Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
It's as traditional a JRPG as you'll find these days it would seem which is what I expected, and why I never cared about the game, and still don't. I lost interest in more traditional JRPG's quite a while ago. I was playing them when they were still quite new, and even innovative. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be either of those things. I'll save my money for the games that really wow me with stuff I've never seen before.
I'm curious, what are your thoughts on Lost Odyssey? I want that game!!

The reviews are high for Blue Dragon but those three main flaws drop the score down to pretty good from "ultimate styles". FF XII, Zelda: TP, Oblivion, and KH2 from 2006 all got "ultimate styles" reviews. Blue Dragon is very high. Mainly we have to consider the three main flaws: game pacing, character design, lack of innovation; and also consider whether or not you are part of the target audience for this game. By the way Artoon developed this game along with Mistwalker, Artoon isn't extremely high quality, which makes me wonder why they were chosen to help in this big time project.

Yea Blue Dragon accomplishes a goal of being a great Traditional rpg to help out Xbox 360 in that genre, with some minor flaws though. I probably won't get Bioshock or Blue Dragon but both appeal to me a bit, I'll rent both, still busy with FF XII. I don't worry too much about a Famitsu score, just look at the aggregate critical rating from metacritic.com/games and gamerankings.com, instead of focusing too much on one magazine/website. Also, don't worry too much about it being on 3 dvd's, the length in hours of this game is fairly normal, I think it was 50-75 hours right? FF XII is 100/150/200 hours depending on if you do the main quest, all but 2-3 sidequests, and all sidequests. Oblivion varies from 15 hours to 350-400 hours. Blue Dragon isn't super long, it's about normal length. I'd prefer something longer though. I'm hoping that Mass Effect's length goes something between 70 and 120 hours.

Let me clarify the thread. The reviews for Blue Dragon are high, but three flaws in design make the score pretty good instead of being "ultimate styles", such as FF XII, Oblivion, Zelda: TP, and KH 2 from 2006. On the other hand, Bioshock appears to be getting extremely high reviews, three 100's already and a 99 from metacritic.com/games site for it, with only four reviews given! Many people did user votes on that game and it has a score in the 90's for percentage.

Comparing Blue Dragon to Bioshock is weird since it's not in the same category of rpg(Traditional vs First person shooter with rpg elements).

Let's compare Blue Dragon to Shin Megamei Tensei: Persona 3, Wild Arms 5, .hack//G.U. Vol. 3:Redemption, and Eternal Sonata. Those are the other top traditional console rpg's released at the start of this season. We are pretty sure that Blue Dragon will sell higher than Persona 3 but I have two questions...

1. Which will sell higher, Shin Megamei Tensei: Persona 3 or Eternal Sonata?
2. Which will sell higher, Wild Arms 5 or .hack//G.U. Vol.3:Redemption?

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