Fimbulvetr said:
I don't understand the FFXIII hate either though, I'm excited for both.
FFXIII looks really bad, that's why it gets hate from certain gamers. I mean for all the bullshit that the FFXII haters were spewing about how FFXII could play itself, at least you could choose to play with everyone. In FFXIII, you only control Lightning and set simple guideline A.I. and classes for your characters. Huge regression from FFXII and prior FF's in that alone.
The voice acting is terrible, a colossal regression from FFXII. The exploration is a big regression. The story premise is fuck atrocious. The characters are so bad at this point from the videos and summaries we have that it's almost like the FFXIII scenario writers are intentionally fucking with their fanbase. The art direction is...jesus. The architecture makes no goddamn sense anywhere. There are zippers on Odin. His mouth is a zipper. Serah is a whiny little teenage hanger-on who is getting molested by Snow. Sazh is straight up racist character design.
At least for all its worth, CB is not even trying to be serious. And that's the best you can hope for in the Final Fantasy universe, when the writers are as bad as they are in the mainline FF series at the moment.
And in this game, everything looks hugely explorable, everything seems very interactive and based on fun, not trillion dollar cinematics filled with horrifying storytelling and girls that cry when they get kissed.
That's my piece, though, so you know where it comes from. We can - and probably should - keep the games separate.
But FF:CB is factually going to be better than FFXIII. Now that that's settled, let's continue :lol @ the dance video