[DarkMaster]

To be honest, SlyMoogle, we all pretty much knew you hated the game even before you played it. I'm not too sure why you even bothered to play it, considering you hate FF10, didn't bother to play FF11, and judged FF12 to be a mediocre game based on some other person's playthrough. So we can assume you've been waiting since FF9 for a good Final Fantasy game? Personally if I hadn't enjoyed a franchise in over 10 years I'd probably stop caring about it.

I want to be frank and say that I agree with most of your criticisms, not quite done the game yet, but there's definitely some things I would've preferred they'd done differently. To say the game is short, however, is pretty ridiculous, especially when you consider this generation's games. Has there been any other title with this game's level of production values that has come even close to being more than 15-20 hours long? I was actually incredibly surprised to see that I've played for 40 hours and am still playing the main part of the game, 90% of other games this generation would've been done and over with loooong before 40 hours.

Not that I complain about short games, I actually love short and sweet games that I can rent and beat in a few days, but I have to appreciate what they've done with this game in terms of insane, ridiculously beautiful graphics and locations, as well as serious game length.

On another note, it's really interesting to see, not just here, but all over the internet how widely discussed this game is. Whether people hate it or not, it stands as a huge testament to how much people care about Final Fantasy. Wasn't sure if it'd still receive such massive discussion now that we've entered the Modern Warfare era of video games. I hope that it shows developers that a ton of people still care about these types of games.