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lestatdark on 21 January 2010
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
Yeah I agree, that's a bit of a turnoff, even though that's a return to the old days of FF, especially FF IV, where you would constantly bounce around partners.

Even though starting from chapter 11 the game opens up the possibility of managing your own party, it will be annoying for some FF fans


Starting from chapter 10 you can manage you own party，if only it weren't too late...

IMO it's reasonable that the game picks the character for you，you can familiar with every character separately，so when the manage system opening up，you may already decided your own party before.

Thanks for the correction ;) 

As you said, it happens a bit like in FFIV, when you can only make up your own personal party after you get the Lunar Whale. I didn't mind that system and I won't mind it on FFXIII, but some people, especially those not familiarized with older FF's will have a harder time with it. 


Yeh，maybe it's annoying for someone that the system opens up too late，there are 12 chapters in all，you must  bear using some characters you dislike in fisrt 9 chapters.

When you get to do the hunts post-main quest, you also have the possibility to make your own party right?



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JayLam on 21 January 2010
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
Yeah I agree, that's a bit of a turnoff, even though that's a return to the old days of FF, especially FF IV, where you would constantly bounce around partners.

Even though starting from chapter 11 the game opens up the possibility of managing your own party, it will be annoying for some FF fans


Starting from chapter 10 you can manage you own party，if only it weren't too late...

IMO it's reasonable that the game picks the character for you，you can familiar with every character separately，so when the manage system opening up，you may already decided your own party before.

Thanks for the correction ;) 

As you said, it happens a bit like in FFIV, when you can only make up your own personal party after you get the Lunar Whale. I didn't mind that system and I won't mind it on FFXIII, but some people, especially those not familiarized with older FF's will have a harder time with it. 


Yeh，maybe it's annoying for someone that the system opens up too late，there are 12 chapters in all，you must  bear using some characters you dislike in fisrt 9 chapters.

When you get to do the hunts post-main quest, you also have the possibility to make your own party right?


Sure.You can stop to clear some side missions when you arrive at the chapter 11，just for grinding.



lestatdark on 21 January 2010
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
Yeah I agree, that's a bit of a turnoff, even though that's a return to the old days of FF, especially FF IV, where you would constantly bounce around partners.

Even though starting from chapter 11 the game opens up the possibility of managing your own party, it will be annoying for some FF fans


Starting from chapter 10 you can manage you own party，if only it weren't too late...

IMO it's reasonable that the game picks the character for you，you can familiar with every character separately，so when the manage system opening up，you may already decided your own party before.

Thanks for the correction ;) 

As you said, it happens a bit like in FFIV, when you can only make up your own personal party after you get the Lunar Whale. I didn't mind that system and I won't mind it on FFXIII, but some people, especially those not familiarized with older FF's will have a harder time with it. 


Yeh，maybe it's annoying for someone that the system opens up too late，there are 12 chapters in all，you must  bear using some characters you dislike in fisrt 9 chapters.

When you get to do the hunts post-main quest, you also have the possibility to make your own party right?


Sure.You can stop to clear some side missions when you arrive at the chapter 11，just for grinding.

Isn't there an option to continue the game after you finish it, in order to complete all of the hunts? 



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JayLam on 21 January 2010
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
Yeah I agree, that's a bit of a turnoff, even though that's a return to the old days of FF, especially FF IV, where you would constantly bounce around partners.

Even though starting from chapter 11 the game opens up the possibility of managing your own party, it will be annoying for some FF fans


Starting from chapter 10 you can manage you own party，if only it weren't too late...

IMO it's reasonable that the game picks the character for you，you can familiar with every character separately，so when the manage system opening up，you may already decided your own party before.

Thanks for the correction ;) 

As you said, it happens a bit like in FFIV, when you can only make up your own personal party after you get the Lunar Whale. I didn't mind that system and I won't mind it on FFXIII, but some people, especially those not familiarized with older FF's will have a harder time with it. 


Yeh，maybe it's annoying for someone that the system opens up too late，there are 12 chapters in all，you must  bear using some characters you dislike in fisrt 9 chapters.

When you get to do the hunts post-main quest, you also have the possibility to make your own party right?


Sure.You can stop to clear some side missions when you arrive at the chapter 11，just for grinding.

Isn't there an option to continue the game after you finish it, in order to complete all of the hunts? 


you can clear side missions before finish the game，and also can continue the mission after you finish the game，it's all up to you.

if you clear the most part of mission before you finish the game，your characters’ability are already powerful，the last boss in the game may seems powerless.

 



lestatdark on 21 January 2010
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
JayLam said:
lestatdark said:
Yeah I agree, that's a bit of a turnoff, even though that's a return to the old days of FF, especially FF IV, where you would constantly bounce around partners.

Even though starting from chapter 11 the game opens up the possibility of managing your own party, it will be annoying for some FF fans


Starting from chapter 10 you can manage you own party，if only it weren't too late...

IMO it's reasonable that the game picks the character for you，you can familiar with every character separately，so when the manage system opening up，you may already decided your own party before.

Thanks for the correction ;) 

As you said, it happens a bit like in FFIV, when you can only make up your own personal party after you get the Lunar Whale. I didn't mind that system and I won't mind it on FFXIII, but some people, especially those not familiarized with older FF's will have a harder time with it. 


Yeh，maybe it's annoying for someone that the system opens up too late，there are 12 chapters in all，you must  bear using some characters you dislike in fisrt 9 chapters.

When you get to do the hunts post-main quest, you also have the possibility to make your own party right?


Sure.You can stop to clear some side missions when you arrive at the chapter 11，just for grinding.

Isn't there an option to continue the game after you finish it, in order to complete all of the hunts? 


you can clear side missions before finish the game，and also can continue the mission after you finish the game，it's all up to you.

if you clear the most part of mission before you finish the game，your characters’ability are already powerful，the last boss in the game may seems powerless.

 

Ok, thanks for clearing that up to me :) 



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perpride on 22 January 2010
Seraphic_Sixaxis said:
so far from what i read, i dont like this "the game picks characters for you" thats very off-putting, im the gamer, i chose who i want to use or dont want to use, this is a big issue for me since i dislike most characters in ffxiii.

still reading though, only half done with perprides and getting to jins later.

I think the reason they make you control characters in different scenarios is to make you familiar with everyone who will eventually be a part of the main cast. Let's just put it like this, if the game didn't make me use Hope (who I'm slowly starting to like BTW), I would have never had him in my party. But using him actually opened me up to him quite a bit. I've heard that very soon I will be able to take full control over my party. Also, the game is quite reminicint of FFX, but X mixed with VII & VIII would be a better way of putting it.

 

I'm going with Lightning, Vanille and Fang in my main party.

@DGC1808 - wow thanks for the impressions!



Seraphic_Sixaxis on 22 January 2010
Kamal said:
@ Seraphic, it really isn't a big deal. Since this method will allow us to connect with every character, for the best or for the worst. We also get a better insight of the optima system, and allow us to create strageties with the characters we got so by the 10th chapter we have a proficient grasp of the optima system and what characters, roles work together.

Well thats what you think, however when i play games... i kinda like to have... you know... Control on what im doing in the game...and this outright messes with my good nature, i've never played a game before that picked my characters FOR me. thats unheard of.

surgarcoat it all you want, i see no benefits from a gamer point of view.

on the other hand i won't stay annoyed by this because im not done yet, i finished reading perprides review which was actually quite useful, but now im moving on to Jin and then Dgc again.



Kamal on 22 January 2010

In every RPG all the characters are fixed and you are forced to play with them e.g. in the beginning you don't have every character unlocked so you have to make do with what you got. So really what your doing is contradicting yourself, since every RPG I played you have a choice of let say 3 characters after a certain point you get a new character unlocked. It's a take on that concept and I don't know why that's a problem.



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Seraphic_Sixaxis on 22 January 2010

True, but from what i understand thats not the case here, for example like in SO4, i got Edge and Reime or whatever her name is first, and so on and so forth getting new characters like the cat girl, the big 360 colored robot guy to the badass Arumat...

However, heres the thing... once i ... you know, get these characters...i can change them any time i please, but from what i read in perprides review, switch on its own, you see thats the issue i know most RPG's are like that however you still have 100% control on how you make your party afterwards, that doesn't seem to be the case in FFXIII, sevi?



Kamal on 22 January 2010

You would get 100% party control after a certain chapter. So just muscle through it until then!



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