honk kong game magazine give FF13 a 4/10 -biggest swindle in gaming history

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darthdevidem01 said:

Son1x said:
I doubt its going to be the best selling one.
Regarding the review, I do agree with this "I had heard the opinion that “It’s amazing once you get to Chapter 11,” but why should you spend 20 or 30 hours on a game to get to the only enjoyable part? Just how do they intend to make me play this? Do they think I’m some kind of masochist?"

is there no middle ground

if someone says "play till chapter 11 to get to the amazing part"

that doesn' automatically mean the parts before it were tripe

Chapters 1 - 10 could be very good & then amazing from chapter 11

The "wait till you get to Chapter 11" folks are not, for the most part, saying "If you thought Chapters 1-10 were good, just wait till you get to Chapter 11." What most of them are saying is "Wait till you get Chapter 11; that's when the game gets good. In other words, while a middle ground may very well exist, it sounds as though FFXIII may not occupy it. I, personally, am not willing to play 10 bad chapters of a game before getting to the good part: at that point, nothing can make up for that experience, and the game itself is bad.

FF13 might not be like that. But I can't rule out the possibility, because past games have run the whole gamut: to games that were awesome from the very beginning (4, 6, 9) to games that started out kind of 'meh' but got much better later (1, 7, 10) to games where I couldn't stand to play past the beginning and thus can't even judge the later parts (8, 12). I notice the brand right from the first mention, and I take interest quickly enough, but I cannot blindly trust it to produce good games, because while it has produced some of my favorite games it just hasn't been consistent.