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

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Millennium said:

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.

After reading many many peoples user reviews it seems FFXIII will either fall in the first category or second one. Probably the second category for you.

THe problem FFXIII is dealing with is its giving too much on one end then too little somewhere else.

Most people who thought its story lacked feel the characters were amazing & overshadowed the story, with characters that were so good, the story should've been much better

Most people pulling out the linear card feel the presentation & backgrounds are so amazing you want to explore them

it seems FF13 shows promise, a lot of it but doesn't take you the whole way.....thats the main complaint haters had.

Once again from what I have heard the first few chapters till 6 are extremely good, then 6 - 10 are more like "fillers" after which 11 begins.

Once again they were the opinions of the "haters" that I analyzed, nowhere near the majority's opinion.....people who loved the game seem to like most to do with it.