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darthdevidem said:
@grimboyjr

what do you even know about FF13??

how many characters do you know so far??

don't be daft..give it a chance

It's being made by the FFX team....phew that a relief at least

 The trailers fail in my opinion. I need more to justify my enthusiasm for this game. Right now its absolutely nothing.



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@grimboyjr

yup n now 2 of them have made 2 "underwhelming" (sales for BD, reviews for Lost Oddesey) RPG's

give some credit to the team as well

we still have tetsuya Nomura



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darthdevidem said:
@grimboyjr

yup n now 2 of them have made 2 "underwhelming" (sales for BD, reviews for Lost Oddesey) RPG's

give some credit to the team as well

we still have tetsuya Nomura

And 2 of them made some really good games for me on the Xbox 360, that satisfied my RPG taste for once. Because last gen (PS2) FFXII (only Tetsuya Nomura, Nobou Uematsu) made a really not engaging game.

But I still need to play these games!!! They just look some freaking cool and the Blue Dragon demo was engaging as can be



Oh man, so many GREAT things about the Final Fantasy series that I like :/ where to begin!

I'd have to say that first and foremost the series has ALWAYS been a tale of Epic preportions, everything about those games screams massively epic, from their INCREDIBLE cg cutscenes, to the casting of every summon, to the  final tier of whatever ability you were working on. Putting time into the game is ALWAYS rewarding.

Almost every final fantasy I've played (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Tactics) plays differently. They all feel like a different game somehow connected to the same universe. Theres just this sense of origin when you play them lol. Might sound kinda wonkey but I get this familiar feeling every time in a very good way.

Every Final Fantasy that I pick up and play, ALWAYS ends up being the "holy shit I didn't know a system could do this!" game that pushes and pushes hardware past the point of breaking and into hardware bliss :P Every final fantasy is very well developed in terms of programming, VERY few glitches, VERY fluid movement, VERY scerene environments that capture what they're trying to tell you.  They remind me alot of Nintendo's fluidity on first party titles with a much higher bar on graphical detail set. 

Audio is a major thing for me in videogames, graphics are one thing (which they ALL deliver on), but audio is the other part of the immersion, and Final Fantasy delivers on that front also, spells sound very mystical, environments sound like the supposed to, nothing gets washed out or drowned by ambient noise, it seems like they go through extensive work every time to make it sound like a Final Fantasy, and I appreciate that :)

Final Fantasy is a series, and almost all of them are really REALLY good games, even if one isn't the greatest I will buy it hands down just to own it. It's been a VERY kind series that's shown me some of my favorite moments in video game history :) I'm a die hard fan for as long as they make them ^^ 



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darthdevidem said:
HUGE budget, LOADS of CGI's, TECHNICAL SHOWPIECE for the Console in questin (FF7 - PS1, FFX - PS2, FFXIII - PS3)


 Couldn't be more wrong.  A *good* FF game should be about the story, music, and characters.  Recent FF games have missed most of those things and concentrated on what you're talking about and have suffered because of that.



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azzer100 said:
1. boring coma inducing turn based battles.
2. generic big haired, sword carrying he/she.
3. big omnipotent baddie or corparation
4. Story that makes no sense what so ever and plot holes bigger than the sun
5. Stupidly overcomplicated stat system that takes any fun out of the game
6. Random battles that fustrate to the point of suicide.
7. One dimensional, predictable and generic main baddie.
8. Scantily clad 16 year old girls with god like powers.
9. Those chocobos thingys.
10. Excellent soundtracks.

 This, pretty much. 



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The only thing shared in every iteration of a final fantasy game is the spell naming scheme. Other than that there is nothing.

Oh and swords can't forget there's always swords!



Sakaguchi for the most part. Grimboyjr, FFVII the best Final Fantasy game!? Please don't get me started that awful game.



Darc Requiem said:
Sakaguchi for the most part. Grimboyjr, FFVII the best Final Fantasy game!? Please don't get me started that awful game.
 Dude that game was cool, as long as Sakaguichi was part of it, I have no problem. I like Blue Dragon alot so whats the problem? Huh big guy? Whats the problem? You got beef with me? j/k

 



Chocobos?