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brendude13 on 27 July 2011
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Runa216 said:
brendude13 said:
I stopped reading after you said the art direction was bland...

EDIT:

I plucked up the courage to read on a little more, and apparently the OST is poor too? Just typical that you had to mention Nobuo Uematsu straight after. Once again, I had to stop reading.

You said you didn't want to "blindly spew hate-speeches", but that's exactly what you wrote.

I can tolerate opinions, not bullshit. I don't know if we were playing the same game but let me put things into perspective for you.

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This is good music / art direction.

 


Are you serious?  One picture of Gran Pulse and that's your argument that the art direction isn't bland?  if you actually read what I wrote you'd see that I said the only good part of the game was when you were on Gran Pulse, becuase it was natural feeling, had more freedom, and was the one location where there were sidequests.  

and again, one example does not a soundtrack make.  While the game had some tolerable tracks to listen to, overall it was repetitive, bland, uninspired, annoying crap.  Also, it doesn't even begin to compare to any  FF game before it. hell, Final Fantasy XII had superior music to this and that's widely considered one of the worst soundtracks (I disagree, I love it and it's one of my favorites, but whatever.)  

Try reading the important stuff, the parts about gameplay and design, stop worrying so much about graphics and sound, you're just like all those other people who are ruining my gaming experience by convincing developers that nothing matters if the game looks and sounds ugly. 

I only posted one example to avoid spamming, either way, the quality in those two aspects don't really take a significant dip from what I showed you there.

The vast majority of reviewers praised many aspects of the game but rated it down because of the linearity and repetitiveness.

You, however, insult every single god damn aspect of the game because you are completely blinded by hate. If you can't professionally judge a game and praise it for it's merits, instead of trashing the entire game because of one or two aspects you don't like, then you don't deserve to be labelled a writer.

No matter what you say, the general consensus between majority of reviewers (and gamers) is that the linearity and repetitiveness let down a near enough AAA game. The linearity bothered some more than others, luckily for me I had gotten used to it after FFX (and basically ever other game out there that isn't an RPG) so it didn't bother me too much.