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Wagram on 07 February 2010
KylieDog said:
jonnhytesta said:
so it begins this game is going to be hammered by western revies.they hate jrpgs games now . wkc was just a warning, the game had its flaws but it wasnt a 5 /10 or a 6/10.

 

They don't hate JRPGs now, is just that many JRPGs have gameplay and world mechanics that are out of date.  They shouldn't score high.

and WRPGs don't? Dragon Age: Origins felt like Baldurs gate to me and yet that game scored over a 90 on metacritic.



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-ku- on 07 February 2010

I thought Sony magazines are supposed to be media tools are they trying to get credibility by damaging 4 year development games?
And Mag got a 73



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d21lewis said:
Honestly, do JRPG makers even realize how hard it is to save the world? That shit is impossible!

 

 

 

iLLmaticV3 on 07 February 2010
-ku- said:
I thought Sony magazines are supposed to be media tools are they trying to get credibility by damaging 4 year development games?
And Mag got a 73



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Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be the GREATEST game EVER made!!!

I'd take a bullet for Square-Enix! 

 

ShadowSoldier on 08 February 2010

I bet this would have gotten a 10/10 if it was still exclusive :P

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Netyaroze on 08 February 2010

I dont have a problem with the FF13 score but I know that they definetly have different criteria then I have. Because they gave games better scores which definetly are not better then FF13 imo.



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RageBot on 08 February 2010
NiKKoM said:

 



Bet with Dr.A.Peter.Nintendo that Super Mario Galaxy 2 won't sell 15 million copies up to six months after it's release, the winner will get Avatar control for a week and signature control for a month.

RareglovE on 08 February 2010
ShadowSoldier said:
I bet this would have gotten a 10/10 if it was still exclusive :P

ZING!

OH! that will be certainly 100% if its still exclusive



RageBot on 08 February 2010
Aion said:
Wow i love all the FF XIII hate, just because its not old school FF. Its sad people can't accept this gens gaming is better.

What's "better" about this gen, when you talk about JRPGs? |:

 

alfredofroylan said:

palancas7 said:

Would've got a better score from PSM3 if it were exclusive.

 

Just saying...

I'll say that a bigger deep gameplay is needed, more towns and good characters. This generation has been quite harsh with JRPGs because games like Oblivion, DragonAge and Fallout have settled a standar that Final Fantasy XIII doesn't have. In fact I'm expecting harsher reviews from other sites.

Oblivion and Fallout 3? Good characters? What?
What standard did these games settle that wasn't already settled by the late 90s with games like Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1-2, Deus Ex and Baldurs Gate 2?



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Innervate on 08 February 2010
Wagram said:
KylieDog said:
jonnhytesta said:
so it begins this game is going to be hammered by western revies.they hate jrpgs games now . wkc was just a warning, the game had its flaws but it wasnt a 5 /10 or a 6/10.

 

They don't hate JRPGs now, is just that many JRPGs have gameplay and world mechanics that are out of date.  They shouldn't score high.

and WRPGs don't? Dragon Age: Origins felt like Baldurs gate to me and yet that game scored over a 90 on metacritic.

Dragon Age also didn't remove fundamental role-playing elements, like towns and exploration, because they got in the way of the developer's 'genius' narrative. It has its flaws, and I agree it doesn't deserve that metacritic score (but most hyped games don't, but that's for another discussion), but XIII just has far too many, even for a JRPG -- a genre that refuses to evolve.

Is it so hard to accept that maybe, just maybe, FFXIII isn't as good as fans hope?



chenguo4 on 08 February 2010

FFXIII is an example of a genre that refuses to evolve... while people are also bitching about the changes.

Here's the deal. I think it's bullshit they took out towns out of laziness and for "narrative." But realistically speaking, it seems no jrpg can win. If it changes (into anything other than a TPS), people bitch. If it stays the same, guess what, other people bitch.

No one can do jack shit about it. Let's all just stop being retarded and fighting over how good a game is, before it's even come out and most of us have played it.




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