My sentiments exactly.

Those are your sentiments exactly? WRPG's are better? Bioware better than Square Enix? A woman in the lead role isn't a good idea??? The game should've come 5 months after it was announced for 360? What...the......fuck? Did you even read his post? How could they announce and complete the game for 360 in under 6 months when they were not even done the PS3 version yet? They worked on it for this long and still people are bitching about the smallest differences between the PS3/360 versions.

Under 1 million debut when the game already debuted three months ago to over a million sales in one day??? How can it be a sub million debut if the sales in NA and EU for the week starting on March 8 will only get added to the Japanese sales? When it's all said and done, the FFXIII week one sales count will be approximately 1.5-2 million... depending on if we want to count 360 numbers. Maybe even more. Only handful of games have done that this gen...especially on PS3.

Like I said earlier in this thread, the only ppl who aren't hyped for this game are the people that were never hyped for this game. If you like WRPG's better and don't have an interest in JRPG's, then great...thats cool. But don't pretend like you were sooo hyped for this game and suddenly you're having cold feet in the last week. If you look around this community, you will see that most people are as hyped as ever:

VGChartz Most Wanted: February - Final Fantasy XIII is at #1, completely drilling games like Zelda Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Gran Turismo 5, God of War 3 and, dare I say, the still exclusive FFvsXIII. In fact, It has been at #1 six times in the past year I believe. The only time it has been pushed to #2 was right before Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Conduit were about to release. In other words, ever since VGChartz started doing a most wanted list, Final Fantasy XIII has been in the top two every month.

And please don't bring reviews into it. I know you guys can judge a game for yourselves. Like Wagram said, taking JRPG reviews from Western reviewers has now become a joke. Not to mention the game currently sits at 83, putting it at or near the top of the JRPG list for this gen. And I'll even go out on a limb and say I think that the metascore will come up to at least 85.

EDIT - Two hours after I made this post the metacritic score was re-adjusted to 85!!! So now I will go out on a limb and say 88-89 is even possible.

Those are your sentiments exactly? WRPG's are better? Bioware better than Square Enix? A woman in the lead role isn't a good idea??? The game should've come 5 months after it was announced for 360? What...the......fuck? Did you even read his post? How could they announce and complete the game for 360 in under 6 months when they were not even done the PS3 version yet? They worked on it for this long and still people are bitching about the smallest differences between the PS3/360 versions.

Under 1 million debut when the game already debuted three months ago to over a million sales in one day??? How can it be a sub million debut if the sales in NA and EU for the week starting on March 8 will only get added to the Japanese sales? When it's all said and done, the FFXIII week one sales count will be approximately 1.5-2 million... depending on if we want to count 360 numbers. Maybe even more. Only handful of games have done that this gen...especially on PS3.

Like I said earlier in this thread, the only ppl who aren't hyped for this game are the people that were never hyped for this game. If you like WRPG's better and don't have an interest in JRPG's, then great...thats cool. But don't pretend like you were sooo hyped for this game and suddenly you're having cold feet in the last week. If you look around this community, you will see that most people are as hyped as ever:

VGChartz Most Wanted: February - Final Fantasy XIII is at #1, completely drilling games like Zelda Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Gran Turismo 5, God of War 3 and, dare I say, the still exclusive FFvsXIII. In fact, It has been at #1 six times in the past year I believe. The only time it has been pushed to #2 was right before Killzone 2, Uncharted 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Conduit were about to release. In other words, ever since VGChartz started doing a most wanted list, Final Fantasy XIII has been in the top two every month.

And please don't bring reviews into it. I know you guys can judge a game for yourselves. Like Wagram said, taking JRPG reviews from Western reviewers has now become a joke. Not to mention the game currently sits at 83, putting it at or near the top of the JRPG list for this gen. And I'll even go out on a limb and say I think that the metascore will come up to at least 85.

EDIT - Two hours after I made this post the metacritic score was re-adjusted to 85!!! So now I will go out on a limb and say 88-89 is even possible.

I don't want to ruin all your optimism, but 'internet hype' and 'general hype' (as in, the general public) are two different things.  People on a forum like this clicking on a radio dial to say they want a certain game the most may show a vague example of what they are thinking of buying.  But it in no way is an accurate example of what they are really going to do.  And it is LEAGUES away from showing what the people 'at large' are going to do, because 90% of people don't sit around surfing web forums and keeping tabs on gaming news like us.  They just buy games when they see them on the shelf or hear its out from a friend.  And its very hard to guess hype based on that.

Aside from all these points, you cannot deny that FFXIII is seeing a lot less interest leading up to its release than pretty much any other FF before.  Its getting a lot of media attention and almost on a daily basis there's some kind of 'news' story (controversial or otherwise).  But many people aren't looking for it all.  They are either just waiting for the game to (finally) come out or have just given up caring.  And considering there's a number of major games out there as big or even biggerthan FFXIII now, you can understand why.  Back when FFX came out, it was the big chesse.  When FFXII, it had some competition, but it was still on everyones list.  Now....FFXIII is looking like something people need to decide to buy next to God of War 3, Mass Effect 2 and Bayonetta.  And now with some of these reviews, some people are losing even more interest.

Frankly, I think people should just ignore reviews, like I always say.  But heck, I can't blame them this time, seeing as how the game has taken 5 years to get to this point and some people have been waiting nearly this long just for any word on the game.  And all the 'gameplay' footage doesn't help, as most of it is just FMV teasers.