Lightning Shows Some Leg in Final Fantasy XIII Box Art
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It's not true to traditional 'white with logo' cover like all the other FF games, so doesn't strike a chord with me.
The_Decoy said:It's not as bad as FFX-2, especially the little booklet that came with it. Yuna needed some proper shorts...
Otherwise box art is alright, but I prefer FF's no game graphics, just the designs around the title and use of white space.
It makes me sad that I opted for a wii though, and thus will never be able to play this
Looks okay to me...
Yeah having the FF logo next to the 360 logo is just uncanny, it's the familiar in the unfamiliar, like a meowing dog or a polar bear on a bar stool, it's just not quite right.
Also I'd have rather seen just the logo on a white background like every other FF game ever released in Europe.
I am looking forward to all the disc changing though. It takes me back to when I was ten years old, playing FF7 for the first time and my friends and I were racing to see who was futherest ahead "Your only on disc 2 I'm on disc 3"
I can see it now, I start a new game, watch the glorious opening cutscene that takes my breath away and then the prompt alerts me to Insert disc 2, ahh...
Also I'd have rather seen just the logo on a white background like every other FF game ever released in Europe.
I am looking forward to all the disc changing though. It takes me back to when I was ten years old, playing FF7 for the first time and my friends and I were racing to see who was futherest ahead "Your only on disc 2 I'm on disc 3"
I can see it now, I start a new game, watch the glorious opening cutscene that takes my breath away and then the prompt alerts me to Insert disc 2, ahh...
You know I said it during the Mass Effect 2 and the Bioshock 2 cover arts so I'll say it again:
When did box art become news? This is a legit question. Did I miss something? Since when has the cover of a game mattered enough to have a news story? Box art doesn't matter for jack. This a literally a "Don't judge a book by it's cover moment."
When did box art become news? This is a legit question. Did I miss something? Since when has the cover of a game mattered enough to have a news story? Box art doesn't matter for jack. This a literally a "Don't judge a book by it's cover moment."
It's not the leg that's weird, it's the fact there's nothing else to look at BUT the leg and logo....
Because in case you missed the comment threads on the two news posts in question, people like discussing it.Elesar said:
It's interesting to see how developers and publishers want to portray their game to the public who walks into Gamestop and sees their game on the shelf. Because even though people who spend hours on game websites might know everything there is to know about games before they come out, a lot of people DON'T. To these people, box art can draw them to a game - or push them away from it.
Take the ME2 one. Sure, the game is probably going to be great, but the fact is that the box art makes it look much more like a shooter than the first game. Is BioWare going for a new audience, knowing that people who liked the first one will buy the second but wanting to branch out? How does a game maker want to display their game to the public?
And as evidenced by the comment counts, even if you don't like discussing it, lots of other people do
It's a slow news day. Might as well comment on fan-service. How else will they know what we like?Elesar said:
Amnestic said:The_Decoy said:It's not as bad as FFX-2, especially the little booklet that came with it. Yuna needed some proper shorts...
Otherwise box art is alright, but I prefer FF's no game graphics, just the designs around the title and use of white space.
It makes me sad that I opted for a wii though, and thus will never be able to play this
Looks okay to me...
Actually you don't want to play it, for all of the highs you might get along the way you will probably wind up hating life as a result in the end.
For all the criticisms of why Final Fantasy X-2 didn't do well the bottom line is that it turned out like it did due to racism. It's actually the second part of a triology and exists to create more questions than it answers. Right when you feel it's leading up to something it more or less ends on an increasingly "WTF" moment and while it does sort of end the Tidus/Yuna thing most of the central storyline that matters is left for "Final Fantasy X: Final Mission" which was the third part of the trilogy and was kept as a Japanese exclusive.
At the time when that game was released it was made clear that the end was not coming to America, and if you read some of the translated periodicals at the time it was largely due to the fact that the Japanese both wanted to keep it for themselves, and also kind of screw America but leaving them with an unresolved cliffhanger. To put it bluntly it was very nasty and it's one of the things that was signifigant in turning me fairly anti-Japanese. This and the intended slight (according to what I was reading) being right on the heels of a the whole "Final Fantasy X: International edition" with it's various enhancements which was international but specifically excluding the US. It wasn't just the periodicals which were an issue either back when they were bigger and I bothered to look for them, it was also some of the statements that were made to the American audience when explanations were requested which were pretty insulting. I seem to remember one of the guys from Square more or less said that the US didn't get the International version because it was harder and Americans were too dumb to appreciate it since we were opposed to any kind of challenge. Albiet not in those exact words.
Even getting past all of this (not heresay, I was following it as it went down, and was floddoing Gamefaqs forums nearly every day it seemed) simply put you Final Fantasy X works better as a somewhat tragic, but stand alone story. The elements introduced in X-2 while cool will just change everything in your mind and probably leave you feeling unsatisfied and angry that you will never get to experience how things wrap up.
I honestly see nothing wrong with it.
It's not great but it isn't bad either. I like the japanese cover better though.
However... that 360 logo next to FF title sure looks... awkward. But hey! Whatever.
I have always been a fan of FF since VII so if more people can enjoy the game I love, that's a plus.
It's not great but it isn't bad either. I like the japanese cover better though.
However... that 360 logo next to FF title sure looks... awkward. But hey! Whatever.
I have always been a fan of FF since VII so if more people can enjoy the game I love, that's a plus.