Quote Originally Posted by Flying Arrow View Post
Bolivar, every post I see of yours on XIII you seem more and more down on it (I think you were one of the few around here who actually liked the game). I wish I could collect your last 20 or so posts and trace out the decline.
LOL yo i might actually do that and make it my first entry in that new blog thingy they got here.

But, no, I definitely liked FFXIII. Obviously I'm a big RPG guy, I play a lot of the classics and I play a lot of the modern classics, but I'm also a big PS3 gamer so FFXIII wasn't any worse than the quality of modern games that I'm used to. I've played a lot of games like FFXIII in the last few years so it wasn't like I was taken by surprise by the philosophy of its game design. But as someone who's played these games for a very long time I would expect Square to rise above the milieu of current games today, Kojima was able to do it with MGS4, I feel Rockstar just barely did it with GTA IV, and Sega may have done it with Valkyria Chronicles (it's a modern classic, just don't know if I feel it shatters the mold of gaming today). I just feel like there isn't any excuse for Final Fantasy to not be a mindblowing, phenomenal gaming experience.