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Convince Monsters to Fight For You in Final Fantasy XIII-2

Why hunt monsters when you can master them?

Dec. 15 2011

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Final Fantasy XIII-2

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JRPGs no thanks.

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Not so sure about this one. The last one was... meh.

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Gotta admit, it looks pretty good, but I never did play XIII because it was shit on by so many people. Hopefully this will be better received.

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Sorry Sony but no thanks.

And by Sony I mean Square Enix. (BOLLOCKS)

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So wait it's really just Final Fantasy XIII: Monster Rancher?

@IAmNotBatman: Sorry Sony? You do realize that Sony has nothing to do with the development nor the publishing of this game. Not to mention its coming out for 360 too so yeah...

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I don't think being able to recruit flans will stop me being totally sick of them - XIII was really lazy with its many monster re-skins and the designs were pretty boring. Just not sure I can stomach more of it. Or being stuck with Noel and Serah for most of a game.

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@Jazzycola: My bad, I've made myself look an idiot :P

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@wizall: Wait, you didn't play a game because of what other people said? You know there was as much praise as criticism right?
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That's cool, but is there a way I can convince Square-Enix to make a quality Final Fantasy.

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@MikeGosot: I assume this means FFXIII-2 will have skull helmets and bloody spikes on Chocobos.

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Why the fuck didn't they put this kind of UI into FFXIV? Looks so smooth. Damnit, now I've been reminded of how horrible FFXIV was/is.

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@IAmNotBatman said:

@Jazzycola: My bad, I've made myself look an idiot :P

Not Batman indeed...

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@Gahathat said:

@MikeGosot: I assume this means FFXIII-2 will have skull helmets and bloody spikes on Chocobos.

Chocobos turn into Motorcycles when you ride them and only people who sacrificed a virgin can... RIDE THIS CHOCOBO! 
 
Man, i love this song.
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Fall 2011 is looking to be impossible, although I would love to play that game for the holidays : )

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@Maitimo said:

I don't think being able to recruit flans will stop me being totally sick of them - XIII was really lazy with its many monster re-skins and the designs were pretty boring. Just not sure I can stomach more of it. Or being stuck with Noel and Serah for most of a game.

Kind of how I'm feeling right now. That might change closer to release, but this is looking like a better option for people who skipped the first game.

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ah dawg party full of chocobos, UNSTOPPABLE

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@MikeGosot said:

@Gahathat said:

@MikeGosot: I assume this means FFXIII-2 will have skull helmets and bloody spikes on Chocobos.

Chocobos turn into Motorcycles when you ride them and only people who sacrificed a virgin can... RIDE THIS CHOCOBO! Man, i love this song.

Haha. It is an amazing song. But I've actually go a serious question for you:

Do you think you can ride this chocobo!?

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It looks like Shin Megami Tensai banged FInalal Fantasy 13...

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@billyhoush said:

JRPGs no thanks.

So... you were surprised it was a JRPG when you clicked on the link for a Final Fantasy game?

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@Gahathat said:

@MikeGosot said:

@Gahathat said:

@MikeGosot: I assume this means FFXIII-2 will have skull helmets and bloody spikes on Chocobos.

Chocobos turn into Motorcycles when you ride them and only people who sacrificed a virgin can... RIDE THIS CHOCOBO! Man, i love this song.

Haha. It is an amazing song. But I've actually go a serious question for you:

Do you think you can ride this chocobo!?

Man, i SERIOUSLY didn't saw that coming.  Even when i read "Do you think", i thought you were going to say "Do you think this game will be good?". But nope, you got all Chocobo on me.
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@Catolf: I'm aware of that, but I do tend to look at reviews if I'm on the fence. I would have tested it out myself if I didn't have ton of other games to play at the time. I may yet get around to it with all its critical caveats, but at the time with the tepid reviews I didn't really feel like it.

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So beyond stoked. FFXIII was my favorite FF game.

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@MikeGosot: There's really no reason for me to reply to you, besides wanting you to post that god-awesome youtube vid as many times as possible.

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@ShadowSkill11 said:

@billyhoush said:

JRPGs no thanks.

So... you were surprised it was a JRPG when you clicked on the link for a Final Fantasy game?

No. Just stating that I am done with JRPGs as nothing has advanced in the genre.

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Finally what i always wanted, a 3D Pokemon!!

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@billyhoush said:

@ShadowSkill11 said:

@billyhoush said:

JRPGs no thanks.

So... you were surprised it was a JRPG when you clicked on the link for a Final Fantasy game?

No. Just stating that I am done with JRPGs as nothing has advanced in the genre.

Really? nothing has advanced in the genre, I could point out a few things that advanced just with this game, but your right the hundreds of games in the genre are just cheap re hashes

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Recruit via murder

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@Gahathat said:

@MikeGosot: There's really no reason for me to reply to you, besides wanting you to post that god-awesome youtube vid as many times as possible.

I dunno. Posting THISeverytime is kind of spam. Maybe. Hmmm...
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I gotta say this looks good, combining monsters... I mean if there's over like 20 monsters... there's ALOT of combinations you can probably do...

My biggest complaint with ff13 battle system though was lack of an overdrive ish system, they seem to think that i count summons as alternatives... but really they sucked... i mean 3 commandos do much more damage than any of the summons.

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This reminds me of Jade Cocoon.

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WHAT IS GOING ON!

I can't make heads or tails of these fights. the text is hard to read and everything flashes constantly. someone please teach Square interface design!

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I can't even process the official video because that "Ride this Chocobo" link has melted my brain. What the shit?!?!?

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That music is pretty good. Ready for this game.

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Gotta catch 'em all?

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Is that Snow just kinda hanging out in all those fights? There's a guy just kinda standing there in all the fights, I'm gonna guess he's some kinda beast master or some shit like that.

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@phatcat said:

WHAT IS GOING ON!

I can't make heads or tails of these fights. the text is hard to read and everything flashes constantly. someone please teach Square interface design!

... Or you could pay attention, it's not hard to follow what's going on in the combat. If it is you probably shouldn't be playing video games.
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Can. Not. Wait.

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@Gahathat: I find that song hilarious and really am interested to see how the insert it into the game. I get it if they play it during a Chocobo EXTREME racing cutscence but if that's just plain old I'm riding a Chocobo music then... :p

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These games are a bit of a visual overload, its hard to appreciate the actual design of anything.

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I could't help myself from bursting into laughter when i seen you can summon a Gaint Chicken to fight along you during battle. Good old Final Fantasy!

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That Whiskers LV.1 is adorable

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I heard you guys like Pokemonz

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Great. More Megaten rip off ideas.

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@Zenaxzd said:

@phatcat said:

WHAT IS GOING ON!

I can't make heads or tails of these fights. the text is hard to read and everything flashes constantly. someone please teach Square interface design!

... Or you could pay attention, it's not hard to follow what's going on in the combat. If it is you probably shouldn't be playing video games.

Oh snap!

So do I have have some sort of game-off with you to prove my gamer-tude?

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@phatcat said:

@Zenaxzd said:

@phatcat said:

WHAT IS GOING ON!

I can't make heads or tails of these fights. the text is hard to read and everything flashes constantly. someone please teach Square interface design!

... Or you could pay attention, it's not hard to follow what's going on in the combat. If it is you probably shouldn't be playing video games.

Oh snap!

So do I have have some sort of game-off with you to prove my gamer-tude?

Two enter, one leaves. GOGOGOGO

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I like this!

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I totally read "comicvine" instead of convince

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@phatcat said:

WHAT IS GOING ON!

I can't make heads or tails of these fights. the text is hard to read and everything flashes constantly. someone please teach Square interface design!

I believe it is saying that you can switch out monsters depending on your paradigm meaning that you can swap party members (albiet only one) mid battle adding even more options in combat. Also it appears each of these monsters have their own customization trees.

Looks really neat.