My latest addiction, if you haven't tried it you owe it to yourself to try it. The game eliminates alot of stupid mistakes other MMORPG's make. For example, no need for downloaded mods to finish quests, if you have been to a place that is a quest destination can autorun to it. The game has loads of depth as well, as its not your traditional role fingers 1-0 fastest wins a fight but is old school turn based like final fantasy. It is a gem among games. View

on N4G not sure why this got reported? Can't understand why some stories are still not getting reported on here... oh well. Hmm how about a link? View

Syko, I'm with you. Lol had a 12 hour day went on Tuesday to pick it up and had to wait another day, so I finally picked up some other games I had pre-ordered. The great part is I haven't touched them yet. I did finally run into some load screens, but nothing has topped 5 seconds through disk 2.

PS360Wii yeah I'm enjoying the pacing, its seems like when I get tired of watching cutscenes (yes it can happen) you spend the next 2 hours in combat. Then, when you get tired of combat you are back to cutscenes delivering a great story. My only negative is wow, this guy needs a hug. I mean you need razor blades for the story up until the end of disk one, its simply that sad. I'm happy to support this effort as games like this need to reach more audiences than the importing hardcore, or only the Japanese audience.

As for the not enough innovation, I'm sticking with if it aint broken don't fix it. There is plenty of great mechanics in the game with great variety of things to do (mini-game-like mechanics aplenty). In fact the basic dream recall short stories add something not found in most most games, the necessity of being literate. View

If you could beat that game in 6-7 hours you would be the all-time king of gaming. I'm thinking a Diablo II/Devil May Cry mix from that review. I had almost no real expectations of this game being any good, but after reading this review its going on my pre-order list for next weekend. This just hit my most anticipated game list for this year! View

I'm not too far into it, simply 60 hour work weeks have sucked my gameplay time down to almost nil during the week...but anyway the honest review for what I have had the pleasure to experience through disc 1:

The loadtimes, wow the biggest detractor for every professional review, are almost non-existent. Cutscenes load after 1-3 seconds, and battles start about 3-5 seconds, and its not a black load screen or anything its a rotating camera with a quick one liner from a random character in your party. Honestly I have not seen a single time where I have noticed ever waiting at all for the game to continue, for example can't even get a sip from my beer in between game to cutscene. 9.0

The graphics are very great. The attention to detail is amazing, backgrounds and scenes are very well done. The only draw back is the characters, while they are sharp and clean, they could have used more love, while they do still look good. Gears and Mass Effect have kind of ruined very good efforts for me so I guess I expect more. Backgrounds and cutscenes 10, characters 7.
8.5 overall.

Controls: In a turn based game controls don't really have a huge effect unless they are bad, but they are tight. The only problem I found was interacting with some probe points for treasure and rest spots requiring you to stand in spots. 9.0

Sounds: Class jrpg combat music nothing groundbreaking more of a homage to his earlier works, nothing really repeats throughout the game. Most impressive is the way music is used to impart emotion in the dream sequences. 9.5

Story: While not delivered in an innovative next-gen way (I'm referring to dream sequences/memories) they are deep and meaning-ful and help fill out the story and give it depth. While, different countries are generically named, your main care will always be for your characters. Characters each have great personality and have great full backgrounds and stories and you do end up caring for them. 9.5

Overall about a 9.3 definitely worth picking up, but not without some occasional flaws. Smooth presentation and great effort, you won't go wrong sinking 70 hours in this epic. View

Figured I would add a link. I think many people made the switch because of how broken Halo 3 multiplayer is currently. Here's the link its popular reading over there.

http://www.bungie.net/Forum... View

I thought my buddy on live was pulling my leg...
this brought back so many fond memories of a FPS to do sooo much right. The one liners, the strippers, the flying pigs... and the king may actually be back!
Awesome trailer, makes chuck norris cry for wanting to be able hold his jock.
Anyway Hail to the King, whether or not this may actually hit before I turn 40. Anyway, back to gaming enjoy the fanboy wars on N4G, go enjoy what you have. View

as kittens playing with yarn. I love horror games, and horror movies in general but from that I say pass. Hopefully, this game will be more than that, this game looks like artsy attempt at horror that does no more than bring out all the chills of the bride of chuckie lmao. View

Reminds me of the time we put Ryu (from Ninja Gaiden) giving snake a hummer in the cover of a gamecube game when I was working at Sears. We named it Ninja Snake Encounter, lol, we were fine until two parents wanted to buy it. View

PLEASE STOP POSTING VGCHARTS AS NEWS! I will make a website with my prognostications and you can report them as news too! You may now return to your regularly scheduled fan war. Thank you. View

PLEASE STOP POSTING VG CHARTS AS NEWS! I make predictions too, if I make a website please post my prognostications as news. Thank you, that is all. You may now return to your regularly scheduled fanboy war. View

This fanboy war is funny, and if you tried to pick a winner from the n4g embedded video you are a retard, go to 1up.com and download the video, and the comparison is not a comparison. The 360 not only is sharper, brighter more vivid colors, and smoother animations, but less jaggy and not only in the slow down versions, but through-out. All Madden fans rejoice, but I know where my money is going yet again. View

Bad edit, Horrible spelling, Not in any way, shape or form news, not even a hint of hews. Fanboyism, and all around crap. Not only should this not get posted, poster should lose all posting privileges and simply have to pass the contributor test in essay format. Simply takes, rabid PS3 fanboy to a whole new level. View

you will see the game in action and just feel the kick in the nuts from what a next gen should look and more inportantly PLAY like. Its ok the light will show you the way.

PS...What the hell is that new vehicle, looks like a reverse convenant transport from 2, hope that thing is in online! View

Seems more a list of how the sales will come out. COD4 will do well, but not nearly as well as alot of the games on the list, and UT is known to be a console ho-hum seller. They may hit 1,000,000 sold across the platforms, but gonna take some time. UT is a different 1st person beast then what console gamers are used, definitely stonger on the PC platform. View

Words that should never be uttered, and I do mean ever! Halo copying Haze, lol. Don't worry PS3fanboys it is true, Haze is in the running to carry Masterchief's jockstrap. View

Sweet grunt stomping goodness! 4 times the sticky to a brute's head goodness! View

What games on the PS3 are running 1080p native at 60FPS? By native, I mean not upscaled. View

Well, it speaks volumes that they are comparing a CGI high price project vs a 50 million dollar video game production. I think it did good, guess we all find out in 2008 how the game compares. Hopefully, gameplay and multiplayer live up to the hype. View

I mean if you are going to go through all that trouble, you break the glass and break in, but you take one game? If you are going to commit a crime at least go big! lol. View