Final Fantasy GOTY 2010?

Darth, behave yourself.

Whoever said the they downgraded the graphics because of X360, should watch that.
Absolutely stunning!

But it has tons of innovations.

Its not traditional.....nor is it conventional

They ar eputting innovations in

Looks amazing but I strongly dislike the shiva motorcycle thing, horrible design in my opinion.

I'm fairly sure they're not. I bet it's still a game about a ragtag bunch of rebels fighting some human and then demonic force threatening the world and/or universe with total destruction or something. Hopefully no one has amnesia.

I'm sure the fighting still involves inputting commands and watching the action play out.

I'm sure a lot of the innovations are merely spinoffs of things they've tried in other games and are repackaging and renaming for this game.

I like Final Fantasy, but it is what it is. They tried to change the formula drastically with FF XII and innovate. They got shitted on for it by fans and didn't execute well enough to sway reviewers and voters. Now they bring it back to a more traditional approach.

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not much different from WRPG's either then.......I mean seriously all RPG's & most games have this story

A person/group of people chosen specially to stop an evil which is trying to cause harm to the community & so on.

Yes in Fallout 3 you can choose to be evil, but you still have an enemy trying to dominate the landscape (those knight people or that computer that pretends he's a president)

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Then why is it AAA on metacritic, they obviously did?

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from previews of FF13, everyones been very positive.....I think this title may have enough to be AAA

You're just complaining about stuff that defines the genre.  Shooters will all have guns, but having a shooter with a gun doesn't mean it isn't innovative in other aspects.

That did look good, I'm excited for this.

have to agree. yeah it looks really nice and i'm sure the story will be good, but they haven't really innovated anything. its similar to X-2's battle system. only difference is you can do more than one attack at a time for a character and string them together. i'm sure the game will be good but it hasn't really done anything that any other final fantasy has done before, its really just expanding on ideas that the past games had

The media doesn't complain that shooters have guns. They do complain about the complacency of traditional RPG aspects though, and these are the same people that at the end of the year vote for the GOTYs. I'm not saying I share their opinions, I'm just letting darth know this is why FF XIII isn't going to win. The Bethesda model is winning GOTY as it was a frontrunner in both 2006 and 2008, and FF is far, far removed from that model.