Final Fantasy XIII-2, Your thoughts? *CONTAINS SPOILERS*

[Lord_Sesshoumaru]

What are your thoughts so far for Final Fantasy XIII-2? I like that there are DLCs for the game, especially for the Colosseum where you can battle Lightning and Omega Weapon(FFV).

BUT

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It makes me sad and frustrated that when you beat Caius and Serah dies, the ending says "To Be Continued" which is obviously not the end of the game and it's possible that the real ending will be on a DLC. The question is why did Square Enix released an unfinished game IF there's no sequel to it cuz they said that they have no plans for a 3rd game?

So there we have it, what are your thoughts?

 

[Cello]

Spoiler:

It makes me sad and frustrated that when you beat Caius and Serah dies, the ending says "To Be Continued" which is obviously not the end of the game and it's possible that the real ending will be on a DLC. The question is why didn't Square Enix just released an unfinished game IF there's no sequel to it cuz they said that they have no plans for a 3rd game?

I haven't played it yet, but....

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REALLY SQUARE? Really? You're going to pull a "buy DLC to find out the rest" thing? Ugh, what has this world come to, where poeple can't just publish a full game? Especially since they have such a huge team working on those games.

Well, actually I know the answer to that. Money!

Sorry to rant, i'm sure the game is great, but DLC like that irritates me. : P
The thing about fighting a Weapon sounds cool though. I've always been fascinated with Weapon creatures in the FF series. Hope I can play this soon!

 

[Lord_Sesshoumaru]

I haven't played it yet, but....

Spoiler:

REALLY SQUARE? Really? You're going to pull a "buy DLC to find out the rest" thing? Ugh, what has this world come to, where poeple can't just publish a full game? Especially since they have such a huge team working on those games.

Well, actually I know the answer to that. Money!

Sorry to rant, i'm sure the game is great, but DLC like that irritates me. : P
The thing about fighting a Weapon sounds cool though. I've always been fascinated with Weapon creatures in the FF series. Hope I can play this soon!

I know how you feel. SE really did a good job in getting our money. But I think 28 hours of gameplay through the story isn't that long tbh. If they come up with a DLC that'll take me another 20 hours, I'll be happy to buy it and download.

And if they come up with a good DLC battle like fighting Cloud Strife, I'll spit out rainbows from my mouth. LOL

 

[Noel Kreiss]

I'm just surprised how XIII-2 made alot of improvements from its prequel. Either than that, a bit disappointed with the story. Gameplay's awesome, the battle system and less linear and everything else. Just the story and to unable to explore the whole world like back in the old days, those were the flaws.

 

[Razer302]

I really don't see they can leave it as to be continued and say its going to be a DLC. Just seeing the ending shows it has to be a new game butI guess it could be debated as being another paradox thing.

The game overall is amazing though. I have enjoyed doing everything and the new monster leveling is fun although the healers are terrible and should always be left for you to do.

 

[Danzor]

The lack of playable characters disappoints me. Also the story is pretty weak, but I agree that the gameplay still shines in this sequel.

 

[Luck]

Didn't play the whole game yet, but it feels like a weird hybrid of old and new Final Fantasy. It's a good step forward, especially considering they're abandoning that mediocre engine after this.

Spoiler:

It makes me sad and frustrated that when you beat Caius and Serah dies, the ending says "To Be Continued" which is obviously not the end of the game and it's possible that the real ending will be on a DLC. The question is why did Square Enix released an unfinished game IF there's no sequel to it cuz they said that they have no plans for a 3rd game?

I really don't see they can leave it as to be continued and say its going to be a DLC. Just seeing the ending shows it has to be a new game but I guess it could be debated as being another paradox thing.

The game overall is amazing though. I have enjoyed doing everything and the new monster leveling is fun although the healers are terrible and should always be left for you to do.

The "true ending" comes after you find all of the endings apparently; the "DLC true ending" is just a silly rumor made by bitter fans, and the point of the To Be Continued was to encourage buying DLC and exploring the game more.

 

[Noel Kreiss]

Didn't play the whole game yet, but it feels like a weird hybrid of old and new Final Fantasy. It's a good step forward, especially considering they're abandoning that mediocre engine after this.





The "true ending" comes after you find all of the endings apparently; the "DLC true ending" is just a silly rumor made by bitter fans, and the point of the To Be Continued was to encourage buying DLC and exploring the game more.

I've collected all the fragments just today and I got the secret ending. There's gonna be new DLCs coming up with other stories for Sazh and Snow and planning for a Lightning Story. It's very possible that they are gonna make a DLC that'll give us the real ending.

 

[Lord_Sesshoumaru]

I've collected all the fragments just today and I got the secret ending. There's gonna be new DLCs coming up with other stories for Sazh and Snow and planning for a Lightning Story. It's very possible that they are gonna make a DLC that'll give us the real ending.

Yes, that's what I was thinking too. If they can make stories in DLC, then it's very possible that they can make a DLC for the ending. "To be continued" give me a break.

 

[SBaby]

I've collected all the fragments just today and I got the secret ending. There's gonna be new DLCs coming up with other stories for Sazh and Snow and planning for a Lightning Story. It's very possible that they are gonna make a DLC that'll give us the real ending.

There are supposedly going to be parallel stories, like one that details how Sazh got to where he was throughout the game, and where Snow went. But I don't know if any of those have anything to do with a 'true ending'. I think they might be planning a XIII-3 (or they might be planning to address it in Versus XIII). After all, they did say they planned to unveil alot of FF-related stuff at E3 this year.

That said, I did like the ending. I like when endings have twists in them and keep you on your toes. There's too many perfect endings in JRPGs. It's a nice change of pace when you see one where everything doesn't go exactly right. My only gripe with it was a minor one, but it'll take a few sentences to explain.

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If they were going that route with the ending, why kill Serah to begin with? I mean she dies, and not even a minute later, time and space get screwed up beyond recognition. So her death doesn't even have time to be felt. And it really carries no weight once you see the final scene. I just think they could've skipped her death and gone straight to time and space being messed up and had her disappear as a side effect of it. The end result would've been the same. She still would've been gone, and time and space would've been messed up at the end. I think that would've been plenty of a surprise ending without Serah's abrupt death. After all, her death wasn't even that much of a surprise, since they basically built it up for most of the game. That's not to say it was a bad scene. But they should've just did one or the other, not both.