Eurogamer.net Podcast #99: FF13-2 and Amalur RPG Special

By Martin Robinson Published 9 February, 2012

Martin and Oli give their reckonings to Tom Champion.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong! It's time for the troops to shuffle into a side-room as we ring the bell for another Eurogamer Podcast in this, the 99th instalment of our irregular vowel movements. We're moving dangerously close to our 100th episode (and as you rightly pointed out last week it's not quite a centenary, but well.... It's felt like 100 years) and to celebrate we're talking about two recent high-profile RPG offerings.

It's Final Fantasy 13-2 and Kingdom of Amalur: Chinny Reckoning that are up for the debate as the long-running JRPG series comes up against the might of the box-fresh Western RPG (which was funded by Babe Ruth or something).

Oli Welsh dons a ten gallon hat as he takes the side of the Americans, while Martin Robinson hobbles in wearing 15 different belts, a traumatically revealing miniskirt and far too much hair-product as he fights for Final Fantasy.

Is Kingdoms of Amalur a pretender to Skyrim's throne, and can the eventual MMO spin-off challenge World of Warcraft? Is Final Fantasy 13-2 a return to form for the series and a suitable apology for the rambling incoherence of Final Fantasy 13? Your host Tom Champion runs around in pursuit of the answers, the poor thing.

The Eurogamer Podcast goes up every week - well, near enough - on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday at 5pm. And sometimes as a special treat it goes up on a Thursday or Friday too.

Sorry!

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Comments (5) Latest comment 4 months ago

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  • butler` #1 4 months ago

    i was going to come and moan at you all for not playing ffx properly, but then i realised i haven't played ffxi at all. as you mentioned it was darn late in the generation and, as i remember, WoW had 'taken hold' by that point, so the idea of an FF with MMO-ish real time combat was laughable at the time.

  • Whitster #2 4 months ago

    I've only recently started listening to these podcasts. I find they're better than music when jogging, working my way back through, so, err, thanks, I lost track of my point...
    Edited by Whitster at 09/02/12 @ 20:00

  • Venatio Verified Community & Gaming Manager, Eurogamer Network #3 4 months ago

    Sorry about my Rammstein Final Fantasy faux pas. It's my favourite bit of FF fmv though.

  • G-Lord #4 4 months ago

    Looking forward to listening to this podcast. Thanks alot EG!

  • funkateer #5 4 months ago

    I loved the talk about FFXIII-2 and it raised a very interesting point:

    So considering how much they seem to hate it in hindsight (bar the battle system), why did they (and on average the rest of the world) award it an 8?
    And now there's "2" that seems to have a less coherent and focused story but has seemingly almost slavishly trying to fix XIII's criticism, and that got an 8 again, even though the reviewers on average still don't seem to *love* it.
    Yet an "8" in my book should be quite 'lovable'.

    I'm not criticizing given scores or anything, but I just thought that was a very interesting point raised by this podcast.