I played Ninja Gaiden 2 today for 4 hours and...

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Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

With a PS3 your buying that console on what you hope know the future holds.

No, I stand by my original assertion. If FFXIII flops, it will literally be a disaster for PS3 owners. All PS3 owners, like myself, have banked on the belief that XIII will be as good as the rest of the games in the series since FFVI.

 

Now, several people hate a few of those games, but I contend that they never actually understood the ones they hated. The reasons for them being "bad" games are simply destroyed by reviews and common sense elements that are so well done and produced that no-one could ever call them "bad" and get away with it. It's not the same as movies, there are ways to be definitive when it comes to quality or lack thereof in game development.

 

For instance, many people hated the story in FFXII, therefore thought the game was bad. However, the battle system is one of the deepest in the series and in many ways is absolutely amazing, coupled with the fact that the game is obviously a work of millions of dollars and years of development and while you can dislike the game, you can't really call it bad.

In fact, it is excellent.

 

 

However, that said, there will be many people who hate FFXIII for the same reasons they've hated every FF after VI. They won't be getting what they expect. Final Fantasy likes to re-invent itself with every installment, and going traditional just isn't going to happen. The only thing for certain about FFXIII is that you won't be getting what you expect.

Good for gamers like myself, terrible for say, casual FF fans, or FFVII fanboys who hated FFVIII and FFXII for trying successfully to differentiate themselves above and beyond what other games in the genre have to offer.

 

 

So, I didn't buy a PS3 in hopes that Final Fantasy XIII would be "good." I am instead a Final Fantasy fan, and I know that I must play FFXIII and verses 13, simply because I know that I must play them. I will either see where the series went wrong or see where it continued on its path of excellence, but either way I must see for myself.

If either game goes multiplat, I will sell my PS3, because without those two games, and MGS4 which I will have completed very soon, then I actually have little or no use for the system outside of the stray cool, but missible title like Disgaea 3 or WKS.

 

So, we don't actually know anything, except that FFXIII is now an exclusive for the PS3 and that we must play it. The future of the actual console to most casual consumers is still a "hope it's great" as all man-made things are, uncertain.