I think it's just a matter of it being easy to recreate what you're familiar with, and there's a huge number of studios who are based in the US. Plus New York is one of the most iconic cities in the world.
@Animasta: I beat and platinumed XIII-2, and even at the ending, I still had a hard time grasping Caius' motives. His constant emo-ing about Yeul dying over and over again, voicing his melancholy through metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, made it hard to relate to the guy.
dude, look at the VAST HISTORY of final fantasy villains. barely any of them have anywhere close to a decent motive. and I dunno, wanting to protect someone from dying over and over and over again sounds like a pretty decent motive to me?
Pretty much. Ciaus was basically the champion of Etro the Goddess he had immense power and yet felt completely impotent to save the one thing he cared about. If you watch the extended ending after you get all the crystal shards you pretty much get to see that Ciaus was playing everyone from the start. He knew exactly what was going to happen and used Serah, Noel and Lightning to achieve his goals. The note that FFXII-2 ended on was FANTASTIC. Everyone is happy and seems like the world and time is saved and then shit just pops off and it ends on the most insanely grim note any final fantasy ever has. And while his motivations are rather selfish in the end theres enough human emotion that shines from him that on one hand you kind of can't blame him for what he does.
And let's not forget that he probably has a very warped perspective about the value of human life growing up with only a handful of other people. To him it's pretty easy to justify saving someone if they represent one third of the world to you, no matter what the cost.
I'm still on the fence about it, waiting to see how burnt out I get by Tekken Tag 2, and I want to see some reviews first too. If I do get it, it will probably be for PS3 though because my 360 isnt online. I'm looking up the crazy stupid endings on Youtube even if I don't get it though.
You would rather go without pants then go without underwear? That's weird. I don't wear clothes. My reptilian scales have chameleon like properties that allow it to change form sort of like Mystique, this gives the appearance of clothing, though really I'm nude all the time. Like right now.
I wish they had left everything totally fucked. That was a perfect ending. No sarcasm. Perfect. I'm kind of worried because it seems like this may be a one character game. Also doesn't sound very RPG yet. Oh well there's still plenty of time for them to relieve me of those worries. Though seriously, I don't care how this game ends, if they do any other game set in this universe after this game is out I'm gonna lose it. The sound of my groan will cause earthquakes.
It may very well be the case that this game isn't named Final Fantasy XIII-3 because it won't play like the previous games. They are very heavily emphasizing that this is Lightning's story. For all we know, this could be an action RPG or some other style of game rather than another iteration on the FFXIII combat system.
Actually the more I think about that, the more okay with it I am. I'd like for them to experiment a little more, and since this isn't really a main entry game it's probably the perfect place to do it. Still not entirely sure that the story will hold up with only Lightning though. She's cool, but not that cool.
@Nottle: I do think a lot of the problems people had with this game evolved out of 10. People tend to underestimate how these games relate to one another. There's definitely a consistent thread of logic to how the systems, stories, and characters evolved from 6 to 7 to 8 to 10 to 13. However I would say that 13 definitely exacerbated the problems introduced in 10, by distilling the RPG formula even further. Totally agree about the villain, as far as I'm concerned this should be the number one priority in 15, it's what saved 13-2 in my eyes.
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