I expect a game I'll consider shit to mediocre myself, and it will get mediocre to decent reviews, 70 to 80.
You really don't need to worry about that. Just in the first third of the game (the country Lucis) you will find:
-desert
-beaches
-canyons
-grass lands
-conifer forests
-broadleaf forests
-swampland
-river valleys
-mountainous regions
Other confirmed regions later in the game are a lagoon, a jungle and a snowy landscape.
Sounds good.You really don't need to worry about that. Just in the first third of the game (the country Lucis) you will find:
-desert
-beaches
-canyons
-grass lands
-conifer forests
-broadleaf forests
-swampland
-river valleys
-mountainous regions
Other confirmed regions later in the game are a lagoon, a jungle and a snowy landscape.
IMO the general consensus will be that it's a better game than XIII. The mood will be one of pleasant surprise that it ended up being a good game after its historic clusterfuck of development.
It still might score lower than XIII, however. This will mainly be due to people simply having higher standards for cinematic story-driven games nowadays, having less tolerance for anime-style shit writing, and a sense of fatigue with open-world games.
And like usual, every negative review will be picked apart by fanboys and blamed on the reviewer having the wrong expectations, or not appreciating Japanese games, or wishing it were more like the previous games, or any number of other bullshit reasons.
Not condescending at all to those people who may have issues with the game. Also "anime style shit writing", oh boy.
In general though, i think it will be impossible for this game to score lower than FF13. That has an 83 on meta. This game is not doing below an 83.
Well yeah if it's good, but if not it will definitely have no shield that would protect it from lower scores in a "too big to fail" style.
Will it get good reviews?
Will it please the fans?
Will it live up to the hype?
Where will it fall in the rankings of FF games?
From what we've seen so far, which is a pretty decent amount, i think there's nothing in the base design of the game that would give it below an 83 meta in totality.
During last gen? I would have agreed with this, but in today's landscape with critics being a bit harsher? I think there's a good chance it will do below 80. I've watched every piece of media released for this game and it just looks boring and uninteresting to me.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1296477I haven't been closely following the development of this game and I haven't touched any of the demos.
I would describe myself as cautiously optimistic about this game but y'all are giving me hope that this game won't turn out like XIII did (serious low point for me).
This is what I scored so far from the games I played in the series (I did play IX, X and XII but these are the games I scored - which I started doing after 2010 )
Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core (PSP): 93
Not condescending at all to those people who may have issues with the game. Also "anime style shit writing", oh boy.
After playing like five hours of it -- yes.
Unless of course this all tanks in the latter half so far none of this has been mentioned by reviewers in fact most have enjoyed the story so far only negative is they hope it picks up a bit more in later chapters.I think it will overall be fine, but I'm imagining some of the complaints will be:
- Grating VO
- Nonsense story
- Boring enemy design that fails to capitalize on the combat system
- Filler side quests
- Bad dialogue
After playing like 30 hours of it -- yes.