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Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:45 am
by Rubix
Fair enough, I am levelling up like crazy now. All my characters have now mastered 4 Paradigms's each and have now started their 5th.
100,000 Gill short of 2,000,000 which I need to buy a Trapezohedrons to upgrade my weapon to it's final tier
To do the Trapezohedrons trick I would need to gain a further 1,500,000 Gil. Those massive Turtles sometimes drop items which you can sale for 150,000 Gil and each kill gains you 80,000 CP (hopefully they will drop a Trapezohedron which has a 1% drop rate)
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:47 am
by gamerforever
I have a confession to make, I found the ending too hard, so I gave up after multiple tries and watched the ending on Youtube!
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:48 am
by Rubix
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:54 am
by gamerforever
Yeah, well I gave up on the previous games just after the opening video, so I think I did well!
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:16 am
by Drej
Rubix78 wrote:Fair enough, I am levelling up like crazy now. All my characters have now mastered 4 Paradigms's each and have now started their 5th.
100,000 Gill short of 2,000,000 which I need to buy a Trapezohedrons to upgrade my weapon to it's final tier
To do the Trapezohedrons trick I would need to gain a further 1,500,000 Gil. Those massive Turtles sometimes drop items which you can sale for 150,000 Gil and each kill gains you 80,000 CP (hopefully they will drop a Trapezohedron which has a 1% drop rate)
If I understand right then, it seems a bit impossible to go into the final battles with my ultimate weapons
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:21 am
by Rubix
Drej wrote:Rubix78 wrote:Fair enough, I am levelling up like crazy now. All my characters have now mastered 4 Paradigms's each and have now started their 5th.
100,000 Gill short of 2,000,000 which I need to buy a Trapezohedrons to upgrade my weapon to it's final tier
To do the Trapezohedrons trick I would need to gain a further 1,500,000 Gil. Those massive Turtles sometimes drop items which you can sale for 150,000 Gil and each kill gains you 80,000 CP (hopefully they will drop a Trapezohedron which has a 1% drop rate)
If I understand right then, it seems a bit impossible to go into the final battles with my ultimate weapons
Ultimate weapons have 3 tiers. An average weapon needs 3,500,000 gil spent on it
When I completed the game my weapons were only tier 1
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:57 am
by Drej
Rubix78 wrote:Drej wrote:Rubix78 wrote:Fair enough, I am levelling up like crazy now. All my characters have now mastered 4 Paradigms's each and have now started their 5th.
100,000 Gill short of 2,000,000 which I need to buy a Trapezohedrons to upgrade my weapon to it's final tier
To do the Trapezohedrons trick I would need to gain a further 1,500,000 Gil. Those massive Turtles sometimes drop items which you can sale for 150,000 Gil and each kill gains you 80,000 CP (hopefully they will drop a Trapezohedron which has a 1% drop rate)
If I understand right then, it seems a bit impossible to go into the final battles with my ultimate weapons
Ultimate weapons have 3 tiers. An average weapon needs 3,500,000 gil spent on it
When I completed the game my weapons were only tier 1
I see.....
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:09 am
by Rubix
Last time I checked I was on 70 hours, i should be 80+ now
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:39 am
by Rex Kramer
Lucien wrote:A question for a veteran plzzzzs.
I've had pretty much the same weapons since the game started. Lightning's is now at its maximum so... what do I do now? And is using the same old weapons approach a good idea? ... they've always been superior to any new ones I've found, and easier to upgrade too.
Once a weapon get to the star level then you need to use a transformation catalyst to upgrade it to the next form (off the top of my head you need Perovskite for Lightnings starting weapon).
With regards weapons.
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:03 am
by Drej
Lucien wrote:Thanks for that.
I've a few weapons at star level now but since the weapons seem to get weaker when upgraded, I'm still sticking with the weapons I've had since day 1... [I know they no doubt become stronger over time when upgraded, but I'll need a lot of materials before I do that]
I'm a bit into chapter ten now, just fought my first boss where I could choose my entire team freely... wow, what a difference. 25ish hours though before the battling gets really good? REALLY?
Oh well... good times from now on hopefully!
I already spent about 15 hours if not more just fooling around in Gran Pulse (i.e. chapter 11) doing hunt missions, grinding out and just exploring this huge huge place.... it makes all the other hours running through corridors pressing autobattle seem worth it
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:24 pm
by Cyburn2
Seem to be on the final bosses now, then I can finally put this game to rest
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:47 am
by Drej
damn those strawberry floating giant turtle things to hell I say.... Killed about 10 of them and not even a damn trapez-orwhateveritscalled-odon drop... actually most of them didnt even drop a single thing!!
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:43 pm
by Photek
I feel the opposite Lucien, although I haven't progressed far into Tales yet!
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:58 pm
by LightSamus
Obligatory first post in thread ahoy:
Finished FF ages ago now but I still keep meaning to go back and mop up the last few achievements. Got all except "all treasures", "fully levelled up" and "5* the mark missions". I was going through the mark missions slowly but it just sort of faded away.
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:32 pm
by Cyburn2
Finally completed the story nearly 50 hours spent get try and get some of the master skill achievements
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:37 pm
by Fargo
Been playing alot of FF lately (VII,IX) so I decided to go back to XIII today.
What the strawberry float where they thinking, coming from these huge open worlds (ON THE strawberry floating PS1) to a corridor crawler (ON A strawberry floating PS3)
I like Lightening and I really tried to like the game but I just can't do it, life is to short. Also the battle system just doesn't agree with me, I can't even beat Odin.
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:43 pm
by Fargo
Actually strawberry float it could anyone point me in the direction of a good battle tutorial for the game ?
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:39 pm
by Drej
Fargo wrote:Actually strawberry float it could anyone point in the direction of a good battle tutorial for the game ?
Youtube is usually your friend in these cases... How far in are you? It took me approx 2--25hours to reach gran pulse and last i played the game I had over 80 hours on it... Unlocking Granpulse is like unlocking a different game... A shame that the whole game was not as open ended as this, considering the technology
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:01 pm
by Diceman
Thought I'd pop in here for a change and a read, then I wondered when I actually last played this. So I checked...
According to Xbox.com, it was the 25th March 2010, when I finished Chapter 4.
I've put on average 200 hours into every FF since VII, so that's a pretty damning piece of evidence that I must have been really turned off by XIII. I'll have to force myself to finish it though at some point, just to say I have.
Re: Final Fantasy XIII
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:04 pm
by Christopher
Diceman wrote:Thought I'd pop in here for a change and a read, then I wondered when I actually last played this. So I checked...
According to Xbox.com, it was the 25th March 2010, when I finished Chapter 4.
I've put on average 200 hours into every FF since VII, so that's a pretty damning piece of evidence that I must have been really turned off by XIII. I'll have to force myself to finish it though at some point, just to say I have.
It's the first FF I haven't finished. I even finished FFII on PSP, which isn't a very good game
FFXIII has some great ideas, it looks amazing, but takes far too long to get going.
