Poll: Do you want Yahtzee to review Final Fantasy XIII?

[Geekmaster K]

Final Fantasy 13 looks like a major break away from the traditional formula in terms of gameplay. For anyone who's kept up with it, it looks like it could be a sign that JRPGs are finally evolving past random encounters, turn-based combat, and boring overworld maps. Yahtzee might give it credit for that, but he probably won't give it a good review, just because it's a JRPG. Honestly, though, only the elitist douches let Yahtzee's reviews influence whether or not they play a game. He gave a bad review to BioShock for crying out loud!

He actually said Bioshock was one of the best games of 2007, although he did trash it for the most part. But since this guy has a list of good games that couldn't even fill a post-it, how can we take him seriously? I think you should be required to like games before you can review them.

It's been a while since I've seen the BioShock review, but all I remember is him trashing it and saying it was a "dumbed down" version of System Shock 2. I don't watch Yahtzee's reviews to take them seriously. I watch his reviews to laugh at the many ways he trashes good games. The ONLY times I ever take him seriously is when he absolutely loves a game. I have both Portal and Psychonauts, and they're both AWESOME!

 

[Typhron]

You want to review FF13? Why not just go play in the deadliest hallway ever?

It's the same thing. :V

In all seriousness? FFXIIIzomgwtf is bad even for a Final Fantasy. It's about as stereotypically JRPG as your average Persona game. Moreso in that it's a complete let down in terms of actually being a /game/.

Would he pan it? Yes. So would every other sane person on the planet. Because (*GASP*) it's bad. I'd only say he'd like reviewing it if he enjoy doing Too Human.

May I ask why you think this?
For I am curious how it is bad if you have yet to play it and I am wondering if you are judging it before you've played it. Yes, I'll admit I'm also judging it before I play it, I think it'll be good, but why do you call anyone who likes it 'insane' for doing so in the process.

Necromancy? But whatever.

I'd be lying if I said I'd played it, yet I'd also be lying if I said I didn't know anything about it, what with having friends who bought the japanese version and thusly went to tell me how right I was to tell them it was a bad game (but for arguably different reasons). Since I realize now it's not out in America yet, I'll say this spoiler-free tidbit:

The game is great graphically and the battle system is perhaps okay. But this game isn't for you if you want other tangible parts of a game that even other Final Fantasy(s) had, like a story, an environment to run around in, and/or characters who don't sit around and literally cry until their eyeliner runs.

Thusly the "Deadly Hallway" comparison I lifted from another person who described the game. There's other BS I called on the game that I went off on my friends for with constant "I told you so"s, but that'd be spoiling too much. :V

Thread-Contributing Addendum: I'm really more angry at how what I expected the game to turn out to be right, most of which being from what I learned from other games that came out over the 2000-2009 decade. Long story short, Final Fantasy XII was awesome, and while it did have a good bit of validly complained flaws, the game was, and is, considered "to suck". You know what else "sucked" and was also a good game? Psychonauts. You know what we won't see much of in this game? Innovation.

I'd only like to see him pan it because it's obligatory.

 

[Saarai-fan]

Yes, but only because it would be hilarious. And I say this as someone who loves FF13 to bits and general thinks the haters who haven't even played it yet can suck it. But Yahtzee is hilarious, and if he reviews it, he will rip on it entertainingly, I'll laugh my head off as I watch it, and then go right back to loving the game.

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What he said.

I wouldn't mind it if Yahtzee reviewed it, just to see his opinion on the Final Fantasy franchise. But even if he gave it and the franchise a negative view point, I doubt it would destory my love for Final Fantasy.

 

[Steppin Razor]

Its not my definition it was mocking the guy I was quoting who was insulting a guy cause he thought a game was great.

Ok then, let's move on and pretend I didn't make an arse of myself.

You may forget it, but I will always remember.

*flashes memory erasing pen*

You take my memories but don't give me the whole MIB-style bs story? Bloody cheapskate bastard only doing a half arsed job.

 

[reg42]

Not really, but it's not as if I'm dead set either way. I wouldn't mind if he did, but i doubt he will.

 

[yeah_so_no]

What he said.

I'm a she.

 

[Saarai-fan]

I'm a she.

Oops. Sorry, my bad. LOL