Those who are playing today: Was it worth the wait?

[Freya]

Question in the title! I haven't picked it up yet due to funds. But was it worth the wait?

[Sephiroth]

Considering the final scene before the FIN, yes, it was worth the wait. But I could enjoy it since Friday already.

It is not perfect though. Like everything else.

[Tyson]

I'm currently 8 hours in, around chapter 6-7. Will probably put another 8 hours into it tomorrow haha

It is my favorite FF since FFX. Definitely worth the wait in my opinion right now.....however I will have to see how the full story unfolds first.

[Fynn]

Apparently a huge percentage of reviewers agree that the ending is pretty much perfect. So can't wait what you guys all have to say about it once you beat it!

As for me, I still have to wait an indeterminate amount of time

[Freya]

Well but was it worth the decade wait though?

Is it like: OMG THIS IS AMAZING! So glad I waited ten years for this!

or is it: Oh it's pretty good. I could have had it 5 years ago though.

[Fox]

Only like 3 hours in. It's... hard to say? Currently I rank it significantly above XIII but below everything else. If you look at it like "This is what we've waited for since 2006!" then the answer is no. But if you think of it as being freshly announced at E3 2013, it's much more reasonable.

I just am not massively keen on the combat - it's fun but I'm not good enough to have much control over it. And there aren't enough 'RPG' bits outside of that for me to dig into. The Ascension Grid is a super super cut down version of the Sphere Grid. And not having control over all of my characters makes me sad. I want a gambit system. This would be a hundred times more interesting to me if I had some proper control over the rest of my party (and if the magic system didn't suck).

The magic system really does suck IMO. It's not that it has no use... just that it has only very limited use and isn't particularly interesting to do so. In short my main criticism of the game is that my RPG doesn't have much RPG in it.

Hopefully I'm going to start getting into some more meaty story soon; haven't even done a dungeon yet.

[Fynn]

Well but was it worth the decade wait though?

Is it like: OMG THIS IS AMAZING! So glad I waited ten years for this!

or is it: Oh it's pretty good. I could have had it 5 years ago though.

Expecting it to be 10-year-wait amazing is totally unrealistic simply because, no, it was not made for ten years and no, had it released 5 years ago this would have been a completely different game under Nomura's direction, etc (who probably didn't really have that much of a vision instead of a few concepts).

I think it's fair to approach this game as just its own thing and see what it has to offer instead of "Well, this little trout better damn be the best thing since sliced bread to make up for the ten years I've been waiting or I'm gonna throw a fit!"

Because a lot of people online are doing that. And it's terrible. Like, "I'm gonna trout on this all over place so no one buys this and SE crashes and burns" terrible.

[Sephiroth]

The story feels a lot to me like what we have now is just what was made for the last 2 years. A lot seems left out. I have written a thread about my review and did a Metacritic review as well.

http://www.metacritic.com/user/YakusokuNoJi

The metacritic one is relatively spoiler-free.

And no, it does not feel like a 10 year in development game. It is not like they had anything 10 years ago anyway except a few ideas. They even said they announced it too early. Still I like it just like every other Final Fantasy.

A game that features Yoda Tonberrys and has such an incredible final scene as the one after the credits cannot be bad.

[Psychotic]

I just opened it up to a 29 minute install and a smurfing 9 GB day 1 patch

[Shauna]

I was hoping that I might be able to have a shot tonight after Fantastic Beasts, but if there's all those updates... maybe not. xD

[Psychotic]

You can play without the 9GB patch, just can't do online features.

[Yar]

Well but was it worth the decade wait though?

Is it like: OMG THIS IS AMAZING! So glad I waited ten years for this!

or is it: Oh it's pretty good. I could have had it 5 years ago though.

I'll withhold judgment on how good it is until I've played more but just playing it now I do not feel that it really needed to take ten years to make this.

[Bubba]

I just opened it up to a 29 minute install and a smurfing 9 GB day 1 patch

Same.

[Psychotic]

The worst thing about it is I'm pretty sure Tabata made a big deal about not wanting a Day 1 patch when he explained why they pushed back the launch two months. Bloody hell.

[Fynn]

It was so you wouldn't get a 27GB patch