Final Fantasy XIII

[Eaglestrike]

I hate party split ups, I just want to make my team of 3 or 4 people and go.

In an unrelated note, I may not get to play this game anytime soon, all the PS3's are sold out around here and the only place getting more of them say "within two weeks", which doesn't sound promising for 3 days from now.

[Lucavi]

^ But I thought you just looooove old-school FF nostalgia? The party splitting up is as old school as towns and npcs, amirite?

[Doombard]

They way they describe this game makes it seem like enchanted arms +1

[Kiarax]

They way they describe this game makes it seem like enchanted arms +1

No amount of terrible reviews could put me off a game as much as this post.

[AoE]

Not quite sure how Japanese business works. People are saying that the game dropped pretty much 3/4 in price in about a month? Who controls the pricing in the U.S? The American branch or the Japanese? Just asking because if I can get this at a low price waiting a month or two, then I'll probably just wait for Resonance of Fate or something instead.

[Vendog]

Theres no way in hell theres gonna be a huge price drop on this game mainly just because its a "Final Fantasy" game for at least 6-12 months. It will sell good no matter what and for that reason alone you will see full or close to full price in all major retail stores.

[AoE]

I was thinking that too. However, if like a ridiculous amount of people on Amazon try to sell it then hopefully enough people'll undercut each other enough to drop the price.

[Parshias]

Not quite sure how Japanese business works. People are saying that the game dropped pretty much 3/4 in price in about a month? Who controls the pricing in the U.S? The American branch or the Japanese? Just asking because if I can get this at a low price waiting a month or two, then I'll probably just wait for Resonance of Fate or something instead.

Game sales in Japan are ridiculously front-loaded. Unless its a super-go-nuts long selling game like Pokemon or DQ, retailers slash prices really damn fast to get rid of their stock of new games.

[Akiyama]

I'm surprised Edge gave it a 5/10, honestly. Looks like it's reviews are rather mixed, depending on if you were a WRPG lover or JRPG lover.

[Eaglestrike]

I'm surprised Edge gave it a 5/10, honestly. Looks like it's reviews are rather mixed, depending on if you were a WRPG lover or JRPG lover.

Every FF game is hit-or-miss really. Like I referenced earlier the games go hit-miss-hit-miss for me. That seems rather common for others. You have people that loved X and hated XII and people who loved XII and hated X, people that loved 7 and hated 8 and people who loved 8 and hated IX, etc.

[Akiyama]

I can't remember what Edge gave 7-12 (excluding 11 obviously).. were the scores better than a 5? I notice they gave a couple of the Halos a perfect score (lol), and a couple other.. questionable games perfect scores, but of course, the questionable-ness is only my opinion.

[Mayareira]

Not sure about older ones but they gave 90 to XII.

[Appie]

Edge gave FFX a 6/10.

[Mayareira]

Hmm I remember that review, they were critical about how random battles simply didn't belong to the generation.

...and honestly, they did have a point. People were growing tired of that stupidity even in the PSX generation.

[Tyrath]

Edge gave FFX a 6/10.

Honestly going off that, their 5/10 to XIII means nothing to me. I loved FFX, its my 3rd fav.

[Cesaria]

Hmm I remember that review, they were critical about how random battles simply didn't belong to the generation.

...and honestly, they did have a point. People were growing tired of that stupidity even in the PSX generation.

Never minded random battles, with the proviso that as long as there was an accessory, or weapon, or ability you could equip when you wanted a break from them for a while. Oh and I'd like a wider radius around my airship/savepoint/monster I'm trying to get to that was set as random battle free - yes I'm looking at you the random mob that popped up a milimetre before Omega Weapon in FF8.

[Elcura]

The thing about random battles, is that I hate them. No, really, I tend to avoid fighting as much as possible with random encounters, just getting through the area is good enough. I won't explore, or just fight for the hell of it, I'll bee line straight to the exit. With monsters on the map, I fight every goddamn one I can, just because I know, that if I don't want to fight a monster later on, I don't have to. I can explore an area fully, because I know if I can without getting pestered every 10 seconds.

[BarthelloSylph]

From the reviews, it seems that the battle system will actually, finally be fun in an FF game.

Pre 10, random battles and mashing on attack. Slow transition to battle screen sucked ass.

10 - at least they made it so you could swap out people and had to use some strategy (like stealing potions away from Seymour's henchmen).

12 - No battle screen (YES!)

13 - No random encounters plus battles are fun... Only took 22 years.

The worst part of every FF up until now had been the battles (IMO), but it looks like it'll be something else this go around.

After reading the IGN review I am definitely pumped up.

[sruon]

Not sure if it was mentionned, but european isos for 360 are available.

[Hyan]

From the reviews, it seems that the battle system will actually, finally be fun in an FF game.

Only downside being that it'll take some hours to get to the "fun" part... however, at least it's there and we don't have to deal with boring gameplay all the way >_>.