Now for a small rant. Now I am excited about Final Fantasy XIII, and now even more so that I don't have to purchase a $300.00 machine to play one game. I like my 360, and it has done me well over the years I have owned it. But that isn't the point. The point is I look at the forums and people are so narrow minded or just such fan boys that it's annoying. Now some say this game will fail others think it will be one of the greatest. Then someone has to go and say "Well, when they remake FFVII it will totally own all other FF!" Then some wise*** decides to reply with FFX was loads better ect. Now I personally did not like FFVII. I couldn't get into the story or the game play. That doesn't mean it is a bad game, just not a game for me. As for a remake I believe that SE said there are no plans to do that. But of course everyone is skeptical. I personally enjoyed FFVI the most. It really sucked me into the story and I actually had fun with the game, which I believe that is what games are designed to do.
What worries me now is the fact that outside of the FF series SE has released two games that received very average reviews. Infinite Undiscovery, and Last Remnant. Now I have not played LR yet so I will only give a middle man comment on that. But my brother and I sat down to play IU and well, it's not fun in my eyes. I found myself frustrated with it more than anything else. And to go on my brother played LR and he promptly returned it. So I am not sure if it's getting such a negative rap because we are comparing it to the FF series or we are just too critical about them. I just hope that SE does FFXIII justice and releases a solid game that is actually fun to play.
SE has yet to release any actually game play footage of FFXIII; it all seems very pre-rendered movies. Yes there was a scene with some menus and commands, but that is easily just inserted into a movie as well. SE put pre-rendered video in the FFVII commercials and touted that as game play at one point. So it is not too farfetched that they would try to pull a quick one on us to get us excited about the new FF. I hope this year they actually show us a demo or game play of the game soon. I am tired of companies announcing a series or game in 2002 and getting it all hyped then release it in 2008 and wonder why no one noticed. Ok that was an extreme example, but it get the point across.
This is my take on that. Random and make no sense. I hope to get this whole article thing down soon so it reads better. Until next time!
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