SquareEnix's next big single player game

It comes with a promo code that gets you into the FFXIV Beta, or drastically increases your chance of such.

Guess we're all buying it.

UM, my friend just got it, I'm taking that from him tomorrow.

I'm thinking of buying it, taking the code and reselling it to gamestop

Ummm, last I heard the "code" takes you to a form much like the one we filled out in December, but it's for a PS3 beta.

edit: yeah, I looked it up. It's only for a chance at the PS3 beta.

I wouldn't want to play it on the PS3 ew.

I really love this informative post about FFXIII's gameplay, supposed linearity, plot, &c. Nice.

XIII has been touted as awful, which I fully blame on the lack of towns and class customization. Even the makers said that "it's less than an RPG" because it lacks the key features of the RPG template.

The end product just became a boring, linear CGIfest that mostly plays itself.

the earliest I can confirm this is Friday, when hopefully I can rent this. Since the beta "promo" is just for a beta item and a chance at the beta, I see no point in supporting Square by buying it. Also, $60 for a game is highway robbery.

also, Gramz: please edit this into the first post, because it is oozan with relevance.

AHAHAHAAHAHA.

That picture is hilarious.

Plus, Darkwizard it's not like anyone actually wants to play XIII

FFXIII is REALLLLY LAME.

just saying.

I want to play it. I'm pretty much going to play it nonstop once I get on break. It looks awesome as hell. I've always played the Final Fantasy games for their awesome stories. I've been hearing the gameplay is really not that exciting, and that's a shame (even though the battle system looks sick as fuck to me, TBH), but what I really want from it is still there.

I bought this for the PS3. I'm about 13 hours in. I'll post more later but all I'll say is that the plot is the best plot yet, the voice acting is perfect, the game is the most beautiful game I've ever seen and combats fun and faster paced. I'll give a more full opinion when I have one.

ih8ugais

<-- jealous

Director Motomu Toriyama:

"Personally, the Final Fantasies that I have worked on have been very story-driven, so in terms of the development I wanted to, of course, use my personal strengths which where those," he says. "I call it a bento box system, where you have all of the different little things in there. So we had minigames or towns were you were able to talk to all of the townspeople. But with the HD console you’re not really able to do that because it takes so long to develop.

"Now that we have that base technology… The next time you see a Final Fantasy, we might be able to pack in more of those elements that existed in the past. And I also think that a game doesn’t need to have all of those items in the future. We can create additional downloadable content for people to add, too. It doesn’t have to come with that game itself."

So let me get this straight... because of HD, and despite the fact that they spent 4+ years working on FFXIII, they couldn't do things that they have done in the past mechanics-wise?

Sometimes I think that HD graphics are sending the video game industry backward instead of forward.

Nobody cares about content if it looks really fucking pretty.
(See: Avatar)

Okay, so now I'm somewhere between 16 and 20 hours into the game (last time I remember checking it was at 16, but that was awhile ago). At 16 hours in, I was able to pick which 3 of 6 members that were in my party. Shortly after that, all job boards opened up for my characters, and the whole system gets pretty deep. Still no idea how to do item transformations of any of that crap, but I think it's coming. No airship, but from what I can tell, that's also coming very, very soon. The final verdict on the battle system is that I love it, but I wish I could switch who I was commanding / having the person you control die -> lose = gay. That being said, I love the battle system to death, though Eidolons seem to blow (have 3, stuck on 4 when I quit). Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Still stand by this is the best story yet, and the characters are pretty goddamned amazing.

But the real question is: Is there Cid?

Yes.

It's called making something intuitive ( not that is a good thing in this case) I agree I spend a lot of time watching Cut Scenes then battling. I was told by a friend this game was hard, now being at the beginning I find it very easy if you know how to work your paradigm shifts.

some people will say because it is intuitive ( all that means is making it easier for the user to use.) for people like us who've mostly probably played a lot of FF and come to expect certain things or challenges this can lead to disappointment.

They seem to make everyone more versetile in abilities which I'm not sure if I am a fan of yet. Because I like specific rolls in my party, also I dunno if this changes but I don't find switching to different characters during the story to my liking. I don't want to play the comic relief as main person for part of the story infact. I just want to play Lighting, they don't give enough info on her yet to not find her intriguing to play.

I don't like how everyone can either be caster, healer, dd, tank type stuff based on how you build there little abilities. So far I find this game way to easy I often hate easy games. Story is okay

Also I find all the characters oddly similiar to other ff favorites. I find lighting to be a chick cloud. (even similar hair), snow reminds me of Zell, sazh reminds me of barret, fang right now reminds me of vincent, the little girl reminds me of rikku. I dunno, that is how I see it.

But all and all I'd like to play a story in ff not witness it. I'm not paying 60 dollars for cut scenes every 10 minutes. It is the same reason I didn't finish Xenosaga.

good synopsis. well, not exactly the most correct use of the word synopsis, but whatever :X

It's said but they cater more to the masses now like other industries because that is why the money lies. Look at Madden it is one of the top grossing games and it probably the worse football game out there and they get away with because they bought NFL contract. I cannot wait till that is up and I hope 2k gets it because frankly they can make a better sports game and for cheaper. EA pulls bitch moves because they have the money to do so.

I'm up in the air about 14 I might play it with you guys if I have time.

also if this game ends up being either only slightly longer or shorter then FF7 disc 1 (which was 20 hrs and thats knowing where everything is) then i'll consider it a bomb! heheh