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Added by Brad Shoemaker on June 3, 2009
WHAT IS HAPPENING
Anyway, the combat in FFXIII is similar to what you've seen in past games. The active-time gauge--the per-character bar that fills up over time and lets a character take a turn when it's full--is now divided into quarters. It seems like you can take your turn after the first quarter is full, but every subsequent section that fills up will increase the potency of the action you take. It seems like a good but not-too-complicated way to evolve the old active time battle system everyone's familiar with.
It wouldn't be a Final Fantasy game if you couldn't summon mythical monsters to do the fighting for you, and Square showed off a little of FFXIII's version of summoning. When you bring in a creature, it replaces the party member that summoned it. Summons also have a "gestalt" mode where they change form to gain a different sort of attack. To demonstrate, a Square rep summoned the ice queen Shiva to the battle and then made her transform... into a motorcycle.
Shiva turns into a motorcycle.
After the transformation, another party member hopped onto the bike and started driving into an enemy repeatedly. FFXIII looked pretty good before, but I must say I'm a fair sight more interested in the game after seeing the E3 demo.
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29 Comments
Fuck nearly made it. You get to *ride* shiva for as long as you want, nice
Don't want to sound like a jackass, but this has been known since the game first announced. You could even see it in last years trailer.
This has piqued my interest in this game more. I still want to play a demo of it.
...Shiva... turns into a motorcycle... then you get to hop on a ram repeated wait WHAT!!!
im def gonna play this on my future PS3 it just wouldnt feel right with a xbox controller
The first trailer for the game were of Shiva and Ifrit transforming into vehiculars.
Oh my, seems my geek cred is showing, how embarrassing.
Oh my, seems my geek cred is showing, how embarrassing.
I like the sound of the battle system. No details on the level-up system yet?
@Nexas said:
Yes this is very, very, very old news" Don't want to sound like a jackass, but this has been known since the game first announced. You could even see it in last years trailer. "
The quartered active time gauge in the battle system reminds me of a modern Chrono Cross. Seems radical, although what they should really do is just make a sequel to Chrono Cross instead.
@Blair said:
Can I have both?
" The quartered active time gauge in the battle system reminds me of a modern Chrono Cross. Seems radical, although what they should really do is just make a sequel to Chrono Cross instead. "
@Kiemoe said:
Pretty please?
"@Blair said:Can I have both? "" The quartered active time gauge in the battle system reminds me of a modern Chrono Cross. Seems radical, although what they should really do is just make a sequel to Chrono Cross instead. "
Yes what the hell is happening Final Fantasy games always have such nonsense going on.
So is the ATB combat turned-based like FF4, or more quasi-realtime like FF12?
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