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Was 13 a let down?
Absolutely. But it wasn't a complete utter failure as some of you are making it out to be. Though, I have to say, I'm beyond sick of SE's trend with the offline RPGs from FF12 and onward.
Seriously, enough with the ridiculously complex shop/upgrade systems, mindless grinding of rare mobs for yet rarer still items and what amounts to an outright ludicrous effort to make even remotely decent money. Christ I thought FF12 was bad, but The Last Remnant and FF13 are especially egregious in this regard.
I'm going for the damn platinum trophy again in 13 (I've picked it up again since I'm done with XI until level 99 or they release otherwise engaging content) and I just want to slit my wrists and gouge my eyes out over the absurd difficulty of obtaining gil in this game.
Just because we have achievements and trophies now doesn't mean you have to treat every offline game's progression like a fucking MMO. I know I'm not the only one who feels that grinding gigantic fucking turtles with 1 (or 16 in my case with the upgraded "Long Gui") HP for 150k platinum ingot is just plain BULL SHIT!!!
Said 16 mil HP turtles can also drop Dark Matter, of which you need 6 to obtain the Treasure Hunter trophy (own all weapons & accessories) or you can buy them in the shop at a whopping 840,000 gil each (or 6 platinum ingots).
As is, with nearly maxed out characters, fairly good accessories & ultimate weapons, I can take out the only remaining regular turtle in Eden Hall in 52~58 seconds IF I have a summon handy. Otherwise it gets kinda messy trying to take down it's legs without dieing horribly to the bullshit AOE (Oh yeah, the 16 mil HP ones SPAM Quake & Ultima the more their HP goes down. good times...)
Usually, gil is the least of your worries in offline games. But apparently someone at SE thought it would be awesome to make it a huge limiting factor in addition to rare drops & hunting for obscure treasure chests.
At least with Tales of Vesperia, Bandai allows you to do a new game plus with crazy shit like 10x EXP, 2x Gold, 2x drop rate on all items etc etc... not to mention the ever handy books that keep track of everything you've encountered and obtained throughout the game so you can easily go down the list and see what's left.
TL;DR Get off your lazy asses already SE we're sick of pretty looking games that are starved for even remotely decent content.
EDIT: Also, wtf @ that pic - the 1 guy near the top looks a hell of a lot like adult Sasuke in Naruto, and the guy in red looks like Genesis... just how lazy has SE gotten?
Was 13 a let down?
Absolutely. But it wasn't a complete utter failure as some of you are making it out to be. Though, I have to say, I'm beyond sick of SE's trend with the offline RPGs from FF12 and onward.
Seriously, enough with the ridiculously complex shop/upgrade systems, mindless grinding of rare mobs for yet rarer still items and what amounts to an outright ludicrous effort to make even remotely decent money. Christ I thought FF12 was bad, but The Last Remnant and FF13 are especially egregious in this regard.
I'm going for the damn platinum trophy again in 13 (I've picked it up again since I'm done with XI until level 99 or they release otherwise engaging content) and I just want to slit my wrists and gouge my eyes out over the absurd difficulty of obtaining gil in this game.
Just because we have achievements and trophies now doesn't mean you have to treat every offline game's progression like a fucking MMO. I know I'm not the only one who feels that grinding gigantic fucking turtles with 1 (or 16 in my case with the upgraded "Long Gui") HP for 150k platinum ingot is just plain BULL SHIT!!!
Said 16 mil HP turtles can also drop Dark Matter, of which you need 6 to obtain the Treasure Hunter trophy (own all weapons & accessories) or you can buy them in the shop at a whopping 840,000 gil each (or 6 platinum ingots).
As is, with nearly maxed out characters, fairly good accessories & ultimate weapons, I can take out the only remaining regular turtle in Eden Hall in 52~58 seconds IF I have a summon handy. Otherwise it gets kinda messy trying to take down it's legs without dieing horribly to the bullshit AOE (Oh yeah, the 16 mil HP ones SPAM Quake & Ultima the more their HP goes down. good times...)
Usually, gil is the least of your worries in offline games. But apparently someone at SE thought it would be awesome to make it a huge limiting factor in addition to rare drops & hunting for obscure treasure chests.
At least with Tales of Vesperia, Bandai allows you to do a new game plus with crazy shit like 10x EXP, 2x Gold, 2x drop rate on all items etc etc... not to mention the ever handy books that keep track of everything you've encountered and obtained throughout the game so you can easily go down the list and see what's left.
TL;DR Get off your lazy asses already SE we're sick of pretty looking games that are starved for even remotely decent content.
EDIT: Also, wtf @ that pic - the 1 guy near the top looks a hell of a lot like adult Sasuke in Naruto, and the guy in red looks like Genesis... just how lazy has SE gotten?
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