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Forums - Gaming Discussion - The Final Fantasy XV Metacritic Thread: 82 with 90 reviews. (Final score?)

 

So, are you hyped?

Absolutely, this'll be an amazing game! 256 30.33%
 
Yeah, I hope this turns out great! 193 22.87%
 
Sure, it'll be good. 78 9.24%
 
Meh, no strong feelings about it. 85 10.07%
 
Nah, looks bland. 40 4.74%
 
Eww, not really. Looks stupid. 22 2.61%
 
Nope. This shit is destroying Final Fantasy. 68 8.06%
 
I just want Noctis x Prom... 16 1.90%
 
No female members = no buy. 42 4.98%
 
Jpop emo band, unite! 44 5.21%
 
Total:844
vivster said:
Vodacixi said:

Yeah, I feel that this game is just Square Enix saying: "Oh, you didn't like X thing from XIII? Well, now we'll go for the extreme opposite. Hope you enjoy guys!"

To be fair, they also did this with all the things that people liked from FFXIII. SE always goes all in.

Wait, there was something that people liked about XIII? I couldn't get past the first hours. The thing was so linear (in a bad way, there are some great linear games) and some of the characters where so fucking annoying I just couldn't keep playing. The combat didn't feel that great to me either.



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Vodacixi said:
vivster said:

To be fair, they also did this with all the things that people liked from FFXIII. SE always goes all in.

Wait, there was something that people liked about XIII? I couldn't get past the first hours. The thing was so linear (in a bad way, there are some great linear games) and some of the characters where so fucking annoying I just couldn't keep playing. The combat didn't feel that great to me either.

There's plenty of things to love from XIII, actually. It just didn't fit your taste, but that's alright.



Ka-pi96 said:
Alkibiádēs said:
The fact that people complain that an 8.2 is too low is really ridiculous, especially when they haven't even played the game. I prefer movie critics over game critics, at least they don't get impressed by everything. I've watched movies I liked that scored 60% and I've played many games I hated that scored over 90% on metacritic (like Rayman Legends or Bayonetta 2).

I think Pokémon Sun and Moon for example is much superior to Pokémon X/Y, but it scored one point lower than it. See for yourself, go back to X/Y after having played Sun and Moon, it's a massive difference for the worst.

I don`t think that`s entirely fair. A newer game should really be better than an older one based on the fact that not only technology but gameplay mechanics and storytelling have evolved over time. If you were to give someone who`s never played Pokemon before a copy of Red and a copy of X I expect they`d rate X higher, however someone that played both when they were new would have a different perspective on it since they were able to evaluate how good Red was for it`s time rather than just how well it has aged.

Your analogy doesn't make sense. It's only been 3 years and X/Y and Sun and Moon were on the same console. They didn't have to redo al the models and a lot of attack animations, but they did. Just one example.

There have been much better 3D games on the 3DS than X/Y that released around the same time. No excuse for the grid system for example. It was backwards in 2000 already, let alone 2013.



"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" - Thoukydides

Runa216 said:
this is getting worse scores than FFXIII...

Its currently one point higher than 13 so it can't be getting worse scores lol at least not yet anyway. 



Wright said:
konnichiwa said:

It is basically (at this point) the same score of the PS4 FFX collection port and bravely default.

Summary quality wise it can't beat a + 10 year old games, games made on extreme inferior hardware can't really call it high ^^'

That's not a logic you should abide by, because using this train of thought ultimately means no game has ever beat Ocarina of Time, a +15 year old game, meaning videogames in general are certainly low and they don't seem to evolve at all.

Well I am not comparing it with FFX on PS2 that one scored higher I am comparing it to a port from a few years ago that scored alright for being outdated (yeah voice acting is awkard at moments but still I was so impressed by it on PS2 because it is one of the first JRPG's that had voiced characters).   

Well I am not a 3DS fan but I would not be surprised that the game ends up being in the top must haves for 3DS. 






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KLXVER said:
lonerism said:

Jesus Christ

What is wrong with modern gamers? Since whena 84 is considered low?

This game had so much going on against it, 10 years of development hell and yet it still delivered a nice and gorgeous product

So you would be ok with Breath Of The Wild getting 84 on MC?

Huh? But I'm not even a Zelda fan



Wright said:
Vodacixi said:

Wait, there was something that people liked about XIII? I couldn't get past the first hours. The thing was so linear (in a bad way, there are some great linear games) and some of the characters where so fucking annoying I just couldn't keep playing. The combat didn't feel that great to me either.

There's plenty of things to love from XIII, actually. It just didn't fit your taste, but that's alright.

Well yeah, you can find some nice things on the dump. But it's mostly composed with garbage.



Hiku said:
Vodacixi said:

Wait, there was something that people liked about XIII? I couldn't get past the first hours. The thing was so linear (in a bad way, there are some great linear games) and some of the characters where so fucking annoying I just couldn't keep playing. The combat didn't feel that great to me either.

About 40 hrs into the game (for me) the world opens up and you get access to missions. The game became a lot more fun at that point. But it was still too late for me to give the game a pass when combined with the story and the cast.

I'm not willing to play 40 hours, not even half of it to start enyoing a game.



Ruler said:
Hynad said:

It's really ridiculous how people will consider a score between 80 and 85 as low. As if all games had to be 95 to be considered good.
-___-

8 out of 10 is still a really good score. 

But I suspect Ruler scored the game 10 out of 10 before he even played a second of it. 

Why shouldnt it be 10/10? its the AAA JRPG this gen the only one of its genre. I played the game, the Platinum Demo, Episode Duscae and the Judgement  Demo thats more than enough

........ 

Do you understand the elements behind a review? 



Well, I'm enjoying it. I don't think it would be FF top tier, but they definitely did worse. It's better than XIII in everything but combat system, which, despite the criticism, I think it was pretty good.