I didn't say only FFXIII does this. I said other game I've seenOriginally Posted by darkshadow
Besides. I checked the list of achievements for Xbox. You can't get all the themes if you don't get all achievements. You can't get them in 50 hours, so I still stand on my position.
Ah whatever.
Huh? When did I mention ff13?
I just said that there are a number of games that unlock gamerpics/themes tied to achievements.
As in response to your: "No other game I've seen gives you themes for unlocking a trophy / achievement."
I want to play this game now but I'm a cheap ass and as a gamer on a budget, at $60 I feel like it's overpriced for a multiplatform game. I will wait for the greatest hits price drop or I will buy it used at GameStop at a reasonable price because Blu-Ray discs don't scratch anyway
OMFG! finished from chapter 9-11 (work stops me from playing video games), unlocked more crystarium and it cost too much, it went from 2000 cp to 7000, and from there 25 to like 30 thousand cp. And so many possibilities, the guide helps but jeeze and I only unlocked the sazh theme, I also got bahamut and alexander. I just wish they added towns or something....
No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you when he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher."
-Mazer Rackham
Im at 95% of Marks currently.
Managed to kill a Adamtortoise in just 6 seconds. Vanille's Death Ability is cheap sometimes. But its the fastest way to get CP (80,000 per battle) and Gil (Platinum Ingot sells for 150,000). Though I still haven't got a single Thrapezhadron (or whatever you spell it). The damn thing has a 1% drop rate... and you need 6... bleh. Or 1 and several million gil to multiply it via upgrade/dismatle.
I hate Gigantuar btw.
I got a Trapezohedron on my third Adamantoise. Lucky me
"Our hearts are full of memories but not all of them reflect the truth. The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember." 天の道を行き、全てを司る。これは僕の世界。
Damn... you really are lucky. I've killed about 30 of those and still not Trap.I got a Trapezohedron on my third Adamantoise. Lucky me
You can triplicate your original Trap by creating Vanille's Nirvana weapon (it would cost you 1.5million gil) and then dismanteling it. By dismanteling Nirvana you get 3 Traps.
I hear you get 3 traps for every Tier 3 weapon you dismantle, so I guess it wouldn't matter which person's weapon you got up there just to dismantle.
True enough. But it seems Nirvana is the cheapest to create... and that still is at least 1 and a half million gil.
Yup, must be right. I just got another one.
Edit: Make that 2.
Last edited by Psyke; Fri, 04-09-2010 at 12:00 AM.
"Our hearts are full of memories but not all of them reflect the truth. The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember." 天の道を行き、全てを司る。これは僕の世界。
Oh snap I wouldn't take that shit from Psyke.
Haven't played XIII yet but spent enough time on XII praying on rare drops to make the Tournesol.. your showboating is not appreciated!!
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Nah it's just my lucky day thats all. Though I did beat an Adamantortise in 14 seconds.
"Our hearts are full of memories but not all of them reflect the truth. The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember." 天の道を行き、全てを司る。これは僕の世界。
Man, fuck that sword. I remember spending hours killing wolves for one of the items that is require to make a PART of that sword.
Isn't Vanille great for those buggers? I don't have a screen to prove it, but I did kill the Adamtortoise from the Mark in 6 seconds.Nah it's just my lucky day thats all. Though I did beat an Adamantortise in 14 seconds.
And Im back to Adamtoise farming after being obliterated by the last 3 marks I haven't defeated. Only the last Ceith from the Titan circle, the Ceith that appears after killing the other Undying plus the Gigacactuar.
I really hate you right now Psyke... I've already completed the Crystarium and I still haven't got a single Trap...
Im missing Two Trophies for the Platinum. The 'All weapons and Accesory' one and the 'Heavyweight' one.
*sigh*
I switched to sazh summon+chain+blitz for my toise farming. 100% kill rate in a solid 2 minutes. Vanille's summon+death was getting me about a 65% kill rate, and the successes were averaging close to 2 minutes while it took about 2:20-2:30 to determine that a run had failed, dragging the average cycle with her out to about 9 minutes. Sazh+summon gets an average cycle in the 5ish minute rate, and is a little more engaging.
But yeah, the grinding gets dull pretty damned fast. I think I can cycle through maybe 6-8 toises in the sanctum area before I literally start falling asleep from boredom. The fact that they're basically the only way to get decent returns on gil drives me seriously nuts.
I use Vanille's bella wand for improved debuffing, along with Fang and Hope for Sab + Sab + Syn. I summon, immediately cancel it, and then get the buffs and debuffs in while casting Death. I'm surprised by the good rate I get, 3/4 times I'll succeed. I tried Vanille's ultimate weapon but I didn't even connect with death once.
I'm only level 5 in around 4 roles, a lot more to go for max levelling. All in all I got 3 traps from the adamantoises, and I dismantled one to triple it. Still need one more, but I'm low on gil (ingots ain't enough) and hence levelling weapons take a lot of time.
"Our hearts are full of memories but not all of them reflect the truth. The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember." 天の道を行き、全てを司る。これは僕の世界。
I used Vanille's Belladonna Wand as well. My party was Vanille + Fang + Sahz. Started with Sab + Sab + Syn until Sahz gave Haste to all the party and then switched to Sab + Sab + Sab.
Fang and Sahz also have the Random Instant Stagger (or whatever its called). In 4 out of 5 battles I manage to stagger the Adamtoise before it stands up (after the summon). One thing I noticed is that if the Stagger is 999.99 the Death is 100% effective.
In all... I think only 1 out of 10 Adamtoises survived me with this setup... and the battles didn't go over 1 minute 3 out of 5 times. The most time I spent was 2 minutes and in those cases I died.
Since I got Zero traps Im going to buy one and then dismantle to get 3. Since I only have 3 million gil I won't be able to repeat this for the rest so I'll try to get Traps from the Long Gui's... I just need to create several ultimate weapons to try a strategy I found on youtube. They have 5% drop rate of Traps which can be amplified to over 25% with the Collectors Catalog + 5 stars (damn it... Collectors doesn't stack and I had 3...) whereas the drop rate on Adamtoises doesn't raise over 5%.
Though when I return to get more Platinum Ingots I'll try and switch to Sahz's strategy just for the heck of it. That strategy was what got me a 5 star on the Gigantuar anyway. The green fucker gave me 4 trophies in 2 battles -> All B level Cieth, All Cieth, Gigantuar Himself and 5 Star on all Cieth. Yep... he was the last one I defeated.
I was just playing a few rounds when I failed to kill an adamantoise in 4 rounds. Was about to give up on my fifth when I did in in 1 minute, and whaddya know, I got my last trap
Maybe equipping all those catalogues really help.
"Our hearts are full of memories but not all of them reflect the truth. The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember." 天の道を行き、全てを司る。これは僕の世界。
The catalog ups the % of drop about 1.1% according to a guide I read. And it says that equipping more than 1 won't stack it. A little late to find this since I had 3 equipped -___-
How are you on the Trophy hunt Psyke?
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