.. and from what I hear if you play until then, you might be 1/8th of the way through the boring part of the game.

Please let us know how it is, I'm REALLY on the fence about this one.

Am I the only one who's eyes were drawn to the kick ass Star Wars Mr. Potatoheads more than the FF game?

I'm about to settle in and fire it up myself. Let's see how this goes...

I can't afford it until payday....next week. Sad face.

(Between this, God of War 3 and MLB The Show, I am never getting anything productive done until, oh, July.)

You "posting" to that new Buffy trade?

I just got done playing for about four hours. Pretty great so far, like a fusion of FF X2 (The style and gameplay), Metal Gear and Xenosaga (The cutscenes).

Also toss in some stylistic elements from FF8 and the leveling system from FFX.

Granted, you don't even get any friggin experience (crystal) points until almost three hours into the game

Side-note

Aw, man, you got it on the 360? It's a BEAUTIFUL game and I heard they had to really reduce the quality to get it to fit on 3 DVDs.

Your room looks pretty much exactly like I thought it would.

Well, I do like those Futurama figures.

Wow, the inside of Rob's house.... AND ROB'S HAND! This is fascinating.
Oh, and cool game. And stuff. I guess.

is that a Boba Fett Mr. Potatohead?!

I am Jack's Jealous Rage.

It's gonna take you all night to read one Buffy comic?

Now that your very special -- term used loosely here -- present to yourself has arrived, Rob, i can understand why you may not appear tomorrow: if i had to rip open all that packaging and sort through the 22-disc collection that is your one brand new game, i'd call in for a couple days to make sense of it. "why couldn't this all fit on one disc", a bunch of nerdy kids whose moms bought them halo for every christmas present exclaimed, before the adults told them it could had you saved your pennies for the better system...

yes, without reading other posts, i'm willing to break it down to a console war again. but i won't debate it with anyone because it's got two sides: quantity and quality, craftmanship and spending power. you have an xbox because you like the computer-like aspect and its games appeal because microsoft (whose complaints against the monopoly that is google, the kind of monopoly we're all welcoming like someone not on the juice hitting 74, are hilarious) was willing to shell out mucho dinero to get that product to you. sony is focused on getting out a good product and that means spending a little time to do so, without trying to buy your love. it's a preference thing, like bluray and hddvd... oh wait...

well i guess i did break it down, didn't i? anyway, i was hear to make fun of the four-disc current-gen game. it really is a preference thing on which console you play this wonderful game on. p.s. i like ps3. there i said it.

can you tell i'm bored?

Please...don't mention it don't mention it don't mention it don't mention it don't mention it don't mention it don't mention it ...aaaahhhhh..... I don't have time to play anyways... aaahhh...

I still expect The Other Story on Friday.

And HG/SS come out this weekend, so I'm not jealous.

For the sake of my marriage I can't buy that game because my affair with XII nearly ended it all with 2 playthroughs equaling 200+ hours and mass effect at 40+ for my first playthrough I can't afford to get into that one

I'm glad you have clean nails Rob, I don't know why but I am.

And if you want another failed experiment of an FF, FFVIII is on the PSN store!

Oh, wait, you're playing the 360 version. My condolences on that.

Why would you buy the Xbox version of Final Fantasy? Got a thing for switching discs?

Again, I would most enjoy a routine sexual encounter with Oerba Dia Vanille.

I thought I should repeat it.

Also have fun Rob.

You'd rather spend the first third of a game running in a straight line watching effeminate male characters with names ripped from a weather report than sit on your ass feeding us pointless news? You're a monster, Rob, a monster! :(

as long as you dont need a credit card like the last one (I still cant play it or trade it in at EB games) Ill probably get it

Meh, the only relevant FF is FFVII.

(because that's the only one I've played, and while it was interesting at first all the level grinding turned me off of the rest of the series.)

Wow, all those people that sunk $600 on their PS3s back in 2006 are *still* bitter. It's okay, guys, it only took them three years to start putting out decent games!

oh Rob.

...NERD!!!

Rob, where's the MOTU stuff? I'm disappointed.

So are Lightning and her in-no-way-stereotypical sidekick giving of a Mulan vibe? Pepper in some Lethal weapon Danny Glover...i'm not far in the game yet.

wrong format, the PS3 is the proper version

Final Fantasy sucks.

That Kefka dude is up to no good, I tell you.

Oh, wait.

Corey Haim dies, and Rob is too busy playing a shitty game to report it.

...and that is the end of topless robot. I think we should find ourselves a new blog. bottomless ninja or something.

At the end of ffxiii there is a song and credits, enjoy your spoilt ending guys

Did a few posts just disappear!?

Ok, so I'm going to say this, and nobody freak out.

I don't really like the Final Fantasy games. I own Final Fantasy 8 and enjoyed the bit of 7 that I played but that's about it. I guess what turned me off about it was the fact that while the cut-scenes are amazing they could never get the game-play graphics up to that level, like I was playing a cut-scene. I also don't like the turn based fighting. I'm more of a hack and slasher guy I guess.

But looking at that box and watched the trailers and junk, and I have to "admit that I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious."

So, I turned to you my TR friends, could I jump into this one and come out being a reborn Final Fantasy fan? Keep in mind, I would be getting that exact game Rob has in his paw there, because me buying a PS3 is at least a couple months away maybe more. I do want one though. So let me know my peeps.

Am I the only one playing this on xbox who gets nothing but a blank screen after selecting the save game storage device?

Just remember Moms are tough

Wah wah wah I'm a whiny baby

I have to split my game time with my husband's until I get my own copy this weekend. but it's so worth it just to kick him off his big TV, and forcce him to drag my ps3 over, just so I can play it in 1080p.

PS3 wins though, we have 4 in our house. XD

but we do have an xbox, it makes an excellent doorstop. ^_^

Where did you get that Fett Potato Head?

I'm pretty sure my first post is gone, for whatever reason...oh well.
Why do people give a shit about switching disks?
It takes all of about 15 seconds to do, and it's not like you have to do constantly.
If you had 3 discs and had to switch between the 3 of them 10 or more times i'd understand.
I guess people are just so lazy that getting up out of your chair, walking the ten feet(or less) to where your games/system are and switching a disk is a new level of sloth.

If this was, say, Bioshock 2 or God of War 3 then I'd be excited. Since it's not, I'll go back to looking at the actual awesome things in the room. That does not include the Buffy trade paperback. Ew. Just ew.

At least there's a chick on the cover.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I thought it was good game ;_;