Zero Punctuation reviews Final Fantasy XIII

Am I biased for not caring what he of all people says?

Well he only played 5 hours, but I never expected him to like it in the least anyway.

By far the best part is the credits. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought vanille is ****ing annoying :P.

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I wonder what he would have said if he had gotten more then 5 hours into it.

MJPK

I'm surprised he made it 5 hours in, The first 10-15 hours are very repetitive and boring at times but after that it does get alot better

It should NEVER, EVER take a game 15 hours to get GOOD unless youre playing an MMO. Im about 5 hours in and I basically gave up. I dont want to waste the rest of my time to get to chapter 10 (to get good right??) when theres only 12 chapters!

He was SPOT on in this review...as funny as it is made to be, he makes all the valid points. The footsteps are annoying, all you do is RUN down a linear corridor, vanille has DOWN SYNDROME (is she australian? What kind of weird accent is that??) the story STINKS, absolutly makes ZERO sense unless you stop and read about it, etc etc.

I like 3 things about this game. Here they are...

1) The box hologram art...

2) The combat

3) CGI

Haha. Probably one of his better reviews.

The funny part is when he said you need to get around 20 hours into it for it to become good. I have heard that a few times from review sites. If you play a game that long and it is not fun then it is not a good game at all.SilentlyMad

Agreed, lol. He pretty much described exactly why I despise traditional JRPGs as well.

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[QUOTE="zarshack"]

I wonder what he would have said if he had gotten more then 5 hours into it.

SRTtoZ

I'm surprised he made it 5 hours in, The first 10-15 hours are very repetitive and boring at times but after that it does get alot better

It should NEVER, EVER take a game 15 hours to get GOOD unless youre playing an MMO. Im about 5 hours in and I basically gave up. I dont want to waste the rest of my time to get to chapter 10 (to get good right??) when theres only 12 chapters!

He was SPOT on in this review...as funny as it is made to be, he makes all the valid points. The footsteps are annoying, all you do is RUN down a linear corridor, vanille has DOWN SYNDROME (is she australian? What kind of weird accent is that??) the story STINKS, absolutly makes ZERO sense unless you stop and read about it, etc etc.

I like 3 things about this game. Here they are...

1) The box hologram art...

2) The combat

3) CGI

Sorry if already posted

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1569-Final-Fantasy-XIII

Really good review.He really liked Vanille ;)

MJPK

I really don't like Bayonetta, so I saw the Zero Punctuation of it and I was laughing my head out the whole way!! :lol:

And this FF 13 review (?) was epic!

Another on the mark spot on review by Yahtzee. Glad he's around to show the truth.

I wonder what he would have said if he had gotten more then 5 hours into it.

zarshack

He actually said a game getting better after 20 hours isn't a good thing. Chances are he would've just complained about the characters more. :P

Meh, his review is pretty unprofessional. He didn't actually give the game a chance. He would have been better off just ignoring the game. I've watched a lot of his reviews, and his hatred of JRPG's has always been obvious, so what's the point? 1zenron1

I think someone has missed the point of Yathzee "reviews"

[QUOTE="1zenron1"]Meh, his review is pretty unprofessional. He didn't actually give the game a chance. He would have been better off just ignoring the game. I've watched a lot of his reviews, and his hatred of JRPG's has always been obvious, so what's the point? MJPK

I think someone has missed the point of Yathzee "reviews"

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[QUOTE="1zenron1"]Meh, his review is pretty unprofessional. He didn't actually give the game a chance. He would have been better off just ignoring the game. I've watched a lot of his reviews, and his hatred of JRPG's has always been obvious, so what's the point? Ace6301

I think someone has missed the point of Yathzee "reviews"

That guy can speak fast though. I was struggling to keep up with his pace.

Meh, his review is pretty unprofessional. He didn't actually give the game a chance. He would have been better off just ignoring the game. I've watched a lot of his reviews, and his hatred of JRPG's has always been obvious, so what's the point? 1zenron1

[QUOTE="1zenron1"]Meh, his review is pretty unprofessional. He didn't actually give the game a chance. He would have been better off just ignoring the game. I've watched a lot of his reviews, and his hatred of JRPG's has always been obvious, so what's the point? foxhound_fox

Agreed. I'd like to see anyone sitting down to complete games like Big Rigs.

Meh, his review is pretty unprofessional. He didn't actually give the game a chance. He would have been better off just ignoring the game. I've watched a lot of his reviews, and his hatred of JRPG's has always been obvious, so what's the point? 1zenron1

You can say the same about any other reviews due to the fact that they're formulated over an opinion which is subject-able in anyway shape or form. For all I know this site gave Serious Sam HD First Encounter a 5.0 but to me its worth a 9.5. This is because reviews are opinions and are subject-able.

The fact that Final Fantasy XIII's start is as slow as a snail pulling a lead weight behind is another minus, this was the main factor that put him off the game in general. Because he did give the game a chance by playing it and it failed horribly at good first impressions.

You do realize he liked The world ends with you? And the point is that he gave his opinion of the game which is actually shared by people who like jRPGs.

Haha, I lol'd!

Every complaint he's got is spot-on, except maybe the menu interface one. I didn't find it bloated at all. You want bloated menus, try FFVIII. Whoa, menu overload.

Can't help but repeat, but loved the last lines: "Because I'm an unbiased critic (shut up! I am!) I try to give everything a chance to surprise. By the end the only thing that surprised me is how I hadn't managed to chew my own face off."

:lol:

Was anyone expecting different? This is Yahtzee!

Lame. Dont understand why people like his reviews. You've seen one of them you've seen them all.

Lame. Dont understand why people like his reviews. You've seen one of them you've seen them all.

Zerocrossings

Always worth clicking on his reviews for a good laugh and this one was no exception. Sick as bar he has as well :P

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Lame. Dont understand why people like his reviews. You've seen one of them you've seen them all.

sonicthemegaman

Meh, his review is pretty unprofessional. He didn't actually give the game a chance. He would have been better off just ignoring the game. I've watched a lot of his reviews, and his hatred of JRPG's has always been obvious, so what's the point? 1zenron1

Lame. Dont understand why people like his reviews. You've seen one of them you've seen them all.

Zerocrossings

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Lame. Dont understand why people like his reviews. You've seen one of them you've seen them all.

sonicthemegaman

You do realize that he does have a fair amount of videos that actually praise newer games?

I felt the same way as him when I borrowed it from a friend. :|

RadecSupreme

Same here, I rented it day 1 but I was going to buy it but it was sold out everywhere. Glad I didn't, I hated it for almost all the same reasons as Yahtzee.

Once I started understanding how the combat works, I was enjoying it (which only took me 5-10-ish hours to fully understand the combat, ), and the only character in the game I don't like is Hope, really; I would have rather seen Yahtzee obliterate him in the ending credits (But Vanille is annoying at times too, yes). And the visuals look quite good to me. And I don't see why so many people complain about having 3 discs; it's not THAT much of a grueling task...

The game isn't anything amazing, but I still think it is good, from what I have played so far. Much better than FFXII, IMO.

I don't understand why people have to "wait" for FFXIII to be good? What makes FFXIII bad in the first couple of hours that wouldn't make it bad by the fifth hour? If it's the battle system, then I don't see what the complaining is about. Most FF games are as dry as the first 2 hours of the game throughout the entire game.

As for the Yahtzee review, easy target, naturally.

I wonder what he would have said if he had gotten more then 5 hours into it.

zarshack

He would find more of the same for the next 30 hours. If a game takes more than 30 hours to get good, its not a good game. In that time you could have experienced 2 or 3 actually good games.

He would find more of the same for the next 30 hours. If a game takes more than 30 hours to get good, its not a good game. In that time you could have experienced 2 or 3 actually good games.

ColdP1zza

Pretty much. I'm not going to sit and play a game for 10 hours hoping it would soon get better as it gets worse.

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I wonder what he would have said if he had gotten more then 5 hours into it.

ColdP1zza

He would find more of the same for the next 30 hours. If a game takes more than 30 hours to get good, its not a good game. In that time you could have experienced 2 or 3 actually good games.

What changes? I've heard people say 10 hours. I've heard people say 20. I've heard people say 30. There are only two large changes in the game.

1. Introduction of paradigms at the beginning of Ch. 3

2. World Map Nouveau a.k.a. Gran Pulse.

After about an hour in, the gameplay was pretty much consistently great all the way to the end for me. Yes, the intro portion is a little overbloated (two chapters, really?) But the bulk of the gameplay, imo is better than the rest of the series. If you're talking about player freedom and Gran Pulse, then Final Fantasy isn't the series for you.

I agree that you definitely shouldn't have to "wait for a game to become good." But with FFXIII, it's probably because you're playing the wrong game.

Lame. Dont understand why people like his reviews. You've seen one of them you've seen them all.

[QUOTE="sonicthemegaman"][QUOTE="Zerocrossings"]

Lame. Dont understand why people like his reviews. You've seen one of them you've seen them all.

You do realize that he does have a fair amount of videos that actually praise newer games?

Its the same crap every episode.

Not funny, entertaining or informative.

Gereat review, IMO. His point about the game only getting good after 20 hours was perfectly valid. But I really think he should have played more than just 5 hours of it.

I'm surprised he still hasn't done GoW3. Imo not one of the funnier reviews, and I can't disagree more about the combat. I've had a blast with it, and you need to know what you're doing or the end game encounters will wreck you.WithoutGraceXII

But I agree that it's not his funniest review.

I was waiting to see how badly Yahtzee was going to hate the game. A good review as always though.

Hmph, I guess I'm just easy to please, since I was loving the battle system way before 20 hours into the game. And I also like the Crysterium, even though it's basically a prettier sphere Grid/LP grid or whatever XII's was called.