inb4 chinese review and shitstorm

It's Final Fantasy, and a big name reviewer. Of course it's going to have an artificially inflated score.

Next.

>>47111632

I hope FFXIII will be awesome. I won't start deluding myself based on reviews though, hell piece of shit FFXII has a metascore of 92.

I will play it and decide for myself.

Dat Vanille.

It's the first review, coming out nearly two months early. Square Enix isn't going to let them release it that early unless they're giving it a good score.

>playstation magazine
>like saying the official xbox magazine is unbiased

>>47111689

Can't read shit, but I know they're master trolls.

NO TOWNS?

FUCK THIS SHIT

>Playstation Magazine

Yeah, no.

>>47111689
haha oh wow

>>47111637

Yeah man, the positive reviews are biased and can't be trusted, but we can certainly trust the negative reviews.

regardless of reviews, its going to sell millions

squenix wins in the end

>most complete characters in the entire FF franchise

WOOOOOOOO

>-Extremely linear, no exploration whatsoever

So it's FFX all over again? I'll pass.

>Extremely linear, no exploration whatsoever

So much for buying my first FF game

>9/10
>FUCKING GARBAGE REVIEW NO CREDIBILITY PROBABLY GOT PAID FUCK REVIEWS


>4/10
>LOL FF SUCKS SEE SO BAD GAME IS TERRIBLE CONFIRMED

Intelligent people can't be expected to take game reviews seriously.

Where's my Dragon Quest IX, sqeenix?

>>47111689
"PUZZLE GAME?"

>>47111711
>FFXII
>piece of shit

This is why we can't have nice things.

I don't see what's wrong with a game being linear.

>complete characters
Yeah. Only biggest reason I'm not interested in the game. Everyone looks boring.

>excellent OST
I don't know. But with Lewis it ain't.

> -Extremely linear, no exploration whatsoever
I would change that to +.

>>47111941
>FFXII
>not shit

This is why developers don't even try anymore.

>>47111941
No he's somewhat right.


FF XII was an MMO, only withouth the MMO.

>>47111941
It was fucking shit. FF12 Zodiac edition was fantastic however.

There has not been, nor ever will be, a good Final Fantasy since the Square-Enix merge.

Discuss.

>>47111830
Well yeah, given that it says a lot when a magazine goes against the current and says a game sucks when everyone is dying to play it and giving retard levels of hype. Negative reviews alienate the blind fanboys, and if they have dealings with the company, risks the business relationship with said company for future games.

If this were a niche game by a niche company, a positive review this early might have a little truth to it. But this is a main installment in a flagship series. They're not going to say it sucks no matter how bad it is.

Linearity is a good thing in a JRPG, all that pointless wandering around I did in FFXII was one of the main reasons I hated the game.

If you want exploration play GTA. Just don't expect to find anything worthwhile.

>>47112017
Well then you are a fucking retard. Who would want to restrict themselves to linear gameplay?

>>47112052
This pisses me off so much. FFXII is just a very polished beta for the Zodiac Edition.

>+Intense combat system

>>47112052

You're a fucking idiot.

>>47112166
Shit son, best refutation i've seen all day. You must have been your schools best public speaker and debater.

>>47112166
No fuck you and your shitty linear gameplay faggot. It's a new fucking decade we don't need the same fucking JRPG thats been made countless fucking times.

>>47111941

meh, I didn't like XII either. Story was good but very obviously rushed to completion, gambits played the game for you and if you didn't use them, battles were still longer and more drawn out than playing in a normal ATB system would have been.

Vaan was cancer, judges got almost no screentime until right before you fought them, and Ashe was fucking irritating (I blame that on her voice actor though)

Exploration and some of the characters were the only good parts of that game. Having a full-blown city with realistic moving townspeople blew my mind at the time.

>>47112152
Because I like it more. I don't really like just aimlessly wandering around. And linear games are always better planned cos they're strict. In open world things just get out of hands and got bugs and glitches.

Hmmm.

Beautiful cutting edge graphics and cut scenes.
Cant explore or deviate from the linear gameplay to expose the plot.

Should be a great movie.

>>47112336
>Ashe was fucking irritating

That's an odd way of spelling Penelo. Also Fran had one weird ass accent. It's like i wanted to get a boner but i didn't.

>>47112285

u mad?

>>47112407
Exactly. Thus you get glitchy games like Fallout 3, that are so fucking poorly made that the console versions freeze up all the fucking time...

IGN 2008 GOTY

Only a 9/10? It must be pretty fucking shitty if the "world exclusive" review got that low. Pass.

I think Japan just has a completely different idea of what an RPG is. I mean, they call those text+CG porn games adventure games.

There's a shit ton wrong with it.

-Linear. Even the Japanese are complaining about it
-Can't skip or avoid any fight. Can't flee
-Have little choice in your party (and I mean who is fighting , not who can you chose from like in FF4)
-No towns
-No alternative paths

I was going to post another pic showing the first 5-6 hours of the game, but 4chan wont take it (resolution I think). It's in the link
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/192/ffxiiimap.jpg

why is linear bad again?

sandboxes blow.

>implying exploration was fun in any jrpg ever

It's not fun searching for the npc to start my god damn quest.

>>Extremely linear, no exploration whatsoever

All FF games are like this.

>>47112469
Fallout 3 is better than any FF game ever made

>>47112429

Penelo was tolerable because she wasn't really relevant, and I could tolerate Fran because her accent was just... weird.

Ashe though, was forced on me at every point in the story and her asthmatic rambling infuriated me. GO BACK AND PLAY IT, she gasps and wheezes in almost every cutscene holy shit.

>>47112477

>only 9/10

I'm going to buy and enjoy ffxiii

>>47112495
You can avoid fights. And you can flee. And if you have 4+ members in the party you do get to choose, which is actually fairly often after the intro bit. Your info is terribly wrong, sir.

>>47112525

Herf and derf.

>>47112554
Maybe if you have never played Fallout 1 and 2 nor a Final Fantasy game.

>>47112577
You must be new to video game ratings. A 9/10 is a painfully mediocre score for a big budget game, especially for something being hyped up as world exclusive. FFXIII really is that much of a piece of shit.

>>47112554

>>47112128

This. Everyone complains about FFX, instead of FFXII.

>>47112554

LOL IT WAS OPEN WORLD SO IT WAS GOOD

Fallout 3 was a fucking awful glitchy mess, with atrorocious graphics and voice acting(excluding Liam Neeson lol). The combat was also shit .Blowing heads off in VATS got old after about10 minutes..

And open world is pretty fucking pointless when everything looks exactly the same.

Tell me faggot, what exactly was so good about Fallout 3?

>>47112854
Nothing, he's just another My First Fallout.jpg casual faggot.

>linear
>bad thing

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH LINEARITY?

At least I'm not wasting time looking for something thats not there or spending extra time looking for one item that, once again, might not be where Im looking.

Playing Tales of Symphonia. The most exploration I do is running off the path to open a chest. AND IM OK WITH THAT.

Some games are meant for exploration and some aren't. As long as the game is made well, it doesnt NEED exploration. And quite frankly, Im sick of exploring in JRPGs and fighting monsters in ten different battles before I actually reach a chest to get one little thing. Fuck that.

>>47112525
It's not a problem if they game isn't poorly made and still allows you to explore a vast world without getting lost. Having such a linear game doesn't allow for an enjoyable replayable experience.

>>47112525
It is, however, fun to find special treasure.

Most modern RPGs lack any form of making exploration fun. Alternate paths with treasure don't go very far, the paths that ARE far almost always have items that suck (turning it into nothing but a waste of time), and sometimes you can't come back if you find you took the correct path all along. And of course, it can be fairly annoying to backtrack to a certain spot just to check one nook that has nothing in it.

It's like if you built a town with ten houses, but there are never any NPCs and only one house has a treasure chest, which contains only one Potion. Of course exploring the game ends up sucking. There's nothing new or exciting to find. Nowadays, it's only done in the very off chance that someone or something is hidden there for you, which isn't the case anymore. Like how RPGs USED to have optional hidden characters.

This game is more linear than motherfucking Wizard of Oz. Follow the road lolol

>implying i won't enjoy FF13 because it's linear

Last time i checked every FF was linear. Oh but wait theres a world map and i can like find broken weapons and summons that remove all challenge from the game...well shit.

>>47111604
Extremely linear, no exploration only docks it a point? Yeah fucking right, think again.

>>47112907
>And quite frankly, Im sick of exploring in JRPGs and fighting monsters in ten different battles before I actually reach a chest to get one little thing. Fuck that.

THATS WHAT THIS GAME IS EXACTLY

You have to fight EVERY FIGHT

and the only diviation is seriously a couple small paths with what

10 fucking monsters

and a chest

COME ON

>>47112854

I had SO much fun with fallout 3. Really getting into your character and, well, role-playing. I didn't carry around the most OP weapons, or stack the broken perks when leveling- I just played like I felt the character I chose would play- a more-less selfish kid who was abandoned by his father and took it out on others, without being an evil menace. Wandering around, discovering new locations, and treating it more like a survival game made it a lot of fun.

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=6539&mp=1

>>47112989
MW2 is linear and that still is fun as fuck to play. What's your point? Heck look at the faggots who play multiplayer, those maps are pissant tiny yet it's the best selling game of 2009. If the game is fun, no one gives a shit if its linear because they don't notice it.

>>47112925
While not an RPG, Twilight Princess was the most egregious example of this.

>>47112988
If you're challenged by a FF game, you're doing it wrong.

>>47112907
well considering that its a Final Fantasy game, and a facet of the series has been exploring the world, learning its history, side quests, and just generally dicking around, yeah I would say thats a problem.

hay gaise, no matter what u pessimists think, u'll probably gonna buy it when it comes out. I'm definitely getting it, sucky or not

>>47112907

THANK YOU

SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT

>>47113075
Sounds like someone grinds like a motherfucker.

This game looks like a pile of shit.

The futuristic FF's are all kinda shitty. We need to go back to something like FF9, with charming looking characters and furries.

This is the first ff game in the series that is linear. Blame microsoft for it.

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=6539

They had to take out all the multiple paths just so it can fit on 4 discs for the xbox version.

ITT: opinions

/v/ only cares about reviews until their favorite game gets a bad score. Then they say "lol reviews" and act like they're nothing. As soon as a game they want to bash comes out? They pick the lowest review scores and act like god himself wrote it.

>>47112854
Although I can see your point about an open world being empty and boring, this argument doesn't hold any water with Fallout 3. In Fallout 3 you have plenty of towns, dungeons and enemy encounters. Not to mention random encounters which were both awesome and hilarious in their own respect. You could discover miniature stories that devolved into small quests that would also often be fucking awesome. Locations that would tie in with the universe like finding the alien space craft which was undeniably awesome.

I enjoyed exploring the wasteland more than the actual storyline. You obviously didn't play the game past a few hours, and if you did, you played like like a fucking jrpg, just following the main story line.

Every FF is linear. My mind has literally imploded due to all this recent hurrr linear bashing. It's like everyone is 10 years too slow.

>>47113185
multiple paths is not what they deleted i can assure you of that.

Sure about that?

The thing most people don't seem to understand about the game being linear is it is not just about where you can walk on the map. It is about everything you do in the game.

FF13 is like watching a movie that does not play unless you keep pressing the play button. It is so linear, you can barely justify calling it a game.

Anyway, a 9/10 review from a big name reviewer of a game that is not released yet. I wonder how much they were paid for this review score?

One thing I have learned in cases like this is to half the review score for a more accurate and reliable score.

>>47113185
>first FF game that's linear
Sup FF10

>>47113232
> Every FF is linear.

WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING? Have you even played the other FF games in your lifetime?

>>47113182

Congratulations, you have an opinion. Personally, everything about FFIX makes me want to puke, but to each his own

>>/v/ opinion: Non-linear games like Fallout 3 are the best thing created since sliced bread.

I've held it for a while, and now I'm saying it. /v/'s opinion is stupid. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but I just don't get some of the people here.

>>47113126
No, you do quests and fight with numbers. Either you have the numbers to win or you don't. It's not hard.

>>47113203
>god himself wrote it.

Don't be ridiculous. God can't write it himself, he has no corporeal form. He instead possesses the game reviewers to write it for him.

>>47113203
>>4CHAN ONLY CARES ABOUT THINGS IT CARES ABOUT

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS

>>47113304
Agreed.

Still pirating this shit, worth the 4 extra blank DVD R DL disks I have to spare

>>47113295
2/10 almost raged, weeaboo

I'm playing the game for Vanilla and her butch dyke lover and you can't stop me.

>>47113285
It worked for MGS4.

>>47113232
I liked how FF1 was so linear you couldn't get lost in it and how I always knew where I was supposed to go in it when I played it in the early 90's without any guides or help.

>>47113418

I'm with you, brother.

fapfapfap

>>47113285

The battle system is versatile and involves tons of strategy.

>>47113345
Wow, did you not read my post at all? I said they only care about reviews when they're bashing games they don't like. If it bashes a game they do like? They say "lol reviews" but then the next day go back to acting like reviews are true.

It's hypocritical, that's my point. /v/ is EXTREMELY hypocritical.

>>47113418
Yes I can.

You think that's air you're breathing?

>>47113418

True story.

>>47113502
did you read my post?

WOW I AM AMAZED THAT PEOPLE ARE HYPOCRITICAL TOWARDS A FRANCHISE THEY ADORE.

WHAT A CONCEPT