Final Fantasy XIII Sells 1.5 Million & 250,000 PS3s

and panties

and CHOCOBOS!

and Bombs

and lots of belts

In all FF games, there has only ever been one path that will advance the plot towards the ending. It doesn't matter how much you're able to wander around, there's only one place you're ultimately supposed to go, so the only difference is how much time you can waste exploring areas that are, in the end, irrelevant. End-game or near end-game are generally the only times really useful side-quests start showing up, so having the game completely linear for the first half isn't really anything more than a time saver.
Linearity is pretty much just a part of FF, love it or hate it.

i, tbh, got bored of FF games, i wont be buying this but i know alot of people that will.

its like halo, its something you buy cause its THE game to have on that console

Yes! Pay them 70 dollars so you can try it out and then be too embarrassed to tell everyone you wasted your money and instead praise the game!

not buying because others will buy it? i don't see the logic in that.

being an ff fanboy, it pleases me to see that you say ff is THE game to have on that console! lol.

oh and i'm also aprehensive about the downgrades i've heard about ff13, but i'll reserve my judgement for when i play it.

FFX was shit though. Since thats what you reference in your FF linearity discussion, I'm going to guess you are fairly young, and since you even PLAYED ffX-2, fairly fat.

unfortunately, FF7 WAS long corridors. fat world map corridors that apparently i excatly the thing that fools someone that i suspect is the exact same troll trying to sound like he knows something (since he repeats the exact same thing) into thinking the game is more expansive than it really is.

ironically for someone accusing everyone of being too young to understand anything, THAT (points above) tends to be the biggest sign of a "twat" that hasn't played much and probably started with 7.

Wouldn't that just mean it has a long intro-story to inform the player what's exactly going on?

So, there are long corridors and not many dungeons. A game is a game. It tells a story made up by the developers. Some devs like to focus mainly on the story while others like to add side-quests. But all will lead to the same ending.

Also, FF7's intro was the same way. You were stuck only in Midgar for a few hours, and without a Player's guide (which people are doing with the jp FF13) it can take longer to figure out what to do or who to talk to. (Which is a pain in the ass)

Besides, FF games are mainly story games instead of side-quest games, technically speaking. Most FF games (except X-2 where you had to grind your ass off for that last .2% for the epic ending) has a start dot and an end dot.

Yes its that corridor thing people fail to understand. FF7 was *not* corridors, since that was likely the first non-emu/non-rerelease FF most of you weaboo twats played.

The thing with FFXIII is that it really is quite exceptionally linear - not just the plot, but the actual gameplay to. Maybe it opens out later, but I'm ~10 hours in and pretty much the entire game so far has consisted of long corridors filled with monsters, and the occasional save point where you can go shopping. There's no sign of a world map, not even any element of exploration in the "dungeons" - at best you get the occasional open area you can poke around the corners of. I haven't even been given the ability to manually reorder my party yet, although there is a menu option for that so it clearly becomes available eventually.

Now, that said, it's by no means a bad game and I'm very much enjoying it, but I would certainly agree far, far more "linear" as an overall experience than any FF game I've played to date. I think that's what people are complaining about - not the plot, but the fact that you do feel like you're just getting herded from battle to battle a great deal of the time.

Need more releases like BlazBlue, with Japanese audio left completely intact for those who want it.

"Just like pretty much every other game on that black playstationy box": So like valkyria chronicles? or disgaea3? or blazblue? or Cross Edge?
I think multi lingual sound tracks are somewhat expected these days.

Well, I have heard the English theme for FF13, it's not the most horrible song, but it just does not fit in the atmosphere of the game at all, it just feels out of place; some parts of the song sound pretty similar as "I believe I can fly" by R. Kelly in my opinion. Whose decision is it to use this song anyway? As far as I know Japanese developers don't know/care about and understand the English lyrics, but what counts it's that the song rocks/swing with the game. A good example is Sega's Crazy Taxi with Bad Religion and the Offspring songs in the game which are great songs, but the lyrics don't have something to do with the content of the game at all, but the songs rocks and are awesome.

Also do not forget that Square Enix is now specifically adapting their games to the western markets; the song by Leona Lewis (UK) is pretty "American" and R&B.

It makes you wonder who thought that would be a good song for this game or if the songwriter has ever played a FF game (or any JRPG) at all.

I have a question.So the characters will talk in English and there is no Japanese audio choice with subtitles?

Yes Sylar. Just like pretty much every other game on that black playstationy box your mom and dad got you.

oh i don't lmao i'm a ps3 fanboy