gamingeek said:

GamesMaster has settled on an 81% review score for Final Fantasy XIII, calling the game 'a classic example of style over substance'. Ouch.

But it's not all bad. GM praises the title's 'stunning vistas' - calling it the 'sumptuous eyeball feast you'd expect from Square Enix'.

'[It's] wondrous, yes, but a tad soulless,' GM reports. 'The vast majority of locales seem sadly impersonal and static.'

It concludes: 'There's not enough raw game packed into the 35-40 hours it takes to complete the narrative.

'And that leaves us with a distressing situation - a Final Fantasy game scoring less than 90%. Dear friends, we're as shocked as you.'

There's no shock here to me.  This is the path that FF has been going down since FFVII.  Back then there was still balance, but by the time FFX came along it was completely out of whack.  The series is trash now and has been for almost 10 years.

rragnaar said:

I'm really eager to try a demo for Heavy Rain.  I want it to be good, but I don't think it will be.  Who knows...  As for FFXIII, I'm sure I'll play it eventually, but this is the first FF release(outside of FFXI) that I won't be buying on day one.

Agreed on FF13. Did you like Indigo Prophecy? 

aspro said:

rragnaar said:

I'm really eager to try a demo for Heavy Rain.  I want it to be good, but I don't think it will be.  Who knows...  As for FFXIII, I'm sure I'll play it eventually, but this is the first FF release(outside of FFXI) that I won't be buying on day one.

Agreed on FF13. Did you like Indigo Prophecy?

I never got a chance to play it.

gamingeek said:

Does it burn Robio?

???  Huh?  I don't get it.  I like the Rabbids. I'm all for this.

darthhomer said:

aspro said:

Mega Man Zero collection.  Looks like an awesome deal -- four games on one DS cart.  And the Zeroes are supposed to be pretty good I think.

Yeah, they play well last I recall. Difficult games, but that's part of the fun.

Yep, they're good, but they're probably the hardest games in the Mega Man series.  If any of the others gave you problems just pass on this one. YOu'll cry like a little bitch.

gamingeek said:

robio said:

gamingeek said:

Does it burn Robio?

???  Huh?  I don't get it.  I like the Rabbids. I'm all for this.

In that you paid for the individual games and now they are 3 for the price of one

Oooh. Well actually I bought the first used and only rented the second.  I did buy the 3rd at launch though, but I got a badass Rabbid beanie with it that's almost worth the $50 in my book.  

angrymonkey said:

gamingeek said:

The stuff Jobs listed though just doesn't excite me. He says I can have itunes on it and watch moves and stuff. I can do that already. I already have an 11 hr battery life, light laptop that was fairly priced.

Sometimes I wonder just how successful some of these apple products are. The real money is in the stores I'm sure, but in unit terms I'm pretty sure that the PSP/DS destroys the iPhone in install base.

Yeah, I'm not interested in it either.  

Oh for sure, but it's not shabby. 30 million iphone/itouch as of a year ago.

It's funny when I was was first getting mac stuff  - no one cared about them. "Oh you have mac stuff, that's cool"  Then jobs, osx, ipods, iphones and everyone hates them and calls mac users arrogant, stupid and sheep.  

Don't feel bad. I've always hated them.