5 reasons why this is a dumb article made by a shooter fanboy
1) you are basing your opinions on FFXIII (that is only one game in a franchise that has kicked ass)
2) The famous developer for SE has yet to release his projects
3) shooters are getting repetitive, pick up a new genre please
4) Do you even know what makes a good RPG (no not a wRPG)
5) you are complaining about length of a game, child please... your argument is now invalid.

I think his comment for the scenes wasn't that they were there period, but that the graphics got a huge bump in them and that killed immersion.

FFVII is a good point on that one. CG scenes looked great, gameplay had angry lego men.


And what the hell, 5 reasons why you speak out of ignorance.
1) He cited several games in the series.
2) Which developer?
3) He didn't once mention shooters
4) That's a very opinionated question, and for that matter do you?
5) Things that act as boring padding can't honestly count towards the length of a game, that's just... well boring padding. And half a day of that is somewhat ridiculous. Monster Hunter Tri was criticized for having an overly long tutorial phase offline(taking 2 to 5 hours to get through since it teaches everything from gathering, mining and hunting to swimming) but that game has hundreds of hours of gameplay within it for the people that pass it and according to recent figures the play time average is about 80 hours with many of those people not even hitting the highest mission tiers.

Now when you have 15 hours before getting to the fun, you better have hundreds of hours of fun ready after that, not another 10 before you hit the end.

Lots of the criticisms are about turn-based RPGs, not final fantasy

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People went out and bought Playstations just because of these amazing cinemas, but unfortunately when they popped that first disc in the tray and booted it up there was a bit of a sad realization.

What people? FFVII had some of the best graphics ever seen when it came out and was so ridiculously over-advertised and reviewed that everyone knew what it looked like before they bought it.

Most of the reasoning here is pretty poor. Final Fantasy has plenty of games without turn based systems, and why do fanboys come into you liking a game series at all at all? Characters and setting could be a point, but only seeming to want post apocolytpic games kind of undermines that. Length could also be a point, but as long as its not filler I don't see how more to do in a game is bad. And yeah cutscenes, not sure how a slightly different system of watching them is bad.

The Final Fantasy series isn't perfect, and this guy almost has a decent arguement. Except he keeps sidetracking into poorly conceived points. At least he admits its just his personal opinion, rather than fact.

*Sigh* This guy is bad at pointing stuff out.

just gonna say something about point 4 & 5.

4: The legnth opinion, ok the only FF game i've played thats had me damn bored 15hours in is FFXIII (the newest) all other games have had the story off and kicking right from the get-go I mean hell FFVII drops you off a train at a nuclear reactor you gotta destroy ffs!

5: Nothing wrong with CG cutscenes you can't do anything in, hell MGS4 is full of them (with the exception of moving the camera or a robot) and yet that game was insanely fantastic.

but hey, their his opinions, so w/e.