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A Chat With the Final Fantasy XIII Team
1up's Shane Bettenhausen had the chance to sit down for a chat with the team behind FFXIII. They discuss the multiple versions of the games planned, the character of the title's heroine, the futuristic setting, and just a little bit about the game's battle system. From the article: "At first sight, it might seem like an action game, but FFXIII inherits the long tradition of the numbered FF games, which is the active-time battle command system. We are trying to use a similar system to what you've seen, but the major difference is that the battle will be speeded up considerably. In the past, you had to wait to input commands, but our goal here is to reduce that waiting time as much as possible, so that the battles are greatly speeded up."
I really miss the old settings of the pre FFVII games. Bring back the epic tales of knights and castles, and leave the dull Blade Runner-esque cities to lesser games, I say.
Allow me to translate for you:
...playing the 13th version of the same system is just stupid, even if it's "speeded up" and has even more impressive cutscenes.
You're all stupid for playing this game!
I'm hoping that when the Wii dominates the PS3...
I'm a fanboy!
Oblivion should be the standard, not the exception.
Someone made a good game, so now we should all clone THAT game instead! Then, ten years from now, we'll bitch about Oblivion clones!
Now, for the record, I don't play video games much at all these days. When I do, it's usually sitting in my friend's living room. However, when I do play, I enjoy Halo 2 just as much as Warcraft III and just as much as any Final Fantasy. Are you telling me that I'm an idiot because I will enjoy playing FFXIII? Or better yet, are you telling Sony that they're stupid for making a 13th (14th) game whose predecessors have broken sales records?
I think you're an anti-Sony or anti-FF fanboy and you don't care what the game has, you just want to see it burn. Don't criticize a game before it's even released.