Oh look, it's another message board market analyst.

News flash: the only thing that matters are the games.  If you like JRPGs, the 360 has a few to play right now, and several more in the near future.

It's not my fault that you've intentionally limited yourself.  I'll get to play Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, Cry On, and whatever else comes out while you talk about sales figures of the 360 in Japan and how dumb Company X is.

Because there are more JRPGs on the console now, and in the near future accessible to 360 gamers?  I'm trying to figure out why the number of owners of a 360 in Japan even matters.  As if this somehow changes the fact that the rest of the world also buys games and that there's a fortune to be made on any of the three platforms.

'course, I own all three consoles for this generation and get to play everything.  Good luck with waiting on those ports, or something.

The funny thing is, Final Fantasy XI is the most profitable game Square Enix has ever made.  If only World of Warcraft shared a similar aesthetic style and feel that Final Fantasy XI has, I'd be all over it.  Unfortunately, I don't like the character models in World of Warcraft, and Final Fantasy XI is still stuck in first generation MMORPG design, so my shallowness prevents me from playing either.

Because it's a personal attack on you, obviously.

It's hilarious how you fall into despair and lash out, like this would somehow change the fact that the 360 is currently the JRPG platform of choice.  As if anyone here is qualified to discuss market relevance and what moves are or aren't dumb.  You can either buy a 360 and be guaranteed to play it when it ships, or you can continue crying in denial while everyone else who's a gamer instead of a wannabe market analyst is having fun.

I found something special~

You should know that punches wouldn't hurt me.  My body is as hard as steel.  You'd just shatter your wrist!

Yeah, you told me all about it!

OH WHAT'S GOING ON HERE THIS IS SUDDENLY VERY CONFUSING OOOOH CAN'T WAIT TO GET THIS TOPIC LOCKED SINCE IT WAS CREATED BY A JACKASS

Seriously Logick, I felt bad for you after hearing that your crap was stolen, even if it was stupid of you to give out your account info.  Then you had to go and do something extra stupid like posting flamebait and trying to trash Americans again.  Get bent.

HI THIS IS NOT VALLENON AND I DON'T STEAL PEOPLE'S ACCOUNT INFO ON FFXI, BTW CAN I HAVE YOUR ACCOUNT INFO I'M A VERY HONEST PERSON ^_^

You know what's equally stupid, Logick?  Giving important account info to people you don't know.  You know, people who might steal your stuff.  Maybe you have a slight idea of what I'm talking about.

Seriously, what the fuck is your problem, posting crap like this?  If you were trying to start a fight, you've got one.

The lousy animations supposedly are going to be addressed someday, but that's typical PR fluff, especially since they also said that they've pretty much run out of money and so they need to ship the game soon.  When there's no money, no software development happens, and since most games do motion capturing for animations, well... you do the math.

Long story short, the game is like a derivative of Everquest 2.  In all honesty, you're better off playing Everquest 2 right now and waiting for Vanguard to get the kinks out over the course of the year, because it's NOT going to be pretty on their forums on release day, to say the least.

First statement is perfectly valid, the latter is not.  That's about as logical as someone getting upset that Star Ocean 2 keeps crashing, then piping in with "well, YOU program a game with multiple endings then and see if it never crashes!"  We're consumers.  Whether we can translate or program is completely irrelevant.  When we purchase a product, we're going in with the assumption that it's free of defects and will deliver what was advertised.  The consumer can complain and nitpick as much as he/she wants.


And I do think it makes them significantly less enjoyable.  It isn't purely translation issues, but also how the dialogue flows.  I am enjoying Final Fantasy XII because it has excellent writing and is doing a great job of delivering its story.  I thought Final Fantasy X was average at best because the dialogue was awful.  I thought Tales of Symphonia was an outstanding game because the dialogue was great and kept my attention (save the last three hours of standard Japanese cheesy "truth comes from the heart blah blah blah" end-of-game stuff).

Final Fantasy VII bored me to tears because the dialogue didn't do a thing for me.  People keep telling me that I should get past disc one to get to "all the good stuff", but I really doubt the writing magically transforms in quality on the remaining discs, so it sits alongside Final Fantasy Tactics and Star Ocean 2, collecting dust.  Perhaps I'll give the games another chance someday, but in the meantime, there are plenty of other games to play that don't suffer from poor writing.

Final Fantasy VII's horrible writing is precisely why I have to date, never passed disc one.  It's also why I've never gotten any farther in Star Ocean 2.  And pretty much every other RPG I've tried to give a chance from the PlayStation era.

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