I agree with you though... Its bit over rated for the western taste.. There are many hardcore gamers there who loves gore and blood games more than anything... FF is way~ too linear for thm.. But Microsoft put so much effort in selling it.. XD

Yet, I think FFXIII is still good.. for my taste.. I love the so many cutscenes... hahaha..

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Added on March 11, 2010, 12:07 amErm... Perhaps this game has too many copies...

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Added on March 11, 2010, 12:07 amGo go go~!!! XD

This post has been edited by lilko: Mar 11 2010, 12:07 AM

why wouldn't it dropped?

there's already asian version where u can hv jap audio n chinese sub and also there's also the english version. Would u choose a Jap ver if u couldn't understand a word in it?

I dun mind if it is Japanese but have English subs in it..But alas, all in Japanese..So yea, i prefer English one than the Jap ver..Huhuhuhu~

But the price I checked is the price they sold in Japan. 2222yen.
Probably the Japanese didn't like it? But the westerners think otherwise?

Scores has nothing to do with market price, it's the demand and supply that determines the price. And may be some words of mouth too (that's why Radiant Silvergun still expensive )

You are pissed because Radiant Silvergun is still expensive?

Btw, every reviews I read, some gives low score, some are medium high scores. but who cares about the scores anyway. it's the demand and supply that matters.

maybe coz the skirt in FFXIII is not long enough n not short enough like gundam's sig

Played for an hour. So far saw 2 female characters.. both wear short-enough skirts. but with hot pants

FFXIII must have terrible character designs

and illogical. why hot pants + mini skirt

perhaps that is the censored one

must look for uncensored version

erm, if u want to read about 2chan reviews and why ppl hate it so much, google **WARNING** NSFW material maybe found at that website... mods pls be sporting abit, i m warning people and i m not giving an exact link...

anyway to those who "scared click coz got virus" the laments include:

control only 1 character thru out the game, the rest are using an improved gambit/auto ai controlled system where all u need to do is set the behaviour eg. be healer, or be buffer or be tank or be attacker... stuff like that

no towns. seriously no towns

no "shops". u "shop" at save points using some "online" shop.

as stated, damn linear

gets boring and old very fast but ppl claim the game becomes more interesting and less linear after 8-15 hours (can tahan that long ar?)

stuff u buy at shops arent worth it. theyre either too expensive or when u can afford to buy them, you'd prolly get something better from mob drops. in addition to that, apparently the stuff u can buy is always not as good as what u can get from drops

the rpg-ness is not traditional, after every battle, you are automatically healed up. if u lose, u can restart back at the very begining of the battle with no repercussions

players claim that just selecting "attack" all the way works most of the time.

other random trivia stuff:

ff13 was originally meant for ps2, but was scrapped in favor of ps3, losing 1 n a half years worth of work. in relation to that the developers themselves admitted that they omitted towns because it was too much work - ps3 quality standards are quite high.

Yup, that is the same review I saw.
And it provided lots of details of how bad it is.
I mean, jrpg without towns...not nice leh...and not really FF's style. "Too much work" to me is like a very lame excuse.
And controlling only 1 character... *duhhhh*

So I guess the best is to wait for any personal reviews by our fellow Malaysians here at LYN. =)

Post your comments here if you played the game! Encourage or Warn us about the game.

or maybe have to complete certain side quest to remove them.

well i have a friend
one reason he bought ps3 was coz of ff 13
he loves ff
he can read jap (more or less)

he got the jap version
played it
and his opinion to the game?

BORING

LOL!! GG!!!
Luckily my reason for PS3 is not that.
Somemore they made it available for XBOX360. LAME!

lol

are u so lazy that u can't go to the PS3 thread n click on the FFXIII thread for their opinions?

so do u think FFX is linear or not? i still don't know why ppl are so worked up over this...since when does the new gen FF is so sandboxy?

gundam's siggy is......superb.....

whenever the name FF (insert number here) is used, square enix is supposed to uphold the gamers expectations.

i dont expect FF to be like GTA but seriously its becoming more of an interactive movie. let s just compare ff 13 with ff 12.

lets just take the first 3 hours.

ff 12 : explore town, talk to people, go out of town do quest kill stuff, level up, explore the boundaries of the map

ff 13 : go forward. move forward. press on forward.save point. move forward. repeat.

not to forget, the battles are not random, you see the enemies on the map, when you get near them they attack you. you cannot "RUN" from the battle. you cannot sneak past the enemies (out of battle).

so once theyre defeated, u move forward. dont forget, once u "finish" one map, you cant suddenly say "shit i missed that treasure chest" and run back, coz once ure in a new map, theres no turning back.

yea.. so far... its been extremely linear... till you wonder why they didn't put in an auto run to bad guy and get it over with... lol