selnor said:
Alot of people I will admit are blinded by the FF name. Including reviewers. I have played now a fair bit of TLR and IU recently and you know whats funny. The only FF game that I thought was better than TLR and IU was FF2, 6 and 7. FF8 - 12 are all about the same quality as TLR and IU. Reviewers seem to see FF and immediately think right we have to do either 9 or 10. It's sad really. I'm just glad Hironobu Sakaguchi is still around. Because the 3 best FF's were all directed and Produced by him. FF2, 6 and 7.
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Or, you know, people (a fair majority) simply share an opinion different than your own. I haven't tried TLR as of yet, but I can say that after only playing IU for a few hours that it is far from the quality of any Final Fantasy post FFIV. Lost Odyssey, while much better, I think is still not quite up to snuff. You can pass it off as blindness if you'd like simply because I don't agree with your line of thinking, but the fact of the matter is that I think there are many RPG's that are of the same quality (or greater than some FF's). Xenogears, for example, I think is better than FFVII, IX and XII. Chrono Trigger better than VII, Suikoden V better than VII and Vagrant story is pretty much on par with any of them. Hell, I even find Disgaea 1 as good as Final Fantasy Tactics.
Also FFVI and FFVII weren't directed by Sakaguichi, that honour belongs to Kitase (along with Hiroyuki Ito). Kitase also directed other fantastic games such as FFVII, FFVIII, Chrono Trigger and produced FFX as well as FFXIII currenty. This isn't to take anything from Sakaguchi, the guy kicks ass, but rather to question your alleged correlation to Sakaguichi's direction and the best FF's.
Another thing, just out of curiousity, do you mean FFIV (FFII US) when you mention FF2? I actually disliked FF2 (US) very much.
To answer the question asked in the OP: As an owner of both consoles, I'll likely get it on PS3 as I'd like it to match FFV13. I couldn't care much for achievements/trophies or controllers. This is, of course, unless the 360 version somehow gets released earlier, which seems rather unlikely.