Parokki on 28 August 2008
It's pretty safe to say that FF13 will be popular with people who've liked the previous parts in the series, ignored by people who didn't, have an average score in the mid-90s, and sell around 80% of what the previous part did. The only thing that might change is sales being slightly stronger than those of FF12 (first of a series on a console etc), but that's about it.
The mixed response to GTA4 comes not from people saying the game isn't any good (it definitely is), but outrage at the ridiculous amount of perfect and near-perfect scores, even though it's still far from a perfect game. I don't see Square-Enix putting up a similar circus, so the reviews should be much more reasonable.
