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Scoobes on 06 March 2010
richardhutnik said:
Scoobes said:
Not that suprised to be honest given the history of Edge and Final Fantasy reviews. Everything we heard after the Japanese release suggested this was the sort of game Edge would score poorly. Linear, lacking originality, lots of cut-scenes etc.

And if this is going to be dragging a game now, I am curious what the heck is the future of the traditional JRPG.  Are there any basic JRPGs that are getting high scores at this point?  Are any capable of doing scores like Mass Effect 2 has, or Fable or Fallout 3?

Has time passed the JRPG format by?  By the way, outside of coming out of Japan, what makes Demon's Souls a JRPG?

Honestly, the only one that springs to mind on consoles that might receive scores close to Mass Effect 2 is Versus XIII. It sounds like it maintains all the main JRPG elements people actually like whilst pushing the action scenes to more "Western" tastes.




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Xoj on 06 March 2010
Scoobes said:
richardhutnik said:
Scoobes said:
Not that suprised to be honest given the history of Edge and Final Fantasy reviews. Everything we heard after the Japanese release suggested this was the sort of game Edge would score poorly. Linear, lacking originality, lots of cut-scenes etc.

And if this is going to be dragging a game now, I am curious what the heck is the future of the traditional JRPG.  Are there any basic JRPGs that are getting high scores at this point?  Are any capable of doing scores like Mass Effect 2 has, or Fable or Fallout 3?

Has time passed the JRPG format by?  By the way, outside of coming out of Japan, what makes Demon's Souls a JRPG?

Honestly, the only one that springs to mind on consoles that might receive scores close to Mass Effect 2 is Versus XIII. It sounds like it maintains all the main JRPG elements people actually like whilst pushing the action scenes to more "Western" tastes.

even when it did it won't since it's a PS3 exclusive. even if doesn't have FF13 they will find something to nickpit



Tanstalas on 06 March 2010

If it was the 360 version it probably would have gotten a 9/10 :P



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Ravage27 on 06 March 2010

because it's not a Halo game. Honestly these are people who gave ODST a fu%king 9 and hands out 7s to 90% of ps3 exclusives.

I have no doubt it would have scored higher had their beloved console gotten the better version, why do you think DragonAge got a 5 too?



Aion on 06 March 2010

Wow well its Edge.



 

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outlawauron on 06 March 2010

After playing this game for several hours, I find this review to be completely laughable.

Even the "bad, linear parts" are freaking fantastic. It'll take some drastic train wreck for this to NOT be my favorite game this generation. But what did you expect, it's Final Fantasy.



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darthdevidem01 on 06 March 2010
outlawauron said:
After playing this game for several hours, I find this review to be completely laughable.

Even the "bad, linear parts" are freaking fantastic. It'll take some drastic train wreck for this to NOT be my favorite game this generation. But what did you expect, it's Final Fantasy.



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Ajescent on 06 March 2010

aaww that's so sweet.



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Paperdiego on 06 March 2010

wow... downhill for final fantasy?



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Catlana on 06 March 2010
lestatdark said:
Catlana said:
Wagram said:
lestatdark said:
Well, it was kinda expected, plus their review isn't that bad, just that the linearity let them down big time.

Plus, they gave Dragon Age a 5 too, so FFXIII = DA:O is really awesome in my book :P

Though I didn't like DA all that much. I still say it deserves an 8.

I decided to ignore Edge as a rpg rating site after the 5 to Dragon Age which I really enjoyed. The Edge reviewers are not rpg fans and the low ratings for RPG games show that. 

They have a very unique and strange way to rate RPG's. They have given good scores to most FF's before and even in this gen, they have given some good scores to RPG's as well. 

I do question their rating choice in the cases of both DA:O and FFXIII, but in the content of the review, they were far more professional with the FFXIII review than with the DA:O one, as that one felt to me, at least, that they were just giving it a raw comparison to the current trend of WRPG's, instead of focusing on the strenghts and unique points of DA:O. 

The problem comes from their reviews using this strange and different rating system. A site that gives Fable 2 a 9, Borderlands a 6, and Dragon Age a 5 is quite off the beaten path for reviews. There is no discernable standard that Edge is using. If I can not trust the review mag / site why should I bother with their reviews?