Final Fantasy 13 on STEAM

[blake0812]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/292120


IT'S HAPPENING!!

 

[Eric1987]

Very nice! Release date is october 9th?

 

[Dahak]

Hmm wow that is kinda a surprise, never even heard that it was coming to pc

 

[PowerYoga]

color me surprised as well. Does this mean SE is going to start releasing the latest final fantasies on pc? Wouldn't mind trying lightning returns on the PC.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

now if these Squares would just start releasing FFs on PC to begin with I might escape needing a PS4.

 

[ImpulsE69]

It is $14.39 preorder on Humble Bundle site. I imagine that GMG will have some 20-25% coupon before it comes out as well. Just an FYI. I was surpised to see it was set at such a low price. Heck even the FFVI that just got released on steam is $15.99

 

[Maximilian]

Is it like 7? Or as good as 7?

 

[lamedude]

IMO No. Battle system is great but no towns or anything besides admiring the environment to provide down time I just got burnt out. Upgrading equipment requires a lot of grinding since enemies drop mostly worthless crap instead of $.

 

[escrow4]

I never got Final Fantasy. Random battles drove me up the wall. I gave it a scattered shot across a number of them and pffft.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Out of all FF games, they choose the shittiest one. Oh well, guess its a start.

 

[ImpulsE69]

What do you mean? The redone 3,4 and 7,8 (not redone) are on Steam already. I admit, I'm not that interested in playing 13 due to it pretty much being panned by everybody, but I'll probably grab it during a Steam sale.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Called it: GMG has it on their site for $14.39 and a 20% coupon brings it to $11.52 (validated code works). Good price if anyone is interested in this.

 

[PowerYoga]

Is it like 7? Or as good as 7?

no. It's more like call of duty than anything else. Straight corridors, boring flat characters and absurdly annoying voice acting. No open world. Dumb story. Mash A (or X) until you beat the game. I hated 13 actually, just surprised that they brought it out on the PC. I played 13-2 and it was better and I heard good things about lightning returns.

 

[pontifex]

8 was the last one I finished, played 9 and 10 but never finished. Playedd 11 for a bit but overall didn't care for it. never played 13, and played 14 for a little while but got bored.

 

[VashHT]

Out of all FF games, they choose the shittiest one. Oh well, guess its a start.

Well they released 4(2) as well a few days ago so that's pretty nice, personally I haven't played 13 but it's nice to see big console companies starting to release their big titles on PC.

 

[El Guaraguao]

no. It's more like call of duty than anything else. Straight corridors, boring flat characters and absurdly annoying voice acting. No open world. Dumb story. Mash A (or X) until you beat the game. I hated 13 actually, just surprised that they brought it out on the PC. I played 13-2 and it was better and I heard good things about lightning returns.

I would like to add to this.

My main gripe with FF13 is the fact that you get your characters powers get limited. Kinda like a level cap. You can grind for all the CP you want, but in order to get to the next level, you have to beat the next boss. Sucks when you get stuck on a difficult boss (cough, bart)

I remember in previous FF games if you came across a difficult boss, all you had to do was go back to the main world, grind for exp, and go back and shit all over that boss.

I want to like FF13 so bad, but its hard to do. Ive had the PS3 version for years now and barely got 10 hours in it. I recently installed a GBA emulator on my phone with FFVI Advance and racked up about 40 ish hours on it, in the matter of about 2 months.

 

[PowerYoga]

It's ok, you're not missing much. I found it weird they made 2 sequels for it when it received mediocre to terrible reviews. FF13-2 had so many reused resources (set in the same world and all) I can't help but feel they're milking the sequels because it's cheaper to do than a completely new game.

 

[HeXen]

LOL.

 

[sweenish]

It's ok, you're not missing much. I found it weird they made 2 sequels for it when it received mediocre to terrible reviews. FF13-2 had so many reused resources (set in the same world and all) I can't help but feel they're milking the sequels because it's cheaper to do than a completely new game.

Reviews =! sales

 

[shortylickens]

They are trying too hard to appeal to the Japanese Emo crowd.

I think I can safely skip it.

 

[Dahak]

What do you mean? The redone 3,4

Apparently based on the steam reviews and i read elsewhere, for the life of me now cant remember where, that 3 and 4 are ports of the android ports of the DS remakes.

Which threw me off, if they are going to port it why not port a better version of it and not a port of a port. Now I wish i could remember the "optimal" version of FF4 was, seeing as it was done like 4 times I believe

 

[ImpulsE69]

Apparently based on the steam reviews and i read elsewhere, for the life of me now cant remember where, that 3 and 4 are ports of the android ports of the DS remakes.

Which threw me off, if they are going to port it why not port a better version of it and not a port of a port. Now I wish i could remember the "optimal" version of FF4 was, seeing as it was done like 4 times I believe

Well, actually depending on your opinion, the ports are the best versions because they were redone completely in 3D. There was the PSX origin versions, but they were still the old 2D just with some CGI intros added. There is a "hard" version of 4 that was released as well, but I think that is still the DS/Android version.

 

[sweenish]

The "hard" version is the original Japanese version.

FF2 was censored and made easier when it was released in the US.

And the GBA version is the "best" version, in my opinion. Original gameplay and difficulty of Japanese release, and a slightly tweaked translation to the original US script. The extras don't add or subtract from the main game.

 

[Mopetar]

Is it like 7? Or as good as 7?

Not really and in my opinion, no. It looks kind of pretty though.

 

[ImpulsE69]

The "hard" version is the original Japanese version.

FF2 was censored and made easier when it was released in the US.

And the GBA version is the "best" version, in my opinion. Original gameplay and difficulty of Japanese release, and a slightly tweaked translation to the original US script. The extras don't add or subtract from the main game.

Yea that is the one I was thinking of. I haven't actually played it. I am not sure if the remakes were of that version or the original US version.