Most of the more powerful emulators are designed for nVidia cards and need some serious tinkering to get anything worthwhile out of an AMD rig (like my laptop >.>). Just sayin'

Also you have my condolences that you started your journey on FFXIII. Hopefully it's a better experience for you without anything to compare it to. But I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it as an individual anyway, let alone as part of a series. But even if you do enjoy it, at least you'll have the most controversial entry out of the way

Also, welcome aboard. This is probably one of the best places to make a home while playing through the series. We don't really fawn over the series, but people have played them so much they can answer most questions just by memory if you get stuck. And there's plenty of other things to do and talk about here, so it doesn't really get stale if you get burned out on the series

I haven't legitimately played a FF game in years, and I still love the people and conversations around here