Does anyone know how the leveling system in this game even works?
and i there any point in fighting monsters now that you don;t get experience?

Soo...

Linear paths
No exploration (towns etc)
Menu based interactions
Fights that don't give experience

They might as well have made "Final Fantasy XIII: The book"

man idk about you guys but this game looks sweet, I'm so stoked.  ​

swordofkings128 il take it your joking/being sarcastic though if this game does actually play really well i will buy a playstation 3 several months after just to get it.

(the only upcoming games im awaiting are KH:BBS and Tales Of Graces)

there is stats but only HP Strength and Magic I think!

so like apparently there are no level ups and you get fully recovered after every battle? is there even any stat/character micromanagement and if so is there even a point if you get fully healed after every battle? someone wanna tell me why they even bothered making this an rpg? it seems more like it wants to be an adventure game but with a shitty rpg battle system tacked on almost as an afterthought.

Ughh get out of here, this is more Final FUCKEDUPsy than anything else. It's like the creators gave everything that could be wrong, and has so far led us to believe us that it's legitimately a part of the game for a cruel joke. But, unforunately this isn't a joke, it's a scary reality in which FF has just turned to shit in order to appease masses who gravitate towards playing the game on their 50" 1080p with cutting edge technology rather than focusing on the finer points of RPG stardom. Square just no longer cares about the quality of the games they pump out, and their creations are becoming more and more of a cookie-cutter modern day RPG than a game which is worthy to be a part of the series.

What really irks me is the question that I really want to be answered "What is running through the game developers heads when they go through with a game like this?" This is an indie game making community of all places and I see the standards set higher than this more often than you would like to think. Do they honestly not notice the griping linearity, the lack of quality/innovative systems, the features which should be there but clearly aren't? In some areas of the game they clearly hand you a win, and in others they really make you ask yourself "Why, god no this is a horrible idea" and may amp up the difficulty but for all the wrong reasons(e.g. one character dying leads to the demise of the entire party - in other words its game over.)

I truly think that the quality of the Final Fantasy games was at it's peak at FFVI-FFVI then slowly descended, with each game in the series that is made. The quality has dwindled steadily with each subsequent game in the series. In fact, I think that FFX was the last FF that I was able to stomach, with it's sequel(FFX-II) Being an absolute abomination. And despite the general high appraisal of FFXII, I wasn't able to stand it for very long. Although I cant give you any reasons now seeing as how I never gave it the light of day after a few hours, I can easily pick out each aspect of FFXIII that has led me feeling disgusted to where the series has turned.

towns are the standard in these games I guess? *shrug*

You sir, are ridiculously stupid. "towns are standard in these game *shrug*" stop being an ass. Give ANY rpg where towns weren't "standard". Apart from Vagrant Story, (even that had towns, just no one living in em).

You sir, are ridiculously stupid. "towns are standard in these game *shrug*" stop being an ass. Give ANY rpg where towns weren't "standard". Apart from Vagrant Story, (even that had towns, just no one living in em).

Xenosaga? Maybe Xenogears(never played it)? The point is although a game which lacks towns take away a staple of many RPGs, you really sap away something more in this context. Even having vendors on a space station doesnt qualify as towns, but they add that certain dynamic to the game which you dont get from stuffing it all at a save point. Honestly, I dont want to seem like im blowing this out of proportion, but go and reread Drule's post to anyone who hasnt already. His idea was pretty much spot on.

Xenogears had towns and even Xenosaga did. Though if it didn't, it would make sense since it was all based onboard a SHIP half the time.

Truth is FFXIII will be the most unique in the series........And in this case its not a good thing

swordofkings128 il take it your joking/being sarcastic though if this game does actually play really well i will buy a playstation 3 several months after just to get it.

dude no way, I'm totally stoked.

I can't believe I'm the only one looking forward to this, well actually I kind of can. all these complaints about being linear/no towns don't really bother me, it could be a different and enjoyable experience. we'll see how it works out once it's released here in March.

Square made a big mistake in this game.
All you do is FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT CUT SCENE!!!! rinse and repeat....
Square should know doing something for too long in an RPG will make it boring and repetitive.
In this case its the battle system,and while flashy these are the types of things that get repetitive so they should balance it out more like the previous final fantasy games.

Breath of Fir​ragon Quarter is a bad example because that game wasn't very liked.
+ that game was more like an arcade game...
e.g having a limit to win and its quite short 8 hours or so.So you don't really realize things like no towns etc.