| Onimusha12 said: It doesn't really matter if FF can do amazing things on the PS3, those feats are but temporary achievements and become dull within a generation's time. The true merit of a game it the parts of it that last forever, what Square has really lost is the ability to make an FF main series game that is anything but a shallow frilly-fabulous fantastical display of "hey, remember Final Fantasy X, well here it is again, just this time slightly different with a different number". |
Yeah, that's pretty much hitting the nail on the head. I use to love FF games but they just keep getting worse and concentrating on the completely wrong things. I actually tried two different times to like 12 but I just didn't care about the characters. I really had no reason to want to stick with them for 100 hours.
Actually, just for grins and giggles, the things that suck about XII:
- You actually don't play the game until about 15 minutes into the game
- It introduces a zillion characters and takes them away within the first 30 minutes. By the time I actually got the main character I wasn't sure if I was going to keep him or suddenly control someone else.
- Speaking of the main character, why is he even there? He has no reason for being there other than he's a little snot who's just tagging along.
- The license system sucks beyond belief. There's no motivation to make characters different.
- The Gambit system could be so awesome but it takes forever to actually get good gambits that by teh time you get them you just don't care to fiddle with them too much.
- Did I mention that every character turns out the same?
- The story is not interesting and the world just feels incredibly bland.
- You have no real reason to care about any of the characters. I actually care more about the FFVIII characters.
So yeah, 12 was just a giant pile of poo. I tried to get into it twice, the first time about 8 hours and the second time about 15 hours. You may tell me that I didn't play it long enough but if I've played a game for 15 hours and it still hasn't done anything to draw me in then it has massively failed.
As for FFXIII, I'm not expecting any better. The characters I've seen are carbon copies of previous FF characters, I've heard more about the graphics than any emphasis on story and character, and the delays mean they are more than likely prettying it up and not working on the story. I want FFXIII to be good, but I think it's just going to be another massive phail (not saying it's going to sell bad, it's just going to be another bad game in the series).
