Nuff Said

I understand the skepticism over this new title but has anyone seen the other videos? I think the new ideas are good, world driven environment, a varying doomsday clock, over 20 outfits for lightning. It seems like SE do take in the feedback. Their main problem is their obsession with the whole 13 franchise. It would be better to pull out and do something new than to keep gambling on a falling title, but, we won't know without giving it a try. That's all there is to it.

SRS it is.

400,000 Concurrent players.
World vs World IS SO FUCKING ADDICTIVE you wouldn't know.

MY LIFE IS NO WASTING before my eyes; best part is getting a BJ from my girl while taking a KEEP in Eternal Battleground...

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Your information is plain wrong about them nearing bankruptcy. I've never seen any information that would state that a single tanked game could possibly bring a publisher of that magnitude to its knees like that, and it simply wouldn't. Considering your completely incorrect 'abysmal sales' statement that is based on no facts, I yet again have to conclude that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. If anything caused them financial difficulty, it was the hacking of their systems.

I don't care if people think I'm conceited because I enjoyed something and care nothing for their negativity that does nothing to offer meaningful critique. Those same people never seem to recognize that I fully admit their faults while sincerely enjoying the games. I will critique games when they deserve it in every case, but I also am apparently capable of a special 'magical gift' of taking something on its own merit without pretending that complaints do anything beneficial. And sadly it apparently IS rare, because so many people know nothing but how to complain about every minor thing without even sitting back to breathe it all in first. Those people ARE in fact worthless. To me, and the community as a whole that they claim to support.

And yes, everyone else who doesn't even play the second game in the series and pre-judge it is in fact utterly useless. To argue otherwise is to be the conceited one. If I have to explain why, it's pointless anyway. Complaints about XIII were just as subjective as the 'entertainment' perceptions you described anyway.

I couldn't care less if you didn't enjoy the game, you're absolutely free to do so and have a different preference for the way your games are made, but the people who did like it are not a minority. You merely believe that because the complainers are the ones who feel righteous in their childish fury about a game that didn't fit their cookie-cutter perceptions and bitch about it endlessly, seeking more and more recognition and brotherhood in their negativity.

They don't defend because they know the ones who will scream the loudest will just overwhelm the logical breakdown of what was good about the experience.

I on the other hand know that every single one of you who complain are always the same. Never changes, it's always the same mindset and same one-step logic.

As usual, no perspective. The so-called 'abysmal' sales constitute a worldwide total of 2.5 million sales within the first ten weeks on both consoles. For some perspective, a game going above a million sales is relatively uncommon and considered a hit. I will give you that that is less than half of the first one, however calling those sales abysmal is ridiculous.

People so jaded with XIII not trying XIII-2, there's nothing I can say to that except that they have no opinions of their own and aren't really worth listening to as a gamer. As a company, they needed less to make it and know that they would recoup the costs by listening and implementing.

They did. It worked. Everyone I know enjoyed it much more. Those who are waiting are waiting for less risk and a lesser cost. Since the third one is coming, the blanks will be filled in by many more and more sales will be generated.

Get off your high horses and play the game, or don't and cease the whining, because XIII has been over and done with for years. There are many, many hundreds of thousands of people who loved both. The vocal hatred is not an accurate representation.

Sales were so abysmal that, coupled with the even more crippling XIV release, the company almost folded. Good games don't bring an established studio to the brink of financial ruin.

>All the spoiled people who just want another FF7 would just complain about that too.

As much as I dislike VII, what's the problem with sequeling the most successful game of the series? Sounds like the most logical thing to do after nearly bankrupting your company. And how does wanting a particular game to be sequeled make one "spoiled"? Would your desire for a third XIII not make you spoiled, as well? Or are you merely attempting to devalue the thoughts and feelings of the people who disagree with you on a personal level?

> If you don't like the characters or setting, that's your problem, not everyone's. I enjoyed them immensely and loved what they did with XIII-2 even more.

You're in the minority. Judging from the sales figures an the number of copies of the previous XIII games that sat on store shelves collecting dust, Squeenix needs to regain the trust of a majority of their former market, and more of the same isn't going to do it.

> If you didn't like it, you need not uselessly vocalize it, because one way or another, your wish will come true and this part of the series will be over soon.

So your opinion is the only one that has worth and everyone else's is useless and invalid because they're not you? You feel that so strongly that you'd make an effort to silence those who disagree with you?

> Let those of us who do know how to enjoy a game on its own merit without complaining that it wasn't something you played before enjoy it and wait for your next thing to come out so you can bitch.

Entertainment is one of the most subjective things on the planet, and you're so conceited that you claim to have some magical ability to enjoy things that other people don't like and that makes you inherently superior and gives you the privilege of criticizing others on a personal level over the internet.

You hate shit I enjoy and I hate shit you enjoy.

You are not special.

Platinum Games or no, the Raiden series is heading towards a direction most fans are dubious about.

the truth is that the xiii dev team borrow some of the versus xiii team to make this shit came out first so they stop the versus xiii and focus on this trilogy, reason? they think this one can sell better that is all.

BUT the funny thing is that more than 33% of the audience in japan do not like this third installment and only 10% of the audience was interested in this...this make them looks really pethetic.