FFXIII thread of what not to do with your life

[Regulus Tera]

He looks like he came out from the cover of a heavy metal band.


I actually like his humanoid design a lot more now. Miles better than mutant peacock Bahamut from FFX.

[Bells]

This clearly means that at some point, Fang n' Mut will Duel Light'in n' Din, which should provide a decent amount of awesome

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Bells

This clearly means that at some point, Fang n' Mut will Duel Light'in n' Din, which should provide a decent amount of awesome

You just broke my brain with that trying to figure out what you were trying to say.

I really don't see a duel, though. Maybe some conflict, but I don't think it'll result in a cat fight, much less one involving throwing giant monsters at each other.

[Regulus Tera]

The Chocobo theme is the best Chocobo theme in the series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7caDQLSANXw

[DarkDrgon]

Oh my god it is... Its been looping in my mind for hours

[NonCon]

Saw the latest pic on Kotaku for what Sahz's summon's gehstalt form looks like. It's silly. I got the impression that it was much more badass than it was. I was expecting something hot rod like. Instead we have a really big go-cart.

[Bells]

Weekly Japanese manga-and-all-things-nerdy magazine Shonen Jump has revealed the upcoming advancement system in Final Fantasy XIII, which ditches traditional leveling for something like Final Fantasy X's Sphere Grid.

Now, for everything you can say about Square-Enix's landmark Final Fantasy JRPG series, you can't say that it hasn't ever tried variations on the basic RPG "level up new skill yay!" formula. But while the games have played with how your characters learn abilities - whether completely modular and tied to other items like in FF7, learned from equipment like in FF9, or learned from attached summoned creatures as in FF6 and FF8 - the games have still largely held to the formula of "hit an arbitrary limit of experience points, level up and get more powerful."

Not so in Final Fantasy XIII. The latest issue of manga magazine Shonen Jump has some scans and information detailing the game's advancement system, called the "Crystalium" System. According to the translation posted on Andriasang, defeating enemies in battle in FF13 will earn "Crystal Points," or CP - and these CP can be exchanged for new skills or abilities, like the standard Fire/Fira/Firaga tree of magic.

As you purchase certain skills, your characters will unlock new available paths - my guess is that these paths will presumably lead further down their chosen fields; purchasing magic abilities will unlock more magic-based points and so on. Nor will this just be skill and abilities, either - the screenshots in the scans show purchasable nodes that increase a character's health, so one can assume that they'll be able to increase their other statistics in the same way.

It all sounds very reminiscent of the Sphere Grid system in Final Fantasy X, which is good because the Sphere Grid was awesome (if rather hard to explain to people at first). True, if you spent enough time with it you'd eventually end up with characters that were all exactly the same, but that's true with almost every Final Fantasy advancement system out there, and it at least preserved the characters' in-battle identities for a while (Tidus was quick, Wakka accurate, Auron powerful, etc).

A more in-depth explanation on the Crystalium System is believed to appear in Famitsu later this month as we move closer to Final Fantasy XIII's December release date.

And no, I still don't know what "OPTIMA CHANGE!" means.

From The Escapist.... i'm somewhat on the fence about this... What you guys think? Too much FFX or not enough?

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

The Chocobo theme is the best Chocobo theme in the series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7caDQLSANXw

Wow. If that's indicative of the soundtrack as a whole, they're going to have something pretty amazing there.

Also here's a link to it that works.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Bells

From The Escapist.... i'm somewhat on the fence about this... What you guys think? Too much FFX or not enough?

Well, given that when I was playing FFX, I pretty much was tripping over spheres (seriously, I quickly maxed out everything but ability spheres, and even those I usually had 20-30 of lying around), it sounds like the game is going to either severely limit your rewards or I'm going to break it to hell.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I pretty much was tripping over spheres

...bitch be trippin' spheres?