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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."
Whenever people realize that playing the 13th version of the same system is just stupid, even if it's "speeded up" and has even more impressive cutscenes. Maybe they should just try making a movie and forget the game.
Oh, wait, THEY DID. And it BOMBED, forcing Squaresoft to sell to Enix.
I'm sure, eventually, people will figure out that playing the same game with 13 different "back stories" is pointless, and we will see the final Final Fantasy. I'm hoping that when the Wii dominates the PS3, we'll finally see the final Final Fantasy, and console RPGs can move on past being pointless battle simulators. Oblivion should be the standard, not the exception.
Where did I say they should clone Oblivion? Oblivion is an actual role playing game. You create a character and then play through the world however you choose.
Square-Enix makes rail-playing games. You unlock crappy cutscenes via completing various tasks in their battle-simulator. There's no role playing involved at all, no strategy, and very little thought. It's practically passive entertainment.
If creating open-ended gameplay is "cloning" Oblivion, then yes, people should clone Oblivion. The fast the rail-playing game genre dies, the better off gaming will be.
Yes. Yes I am. You're an idiot because you will enjoy playing the same gameplay that has existed for the past 20 years, with the only change being that it'll be high-def.
When Squaresoft tried to make a movie based on Final Fantasy, it completely bombed. That should give you an indication of just how great the stories are in the Final Fantasy games. Combined with boring, pointless, and above all stupid gameplay, Final Fantasy has absolutely nothing going for it.
If you enjoy playing it, you're an idiot. If sheep would stop playing the stupid games, they wouldn't be breaking sales records.
Wake up! You're not a little kid anymore. You don't have to "play" non-interactive games any more.