The point is that the VAST majority of people who have been bashing the game or the series in the general are not FANS they are just the idiots on the web with the loudest voice and SE may be listening to people who will never be pleased regardless of what they do.
Personally I agree with the article.
The game was well reviewed by most of the critics out there. There were problems with the game of course and that can be said for every game it was not perfect but still a well reviewed game nonetheless.
If you were to never look at a review of the game and listen to nothing but the rampant flame wars and bashing of the game one would expect it to have a metacritic rating of like 10 but when you look it's 83 which is...
Doubtful. All this is going to affect is how good the game looks and that has nothing to do with how it runs.
If you go back to Final Fantasy XI for a example. The PS2 and 360 versions graphically look like crap while the PC version run at max looks pretty good. All those run on the same servers(PS2 360 and PC) So this will not affect the ability for the different platforms to play together. If the game is up and running on PS3 you will be playing with PC players as well.
Remove Lair and add Folklore and you have a perfect list.
Amazing how everyone in here trying to defend the game gets trashed, insulted or gets a mass amount of disagrees and most people have nothing to say about the game. They repeat the same tired criticisms and are basically saying "But but the game sucked" The vast majority of these people have never even played the game.
How people can say this game was bad because of being so different is a complete WTF for me. EVERY Final Fantasy game is incredibly different. XII wa...
@Noctis
Why would you want to be using a Alt anyway? The game lets you do every single job on a single character you just switch. That's why they make you pay for a new character because it's either for another person or it's being bought just to store items(which they have added NPC's you can get for a dollar that hold more stuff for you)
@Shadowstar
You can debate the story itself not being that great and to be honest despite loving the game the OVERALL story was a little weak.
That said Final Fantasy XIII had INCREDIBLE characters and emotions throughout. The game was VERY character driven and characters changed and evolved as the game went on more so then any past Final Fantasy. Most past Final Fantasy games the characters start and end the game the same. Cloud stars FFVII as a badass Sol...
@Mihael-Keehl
It's funny you mention real life vs the web on this.
I have a group of about 6-7 RPG loving friends and all of them LOVED Final Fantasy XIII yet everyone on the internet does nothing but trash the game. I wonder what's going on with that. Personally I thought the game was awesome.
I would say it was decent not really well done. The outfit and weapon are pretty good. That aside the person doesn't fit well because they are not dark enough(Fang was very tanned or dark) Her hair is messy but not close enough to the way Fang's looked. She also doesn't seem to have enough definition in her muscles.
Decent but it could be better.
ever wondered what a female Kratos would look like?
Nope
Anyone who doesn't think FFXIV is stunning is retarded simple as that. Hate on the game or MMO's in general all you want it looks incredible. It surpasses a crap load of single player games and easily surpasses every other MMO out there or coming out in the next few years.
The game itself will more then likely be far from perfect but the graphics are incredible period.
From what I saw at E3 the game looked great but the AI looked retarded. There was a point in the demo where one of the guys gets a bullet in his head and the guy just holds up the corpse in the chair. The AI just looks at the dead guy in a chair and walks away. There is NO WAY you would not notice a giant bullet hole in a guys head and blood pouring from it. Not to realistic if you ask me.
That's just the AI though. Everything else looked great.
Honestly unless he can get Activision to change how they function as a company and get Kotick to go away or at the very least shut the hell up he isn't going to be able to help much.
Activision has one thing that has caused people to have a negative view of them and that one thing is Bobby Kotick. He is a douche of the highest degree and treats everyone in the company like a tool instead of people. It's his fault alone the public's view of the company is so bad.
@GWAVE
They aren't supposed to pay 2 fees.
I don't know if anyone remembers this or not. But when this gen began MS talked up MMO's on the 360 alot and one of the key things was that Silver members WOULD NOT need to be a gold member to play a MMO and the reason behind that was so users didn't have to pay 2 fees.
I don't know if Final Fantasy XI worked that way on 360 or not as I was a gold member for the short time I pla...
My only guess(which doesn't make sense even so weird) Is that they did the voice work for it and then for whatever reason didn't deem it a good idea to release as the cost of the release would just cause more losses. But I honestly doubt that's the case. Vesperia would sell a crap ton on PS3 so all they need to do is release it.
It's either that or there is some contract that was made with MS that is preventing them from releasing it and they are just waiting...
I'm still waiting for PS3 Vesperia in the US.
Bottom line on this is SE and MS did not want to budge on the game. SE wanted full control over the way the game ran on Xbox Live like they did with Final Fantasy XI and MS was unwilling to give them that control and because of that MS probably just said screw it.
Big mistake on their part in my opinion. They don't have any real MMO's on the console aside from FFXI and I don't see much anything else working with the Xbox if SE can't get MS to deal.
I can't speak for every single game out there in the case of free to play and pay to play.
However what I can tell you is that Free to play games tend to be less open and have overall less content and don't seem nearly as polished as Pay to play games.
If someone could break that trend then it would be great. That's not to say I have never liked a Free to play game. I loved Shin Megami Tenshi Online but like I said it wasen't polished and ha...
I give it about a 15% chance of being Street Fighter Alpha 4 and about a 85% chance of being Darkstalkers. It makes so much more sense to be Darkstalkers though as we know Ono wanted to make another game in the series and now is the perfect time for him to do so sense Super Street Fighter IV is done.
I really hope that's what it is because it has been to long since a new Darkstalkers game.
@Ocelot525
Making a game more western to appeal to people is a bad idea and Final Fantasy XIII is proof of that. If they don't make the game THEY want to make it won't come out as good as it should.
A perfect example of this is Versus XIII. From all we have heard it's a much more traditional Final Fantasy game and that's because it's the game Nomura WANTS to make. He is 100% in control of that project and is making the game HE wants to ...