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If you stick to the given path and just follow that - then yes, you can just mash away most of the time given you level up accordingly to your mash-tactics.

However once you (This part doesnt need to be read to get what I'm saying)get to Pulse and feel like battling tough enemies - then good luck just mashing attacks. It takes actual strategy and timing, as well as a lot of shit inside your pants.

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Also I meant to address this ages ago, but forgot...

Why?

What does it matter if the game is 3 discs or 1 disc?

I'm confused? I mean other than for sheer laziness...

I guess you could lose a disc? However don't know why that would matter, because if you lost 1 disc in FFXIII 360 version, or you lost the 1 disc in the PS3 version, it still makes it unplayable lol.

Confused.

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Am I the only one who actually enjoyed changing discs during the FF Playstation days? It gave me a physical sense of accomplishment.

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well then you'll love ME2

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I switch between Relentless Assault, Combat Medic, and Bully. Synergist-Saboteur-Commando is a damn good combo. But there are others. You don't have to restrict yourself and many of the combos out there can still net you five stars. Plus, even with five stars you can still get terrible drops, or none at all.

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yeah but you really don't get drops with below 3 stars, and 5 stars usually nets a rare drop for me.

Also I finally upgraded my weapons during chapter 11, and figured out the most cost effective way to do so thus far in the game with the spoils available to me. So I max upgraded my best weapons, and lol did the game get hella easy. Upgrading essentially doubled my damage output (In the case of Snow it almost tripled it.)

Also, Exp multipliers for weapons and accessories don't go over x3 btw.

I spent about 2 and a half hours messing around with different stuff, taking notes and reloading the game. So if anyone wants to know anything, I guess ask, and I'll tell you if I know.

No I totally enjoy it. In fact I haven't had to do it since skies of arcadia on the gamecube, so when I did it with FF13 I was pretty pumped. Brings back old memories *tear*

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The last RPG that's been released recently that I've had to do disc swapping for was Lost Odyssey and that was a pretty nice feeling. I have FF8 from the PSN, so I have the discs there but there's no physical switching. Still feels like a milestone though.

I really want to play this, but something about it makes me feel like I'm just not gonna like it. I don't know if I'm gonna like, rent it or something to try it out like I did with Demon's Souls (which despite it's difficulty is pretty awesome). I've heard more good than bad, but there's something about it that I just don't feel right about and I can't put my finger on it.

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I've never liked disc switching, really. I mean it's sort of nostalgic, sure. But despite how obvious the storyline of (fictional game) may be, if you switch a disc in a 2 disc game, you know you're at least half way through. I prefer not knowing.

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That's not always the case necessarily. The older FF games had most of the content on the first few discs and the last one was all end-game stuff. So there's really nothing else to do besides finish the game on the last disc. I think Xenogears was one of those games that had an assload of content on it from either disc.

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Sheer and utter laziness honestly.
If I'm playing a game, I hate having to switch discs, and nothing ever does it seamlessly.

Don't remind me, and for the life of me, I still can't figure out what the hell they did with the discs, you needed it for the beginning, and then could use the second disc for most of the middle, but then needed the first for like the end. :lol:

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What FF games have always done it pretty well.

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I agree. Disc changes in 7 through 9 always seemed quite fitting to me.

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Err actually I don't think I've ever seen a bad disc change in any game really. Pretty much not the hardest thing to do. Oh hey, you just finished a big part of the game, would you like to save? Yes... "Ok, please switch to disc #x, kthnx, resume play"

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The disc changing in Mass Effect 2 is retardediculous.

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The "disk change" in MGS4 was pretty great.