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WHEATTHlNS




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 06:06    Post subject:
Jesus christ this game is full of some seriously cheesy bullshit encounters. I'm sorry but someone casting Blizzaga and Wateraga within 2 seconds of each other is beyond stupid. Especially when your Sentinel seems incapable of doing their fucking job. The AI in this game is great - except when it comes to defensive roles - give them a job other than offense, and they will sit there casting Poison over and over again, when you're screaming at them to cast Imperil so we can get some magical weakness action going on.

And if anyone cares to know, you get to choose your party (not your lead) about 25 hours into the game. Huzzah. But seriously, these boss encounters are great - but I don't give a fuck about ANY of these enemies. Like at all. There is a moment in the game where a "grand" revelation is made, and it really just comes off as "so what. . .I know nothing about this guy - why do I care?" I really want to sit down and have a conversation with the story designer of this game and ask him what the hell they were thinking. 20 hours of
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Just an all around missed opportunity here.

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KrutojPoc




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 11:09    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
Seriously, I'm on chapter 6 already and only 12hrs in. What's the deal with that? Either the remaining 7 chapters are 30-40hrs long in total, or this is EASILY the shortest FF title in the series Sad

Yes when you reach chapter 9-10 i'd say its half of the game. Unless you are doing the speedrun you'll have around 40h at the end of the game (IF you skip monster hunting missions)
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00101010




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 12:01    Post subject:
WHEATTHlNS wrote:
Jesus christ this game is full of some seriously cheesy bullshit encounters. I'm sorry but someone casting Blizzaga and Wateraga within 2 seconds of each other is beyond stupid. Especially when your Sentinel seems incapable of doing their fucking job. The AI in this game is great - except when it comes to defensive roles - give them a job other than offense, and they will sit there casting Poison over and over again, when you're screaming at them to cast Imperil so we can get some magical weakness action going on.

Yeah it would be really nice if you could de/activate skills in de menue.
Btw. what is quite nice is if you use Libra on an enemy the AI will use the information found it seems. For example if its weakness is water they will use water based attacks. Or if it deals heavy physical dmg, protect has a higher priority and so on.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 12:10    Post subject:
Yeah, Libra (or fighting against a previously scanned enemy) helps enormously. The AI actually uses that properly, and even the autobattle command for your main character will choose the correct skills.

For all its difficulty in sorting out a correct strategy for fights, it's painfully obvious that the game has been streamlined to excess.

Mash A button. Getting pwned? Press LB, change to a different paradigm, mash A button. Win! Fanfare!
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NoLiMiTSoLDieR




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 12:21    Post subject:
This is like watching a move right ? Wink

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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 12:21    Post subject:
Very much so.
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twobells
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 12:23    Post subject:
My copy didn't arrive Sad
It was sent on Friday morning so that's very weird.
Anyone got their PS3 retail yet?
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CookieCrumb




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 12:30    Post subject:
Mine got sent on Saturday by amazon.
They say it is supposed to arrive tomorrow but let's see, maybe it arrives today.


edit:
nope, no game for me today in the mail. :/


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Surray




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 13:19    Post subject:
omg my ps3 copy from shopto just arrived (posted on friday)
now if you'll excuse me, I'll have to vanish from the face of the earth for about 60 hours.

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twobells
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 14:11    Post subject:
Surray wrote:
omg my ps3 copy from shopto just arrived (posted on friday)
now if you'll excuse me, I'll have to vanish from the face of the earth for about 60 hours.


Hmm maybe I'll have to try SHOPTO if they can get the deliveries out quicker.
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Cohen




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 14:36    Post subject:
mine got canceled Twisted Evil again.. fuck sake fucking stupid bank cards keep getting frozen...

Gonna have to pick up the backup preorder I made on the collectors edition about 12 months ago or something, GAME card is in my wallet still.

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AnimalMother




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 15:04    Post subject:
Cohen wrote:
mine got canceled Twisted Evil again.. fuck sake fucking stupid bank cards keep getting frozen...



Dude I thought you were loaded? I mean I earn like half of what you do and I'm minted.

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Cohen




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 15:32    Post subject:
Its not the money man, its that every bank card I try to use is getting frozen atm because ive been using them abroad Twisted Evil (Seoul)

having to use my credit card to buy food atm Laughing maybe they think my identity has been stolen by koreans so I cant access either of my accounts until its sorted Laughing

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AnimalMother




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 15:45    Post subject:
Cohen wrote:
Its not the money man, its that every bank card I try to use is getting frozen atm because ive been using them abroad Twisted Evil (Seoul)


Dude, Mastercard and VISA have no issues with this, what kinds of cards are we talking about?

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Cohen




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 16:00    Post subject:
lloyds tsb debit cards, Ive had a message on my online banking from lloyds tsb stating that all of my active debit cards are frozen while they investigate "suspicious activity overseas". I rang them this morning and got put on hold for 45 mins to be told they froze my card until I confirmed some transactions.. because several people use my business account cards it appears I have to wait until my accountant can sort it all out.. which isnt until thursday Sad

It means 3 game preorders got canceled including this, bah Razz

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Ihump4nfos
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 17:24    Post subject:
Gamefly shipped my rental yesterday. Hope I get it on release date, so I can see what the hype is all about. Looks like Yakuza 3 is also ready to be shipped soon...love Gamefly(for 15 bucks a month, its the best service I have found!!!)
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 19:38    Post subject:
Fuck you SE. Fuck you up your unfair, sadistic, asses. I haven't had to ignore or run from an enemy AT ALL throughout the entire game.... until now. That stupid motherfucking bike at the start of Chapter 7. I've got no shrouds left with which to auto-initiate preemptive attack, so there's no way in HELL of beating him.

Both characters are fully levelled as much as their grids will allow, but they just don't hit hard - or fast - enough to bring the bike into stagger, so after three attack "rounds" he uses Gatling Gun and it's an instakill for Lightning.


THE ONLY FUCKING ENEMY I'VE HAD TO AVOID! Fuck you SE.
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00101010




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 19:48    Post subject:
sabin1981 wrote:
Fuck you SE. Fuck you up your unfair, sadistic, asses. I haven't had to ignore or run from an enemy AT ALL throughout the entire game.... until now. That stupid motherfucking bike at the start of Chapter 7. I've got no shrouds left with which to auto-initiate preemptive attack, so there's no way in HELL of beating him.

Both characters are fully levelled as much as their grids will allow, but they just don't hit hard - or fast - enough to bring the bike into stagger, so after three attack "rounds" he uses Gatling Gun and it's an instakill for Lightning.


THE ONLY FUCKING ENEMY I'VE HAD TO AVOID! Fuck you SE.

yeah these bikes are pretty mean, I managed to beat one IIRC but later on there are encounters where there are more enemies than just the bike so that was like impossible.
Oh and do not use up your smokes on normal enemies. Smile They are best used right before you enter into a boss battle. And you can use more than one at once.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 19:54    Post subject:
I've beaten all the other enemies so far, but this new variety of bike is just fucking nasty Sad I've had to sneak past it and continue on... something I did NOT want to do!

As for the shrouds; Well I'm out now, but I *didn't* know you could use them on bosses! Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for when I get more.
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Surray




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 20:00    Post subject:
so I played a few hours now... the presentation is by far the best aspect so far. the combat looks nice but for now it's just way too simple, as someone else mentioned all you do is mash the X button until the battle is won, but that's ok as we all know it gets better later.
it's obviously very impressive graphically, but I don't really like the characters too much.
cliche ftl Sad
the names alone are just really bad... I wonder why they fuck up shit like that on such a huge franchise.

Hope? Snow? Vanille? dear god why?
Lightning is probably the only character I like so far.. everyone else just throws stupid cliche'd comments out there. "Heroes don't run from fights!" says Snow before charging into a boss battle.... that's just lame.

also as if the 2 most annoying characters in an RPG ever, the 2 kids in lost odyssey, weren't enough, there's another 2 annoying kids right here.

note that I didn't watch any trailers apart from the very first one and know nothing about the characters or locations, so I'm sure you all knew the names and laughed your ass off about them a long time ago.
that's just me ranting there.. I still like the game so far but I just wish they'd go for characters who act like adults and make decisions that make sense. we had them in the old final fantasy games and it was awesome.. hopefully we'll get back there some day.

here's hoping that resonance of fate will satisfy my need for a more mature storyline.
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00101010




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 20:03    Post subject:
You can try to outheal the gatling gun, that worked for me one time (guess I got lucky since 2 other times I died).
But honestly that's why capping the crystarium sucks, why aren't we allowed to level if we are too weak to beat an enemy.
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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 20:18    Post subject:
have a sentinel, healer and a comando/ravager for the bike with gatling gun and it should be cake. Just change to that setting when you see the text
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 20:26    Post subject:
kenny64 wrote:
have a sentinel, healer and a comando/ravager for the bike with gatling gun and it should be cake. Just change to that setting when you see the text


I'd love to know how you did that with only two party members. Care to share? Smug

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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 20:33    Post subject:
Fuck it, im going to go play FFX now. Yes, really. Smile

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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 20:35    Post subject:
Aye, I'm around 13hrs in and - so far - I still prefer FFX. Still, at least as the story/graphics/audio goes, this is not the worst by far. I am thoroughly enjoying it and each smackdown a boss gives me just strengthens my resolve to come back with a winning strategy and whup his narrow ass Very Happy
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Cohen




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 21:16    Post subject:
8 was the worst imo. Hated it. FF9 was so damn good after that POS.

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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 22:15    Post subject:
Pfffffffffft. Next to VI and X, I rate VIII as the 3rd best. Story, atmosphere, music, gameplay. Perfection.
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Who-CareZ




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 22:45    Post subject:
Cohen wrote:
8 was the worst imo. Hated it. FF9 was so damn good after that POS.


lol I remember fighting the last boss in 8. It took like a fucking hour and a half to beat. I was like WTF is going on die already!!!!! I paused and took breaks during the fight.

I'm still waiting for XIII to get verified on ABGX. But I am really disappointed to see what people are saying abut it. I was expecting ground breaking type stuff, but looks like its not. I will still play it, but probably wont beat it.
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 22:52    Post subject:
Ultimecia?! Hell no man, she wasn't a long fight.. not even when she summons the ultimate GF (Griever) and junctions herself to him. If you want a long fight, without using the cheaty "The End" or Aura>Lionheart combo, then go back and fight Ultima Weapon Laughing Laughing
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00101010




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PostPosted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 23:01    Post subject:
Or go play Last Remnant Very Happy
Man some battles there where ridiculously long
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