this is the most disappointing thing you said, since i had expected everything else from that game to be dreadful from those early reviews that came out. it's a shame. the guy who did the soundtrack has done some music that i'd legitimately listen to outside of the games it was in. sometimes he goes totally nuts and does music that HE wants to do, even if it's not fitting at all for the game. he did the soundtrack to unlimited saga and, while it was a truly awful game, the soundtrack is really well done and surprisingly diverse for what sort of game it's supposed to be. it's a really boring fantasy board game made into a videogame(no joke) and half of the soundtrack is fairly typical fantasy shit and the other half is totally ridiculous electronic/modern sounding music. who the shit puts saxophone solos into fantasy game songs??? you can really FEEL how little he actually thought of the game itself, and how he just ran with some ideas he had independent of the sinking ship he was on. if you hadn't played the game, you'd probably have no idea the music came from a really awful fantasy game. i don't know how he got away with that either, since everything out of square has been uniformly empty for the last decade. it's like he just had a bunch of songs he was fucking around with and just had the producers throw them in the game or something.

anyway, i was hoping he'd kinda take that approach with ff13, but i'm doubting that's the case if you're not finding yourself particularly impressed by it.

but he quit square a couple weeks ago, so what does that tell you about what it's like to work there, even though he was pretty much their MAIN COMPOSER

I think the OST is floating around on bittorrent or youtube so give that a listen, but from what I've heard so far it's mostly been shitty synth guitars and the battle theme that you've probably heard a million times played over every single video you've seen of the game

The boss theme is really good!

I bought FF13 and surprisingly it's not too bad once you get past the whole "moms are tough" and just general cringe moments (there are lots). Also there is a shocking Australian accent in there (Vanille) and I guess I normally wouldn't mind but being Australian myself it sticks out like a sore thumb and it's... yeah. It's really different to any RPG I've played so far, and I'm not sure if I entirely like it; I wouldn't call it an RPG either, dunno. It's just really... different. I'm curious to see how it apparently opens up like 20 hours in or w/e!

FF XIII. Hell yeah!

Or not. I wish I did though. I do not have time or money for it currently.

footnote: i am playing final fantasy 5 currently and what the hell happened between then and now

It's really different to any RPG I've played so far, and I'm not sure if I entirely like it; I wouldn't call it an RPG either, dunno. It's just really... different. I'm curious to see how it apparently opens up like 20 hours in or w/e!

I think the term you're looking for is dungeon crawler. This is what happens when you slap a story on a dungeon crawler. It's probably got the best battle system of the series (I'm excluding tactics, etc). And if you like ffx or ffx-2 then you'll like this because it's exactly like those two games.

Oh, and what dietcoke said about the mouth breathers is so true and the main thing I dislike. Vanille is the worst at it because she sounds like a pornstar every time she does it. She even does it during battle when nobody else does it and it's really annoying. Every cutscene has a character going "tch" or making a sound like their gritting their teeth or something. I hope somebody makes a youtube compilation of it to show how annoying it is.

Yeah Vanille's easily the most annoying of all. HAP HUP HOOP HO HE HII HA HE HU HI HOOOOO every god damn five seconds. Game sure looks nice though!

- "what?! you can't just--argh! hurgh!"
- "didn't i tell you? moms are tough."

As Dietcoke mentioned earlier. Once you get past the opening dungeon there, there aren't quite as many clunkers! Still enough to grate tho.

heh yeah moms are tough! what a dumb game awful voiceacting strange battlesystem *_* just bought three ffxii for my pals, fourth one is waiting for me at my home when i get back from work...

I just dunno. Just watched 2 full and complete video reviews for Final Fantasy XIII. They were terrible. The Gamespot one opened with a guy saying 'Two worlds....Six Unlikely Heroes....and a horde of Fearsome Beasts. It's Final Fantasy, all right' or something like that. Something at least as bad as that. I don't know. I put them on. I am wondering if I am done with this stuff now, or if it still has some sort of appeal to me. I mean watching the footage, and how it has been described, it looks totally awful. Not a new kind of awful of anything, but here I am re-considering the same old crap as being something for me to spend my time on. I'm not even watching the Battlestar Galactica spin-off because all that bullshit just got a bit too much. I seem to be interested in this FFXIII, though, probably because it is set in a world you get to explore or at least pretend you get to explore and you imagine all the cool shit that might be going on in it and that sweeping music is going on and you just get swept up along with it. Except I don't, anymore, really, because all the bad stuff that didn't bother me when I am a kid bother me now. The excitement I feel when I hear some piano line in the distance while the camera is gliding in and out of crystal caves and big open fields and weird looking cities up on mountains and deserts and all of that is still in there...deep inside. That cool stuff I liked and still like to indulge in sometimes, or whatever, is totally strangled by every other aspect of this game and almost every game. Like I could maybe even get on board with the 6 rogues face up against an empire crap if they tried to do it with some intelligence, but nobody has ever done that so maybe you can't.

I don't know. I hope I am finished with it all. Everytime I let my attention wander in the way of it the strength I feel that I am wasting my time and actively making myself stupider.

maybe we should get a bit of taft talk on the subject

- "so what's the plan?"
- "go in guns blazing"
- "that's not a plan!"
- "real heroes don't need a plan!"

some amazing dialogue right here guys

 

It's not too bad if you look past the french, the story and bad acting;.... it's not such a bad game lol ​right guys..... right  joke


But really I'm playing it right now there is some things I hate and some things i like about it but all i know for sure is that hippie named boy Hope needs to get kicked in the balls. Too just to see if he has any balls ether that or die will suffice.

Says who? No-one's obligated to give a good rating to a game merely because of hype. . .

But they do.  So the fact that they didn't for this one says something.