Final Fantasy XIII-2 Debuts to Lackluster Sales

[The Rockerfly]

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For some reason, I read this headline, smiled, and sighed with relief.

I think I'm a bad person. All I could think was YEAH FUCK YOU FINAL FANTASY XIII. God I hated FFXIII. I'm so happy to see it failing. I have never been this vindictive with any game series, ever. Even if Call of Duty - a series I despise - announced it sold badly, I'd feel slightly let down, and sorry for the devs.

This news? This news cheered me up...

...Are you serious?

Because they made a mistake, they deserve to fail forever? I think you're right about yourself.

I mean, really, this is type of thing I'd expect to read on Youtube.

It's not been one mistake, these are their recent mistakes:
XIII
XII
The online MMOs
the massive disappointment
The teasing of FF7 remake
within each of those major bad decisions lies hundreds of small mistakes. For example, gameplay, towns, music, graphic, structure, combat system, characters, story, menu system, weapon system, magic system, art design, clothing, settings etc. Within each those are even deeper decisions that made the recent games bad and I could go on for a massive wall of text about this but I've made my point, there's lots of awful decisions and reasons square enix needs to fail

 

[zombieshark6666]

It looks like they did a lot of work, but I don't want to play through 13 just to play this one. I kinda hate the setting, the gameplay and the characters, to be honest.

Bring back Ivalice (and please don't rape it).

 

[Suave Charlie]

FF13 wasn't all bad, it was bearable. Which I know isn't exactly what they'd put on the box, "Most mediocre FF adventure yet! You may or may not get bored!"
But it just didn't capture me like ff9 & 10 did. Now those were real games. Less corridor lark, more likeable characters and more open worlds.

 

[Frostbyte666]

really not surprising but I lost interest after X which virtually killed my like of the series, that interest was finally stirred again with versus 13 but then they seem to be dragging their feet over that release. 13-2 has no interest to me whatsoever and after versus 13 is released I will wait a few weeks to see what people thought before I buy/if I buy it.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

You know it's bad when your shitty androgynous soap opera sells poorly in Japan.

What happened Squeenix? You used to be cool.

 

[Gizmo1990]

While I am glad that some people liked Ff 13 I hated it. I Loved 7,8,9 and 10 (yes I liked 8 get over it). They are among my favorite games ever. 10-2 sucked in every way but one. I can forgive the crapy story and all that YRP crap for one reason. It had the cheesey happy ending where Tidus come back from the dead or dream world or whatever and i liked it. I cannot comment on 11 as I do not play online games.

12 was return of the jedi done badly (It had a fucking death star!).

13 was just all bad all the time. It looked good but the rest was bad. bad story, worse gameplay, bad music. But the thing that was worst about it was the characters. I have never wanted a kid to die in a book, movie or game more than I have wanted Hope to die. And then there is Snow. He is a super douche. The biggist douche in the history of doushe land. he is the king of douche land. The single biggist Douche in the universe. If you took the biggist douche you could find, cloned them and then combined them to make a super, mega douche it would only be a tenth of how much of a douche Snow is.

I consider myself a big FF fan but I cannot forgive 13 and so I will not be buying 13-2. SQ seem to have made the same mistake that fans of 13 make when trying to defend it. They mistook salse with popularity. Alot of people bought FF 13. And most of them hated it.

Verses is the last chance for the series. it looks good but then so did 13. If they do not fuck it up and actually release it instead of FF 13-2.5 then it could bring the series back but if they do fuck it up or never release it then I will just have to come to terms with the fact that one of my favorite series is now a hot pool of badger piss.

 

[DanielBrown]

I had no clue that this game was out.
Don't really care either. I won't pick up unless I hear really... REALLY good things about it and find it at a very low price.
Fuck you, Square Enix. Haven't played a Final Fantasy game I enjoyed since FFX.

For those hating on FFX; yes, it was weak in many ways, but it was my first PS2 game so I was totally blown away by the voices and graphics. Nostalgia helps a lot.
I still fucking hated Tidus though.

 

[Mortuorum]

After totally knifing their fanbase in the back then kicking them in the gutter to bleed after final fantasy 14, WHAT DO THEY EXPECT!?!

True that. There was a time when an announcement of a new Final Fantasy game was for me an occasion for unalloyed glee. Now, it barely warrants a yawn.

To be fair, the last time I was trusy excited for any JRPG was back in the Dreamcast era.

 

[ShadowKatt]

While the behemoth-sized series does not appear to be in any real danger

Oh no, I dare contest that and say that it doesn't go far enough. This could very well spell a LOT of trouble for Square-Enix as a whole, and trouble they very much deserve.

They're a corperation, and they have to turn a profit in order to keep going. 500,000 units might have covered their costs, ie, they earned back what they spent on it but that doesn't do ANYTHING to keep the lights on and the people employed. No, this is bad for Squeenix, and I love it.

Square-Enix has becme one of the worst game developers in existance. I don't know when it happened, but somewhere they made the transition from making quality games to taking the Activision route and pumping out as much shit as they could, and now those chickens have come home to roost. This failure WILL hit them hard and where it hurts, and I can only hope that they come away from this changed. Or else I will wait with excited anticipation to watch this company fold. I've already boycotted Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts(Which isn't hard since they haven't released a real, full KH game in almost a decade), and anything else they've slapped their name on which right now is a considerable amount seeing as how Square-Enix has been aquiring IPs like a desperate hooker collects various diseases. And now it's time for Squeenix to go lie down in a gutter somewhere and die.

 

[digital warrior]

I mean I'm a huge fan of their old games, chrono trigger, ff6, ff7, ff9, even chrono cross, All great games.

I like your game selection... but I think I'd add ff5 to the list.

I'm particularly happy that 8 is not mentioned.

I was just generalizing, would add 5 and 4 to the list, while not the best of the series they are still great rpg's of that era. Well lets not get into 8 sucked. I'd give reasons why but I don't have to The Spoony One already did it for me. http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/04/04/final-fantasy-viii-review-part-1/

 

[Palademon]

Well I'm going to get it. Unlocking new times and changing events sounds like fun.
And the time I stopped playing FFXIII was when in the part it suddenly becomes a big area, my guide recommended backtracking for crystarium points and I thought "I'll do it later".

 

[Von Dean]

No surprise that it didn't sell well on release,FFXIII was shite and that's pretty much all there is to it

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

For some reason, I read this headline, smiled, and sighed with relief.

I think I'm a bad person. All I could think was YEAH FUCK YOU FINAL FANTASY XIII. God I hated FFXIII. I'm so happy to see it failing. I have never been this vindictive with any game series, ever. Even if Call of Duty - a series I despise - announced it sold badly, I'd feel slightly let down, and sorry for the devs.

This news? This news cheered me up...

You aren't the only one, my friend. I was burned so badly by FFXIII. Only by getting it out of my house could I let the healing begin. Without hyperbole, it was a game that felt painful to play. And it's one of a few games I haven't finished, and likely never will.

OT: Not shocked by this news, mind you.

We should make a recovery/support group.

That sounds like a good idea. And I don't think there's much concern about going back to an abusive game like FF XIII

 

[The Funslinger]

For some reason, I read this headline, smiled, and sighed with relief.

I think I'm a bad person. All I could think was YEAH FUCK YOU FINAL FANTASY XIII. God I hated FFXIII. I'm so happy to see it failing. I have never been this vindictive with any game series, ever. Even if Call of Duty - a series I despise - announced it sold badly, I'd feel slightly let down, and sorry for the devs.

This news? This news cheered me up...

Probably because with Call of Duty, the samishness is what you expect from it. With this, it's a series that you loved going in a dumb direction answering the protests of the fanbase with nought but a smug middle finger?

 

[bakan]

After the first 10-15h XIII got better and I actually thought that is was overall pretty good for the slow start.

Final Fantasy Type-Zero was also fun on the PSP and what I saw of XIII-2 is that they fixed some of the bad points of XIII.

I'll get it after I played Ni No Kuni and finished Tales of Xillia/Skyrim - there are just too much RPG releases at the end of the year, that's probably also a major point why the sales are low.

 

[The Human Torch]

Considering how much fun my girlfriend got out of Final Fantasy XIII, I am definitely buying part 2 for her. She played almost all the FF's on PS1 and PS2 and has absolutely no issues with Final Fantasy XIII.
Never heard one complaint about the linearity, no sighs when it comes to the tutorial and she was watching every cut-scene without blinking/breathing.

This game has a far worse rep than it deserves, but, that's the way of the internet.

 

[Nemu]

Been playing FF games since they were on 8-bit, and tbh, they started to decline for me with VII. I enjoyed the game, but never revered it like other folks did, and I've found that with each subsequent game, I found (find) myself liking the series less and less. I still buy the games, because I WANT to love them (and I still regularly play the old games), but FF has just gone way too far from it's origins for me.

The fact that this sequel is failing isn't too surprising, since I didn't care for XIII, but it makes me lose a little more faith in the franchise.