It's quite obvious that the game is linear now. If you still expect and want your towns then you'll ofcourse be dissapointed. Maybe you can't like it as a RPG anymore without the exploring part, but still like the game differently. It's the wrong game if you want a massive explorable world map filled with towns and side quests spread around.

I hope the story is good this time for me to enjoy it and combat looked intresting so far.

All about personal tastes really. I like FFVII a little more, but they're both great. FFVIII looks better though (obviously since it's later release).

None. They are made to be watched. The few I like would be weird to play or hard to make a good game from it.

Heavy Rain. Excited for GoW3 aswell.

FFXIII, because it's released 1 week earlier.

I think convince is the word you're searching for. Unless you really want someone to seduce her so she spends all her time with him.

7-8-9 are overpriced atm for most of the people. Specially since 2 of them are on PSN already for 10. Means even less people would think about buying a hard copy for over 5times the PSN price. Who knows what the PSN of the future can do. Even FFX now can be still bought for like nothing and it's been 8? years since it's out.

I love RPG's aswell. I know there's a lack of them on the PS3 and you may have some hunger for it, but it seriously doesn't look that good at all. So I'm probably not gonna bother with it.

Best: Uncharted 2

Worst: Assassin's Creed 2 (not bad, but I'm a picky buyer and so far there's nothing I dislike)

Last bought: Valkyria Chronicles

Egh, I never get special edittions and such. However I do live in Europe, it shall depend on the price.