WOW RUna216 i read ur posts, and to be honest i coudnt agree with u more....and its a shame really this was my most anticipated game for pretty much most of this gen. I remember the day i bought it, i bought this and i bought GOW3, gow3 i simply bought cos of all the hype and the great videos id seen(was never a fan of GOW) i got home and put FF13 in played it for 2 hours straight and was bored to death but i kept hope WANTING IT SOO BADLY TO GET BETTER! lol after the two hours i put GOW3 in and played it straight until i finished it :D lol and for some reason nothing about ff13 and the first 2 hours made me wana go back and play it, nothing at all! Now many people say that 2 hours is a very short time in jrpg, but i say thats bullshit, ther should atleast be one aspect of the game that makes u want to play on...and that reason shoudnt be "omg this is ff13 the first hd ff on ps3 OMG!!!" which is pretty much the only reason i eventually came back to it. I played it again for another 2 hours and put it down again. i got into the battle system at this point but that was about it. After that i just had to accept that this game didnt have that special something that all the prev ff's had. Its been about 10 months since then and ive started playing again, im about 12 hours in now, and it has gotten better but not substantially i stil have to struggle to get myself to play it.
But in retrospect i dont feel that it was a bad game on its own, an average game with great graphics is what id say it is. But its just too different(in a bad way) from prev ff's which lead to the kind of dissapointedment i felt. The development team at SE had so much to work with in the ps3 and xbox360! so much more could have been done, but i think they sacrificed a lot to get the game to look as good as it looks. From a marketing point of view it worked out great i guess, showing a trailer of lighting in action is all this game needed to get people excited and to ultimately buy it. They should have just held the visuals back, and gone for a more traditional ff game and atleast keep the feeling of freedom and exploration....which i think is what ff13 lacks the most.
That being said im super excited about ffvs13 :D after the official thread was made here on vgc and the info that was said there(it was all new to me XD) im really looking forward to it :) hope that game doesnt dissapoint.
