Take One Last Look At Final Fantasy XIII-2

the ff series has gotten boring the last one was really meh and this is meh with QTE wich is allso meh, the trailers and demo was meh, so why the hell am i still buying this and kinda excited about it i just cant wrap my head around it

The title XIII-2 still makes me chuckle a little even after X-2.

Hit Auto-Battle.

I hated FFXIII.

Everything that I've heard so far suggests this is markedly better, but we'll see. I sure as shit didn't pre-order this one thanks to the taste in my mouth that FFXIII left.

@Rongaryen: lol I feel ya man. I still haven't finished that POS. My characters are still parked not long before the last fight... could probably finish it in a weekend, but... heh.

@Excast: Not just too Japanese, I think. Remember that Final Fantasy - the good ones - were made by Japanese, too. The problem, in my opinion, is that Square is clueless when it comes to story and character. They only know how to do technology (aka graphics). They seem to have this vague idea that the "moe" and tsundere character types are popular, but without having the slightest idea of how to do either correctly. The result is the brooding, emo, slutty, metro sexual nonsense that Square's known for these days.

Their past games had similar brooding character types, but they managed to strike a certain balance with story & character progression.

That's just the way I see it, though.

I might be interested in a JRPG if the characters were, like, real people with real problems instead of just vessels for grandiose style and horrible melodrama.

I always wanted to play the Final Fantasy games but I never really get into it. Now I think I want to give it a shot, but can you play the new ones without have played the earlier ones?