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So, do you think SE will stir up any buzz about ARR at E3? How about a FFXV announcement?

I am hoping if they do it right, they can create a lot of good press for ARR at E3, which will get a lot of people interested who left long ago and might not even know they are remaking the game!

I'm wildly optimistic about this Year's E3, especially as it relates to Square-Enix's announcements.

I would say at minimum... and I mean bare bones minimum... SE needs to bring it, and bring it big,

I'm talking:

FFXIV ARR - show us a lot more than you are now

FFXV - Announce it. And they need to show they've abandoned the FF XIII style. Bring us old school charm with new school innovation. I don't mean to offend XIII fans, but I think fairly objectively we can say this was one of the more poorly received FF titles.

FF Versus - Goodness greif, how long can you work on 1 game?

Edited, May 13th 2013 6:37pm by je355804

Well put and as far as "how long can you work on 1 game?"


um.... does anyone remember Duke Nukem Forever? That was being worked on when I was in 11th grade and graduated in 2001. It was release within the last couple of years lol.

I'm guessing he probably meant too much Saturation in general. Too many coming too quickly all under the FFXIII name. I could be wrong though, at any rate I'm excited about the prospect of some more gameplay and info on Versus XIII but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see a drop of info. E3 will likely be heavily focused on XIV 2.0 allowing players to get hands-on action while us at home get a flurry of new screens, vids, surprises, and an official release date?

Rumor has it Fabula Nova Crystallis may have more games yet.

However, we do know there will probably be a new FF shown at E3 this year.

I'm not 100% sure of this, but I'm fairly certain that on the SE radio show in Japan they announced that FF Versus was still being scheduled, and that it was not becoming 15.

I don't agree with this at all. From what I've read and seen, most people either don't care about what the original game was like, don't know anything about it, or have realized that ARR is almost a completely new game. SE already has done an excellent job of separating ARR from the original release, by actually communicating with the playerbase, listening to them, and implementing things that they want. They've revamped almost the entire game, and have put out lots of content to satiate those wondering what it will be like. Each of those Live Letters is packed with info, concept art, in-game footage, descriptions, etc.

E3 is not a make or break moment for ARR in my opinion. The make or break time will be month 2 after the game launches. Will they have worked out most of the bugs? Will they be updating with new content fairly often? Will they keep us in the loop as to what's to come? If they can do that, I think it should do quite well.

It must just depend on who you're talking to. Most of the gaming sites I visit, people recognize it as a new game and understand that it is much different from what was launched 3 years ago. We're probably both correct in our own views, it's just hard to decipher what any of that means in the grand scheme. I personally think that 1.0 won't have as big an impact on ARR as you think it will, but all I can back that up with is what I've seen myself. You clearly have seen things differently, so it's impossible to really put any weight behind it either way. We can only speculate.

As you can tell I don't trust the gaming press anymore. How many magazines walked in lock step with EA's explanation that homophobes were the reason the Mass Effect 3 ending was terrible and had editors and reviewers alike lashing out at their own fans and readers? I mean call me paranoid but I'm pretty sure even if ARR is spectacular some magazines will rate it just a few points below SW:TOR no matter what.

Probably, which is why I a lot of gamers don't put stock into 1 specific magazine or website. I know I certainly don't. I read them from time to time to see if there's any new info on games I'd like to play, but I take their reviews and scoring systems with a grain of a salt. One magazine/website might give a game a 9.5/10, and another might give it a 6. It's all opinion based.

I put a lot more stock into consumer reviews than I do anything posted by magazines, because often times they are biased based on who funds them, whereas consumers, while still sometimes biased by genres or companies they like, tend to be more honest and truthful about their experiences and what they like/don't like.

While I personally only use reviews sparingly, and mostly in instances where I'll pick up or try a game I would have never otherwise even thought to play... I do find metacritic to be solid for going back and finding gems which may have been released a few years back which I never found the first time.

I personally only play RPGs and the occasional sports game like FIFA or Madden (don't get me started on Madden, it's now the equivalent to the hand holding that went on in XIIIs battle system.) Point being, as an RPG fan, given the overall lack of games... we pretty much already know whats out there and whats coming. And I highly doubt a western magazines review, would be enough to change your opinion on an awesome RPG.

I simply think western magazines just don't get RPGs... they think if it's not Skyrim, it's crap.

On Metacritic the new Sim City had multiple 100 point reviews from "professional" reviewers before the game was even released yet. Not counting the poor launch due to the servers, whatever copy they reviewed still would have had all the bugs the game launched with as well as the mandatory always online connection and they still rated it the highest score on the scale. They even defended it by saying gamers are to whiney and that we should love the online requirement for a single player game.

I don't take reviews seriously because I'm a bit more internet savvy than many of my friends, but a lot of people still look to sources like IGN to tell them if s game is worth looking into our not. I'm pretty sure vendors do too. They offer credibility to those sites because they have a "professional" look and feel and the ole "they wouldn't be successful if they were wrong! " line of thinking.

I will agree that SE really needs to make a big deal out of ARR. This thing is supposed to be released in a little over a month and the only people that know much about it are people who kept playing until they shut the servers down. They don't need to bring in a crowd that will be coming back anyway, they need to bring in the guys that quit a month after 1.0 release hoping for a good game.