RPGFan: FFXIII Import Review(First metacritc review)

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Pristine20 said:
why do people care so much for metacritic reviews? I loved FE:RD, it has a meta of 70%. Cant wait to play FFxiii whatever its reviw score may be. I can understand why they rated the gameplay 80%. All the people I've asked about the battle system (who've actually played the game) said its the best of any FF to date. Perhaps the linearity for 10 chapters got to them. FFX was just as linear but there were no qualms back then. I guess times have changed.

This is precisely why I'm baffled at some Final Fantasy fans using the excuse of linearity as a reason of why FFXIII will suck.

As ironic as it may sound, even the most loved Final Fantasy in this forum, FFVI, is heavily linear until the point you get the first airplane, and it only really opens up when you get to the World of Ruin, which is more than 20 hours into the game. I guess that people conveniently forget that, because of it being their "oh so loved FFVI". FFVI is my favourite FF, by far, but i'm not blinded by it and can see the same faults that all other FF games share.

Also I agree 100%, why do people care so much for metacritic score and overall review scores? It seems more of an excuse, rather than a valid measurement of trying to get their points of view into the open, because if that wasn't favorable to them, they wouldn't even care about it. This debate of whether FFXIII is going to be AAA (what does that even mean and matter if you like a game?) is starting to get a bit old, if people don't want to play the game, fine, but don't use excuses or throw sand into the faces of those who want to play the game.