If there was possibly a Final Fantasy XIII-3...

[ANGRYWOLF]

and rescue the others as well.
Anything less than this is unsatisfactory for me.

You need a good and satisfactory conclusion. Anything less is still unsatisfactory for me.

Some people seem to feel the gameplay of FFXIII-2 was enough.
For me an FF game needs to be about story/plot and character development first.

Gameplay comes later and graphics comes way down the line after that.

It's about time Square learned/relearned this. They seem to have forgotten it after Sakaguichi left and it's been lacking in their games since that time.

[Nocturne]

I hope there is a sequel. Though if it ended the way it did, I kinda like that too since you dont always see the "villians" win out.

Id say Hope, Sazh, Snow, and Noel would be the main characters. I think Serah should stay dead, more impact that way though she was a pretty good character. I can see her still being alive though since in Valhalla pretty much everything is screwed up and nothing seems to make sense.

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Hence Caius being alive in the secret ending













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[01lander]

Personally, I'd like for Serah and at least one of the other pre-existing female characters to come back, preferably Fang. It seems like all the male characters are fine, but the females are dead or incapacitated...

[C i d]

Personally, I'd like for Serah and at least one of the other pre-existing female characters to come back, preferably Fang. It seems like all the male characters are fine, but the females are dead or incapacitated...

O.o
Now that I come to think of it, you are right lol.

(spoilers on XIII and XIII-2)

Spoiler!

Most females in the game, Lightning, Fang, Vanille, Serah, Yeul, Jihl and Alyssa are either dead, cease to exist or crystallised. One of them even died countless times.

[01lander]

O.o
Now that I come to think of it, you are right lol.

(spoilers on XIII and XIII-2)

Spoiler!

Most females in the game, Lightning, Fang, Vanille, Serah, Yeul, Jihl and Alyssa are either dead, cease to exist or crystallised. One of them even died countless times.

Is it too much to ask for one of them to be okay?!?!

[meastro]

I agree with the number of you who've said something along the lines of Hope, Sazh, etc. continuing to try and save the world.

(Spoilers?)
To me, it kind of makes a lot of sense to continue it this way (if it does get continued of course) and have Hope as the main protagonist. This time it would be a battle he has to lead what with his creation of Bhunivelze.

[KoRny]

the only two characters I didn't hate were Lightning and Fang...Sahz was okay too(as long as his kid isn't involved) so I wouldn't mind seeing those guys again, but all the other characters could go away and I'd be happy.
I think they could just give some brand new ones a try. I also kinda thought they should use that big black guy with the red hair from NORA.

[kratoscar2008]

If SE want to lose money then yes we might have XIII-3 and given how they seem to love lose money that is almost given.

[Leonheart~]

I'm all for the idea of a XIII-3. See, XIII and this game are a ying and yang paradigm within the gaming franchise as a whole. It's split fans up tbh. However, knowing the secret ending, which was cool but not worth getting all 160 fragments imo, they could work with that. I mean, some people have said that they left it quite confusing and didn't really delve too much into Caius and Lightning's battles and how they came to know each other, other than Etro showing Lightning that Valhalla is in trouble, and so is Gran Pulse. That's all being cleared up in a DLC chapter in May (for which I can't wait). If they did indeed make a 3rd part, I'd like to see it focusing on them going back in time, stopping Caius from the start, or seeing him where it all went wrong, when Caius turned from such a nice guy [as you see in the 'A Dying World' chapter].

Spoiler! WOAH!

Even though you see Serah dead at the end of the game, you see the Chaos spreading throughout Academia and morphing it into Valhalla, and Noel quotes something about "if you change the future, you also change the past" and then you hear Caius talking when he's supposedly meant to have died because he pulled Noel's sword into his heart. Caius is supposed to be immortal, I don't see how he could've died from that.

Maybe Hope would ask Noel how it would be possible for him to be able to time travel through the Historia Crux, even though the gates had disappeared and Hope would find a way of doing so, making them appear, or creating his own, seeing how he did so with Alyssa *b*tch!*. And maybe Snow would be along for the journey, too. I liked seeing him back in the game.

[Lirael]

Leonhart's post has made me think again about something in the ending...

Spoiler!

How can Caius be alive without the heart of Etro? If Etro has passed on, surely he must have done as well. This could be a plot hole or could be explained in future episodes/a future game.

I have a few theories:

1. Chaos hasn't been unleashed, meaning that the world is still in tact. Caius is living his dream in the afterlife.
2. The heart of Etro was never destroyed; Caius merely lost a life. We never hear about whether or not he dies and is reborn, do we?
3. Following on from #2, it's possible that Lightning is meant to be in control of Chaos but has lost control, allowing Chaos to spread; she saw Serah die and in her dispair turned to Crystal, allowing it to leak into the world. She and/or others will regain control and restore the world in future episodes/XIII-3. Whether or not Serah will return again...I can't be certain, but who's to say that Serah IS dead? (I suppose she could be reborn herself, like Yeul! Lightning is in despair because she can see Serah's fate.)
4. Another alternative after theory #2 is that Etro hasn't been destroyed, but has become too weak, allowing Chaos to spread into certain parts of the timeline, causing further extreme paradoxes, visions of which have killed Serah... Somehow, this will be fixed.
5. Also possible... All is well in the world! Lightning has turned to Crystal because she is in rest as she watches over the world as the goddess, her battle having been completed. Caius is in 'heaven,' so to speak. Serah will live like Yeul, having suffered one vision, but has restored the timeline, meaning no major visions will kill her suddenly.

Personally, I hope their resolution is far more impressive than all of those theories.

@Yeul Kreiss Any theories?