of the problems of FFXIII but introduced more problems of its own and overall it rated lower than FFXIII.



Nem on 05 February 2013
LemonSlice said:
golfgt170 said:
Nem said:
Aslong as they keep that combat system from XIII, the game is still crap. Worst combat system ever. Auto-attack fest.


I tend to disagree. if u played ff13 and telling me that u beat semi final and final bosses with auto attack, then u are wrong. BUT: ff13 only led to autoattack if u previously worked hard to get the class role switching and paradigms well organised. and that was the basic of fighting. timing switching between paradigms was so fun and seemlesly implemented and then u had to figure out the best setup ofc chars roles and paradigms

I agree. I loved the battle system, fluid, dynamic, fast paced and easy to master. Can get plenty strategic if you care about being as efficient as possible. If you're just spamming auto battle every time, you're doing it wrong.

 

When im doing it wrong through 40 hours of gameplay, its probably not me thats doing it wrong, but the design.



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A203D on 07 February 2013
teigaga said:

The funny thing is that FFXIII received much better reviews then XIII-2. And then suddenly after the fan backlash, all these journalists who gave the game great scores started to make out like the game was terrible. Regardless of what you thought of XIII, the team actually tried to achieve something. XIII-2 was simply an attempt to generate revenue from assets, in fact its so forced they re-wrote the end of the 1st game just to validate its existence and then tried to justify the made up cannon through terrible time travelling mechanics.

 

IGN belittle XIII in every FF article yet their review score for the game is 8.9 lol



DIdn't IGN review FF13 at 8.3 both PS3 and 360 versions?

What you've said dosen't sound wrong actually.

I thought FF13 was above average. It got good after the the first 15 hours (yeah everyone said that), but fell flat towards the end in my opinion.

Played the demo of FF13-2 and read the reviews. I thought about it, and I thought if I want monster hunting I will buy Pokemon, if I want quick time events I will buy God of War, if I want multiple decision conversations I will but Mass Effect.

The game didn't really feel like it was doing anything innovative. I'm not saying it wasn't good, but after playing the demo I didn't think the game felt like an improvement over FF13, just something different that was neither better or worst. Although from what I heard the quick time events were actually good.



bertlsenix on 07 February 2013
sales2099 said:
Think people saw it as a band-aid fix to the criticisms to FF13


This
And if NiNoKuni and Xenoblade would have been already known to the people FF13-2 would have scored a lot lower cause those 2 are J-RPGs as they should be in these days.
They do everything that is said to be impossible by SquareEnix(except Team Nomura with versus13 that has as an exclusive somehow all the features the games of SquareEnix missed in this Gen ;))

FF13 should be readjusted too - A 2.0 for the PS3 Version and a 0.5 for the 360 version should be ok.The PS3 Version has nice graphics at least.



SwansVanTerif on 07 February 2013

I didn't get it, because the FF franchise has become dumb, really. But I have never seen a FF game in so many bargain bins, at such a low price already, as this one. Looks to me like people just don't want this game.



teigaga on 07 February 2013
A203D said:
teigaga said:

The funny thing is that FFXIII received much better reviews then XIII-2. And then suddenly after the fan backlash, all these journalists who gave the game great scores started to make out like the game was terrible. Regardless of what you thought of XIII, the team actually tried to achieve something. XIII-2 was simply an attempt to generate revenue from assets, in fact its so forced they re-wrote the end of the 1st game just to validate its existence and then tried to justify the made up cannon through terrible time travelling mechanics.

 

IGN belittle XIII in every FF article yet their review score for the game is 8.9 lol


DIdn't IGN review FF13 at 8.3 both PS3 and 360 versions?

What you've said dosen't sound wrong actually.

I thought FF13 was above average. It got good after the the first 15 hours (yeah everyone said that), but fell flat towards the end in my opinion.

Played the demo of FF13-2 and read the reviews. I thought about it, and I thought if I want monster hunting I will buy Pokemon, if I want quick time events I will buy God of War, if I want multiple decision conversations I will but Mass Effect.

The game didn't really feel like it was doing anything innovative. I'm not saying it wasn't good, but after playing the demo I didn't think the game felt like an improvement over FF13, just something different that was neither better or worst. Although from what I heard the quick time events were actually good.


Yeah, all of the new features were iplemented pretty poorly, even the most enjoyable of which (monster collecting/hunting). It was like they had a checklist and just ticked things off which people complained about as opposed to making them for the sake of our enjoyment and in some cases the "innovations" were forced and unecessary (QT events/Dialouge trees)The demo actually gives off a better impression of the game, particularly because you have to watch this terrible story unfold. Some enjoyment can be  had if you're a sucker for JRPGs but that doesn't make it a good game.



arcelonious on 07 February 2013

I actually enjoyed both Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2, although I enjoyed XIII more. The combat of the XIII series is probably one of my favorites in the FF franchise, and the linearity of XIII never really bothered me (and this is coming from someone who enjoys open world RPGs like The Elder Scrolls series). Final Fantasy XIII-2 scoring in the 5 range made it seem like it was worse than the average game (according to GamrReview's review methodology), and I personally don't agree that it was that low in quality.