Final Fantasy XIII Impressions

magus113 · 03-14-2010, 12:36 AM

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.

Typhoid · 03-14-2010, 04:23 AM

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.

magus113 · 03-14-2010, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

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.

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.