Quote: "My favourite thing about FFXIII was the preview trailer Glad I didn't own a PS3 or I might have wasted my money one the strength of that trailer. A friend did so I saw parts of his game. I'd actually (and still have) given up on the Final Fantasy series ever being magic again."
You dodged a bullet IMO. I tried enjoying it, but in the end I was just disappointed.
I am optimistic that FF may one day be accessible to old fans. At least, the major flop of FFXIV actually made SE realise that they should have listened to fans and that's what FFXIV 2.0 is about. FFXIII-2 apparently improved on many things from the first and tried redeeming itself, but the battle system remained the same. But it's progress. However, they will not see me buy a new FF game until I know it's good. I keep hoping on Versus XIII, because it seems to have an FF feel, but we've not seen actual game play yet...nor do we know if they're still making it.
Quote: "Beautiful piece. You're right, that guitar coming in is pretty awesome, definitely makes the piece really special. I got this FFVI feeling off it, dunno why. Sadly, I prolly won't be playing it as I don't have a 360 (Don't have any consoles anymore aside from my "classics" in storage). Maybe when I get another desktop PC I can emulate. I presume 360 DVDs can be read with regular DVD-drives."
It really is a good game. I can see what you mean about the FF6 feel and like FF6 it has a slight steam punk feel to it (though it's actually magic engines and not steam engines) and also has the air of kings and queens. Well, you get a King and Queen in your party anyway.
Quote: "Awesome! Man, I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't become a console-gamer again instead of getting a replacement desktop."
Lol, that game was pretty worthwhile too, pretty underrated IMO (in fact it got bad reviews). Oh well, as a PC gamer you've at least got The Last Remnant, it pretty much has an indentical style to FFXII, but uses a different gameplay, in fact the battle system is quite weird, but different. Kind of like FF Tactics meets regular FF, whilst characters learn specific attacks, you can't specifically choose them, your attack choice depends on battle conditions. In fact, the PC version is rated much higher than the 360. It's soundtrack on the other hand is pretty average. No Nobuo Uematsu to sooth you.
Talking of underrated. Here's a band I love listening to, but are pretty odd. The singer looks like Hurley from Lost.
Some of their albums are fantasy, others are tributes to science. 'Awaking the Centuries' was pretty much about the life of Gallileo. They sing in German, English and Italian (in the case of the Awaking the Centuries album), sometimes even in a single song. Pretty much metal, like a sir.
Yes, he does shout 'Mexico!' in the middle, even though the above is in Germany, I think these guys are quite popular in Mexico. Usually you see responses by Mexicans on their videos on YouTube and some of their recorded concerts are in Mexico.
