Final Fantasy XIII

[BadWolfX]

For a Final Fantasy last boss, it's going to be pretty hard to top sephiroth.
Every Final Boss after Sephiroth has been pretty lame.

What, you mean the Final Boss that dies in one hit?

The final boss in IX was better, in my opinion.

[Vector]

Anyone been paying any attention to the reviews coming out of Japan? Lots of reviewers are saying that the game is linear as fuck, there's barely any open-world exploration, and the story is shit...all the while saying that it's still a good game. We shall see.

[BadWolfX]

Anyone been paying any attention to the reviews coming out of Japan? Lots of reviewers are saying that the game is linear as fuck, there's barely any open-world exploration, and the story is shit...all the while saying that it's still a good game. We shall see.

Apparently the first half of the game is very linear and around half way through it opens up more but is still somewhat linear. I don't really care.

I haven't heard any bad things about the story though.

[BadWolfX]

New International Trailer.

Well that gave me a total boner over the game. It can be March now?

[The Dude]

If anything that trailer left me completely flaccid.

Im not a fan of Leona Lewis and having her music in FF bastardises the integrity of the game and only goes to line Simon Cowell's pockets with gold even more.

The music in the trailer overpowered the voicework, had to replay it to hear what was being said.

[Carnivol]

Ahah. Had the same problem (deafening audio volume on that R&B track... and I don't even like R&B...).

Still not feelin' it after this trailer, though. Still don't like the characters. Saw more characters I hadn't seen before and they all look like they have personal tailors and stylists and what-not doing their wardrobes, hairdos and perfect make up. Their personalities annoy me too. It's okay for a person to have multiple "sides", but I'm not really feelin' it in these trailers when one sec you see Afro Man there in thairs, the next you see him even more upset and you realize he must be the most tragic man on earth or something... then *bam* battle scene and he's pimpin' his hoes and shit + disco dancing or something. Same goes for Vanilla, one sec everything seems to be the end of the world or something and *bam* battle scene "<oopsie!>UH OH!</oopsie!>" and "Pang pang pang!"

What, you mean the Final Boss that dies in one hit?

The final boss in IX was better, in my opinion.

Final Fantasy IX also had the nice and optional Ozma (the only time I've accepted the existence of a hostile and simple geometrical shape as an enemy in the form of a round rotating device with murderous intent)

Still think VI's final boss set is the nicest, 'cause it's a technical masterpiece (although the entire fight is pretty easy, especially if you've not made it your goal in life to rush in asap)

[Branden_Lucero]

For a Final Fantasy last boss, it's going to be pretty hard to top sephiroth.
Every Final Boss after Sephiroth has been pretty lame.

Final Fantasy XIII is going to have changes that we all must come to eccept.
In my opinion there has never been a bad Final Fantasy game, so don't be worried how XIII will turn out. Also this is Square Enix we are talking about, the kings of RPGs.

I am hyped for March 9th, cause this is probly the most wanted title for the PS3.

there have been better final bosses before FFVII came into the picture.

[aris13]

A positive review for a change.

OPM gives FFXIII a 9/10

This is the real deal. Final Fantasy XIII makes the hours pass like minutes – a testament to the way the game teases you along with one incentive or another at just the right time, every time.

It’s next generation Final Fantasy, and that’s all you need to know.

[The Dude]

Seems the hip thing to do is to slag off JRPG's as they come off as linear and generic now, one looking the same as the rest, I suppose thats because its what the Japanese want as opposed to more open ended WRPG's like Mass Effect/Oblivion etc.

Still, having played 2 hours of FFXIII (Japanese), im inclined to agree with alot of the criticisms despite not understanding Japanese, the characters look bland, the settings look somewhat sterile also, can't really criticise linearity considering most JRPG's run in a straight line anyway.

Still if the US dub of XIII is good *considering theres no way in hell theres ever going to be a language dub as it'd take time and money, not to mention it wouldn't fit on a 360 disc*, i'll probably give it a full run through on release.

[Carnivol]

If you want to get to the root of the actual problem, make a study out of the genre descriptions for the latest Tales of games (and also take a look at the ever-rising failures of the anime industry)

Also, I have to say that this comment:

It’s next generation Final Fantasy, and that’s all you need to know.

says more about FFXIII than anything else out there. But if you mix it with the general feedback/descriptions people are giving of the game... you're pretty much seeing what may be the rise of the JRPG equivalent of the duck 'n cover "stress" healing system.

[BadWolfX]

A positive review for a change.

OPM gives FFXIII a 9/10

Official XBox Magazine (or whatever it's called) gave the same score. Scans of the review haven't been put online yet though.

[riderkid]

hey, anyone heard anything about an american special edition? europe and japan got one, what about us?

[BadWolfX]

You usually get everything, we haven't even got FFVIII on the PSN yet. I'm sure you'll survive with a special edition

[The Dude]

Good time to ask this actually, PSN question for the UK/European PSN, are all PSone classics the UK/PAL 50htz *aka SLOW* versions of games? or the same as the NTSC ones *running at 60htz*

[aris13]

we haven't even got FFVIII on the PSN yet.

Finally the game was released today.