Final Fantasy XIII-2

Final Fantasy XIII was all kinds of rotten. Shame, I was looking forward to it and watched the Leona Lewis My Hands trailer more than was healthy. The game was Very Bad Aids, though.

Yeah, working now but had to switch browser. This site doesn't work for me in Dolphin Hd or Opera. Basically, the two most popular android browsers, shucks.

Srsly, though, FFXIII is an STD on the cock of enjoyment.

This is now the dual FFXIII and my browser update thread. I am now typing this in Opera. Win. Also, more games, and by more I mean all, should be exactly like FFXII. That game was special.

It's no Witcher /lol
Am I the only one whose fave FF is IX?

That would be a no DJR as that's my favorite too. Wish people would clamour for a HD remake of that rather than VII.
As stated though, I liked FFXIII. But then again, compared to most FF fans I am under-experienced. I never completed VII or VIII, in fact I barely got anywhere on VII.

Some more info
Director Motomu Toriyama said Noel will be the game’s frontline fighter, with companion [FFXIII-ending-spoiler-name-redacted] taking a backseat support role.
Noel is said to a be a cool character, the equivalent of FFXIII’s Lightning. He’s a monster hunter from Gran Pulse. FFXIII composer Masashi Hamauzu has returned for the sequel, and aims to keep the feel of the first title, while new composers will be brought in to add new material.
Following on from comments that NPCs in towns will have AI, Toriyma revealed townsfolk will shelter from weather. Weather will also have an effect on battle. The demo from E3 is said to have been spliced together from two separate chapters, with story segments ruthlessly cut. The same section in the full game will tell the story of how the two protagonists meet.
As well as a third monster party member, players will sometimes temporarily recruit extra guest characters.

TOWNS!!!!!!

I agree with Fluffy. It'll probably be Day 1 purchase for me too. In Squeenix we trust.
@Sasukekun, I don't think it has to do with FF inexperience. I've played all but the first 3 on the NES, but thought FF13 was still a good game, just not as good as some others in the series. As Fluffy said, it's also just a different experience.

The summons were pretty redundant in 12 too, could never match the power of your party later on.

Am I a bad person for getting bored of running down the corridor and just giving up playing FFXIII? I'm more excited about Versus XIII. I'll piss off now.

You have a point with the soundtrack it is awesome, I have it on my iPod.

The chocobo theme tune is brilliant. Never got as far as actually riding a chocobo though.

I remember always thinking it was ridiculous that people defended FF13 by saying "wait until 20 hours in, then it rules!" However, they were actually right. The corridors were irritating, but the story began to pick up speed right at the end and the battle system definitely blossomed when you were given control of your party. In fact, I think FF13 actually had a wonderfully complex system, one which people didn't bother giving the time of day because it featured 'Auto-Battle' and (as mentioned previously) didn't really open up until the end of the game.
That said, i'm not too fond of the direction the sequel is going in. After completing FF13 I read through all the backstory of the game (the stuff to do with various tiers of Fal'Cie and how they were created) and found it to be pretty well written and interesting stuff. The teaser (with Lightning in armour) seemed to suggest that FF13-2 would be exploring this side of the mythos, but the new gameplay videos go against that. I'll reserve judgement for now.
Still, heres hoping Snow and Hope don't make any sort of return.

I thought it was very logical actually:
At the beginning of the game the characters don't know each other, and the ones that do are very often in disagreement or at odds with other party member (Hope having a grudge against Snow, for example). There is no unity within the group, and the narrative reflects that. You jump from one location to another, you only play with a handfull of characters at a time which you cannot choose and there's a few flashbacks thrown in in the middle. This apparent confusion (Edge called it "a disaster in pacing") only reflects the broken structure of the relationships in the party.
Through the course of the story the characters eventually adress and resolve their issues and end up working together, and it is at that moment that the game opens up, you're in Gran Pulse, the big wide open area where you can go wherever you want and you gain full access to all members and paradigms. The party is united, there is no confusion anymore, they move as one and the gameplay and narrative reflects that.
Bearing in mind that this is a Japanese game, a country where too much individuality is frown upon, where it is synonymous with disorder, and where working as a group instead in order to achieve common goals is higly valued, the structure of the narrative makes perfect sense.
I didn't mind corridors that much too. Hell, I play shooters and the majority of them are one long big corridor after another.

Uhhh
Thanks, Libby......