It might just be me but parts of your post don’t make sense. Lol.
I doubt it’ll get to that point plus the DLC content will probably have more to it than that if its episodic content. I mean if we’re getting a couple of hours worth of DLC content, i’m down for buying it.
Damn the Silver Chocobo is the shit. I was able to get the collector’s catalog easily. Anything I would need from the Casino or races? I already have all the fragments, and the Wild Artefact.
Also, I went ahead and beat the game:
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The final battle sequence was pretty well done. Though I was hella mad that Sahz and Dahj FINALLY show up, and it’s for cutscenes at the fucking end of the game. Looking forward to Sahz’s episode, though I do wonder how he and Dahj were able to make it to 500AF. Did he have a time machine like Hope? Ending was kinda what I expected, open ended. I figured the episodic content = real ending is DLC. Not too happy about that, but whatever. I enjoyed the game a lot. And have a ton more sidequests left to do. Definitely looking forward to the DLC that expands on/finishes the story.
Farm adamantites from one of the 600m races to build stronger weapons. If you don’t have 160 fragments, your Odinsblades won’t be too great either.
If you don’t have all the fragments in Serendipity, your last missing one is most likely the 7777 coins fragment. Which you need to obtain in one visit without leaving the place.
About those Live Events, is it better to get the prize for answering funny answers or just get the regular reward? And what do Adornments even do?
got 2 durable colector’s catalogs (had most of the items, just need 2 more Phoenix Bloods which I bought from the casino easily), now it’s time to farm some gil any good spots to farm gil?
I also killed the Long Gui, Immortal, and Ochu (both Ochu and Long Gui were a ton easier than their XIII counterparts) I need to tackle Yomi, but want to level my Chichu more and get/level monsters to infuse into Chichu, Cloudburst and my BunkerBeast, and maybe get a decent Syn monster.
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Don’t worry, he stops being a whiny bitch and turns into a Kingdom Hearts “Friendship is the BEST” character later. I don’t know which one I hate more.
So runny shit becomes acute constipation?
How lovely.
I think i need to brush up on my temporal mechanics 
Amodar refuses to drop his mother f’ing crystal. ~___~
Le sigh.
You can farm Don Tonberry in Bresha AF100. It helps to encounter him if you got Battlemania skill which increases your chances for rare monsters to spawn. Takes me about 50 seconds to kill him. Nets you about between 18k - 50k per kill. You also have a chance to tame Don and get an achievement.
Haven’t read much of the thread, just because I dunno how free people are with spoilers in here.
Is there anyone who thinks 13 was better than 13-2? Like… is 13-2 a universally accepted improvement, or some people prefer the original?
Achievements aren’t that bad for this game I hear? I got 1000 in FF13 and took me about 88 hours. FF13-2’s achievements are easier?
Is there any news on that card game DLC? Like… when it will come out, or even what the hell it is? Been a long time since I’ve played a game with a fun game-wide sidequest/mini-game thing like FF8’s card game, but seems like this won’t be anything like that?
Seems like the DLC battle thing could actually be pretty cool. I’d like to see them release packs for each of the FF games (a FF7 pack with Cloud, Yuffie, Tifa or whatever for $5, each with an interesting battle to acquire them and then a HD version of their limit breaks as the feral link thing), as long as the costs remain reasonable, or release a new superboss in the arena once every 2 or 3 months. Not holding out hope that it’ll be well done, though… will probably be a quick cash grab and nothing else. For a company sitting on the kind of lore FF has, though… they’d better use it here.
Its pretty much 13-2 > 13 in everything except the story. I felt the story in 13 was more tighter than 13-2.
Id probably buy the episodes but thats about it…everything else seems cosmetic to me…how many outfits will there be?
I read somewhere that noel might get cloud’s (old, no zippers) outfit or whatever that unit thing outfit was in ff7…
No idea about how many outfits there will be, I’m only really interested in the extra episodes, but I may download the extra fights as well.
I’m missing 29 fragments. and I know there is a good chunk of it in quizzes so not looking forward to that. Yomi was annoying to fight, I just did it the easy way and poisoned him and waited in sen/sen/sen healed when he put up his shield and repeat. Though near the end he was hitting me hard while I was applying poison.
I got 159/160 fragments. All that’s left for me is to complete the bestiary. After that work on getting the achievements.
Probably will stop at Clock Stopper though. I don’t have to patience to repeatedly [pre-emp, retry] x100 nor do it the old fashioned way then get randomed by a monster that spawns right in front of me and initiates the battle.
Takes a short time to knock that achievement out if you do it at the arch steppe’s.
The story must be pretty weak, then. It’s not like FF13’s story was a super awesome selling point, imo. :\
Its a time travel story so its hit or miss. The game came across like Chrono Cross than Chrono Trigger if that gives you a good idea. I thought 13’s story was pretty good. The datalogs gave you more information that made the story more understandable.
2 more fragments left. Any links to a bestiary checklist? because I know that is one. I also need the one from the Casino, but I’m going to farm gil and just auto play slots or something until I get lucky.
Don Tonberry is pretty damn easy to kill, and it makes good money. I have the skills that let me encounter more enemies and encounter more rare enemies on so I see them quite often. I have yet to get their crystal though, which sucks because I’m using the skill to up my chances with those.
Damn you guys must have a shit load of free time. I’m about 25 hrs in and have 50 or so fragments. I wish I could play more.
Things I love about this game
- Battle system is awesome
- Capturing monsters
- Lots of extras/side missions
- Music is kickass. Some of it, particularly boss battles, reminds me of Devil May Cry.
Things I can’t stand about this game
- The Story. Seriously, whoever came up with this idea is a piece of hot dog shit. Fuck you, fuck your stupid paradoxes, and fuck the way you try to have the characters explain it. So damn annoying.
- The Crystarium is just not that good. The layout seemed way better in 13.
- Long load times between stages.
[spoiler= /spoiler]Question about Chichu: I got him recently and I read you guys said he was amazing. I really haven’t leveled up any of my monsters except for like 2 of them and that was only to about level 16. Does he need to just be leveled up to be nasty? I was also, trying to capture a Feral Behemoth, did that for about 30 mins. and just gave up