The last one was pretty great. Although for some reason I didn't really get wind of it until earlier, the auto update refuses to work for me. Strange.
Final Fantasy XIII is indeed a four year accumulation of engine and asset design with little else to show for it. For all the vapid nonsense, I usually enjoy this series, just about all of them really but XIII is just long gone, there's barely a game there to speak of.
When I first heard about all of the debate and disappointment I expected some nice evolution to FFX-2 that was just putting off the fans of the modern iterations who take the narrative in these games *far* too seriously and probably genuinely don't give a damn if there even IS gameplay, but I can't believe what a giant step back this is.
Although it takes about 25 hours for the game to entirely open and for the game to decide you're competent enough to have some control of your massive six character group and their full Paradigm layout (the non-defautls being so underpowered it's completely worthless though), I wish it was 7-8 hours to get going, but that would merely be bad pacing instead of catastrophic.
And the music sucks. I have no problem saying that, this is the worst sound assortment from this guy I've ever heard. At least for as giant of a turd Unlimited SaGa was, the soundtrack was quite bitchin'.
Tl;dr I wish I had pre-ordered Resonance of Fate for my March game to segue past my lack of Starcraft 2 beta and to April's Monster Hunter Tri.
I did want to buy Bad Company 2, Battlefield is one of the few shooters, especially multiplayer that I can just get any excitement for lately, but even then I'm still pretty fatigued from the cavalcade of junk I played towards the end of last year.
They took away the open single player and just stuffed in a janky Call of Duty styled one, that's kinda dissapointing. Honestly, the single player is probably just a waste in this series altogether but I couldnt hope but feel there was some potential as a mix of open world/arcadey design for Bad Company. It was so woefully underdesigned, but the concept I did like.