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I don't even know how you justify its a bad port from it having slightly "blurred" textures. A bad port would be GTAIV to the PC not this.

Oh god, don't even start it. Those comparisons are so stupid. People need to stop trying to use graphics to define this generation. OMG LIEK TEH GRAPHIXS ON PS3 RULEZZZ!!!!

Hardly anyone can tell a difference with a standard 720p HDTV, and I hardly credit 1080 users either. It's nonsense. Yes, the graphics are slightly less on the 360 therefore the 360 version automatically sucks. That logic is sound. /sarcasm.

They're suposed to 'feel' like different games and not sequels. But they're from the same company/team! It's not as if they're not related. Also, when judging a sequel, the best to compare it to would be the previous games, don't you think so?

But they're from the same company/team!

Holic: Uh, they revived the roles? ;[ That's exactly what I didn't like about the old final fantasys.

Ugh! Real time battles, just what I didn't want to hear. I prayed so much that they would revive the turns.

I don't like to make quick responses on the fly. FFXII had a similar system and the battles never lasted more than 5 to 10 minutes (even in bosses). I really really dislike that. Badass bosses should have long badass battles. Quick bosses take the epicness out of it. And, because of the real time system, I was always caught off guard when the bosses made finishing attacks. It felt so cheap.
FFX had you thinking what strategies would be best to defeat the current bosses, whereas XII felt like it was all a matter of power. Can't defeat a boss? Grind a few levels and it's cake. There is no fun to that at all. Also (FFX), seeing your turns run out as the boss got ready to blow you an awesome attack felt great and exciting.

Anyways yea, FFX's battle system had so many aspects that I loved. It seems I am one of the few people that enjoyed it. ;[

On the face of it, you only have control of one character, the party leader; you can select role-specific abilities for the leader to use each turn according to how many slots they use in that character's ATB bar, which grows as you progress through the game. In actuality, you'll rarely be doing even that. Much of the time, you'll pick a role for your leader and use the "auto-battle" command, letting the game do the rest. This effectively relegates them to the same level as the AI party members (which is very smart, provided you use Libra to study your enemies' strengths and weaknesses first).
'Final Fantasy XIII' Screenshot 5

Efficient battle performance earns you star ratings and TP to spend on summons and other Techniques.

Why would you do that? Because the fun is all in setting up Paradigms - permutations of two or three of the six roles - and swapping between these instantly and frequently to suit the situation. It actually represents similar thinking to Final Fantasy XII's wonderful Gambit system - in that it allows you to automate the behaviour of your party and wield several characters as one, in real time, without turns - only instead of being based on back-end tinkering, it's about direct input and quick responses on the fly.

The roles are Medic, Ravager (magic damage), Commando (physical damage), Sentinel (protection or "tanking"), Synergist (buffs) and Saboteur (debuffs). They all interact with each other and the enemy designs, and combinations of enemies, in interesting ways. Also, every enemy has a Chain gauge which can be filled by balancing magic and physical damage, increasing in effectiveness all the time and when filled, 'staggering' the enemy for huge damage multipliers. It's essential (not to mention immensely gratifying) to use Stagger to get through fights efficiently, but it's always an edge-of-seat challenge to balance it with switching your party between different utilities.

To be fair, Paradigm Shift and Stagger are actually more interesting in combination with groups of moderately tough enemies than in the thoughtful but rather gruelling boss fights. Nor do they sit that well with XIII's other battlefield innovation, Gestalt Mode, a sort of QTE affair that allows you to pull off showboating attacks in tandem with the visually astonishing Eidolon summons (which look like Transformers designed by Gaudi). Gestalt is amusing but doesn't quite offer the massive-damage pay-off to match a well-executed Paradigm strategy.

The 360 version is 1024x576, with 2x multi-sampling anti-aliasing. This is up against native 720p on the original PlayStation 3 version, again with the same 2x level of MSAA.

I'm so sad now.

Maybe I should retry playing one of the older ones? If only I knew which ones are the best.

Yeah I get you. But the proof to his statements that he provided throughout the videos was more than enough to know I do not want this game. But if you still want it, glad for you mate.

Just because critics say it's good, doesn't mean that it actually is. There are quite a few games out there that had their dick sucked dry by big game reviewers.

Bro, how shallow are you? You will buy the game just because of the visuals and the name?

I wouldn't keep my hopes too high if I were you. Don't get me wrong, I love Kingdom Hearts to death and I would love to have a similar type Final Fantasy game. But the way Square has been treating their games for the last few years is just insulting.

What part of X-2 made it better than X? It felt like a punch in the face to me. :\