You write the ending (spoilers maybe)

[Slothy]

So as I've said in some other threads my PS3 died, and since I can't recover my save file for FFXIII I won't be playing it again and will likely never bother to beat it.

But not content to have no resolution to the story, I put it to EOFF to write the ending to the game for me. I left off right when my characters were jumping on Atomos in Chapter 11, so let's see what you can all come up with. You could, of course, describe the actual ending but creativity is encouraged.

Personally, I prefer to believe the characters slipped climbing on Atomos and got squished into bloody goo in the most satisfying ending ever.

[Shin Gouken]

Well.... after making it back to cocoon they confront Barthandelus as you would expect. They beat him (of course) but unfortunatley Hope slipped and was about to fall but snow quickly grabbed him... but lost his grip and he fell to his death. Oh the irony. Fang and Vanille have a proper lesbian kiss, and lightening wanting some of that action joins in. Nobody knows what happened to Sazh as he was aparantley forgotten. Best ending ever

[Wolf Kanno]

The party returns to Cocoon and beats the living ever crap out of Orphan and Dysley cause they decided that if they were going to be screwed, its only fair everyone shares their fate. Cocoon powerless begins to crash down on Pulse with Lightning riding it like the cowboy from Dr. Strangelove. While this is going on Sahz and Snow murder Hope and Vanille cause they felt dying in the coming apocalypse was too good for either of them. This of course pisses off Fang and the three of them have an epic battle that makes the stuff from Advent Children look tasteful.

Sensing the upcoming Armageddon, the Chocobos watched in fear as Cocoon came crashing down on Chocogard which had abused the power of Kupo Nuts and was slowly killing off the planet from the nourishment needed for the Moogles, this is important cause the moogles are responsible for the time space continuum and thy were busy on the moon battling an evil witch moogle from the future who was trying to make the time/;space continuum all for her kupo-self. This of course got interrupted by the Moombas who lived on Pulse's second moon and were recycling all the life energy from the planet with there own cause they destroyed their previous world by creating their own version of Superslick that accidentally caused a singularity and wiped out their parallel universe.

As Cocoon crashes, Sahz reveals that the Fal'Cie are actually the souls of the dead Tonberries who created a Dream Cocoon and that is where he and Sahz were from. Originally, they intended Sahz to become Ragnarok so he could ravage the world for a thousand years until Dahj with a rag tag group of advenutures including a stupid idiot for a summoner could destroy him by playing his favorte song in the world "Smack my Bitch Up" which was his wedding song with his belated wife. Snow recounts when he was traveling on Pulse as a chocobo and was an evil Dark Hero til he came upon the shrine that held his Cactuar father and he became a Monkadin. He then had to choose becoming a beach bum or a hero who would collect the crystals and restore reality, obviously he chose beach bum for the bitchin facial hair.

Fang reveals that she was killed and sent into the future to become mini-raganrok by the four fiends (Moogle, Chocobo, Cactaur, and Moomba) and eventually she would transform into her ultimate form of the Tonberry to plunge the world into an eternal time loop unitl a group of four Imps in Onion Gear would come and slay her. Lightning interupts this whole fest to reveal she's actually not really a member of the military but actually a young boy whose village was destroyed and was maimed by the evil time witch moogle, she was injected with the genes of the Chocobo and became a a chick whose mind and memories have been screwed with by the evil powers that be, she lost her memeory and convinced herself that she was actually a SOL...soldier and once the Chocobos are wiped out, magic and her half chocobo self would fade into memory now that the Chocogard was going to be destroyed.

After this two hour finale, Boko of the Chocobos appears and cast Choco-Meteor with the power of the eight crystals plus one, and blows Cocoon out of the sky and wipes out humanity. Flash forward a thousand years into the future we begin where Chocobo Dungeon begins...

That's right, XIII is a prequel to Chocobo Mystery Dungeon, we've already played Final Fantasy XV and XVI!

[Future Esthar]

Aeris ressurrects at the end and unleashes Holy to protect Cocoon.Holy gives an holographic illusion of Fang and Vanille.

[Shin Gouken]

While this is going on Sahz and Snow murder Hope and Vanille cause they felt dying in the coming apocalypse was too good for either of them.:

I'd like to know more. Details...

[Slothy]

He then had to choose becoming a beach bum or a hero who would collect the crystals and restore reality, obviously he chose beach bum for the bitchin facial hair.

I think that might be my favourite line in the whole thing.

I also think that you need to write for Square. Seriously, that whole thing was more better than the story for FFXIII.

[ChickenHeart]

Dynstly w.e is thrown off a huge cliff into a volcano and jihl is resurected and fought as a boss instead and cocoon falls and everyone jumps out, everyones dead yay :)

[Ezme]

OT a bit but you can get a variety of game saves off game FAQ. I used one too see what ultimate chars were like (already completed) and it worked great. You can't save from it but you could watch the real ending and run about gran pulse for a bit

[Slothy]

It's a nice thought, but I don't think I'd want to see the actual ending without seeing everything in between where I was and there just so I don't feel like I missed anything. Perhaps I'll hit up the internet for some videos eventually.

[VeloZer0]

It's a nice thought, but I don't think I'd want to see the actual ending without seeing everything in between where I was and there just so I don't feel like I missed anything. Perhaps I'll hit up the internet for some videos eventually.

With some searching you can probably find a savegame at the start of Ch11. One of the benefits of FF13 is you won't have to worry about picking up a save where the original player specked your characters in a different direction.

[Rozaheku]

It was all a wet dream of director Toriyama.

[Ezme]

just had a quick look, there is a save at the beginning of chapter 11 if you want it
Final Fantasy XIII Save Game Files for PlayStation 3 - GameFAQs

[Loony BoB]

It's a nice thought, but I don't think I'd want to see the actual ending without seeing everything in between where I was and there just so I don't feel like I missed anything. Perhaps I'll hit up the internet for some videos eventually.

If you're looking for an easy way to follow how things go in the storyline, then I suggest looking up HassanAlHajry's YouTube walkthrough which has the whole thing in YouTube's version of 720p video. That's how Danielle would catch up on storyline she'd missed out on when she wasn't around to watch me play. It's good quality.

[Future Esthar]

I watched those videos and can confirm Looney Bob is right.