Final Fantasy XIII-2 gets 5.4 on Gamrreview - how is that possible?

[Runa216]

hatmoza said:

oniyide said:
I wanna harp on this no one wanted to review the game bit. I find that fascinating, that kind of disinterest is usually reserved for Wii and DS shovelware, not for a high profile HD game

I'm assuming there was no review copy thus the disinterest, And the staff, as I recall, rely more on review copies than actually going out and buying the game themselves. For the most part anyway. Which is not wrong. Why spend money if you don't have to?

Though it would be interesting if this was indeed a copy and Runa was the only one who volunteered to review it.

I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about the others and their rate of review copies, but so far my record has been about 50/50.  Downloads are a lot easier to get review copies for.  

I did not get a review copy for Final Fantasy XIII-2, I paid my own money to review it becuase, contrary to popular belief, I actually was excited to play it and wanted it to be good.  All this talk of "he haded XIII, he wanted to hate this one" is false.  I love games, I love a lot of games, and I hate complaining aout games (which is why the few games I do complain about get the full rantariffic treatment..doesn't happen often so I make it good.)  

Again, I'mnot sure what I can say about the others, but Torillian did say earlier in the thread that Final Fantasy XIII was one of the only JRPG's he's ever bought that he didn't complete, and everyone else on the team disliked XIII as well as far as I know.  My word is not law, I do not know for sure, but whe asked I got a resounding chorus of "fuck that, we don't want it."  

I'll still be there to review Versus though, and I'll gladly pay for it becuase it looks really good.  I most certainly have no interest in XIII-3 though.  I will not be returning to Coocoon or Pulse if I can help it after how disappointed I was with both.