Comments on: Final Rant-asy

By: Michael D. Hester

Michael D. Hester — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:27:12 +0000

Wooooo BANDIT!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:41:27 +0000

“It completely reminded me of why I no longer play JRPG’s.”

Final Fantasy is not representative of the entire JRPG genre. It’s one franchise that’s fallen on hard times. Drawing this conclusion would be like playing the most recent CoD game and pointing to it as a reason to discard all FPS games. It’s just ignorant.

By: King of Zeroes

King of Zeroes — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:02:03 +0000

Square already DID make movie, bro. Two of them. Both equally shit. Advent Children had interesting fight scenes to its name at least, but I couldn’t bring myself to suspend my disbelief for their unbelievably retarded understanding of motorcycle physics. I’m not much of a science geek but even I found it to be offensive to everything I hold dear.

Still, this is not entirely a Final Fantasy problem. This is a current generation gaming problem. With graphics advancing as far as they have, and the majority of gamers not actually BEING real gamers, graphics have become king shit of the pile.

If you get absolutely NOTHING right, you will still sell Gabens weight in gold if it looks pretty on the outside. So quality of gameplay and plot take second rung. They’re not as important. They’re also much more difficult.

By: ahdok

ahdok — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:53:53 +0000

I’ve been getting increasingly tired of these “open roaming worlds” with random battles in JRPGs, you just have hours and hours of wandering aimlessly, accomplishing nothing, and fighting the same three wolves over and over. And tactically? in these fights you just hit “attack” over and over so that you can grind your way to a higher level.

Whether it’s Final Fantasy 3 or final fantasy 13, little has changed – the optimal thing to do in a combat is usually obvious, and the whole “Gameplay” element of the game is just a sham, to pad the game out to 40 hours. It’s cardboard cut-out videogaming. When I was ten I lapped it up, but that was 20 years ago, and I’m tired and bored of it.

I’m kind of happy to see the back of it, Linear game? yes please! I can get all the story with a minimal amount of tedium. Sure, I might have to fight three wolves, but at least I’ll only have to do it a couple of times.

Sure, there’s less “tactics” if you can call them that, but these tactics were never challenging in the slightest. If you want to really tax your brain, there are other genres of game that’ll do it (or, a good SRPG will do you okay.) – I’m finding it a little refreshing to be done with all that. It’s still a crappy game, but it’d have been a lot crappier with a massive slew of random battles to slog through.

Oh. I’m told you should try Xenoblade Saga, if you’re pussed off with the current state of the JRPG. I haven’t gotten around to it yet…

By: IcepickEvans

IcepickEvans — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:32:38 +0000

From my favorite review of the game (from my favorite review site ^o^) My second. To give some perspective on just how unfocused production on this game was, they had enough graphical assets left over to build an entire second game. I agree that XIII was a disappointment, but I'm pretty much already ranted out at this point. Suffice to say, Final Fantasy is no longer part of my must by list.