Under appreciated? No, just no. A terrible terrible game and no aspect of it in my view was good. The things you highlight as good were some of the worse things about it in my opinion.
Square could do with taking a note of many things this game did and puts to shame the last couple of FF games. Totally hope we get a sequel, 1.4 mill is still more than decent.
The crota boss fight in comparison to aetheon in my view is very poor. With aetheon there is some semblance of team work and needing 6 people in order to do it(although could be done with 4 or 5 v good players). Crota on the other hand, as shown by the guy who solo'd it lacks imagination from Bungie and any kind of meaningful teamwork in order to beat it. I much prefer the VOG raid. Hopefully Bungie does a better job with the next DLCs.
Confirms my worst fears.
G-Police please!!
No your not the only one this doesn't feel like a FF in any way. It looks more like a DmC game to me. Not sure what to make of it really looks similar to XIII when i was able to pretty much spam the Auto command all the way through the game.
Looks a bit hack'n'slashy to me, hopefully I'm wrong though.
yeah agreed I've kept away from most coverage and now I'm working out whether as a mainly single player orientated gamer this is worth buying. It sounds like it is, story it seems isn't brilliant but nether is it terrible so I'll probably pick this up.
I'd be interested in anyone who has this what there take is on playing this in single mode and how good it is.
I don't hold out much hope for it, the last trailer looked way too hack n slash for my liking.
Agreed but I also worry with a name like that.
Agreed I switched difficulty to Hard after reading an article that Ubi were going to rename Normal to Casual which made me realise it was going to be too easy. Glad I did, as you say its just hard enough to not make it an X tapping session like some recent RPG's, yeah I'm looking at you FFXIII.
Best game of the year so far for me. Hope it sells really well and some of these other publishes realise there is a good market for traditional JPRG games still in the west.
If you like driving games your gonna buy this, simple as. I don't really see October as being an issue. Why should they be worried about DA (the last one was terrible) and another LOTR game? I'll be buying this day one and neither of the other 2 as there not my cup of tea.
Funny you mention objectivity...something these so called "game news" sites should be applying when reviewing. If I wanted an opinion I'd go and ask some tramp on the street.
I found Ruby Weapon to be much harder. Either way all the weapon bosses in FFVII are kind of iconic for me and they've never reproduced anything close to that since. 15 years or so on I can still remember clearly the moment I beat those guys, pure magic.
Such a pity Square have destroyed FF over the past few years.
Knight takes Koala..check
XII for me was when it started to slide, a decent enough game but for me X was the last stella FF title. I've bought all the remastered versions but X will be the last one for me.
This is also a damning verdict on FFXIII and its various spin offs, I wonder if Square will learn there lesson? Based on the Versus XIII footage seems not as were in for another action/westernised RPG experience.
Mixed emotions with this, love the fact I'm able to play through it in HD but also sad as it was the last great FF that Square did. Hopefully it outsells FFXIII and Square get the message.
Wow i'm still on first play thru also. Sometimes i just stand around for minutes on end looking around at the scenery its that good lol
I've just read Eurogamer give this is a 9 as well.
I'll confess I had big doubts about where MGS was going with these new games, I had kinda archived the game in my mind after GOTP thinking it was all nicely tied of and anything that came after would just be cash cows. I'm now starting to seriously re-evaluate that having read quite a few of the reviews, which I'm both scared and excited about!!! Think I'm gonna be buying this now...kudos to Kojima and his...
Would second legacy of kain
Also g-police was one of my favourites growing up