Final Fantasy XIII-2

What, are you the new Jemery?

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Originally Posted by Opaque

I'd be fine with them using some of the locations again if they include actually paths and villages.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Where would they be if not towns?

Towns are a real thing that actually exists and finding them is not forced, which is why they are great.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

You didn't find the lack of towns and large maps an enormous step down from XII?

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Everyone else you talk to is in a hunting/fishing village, the mountain temple, bunny forest village, Rahbanaster or some other large capital. Name one important character that you didn't interact with in something that resembled a city or village.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Do you mean like the one Warchief who you see fighting on monster and then all of your conversations take place in his village?

Aside from some random no name moogles, a guard that is hurt and gives you a chocobo to rent in exchange for a potion and the people that join your party almost all NPC interaction is done in towns.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

I said taking the great towns from XII out was a step down, but I never said it was the only step down.

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This is how much you've said about towns in this thread.

Your point?

Towns aren't necessary to make a good rpg. There are npc's in Final Fantasy XII that are outside of towns and it's pretty cool when you run into them. There are npc's in Final Fantasy XIII but they're dull. Interesting npc's don't need towns to exist. If there was an rpg with no towns, i would like it if there were interesting npc's, unlike those in Final Fantasy XIII who were just character design rejects.
That's all.

lol at Op arguing with Finch. Silly Op, Finch is a fancy lad. His comments are like 50% jest.

but he is right. RPGs don't need towns to be good. weren't there like only two or three in Panzar Dragoon Saga? And weren't they almost completely forgettable?

having said that, I like towns. I like exploring them. Exploration is one of my favorite things about rpgs. I've played rpgs with bland generic battle systems just because the world was so interesting to explore. Wish more rpgs had huge towns. I wish a modern rpg would finally realize a full sized city or town. Instead of either small villages, or letting you only travel within 2 city blocks of a major city.

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Originally Posted by Finch

No, shut up. No one agrees with you. Towns are great and all, but the lack of them isn't what made Final Fantasy XIII less than awesome. It was pure, stupid ass storyline with stupid ass characters and the no exaggeration or even trying to cover it up walking around in straight fucking lines.

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What killed it for me was that the combat was XII on PCP and autopilot. Sped way up, to the point that the only real strategy was a broad one, being sure you had the right job combinations pre-equipped before a fight, and hitting 'auto' every five seconds. It was interesting in its own way, but...guh. After XII, that was a step down.

Hitting "Auto" every five seconds is of course much less fun than hitting "Attack" every five seconds like in FF1-10.

This is the way it has always been. Straight lines and rote combat. World maps and NPC's aren't going to change that.

And I never used the Auto thing anyways. I mean yeah it was a huge step down from XII, because XII was fucking amazing.

I liked how as the combat became more difficult, it also became apparent that positioning was really important and yet you have no control over it.

Terrible game.