When will people realize that XIII-2>XIII?

kupo1705 posted...

I doubt my thread will be any good because all I got was 'It's you, your opinion is invalid. No, I won't bother explaining why XIII is better.' so far.

Well, maybe you'll get more serious replies later, but with your posting history, who knows.

Fine.

XIII's story was much better in my view due to the resticted structure of the first half of the game, I never felt the story lost pace, it was paced perfectly throughout. I also thought the story was much better overall in terms of quality, XIII-2's just focused to much on time travel for me to like it as much as XIII's.

The pacing is absolutely terrible for an RPG.
It's fight, cutscene, fight, cutscene, fight, cutscene.
That belongs in a modern shooter, not an RPG.

The battle system was improved in XIII-2 by removing the annoying Paradigm shift animation etc, but the difficulty was pitiful XIII's had a much greater difficulty and posed a challenge in some areas for me such as the Cid fight and 2nd Orphan. My 7 year old sister managed to complete the entirety of XIII-2, with me helping her on two boss fights, that says it all.

There was no difficulty in FFXIII at any point.
And even if you died, what does it matter?
You can just retry as if nothing happed.

The strategy was also taken out of the 2nd game, and I hated how Sab and Syn were extremely restricted with most of their buffs taken away from the game, it resulted in the same paradigms being reused over and over which you wouldn't have been able to do in XIII due to the role specific character structure, namely RAV RAV RAV, COM COM COM.

Taken out? Was it ever in?
Yes, XIII-2 has less spells, but I don't see that as an issue.
Besides, there are monsters that can do that.

The characters were much better in XIII with the exception of Hope and Vanille, Lightning is my favourite of the series (obviously) Fang was yet another interesting character due to her motivations and uncertainty as to what to do for her focus, and Sazh was a loveable dad who provided great comedy and was just all round likeable. XIII-2 on the other hand had Serah, who was even worse than she was in XIII with stupid 'YAY LETS SAVE THE FUTURE' and other annoying dialogue whereas Noel was a decent character all round, and he began to grow on me towards the end of the game.

XIII has the worst cast in the series, tied with VIII.
Everyone except for Sazh is either extremely annoying, stupid or made me want to punch them in the face.
XIII-2 simply removed the bad characters.

When will people realize PANDA > moogle.

kupo1705 posted...

Panda_Kun posted...

When will people realize PANDA > moogle.

You're right, panda.

Time to pull a kupo and ruin this thread.

Can I has some kupo nuts?
No you.
Shut it.

kupo1705 posted...

JaimexCersei posted...

Time to pull a kupo and ruin this thread.

Can I has some kupo nuts?
No you.
Shut it.

I don't ruin threads that are actually discussing the game.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/681990-lightning-returns-final-fantasy-xiii/64629671?page=1

even if i found the monsters' idea interesting for gameplay, i would ALWAYS prefer actual characters.

It is true. XIII-2 is the superior game.