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    More Images From Final Fantasy XIII

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    Image of Random J Random J
    02:23 PM

    In reply to Final Fantasy XIII Impressions: Looking For XII
    I was not a fan on Final Fantasy XII. I thought the game was pretty whack. But I did like the battle system. It was nice to have an FF game feature something new. Even though, once you hit a certain level and set up your Gambits well enough - you didn't even need to be holding the controller during battles. I don't think I had to step in once during the final boss battle. The battles not interrupting the game play got a thumbs up from me. By IX, I got sick of wandering around and having the screen break / dissapear in a swirl of light / dissolve - and then a battle starting.

    XIII's battle system looks like it shares a lot in common with X-2's, with a little bit of X's. Looks interesting.

    Really can't wait to play this game.
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    Image of Random J Random J
    02:21 PM

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    Cactuar now has a little Cactuar bitch with a flower to pluck! Awwww... *wipes tear from eye*

    I wonder if Jumbo Cactuar will make it in the game as an Eidolon...
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    Image of Jonn Jonn
    11/19/09

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    Jumbo Cactuar,

    It's staring at me. At my soul.
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    Image of PhatsMahoney PhatsMahoney
    11/19/09

    In reply to More Images From Final Fantasy XIII
    The fact that her name is Lightning is still something that I'm having a hard time swallowing.
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    Image of Suzaku Suzaku
    11/19/09

    @PhatsMahoney: It's not her real name. It's a codename.

    This has been stated thousands of times.
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    PhatsMahoney promoted this comment Suzaku was starred Suzaku was unstarred
    Image of PhatsMahoney PhatsMahoney
    11/19/09

    @Suzaku: thanks for 8 different people telling me its a code name, I didn't believe the first 5. Doesn't make the name any less awkward.
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    Image of zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ
    11/19/09

    In reply to More Images From Final Fantasy XIII
    "instead of constantly bitching about colored arching lines traveling between the characters and their enemies."

    THIS. i hated that shit with a passion myself. it almost made the game feel less natural and more mechanical.
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    Image of Ueziel Ueziel
    11/19/09

    @zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ: You could turn that off you know.
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    zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ promoted this comment Ueziel was starred Ueziel was unstarred
    Image of SedaKhold SedaKhold
    11/19/09

    @zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ: There was an option to get rid of those lines
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    zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ promoted this comment SedaKhold was starred SedaKhold was unstarred
    Image of Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg
    11/19/09

    In reply to More Images From Final Fantasy XIII
    Mmmm, Fang, Snow and Lightning....

    What? I'm not thinking anything dirty! I just...like them.

    :cough:
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    Image of mr_godot mr_godot
    11/19/09

    @Rachel Fogg: I willfully admit that Lightning is already the subject of fantasies.

    LET THE INNUENDO THREAD BEGIN
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    Image of ibunkun ibunkun
    11/19/09

    @mr_godot: yeah she is kind of cute °-°" . add some lulu in there with a bit quistis and whipped cream,cheetos, Castroil 0W40 motoroil, Black&Decker Waxer..... Carbonite .'THIS is tsundere paradise i think .
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    mr_godot promoted this comment ibunkun was starred ibunkun was unstarred
    Image of mr_godot mr_godot
    11/19/09

    @ibunkun: ...tsundere? They aren't tsunderes. Maybe Lulu, but we don't know enough about Lightning and Quistis definitely isn't.
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    Image of ibunkun ibunkun
    11/19/09

    @mr_godot: i know it doesnt fit exactly but quistis looks like ^-^ still one of the top looking females in FF to me. edea got something to
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    Image of mr_godot mr_godot
    11/19/09

    @ibunkun: Quistis was probably one of Squaresoft's more blatant pockets of fan service. She was a sexy schoolteacher with glasses and a whip who had a crush on the main character and was inexplicably only a year older than him.

    I mean, come on.

    I still love Quisty dearly, though.
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    Image of ibunkun ibunkun
    11/19/09

    @mr_godot: women mature earlier than men ^ - ~ that strict appearence made her great. lightning has a determined strict appearence to, thats why she reminds me of quistis and lulu....not really the looks of her
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    Image of Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do... Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...
    11/19/09

    In reply to More Images From Final Fantasy XIII
    Damn I still need to beat FF12
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    Image of 7ucky 7ucky
    11/19/09

    @Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...: Hahaha, you and everyone else. Where'd you leave off? It's been over a year, but I still vividly remember how my party is upper 60s near the top of Pharos. Sooo clooose!
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    Image of Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do... Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...
    11/19/09

    @7ucky: I'm still in the sewers. :(

    #speakup
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    Image of mr_godot mr_godot
    11/19/09

    @Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...: No, no. You really don't.
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    Edited by mr_godot at 11/19/09 1:13 PM mr_godot was starred mr_godot was unstarred
    Image of WhiteMåge WhiteMåge
    11/19/09

    In reply to More Images From Final Fantasy XIII
    I really like that place in the first shot because I always think it's the calm lands.

    ...500 years after Final Fantasy X, the now-prominent(on another planet) Shinra corporation has broken off into another division with similar twisted goals back in Spira...
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    Image of Torusan Torusan
    11/19/09

    In reply to More Images From Final Fantasy XIII
    Excited. Though, I'm not digging the onscreen text and HUD layout so much. It's kinda... noisy. I expect options.
     Reply
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    Image of deetwo deetwo
    11/19/09

    @Torusan: Looks like the same HUD display that's been in final fantasy for years.
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    Image of Torusan Torusan
    11/19/09

    @deetwo: You should take a look at the release date announcement trailer. It looks worse.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/19/09

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    YES!
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    Image of MrGOH MrGOH
    11/19/09

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    I smiled. Cactuar is one of the very few familiar things in FFXIII for us old time FF vets to hold onto amid a sea of effeminate, glitzy weirdness.

    I was planning on getting FFXIII anyway, however.
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    Image of iamspoo iamspoo
    11/19/09

    @MrGOH: What about Cid, Biggs (Vicks) and Wedge, Moogles, Chococbos, Malboros, Tonberries, Goblins/Imps, Bombs, Bahamut, Shiva, Ifrit, and so on?

    IMO Final Fantasy has many familiar things and that is part of the reason why I love the series.
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    MrGOH promoted this comment Edited by iamspoo at 11/19/09 4:58 AM iamspoo was starred iamspoo was unstarred
    Image of MrGOH MrGOH
    11/19/09

    @iamspoo: I was commenting on the visual style, not the names.
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    Image of lostbizzo lostbizzo
    11/19/09

    @MrGOH: Check out the line drawings for ffiv, ffv, and ffvi; all very effeminate.
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    Good, good.
    At least -they- don't look inbred, unlike a certain bird species...
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    Image of NightMystic NightMystic
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    NO, NO.

    I LEFT YOU BACK IN FF8.

    I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN =(
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    Image of Rebochan Rebochan
    11/18/09

    @NightMystic: You didn't see them in X?
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    Image of NightMystic NightMystic
    11/18/09

    @Rebochan: I might have but I don't want recall them. All i remember is being instantly killed by a damn cactus all the time.

    ....gonna turn you into juice I swear it.

    #speakup
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    Image of Antiterra Antiterra
    11/19/09

    @NightMystic: Oh yeah, you go juice that mutha'ucka, it's gonna wake up in a smoothie! :)
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    Image of Aeros Aeros
    11/19/09

    @NightMystic: how did you get killed by CACTUARS in ff8?

    or do you mean jumbo cactuar and its 10k needles attack?
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    Image of NightMystic NightMystic
    11/19/09

    @Aeros: It was the Jumbo Cactuar. The mini ones always ran away.

    #speakup
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    Image of Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    I just realized the key to the left of my Enter key on my keyboard looks like this guys face if he was surprised.
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    11/18/09

    @Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh: Pics or it didn't happen.

    (mine looks pretty standard, even when I apply imagination)
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    Image of Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh
    11/18/09

    @Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.: It's this key here"

    "
    '
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    Image of Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.
    11/18/09

    @Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh: oh, my apostrophe isn't lined up with the quotation mark.
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    Image of GunSilence GunSilence
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hello Final Fantasy XIII's Cactuar
    Nobody mentioned that this thing looks like Togemon from Digimon ( I can't believe I still remember that LOL) [www.digimon-paradijs.nl]
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    Image of Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg
    11/18/09

    @GunSilence:

    I believe...and I could be wrong here...that Cactaur precede Digimon by like...8 years?

    :heads to Wikipedia: BRB.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/18/09

    @Rachel Fogg:
    Digimon - 1999
    Cactuar - FFVI - 1994
    FFVII for the 3d one - 1997
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    Image of MrBounce MrBounce
    11/18/09

    @GunSilence: Other way around, Sabotenders / Cactuar first appeared in FFVI which predates even the first Digimon "tamagotchi-type" toy (which is how the anime started).
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    Image of Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg
    11/18/09

    @deanbmmv:

    Thank you! I looked on Wiki and nothing.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/18/09

    @Rachel Fogg: I guess you looked on the lame 'wiki-pedia'
    what you want is 'wiki-a'
    [finalfantasy.wikia.com]

    Google: 'pop cultural thing' + wikia = a better and more specific wiki.

    Wikia's are great fro game guides, especially RPG ones.
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    Image of Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg
    11/18/09

    @deanbmmv:

    OH! I didn't even know there was a different Wiki thing...

    :bookmarked:

    Thanks!
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/18/09

    @Rachel Fogg:
    [gaming.wikia.com]
    Many more where that came from.
    Like there can be insane amount of info on them.
     Reply
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    Image of Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg
    11/18/09

    @deanbmmv:

    I honest to go never knew there was another Wiki thing. I've been wasting my time going to Wikipedia all these years.....

    Like I found me a Fire Emblem and Bleach Wika....I'm so happy now.
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    Image of chronomasakari chronomasakari
    11/18/09

    @Rachel Fogg: wikia's are typically made with fictional content in mind, so stuff like games and shows no detail is spared. Wikipedia tends to get mad if you have whole pages on a fictional character though and it gets slimmed down typically.
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    Rachel Fogg promoted this comment chronomasakari was starred chronomasakari was unstarred
    Image of Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg
    11/18/09

    @chronomasakari:

    Oh I see...so for the most...err...'trusted' source you should still look to Wikipedia?
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    Image of chronomasakari chronomasakari
    11/18/09

    @Rachel Fogg:
    Well you don't really care how trustworthy the source is for fictional content typically, some facts are typically embellished depending on the person writing them and things are written from sometimes less than a neutral perspective of other wiki's than wikipedia, but hey for games or anime people don't usually care. For games or anime and such you typically only go to wikipedia for general information about it, and stuff surrounding the production of it, for actual content information you're better off going to their popular wiki's.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/18/09

    @Rachel Fogg:
    So, I've just basically destroyed several days of your life then?

    Also Wikipedia tends to deal with factual stuff. So say an article on Cloud won't give you much beyond him being in the game.
    But an article on Wikia will give you a full backstory, info on what swords he'd use, his stylist, birth sign, etc etc.

    (shit wrong example really.. errm..)

    Auron, gets a small bit on a list of sub characters in Wikipeida, but his own full article on Wikia.
    [en.wikipedia.org]
    [finalfantasy.wikia.com]
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    Image of Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg
    11/18/09

    @deanbmmv, chronomaskari,wirbelwind:

    OH that makes so much more sense now...

    Wikipedia=For folks who don't really give a damn about every facet of game/anime whatevers.

    Wikia=For folks who want it all.

    And I think I know all there is to Cloud (or as I affectionately call him 'Mister Broody Boots') but at least now I know that I can go on a site and spend at least 12 hours of my life reading about everything related to him in any fashion whatsoever.

    Yeah, thanks y'all....now I know what to read at work and at home...^-^
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    Image of gundaman gundaman
    11/19/09

    @GunSilence: OMG 5000... I was just about to post that! Just add some punching gloves and that's him... or her (I think he became a fairymon or something later on).
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